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  • The Meaning of Christmas (w/ Rev. Munther Isaac) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Dec 19th 2024 3:03pm EST

    In a case of tragic coincidence, the place most closely associated with the uplifting story of Jesus Christ, Christmas and the teachings of the Bible is now being subject to some of the most sustained and severe death and destruction that modern society has seen. Rev. Munther Isaac, the pastor at the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas […]

  • The Meaning of Christmas (w/ Rev. Munther Isaac) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Dec 19th 2024 3:03pm EST

    In a case of tragic coincidence, the place most closely associated with the uplifting story of Jesus Christ, Christmas and the teachings of the Bible is now being subject to some of the most sustained and severe death and destruction that modern society has seen. Rev. Munther Isaac, the pastor at the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas […]

  • I’m Live on YouTube and X Now…Come Ask Me a Question

    Chris Hedges - Dec 18th 2024 7:20pm EST

    Join me live now to ask me a question. The Chris Hedges Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

  • Chris Hedges Livestream Q&A Tonight on the Future of The Middle East, 4:00pm PT / 7:00pm ET

    Chris Hedges - Dec 18th 2024 11:36am EST

    Join me tonight on my YouTube channel for a live Q&A at 4pm PT / 7pm ET. I will pull questions from the comments of this post, my X, and live on YouTube. We will discuss the future of The Middle East. To post your questions here, you must be a paid subscriber to my […]

  • Dog Day Afternoon: The Christmas Edition

    Chris Hedges - Dec 16th 2024 4:23pm EST

    A holiday special from Chris Hedges and Mr. Fish. Become a paid subscriber by signing up below: The Chris Hedges Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Thanks for reading The Chris Hedges Report! This post is public so feel free to […]

  • Organized Oblivion – Read by Eunice Wong

    Chris Hedges - Dec 15th 2024 8:30am EST

    Subscribe now Text originally posted Nov. 18, 2024 Forget Us Not – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now NEW YORK: I am in the The Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center next to the St. Vartan Armenian Cathedral in Manhattan. I am holding a bound, hand-written memoir, which includes poetry, drawings, and scrapbooked images, by Zaven […]

  • Enduring the Trauma of Genocide (w/ Gabor Maté) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Dec 13th 2024 1:05pm EST

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. While the trauma that Palestinians continue to face in Gaza is sustained, brutal and seemingly never-ending, the universal susceptibility to trauma unites humanity as much as it divides the self. Dr. Gabor Maté, renowned physician and expert in trauma and childhood development, illustrates this point […]

  • Lee Lakeman and The Whoredom of the Left – Read by Eunice Wong

    Chris Hedges - Dec 12th 2024 8:45am EST

    Subscribe now Text originally published Nov. 16, 2024 An Unjust Burden — by Mr. Fish Subscribe now I just got off the phone with the Canadian feminist and activist Lee Lakeman. She is in hospice. The battles she has spent her life fighting, including her advocacy for impoverished aboriginal women prostituted in desolate urban landscapes […]

  • Letter to Refaat Alareer

    Chris Hedges - Dec 10th 2024 5:53pm EST

    The Power of the Pen – Mr. Fish Subscribe now Dear Refaat, We are not silent. We are being silenced. The students who, during the last academic year set up encampments, occupied halls, went on hunger strikes and spoke out against the genocide, were met this fall with a series of rules that have turned […]

  • The Fall of Assad & What it Means for The Middle East (w/ Alastair Crooke) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Dec 9th 2024 8:16pm EST

    The fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, ending a 55-year dynasty begun by his father, dramatically shifts the pieces on the chessboard of the Middle East. The rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), led by Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, is armed and backed by Turkey and was once allied with Al Qaeda. It is sanctioned as […]

  • The Killing of Brian Thompson – Read by Eunice Wong

    Chris Hedges - Dec 8th 2024 12:15pm EST

    Subscribe now Text Originally posted Dec, 04, 2024 Subscribe now We do not yet know the motive for the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. But it would not surprise me if the killer stalked Thompson because UnitedHealthcare had denied medical coverage, or forced a family or an individual into bankruptcy, after the company failed […]

  • The Killing of Brian Thompson

    Chris Hedges - Dec 4th 2024 10:00pm EST

    NEW YORK, NEW YORK – DECEMBER 04: Police place bullet casing markers outside of a Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan where United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot on December 04, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) We do not yet know the motive for the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO […]

  • A Rogue Reporter vs. The American Empire (w/ Matt Kennard) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Dec 4th 2024 7:08pm EST

