Chris Hedges' price isn't "thirty pieces of silver".

That the 'Right' wanted war was unexceptional: they always do.  When the American 'Left' wanted it too I knew the fucking jig was rigged.  There was never a way we could stop it, short of an overdue revolution, but I am proud to say that I was never taken in by the false threat of 'terrorism'.  It stank too badly.  Too bad the demonstrations were efficiently marginalized in all media...  Far more people die every year from traffic collisions than from '911', and never mind you don't 'democratize' a country by letting oil-executives in the White House 'bomb it into the stone age'.  If '911' is never proven to have 'false flag' connections you can't wonder why some people will remain suspicious of the US.

The war boosters, especially the “liberal hawks”—who included Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer, Al Franken and John Kerry, along with academics, writers and journalists such as Bill Keller, Michael Ignatieff, Nicholas Kristof, David Remnick, Fareed Zakaria, Michael Walzer, Paul Berman,Thomas Friedman, George Packer, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Kanan Makiya and the late Christopher Hitchens—did what they always have done: engage in acts of self-preservation. To oppose the war would have been a career killer. And they knew it...

These liberal warmongers, 10 years later, remain both clueless about their moral bankruptcy and cloyingly sanctimonious. They have the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocents on their hands.

You should read it all here.  These bastards deserve to die a slow death by cancer, which only Hitchens has.  Hitchens won't meet Orwell in hell, but he wouldn't recognize him in hell, or from reading him.  Say what you want about Hedges, he knows about war as a correspondent, and acts on his convictions to his own detriment: something Hitchens and the other 'fellow travellers' are never willing to do.

I will not be participating as a speaker in the PEN World Voices Festival in May.  I will not participate because of your decision to select Suzanne Nossel as Executive Director of the PEN American Center...  Nossel’s relentless championing of preemptive war—which under international law is illegal—as a State Department official along with her callous disregard for Israeli mistreatment of the Palestinians and her refusal as a government official to denounce the use of torture and use of extra-judicial killings, makes her utterly unfit to lead any human rights organization, especially one that has global concerns... I hereby resign from PEN...

Sincerely,

Chris Hedges