The Globe and Mail has a few short videos with CH and Tony Blair being interviewed before the Munk debate.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/video/christopher-hitchens-the-seed-of-doubt/article1814310/?from=1814261
Transcript and audio: Hitchens on not believing
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/transcripts-and-audio-christopher-hitchens-on-not-believing/article1814261/
Former UK prime minister Tony Blair is to take on Christopher Hitchens in a televised public debate for and against religion. Friday Nov 26.
BBC World Service radio will air the Blair-Hitchens debate on December 4, followed by Radio 4 on December 11.
It can be viewed on BBC World News and the News Channel on January 1, 2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11843586
Livestream: http://www.munkdebates.com/debates/Religion
William Dembski debated CH at the Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas, Nov 18, 2010.
Alright, it's on YouTube again.
Iraq's president, Jalal Talabani, opposes to the death penalty for Tariq Aziz, one of Iraq's worst enemies.
By Christopher Hitchens
"When I wrote a recent call for the commutation of the death sentence against Tariq Aziz, I was privately hoping that the president of Iraq would intervene, as he has done before, to say that he would decline to sign his name to the death warrant."
Read More (Slate)
In this second part Christopher Hitchens talks about his public life, battles and some of the events in recent history which led to his break with the left.
Part two, 2 videos
Play entire interview (4 videos)
CH talks to Tony Jones about living with cancer and not seeing any valid reason to change his beliefs close to death.
Part one, 2 videos.
Left or right, a quality scribe
Why America will come to regret the craven deal Obama is offering Netanyahu.
By Christopher Hitchens
"Those of us who keep an eye on the parties of God are avid students of the weekly Sabbath sermons of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. In these and other venues, usually broadcast, this elderly Sephardic ayatollah provides an action-packed diet that seldom disappoints."
Read More (Slate)
Shinan Govani, National Post · Sunday, Nov. 14, 2010
By Andrew Anthony
In June Christopher Hitchens, the hard-drinking polemicist and atheist, met his toughest opponent yet when he was diagnosed with cancer. The question on many lips was: would his illness alter his beliefs – on Iraq, on Islam, on God? At home in Washington, with a large glass of Johnnie Walker to hand, he responds with characteristic combativeness.
Read Andrew's interview with CH here (guardian.co.uk)
The Australian:
Next week on Lateline, author and journalist Christopher Hitchens talks frankly about his battle with cancer, his treatment and its impact.
In a Tony Jones special interview recorded in Washington, Hitchens talks about his legacy as a writer and what an early death will potentially rob him of. He is 61.
He also talks extensively about American and international politics, reflecting on many of the themes covered in his recent memoir, Hitch22.
Next week on Lateline with Tony Jones – Wednesday, November 17 and Thursday, November 18 at 10.30pm on ABC1.
By Larry Taunton
"As many of you will know, I recently
debated Christopher Hitchens in Billings, Montana. I have been slow to blog about it for two reasons. First, it is a more difficult thing writing about a debate in which I was a combatant. I want to be fair. Second, I have been a bit busy."
Read Larry's post here. (fixed-point.org)