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. The American material life is taken for granted. Things just appear. There is no consideration for what country the Empire destroyed to fuel their cars, which people are earning pennies inside sweatshops for their clothes or how many children’s hands touched the lithium in their […]

  • Stories from the Center of the World (w/ Jordan Elgrably) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Nov 27th 2024 1:05pm EST

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. The years of war and terror imposed upon the Middle East have left its people, as Jordan Elgrably tells host Chris Hedges, “tired of saying that [they’re] human too.” In this episode of The Chris Hedges Report, Elgrably discusses the stories that remind English-speaking Western […]

  • Chris Hedges at UCSB: To Kill a People

    Chris Hedges - Nov 23rd 2024 3:36pm EST

    This talk is also available on Rumble. “To Kill a People” was a talk I gave at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) at an event organized by the Green Party vice presidential nominee, Butch Ware, titled “End of Empire.” Thanks for reading The Chris Hedges Report! This post is public so feel free […]

  • Surveillance Education (w/ Nolan Higdon and Allison Butler) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Nov 20th 2024 1:10pm EST

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. Any technology created by the US military industrial complex and adopted by the general public was always bound to come with a caveat. To most, the internet, GPS, touch screen and other ubiquitous technologies are ordinary tools of the modern world. Yet in reality, these […]

  • Organized Oblivion

    Chris Hedges - Nov 18th 2024 4:37pm EST

    Forget Us Not – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now NEW YORK: I am in the The Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center next to the St. Vartan Armenian Cathedral in Manhattan. I am holding a bound, hand-written memoir, which includes poetry, drawings, and scrapbooked images, by Zaven Seraidarian, a survivor of the Armenian genocide. The […]

  • Genocidal Scorecard – Read by Eunice Wong

    Chris Hedges - Nov 17th 2024 6:04pm EST

    Subscribe now Text Originally published Oct. 30, 2024 Bibi on Board – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now A United Nations report, published on Monday, lays out in chilling detail the advances made by Israel in Gaza as it seeks to eradicate “the very existence of the Palestinian people in Palestine.” This genocidal project, the report […]

  • Lee Lakeman and The Whoredom of the Left

    Chris Hedges - Nov 16th 2024 10:06am EST

    An Unjust Burden — by Mr. Fish Subscribe now I just got off the phone with the Canadian feminist and activist Lee Lakeman. She is in hospice. The battles she has spent her life fighting, including her advocacy for impoverished aboriginal women prostituted in desolate urban landscapes such as the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver, which […]

  • Israel’s War on the Foreign Press (w/ Jeremy Loffredo) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Nov 13th 2024 10:53am EST

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. Reporting from Israel in the aftermath of October 7th demands guts and courage. Censorship, rouge military personnel and an entire state hellbent on their goals of national security and ethnic cleansing spells a nightmare for journalists seeking to expose the truth. This nightmare became a […]

  • The Politics of Cultural Despair – Read by Eunice Wong

    Chris Hedges - Nov 10th 2024 7:49pm EST

    Subscribe now Text originally filed Nov. 6, 2024 The Mourning After – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now In the end, the election was about despair. Despair over futures that evaporated with deindustrialization. Despair over the loss of 30 million jobs in mass layoffs. Despair over austerity programs and the funneling of wealth upwards into the […]

  • The World According to Trump (w/ Col. Lawrence Wilkerson) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Nov 7th 2024 7:29pm EST

    Donald Trump will become the 47th president of the United States and given the host of global debacles the US has its hands in—ranging from the genocide in Gaza, to Israel’s attacks on Lebanon and Iran to the Ukraine war—nobody is quite certain what direction the country will take with the former president at the […]

  • Come Ask me a Question on my Post-Election Livestream Q&A

    Chris Hedges - Nov 6th 2024 6:09pm EST

    Thanks for reading The Chris Hedges Report! This post is public so feel free to share it. Share The Chris Hedges Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

  • The Politics of Cultural Despair

    Chris Hedges - Nov 6th 2024 11:30am EST

    The Morning After – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now In the end, the election was about despair. Despair over futures that evaporated with deindustrialization. Despair over the loss of 30 million jobs in mass layoffs. Despair over austerity programs and the funneling of wealth upwards into the hands of rapacious oligarchs. Despair over a liberal […]

  • Chris Hedges Post-Election Livestream Q&A, Nov. 6 @ 6pm ET

    Chris Hedges - Nov 4th 2024 7:27pm EST

    Join me on Nov. 6 on my YouTube channel for a live Q&A at 3pm PT / 6pm ET. I will pull questions from the comments of this post, my X, and live on YouTube. We will discuss the results of the election, and what’s to come. To post your questions here, you must be […]