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  • Facing the Climate Crisis and Human Mortality (w/ Eiren Caffall) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - May 21st 2025 5:27pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. In a world gripped by daily catastrophes, there is one that affects all but lacks the attention it deserves. The climate crisis — pervaded by ecological collapse, war, endless resource accumulation fueled by capitalism — is the issue of our time. The warning signs are […]

  • The New Dark Age

    Chris Hedges - May 17th 2025 4:50pm EDT

      Such a Bright Future – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now CAIRO, Egypt — It is 200 miles from where I am in Cairo to the Rafah border crossing into Gaza. Parked in the arid sands in the northern Sinai of Egypt are 2,000 trucks filled with sacks of flour, water tanks, canned food, medical […]

  • Righting Wrongs (w/ Kenneth Roth) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - May 14th 2025 5:40pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. On this episode of The Chris Hedges Report, host Chris Hedges speaks with Kenneth Roth, the former executive director of the non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the author of Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Frontlines Battling Abusive Governments. Hedges and Roth discuss […]

  • The Dark Money Game (w/ Alex Gibney) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - May 7th 2025 5:45pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. On this episode of The Chris Hedges Report, Chris Hedges speaks with filmmaker Alex Gibney about Gibney’s documentary series The Dark Money Game, which examines the “labyrinth of mirrors” that facilitates untraceable corruption through the American political system. Although both the Democratic and Republican parties […]

  • Trumpland – Read by Eunice Wong

    Chris Hedges - May 6th 2025 6:10am EDT

    This article is read by Eunice Wong, a Juilliard-trained actor, featured on Audible’s list of Best Women Narrators. Her work is on the annual Best Audiobooks lists of the New York Times, Audible, AudioFile, & Library Journal. www.eunicewong.actor Text originally published March 11, 2025 The Chris Hedges Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new […]

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  • Trumpland

    Chris Hedges - May 3rd 2025 7:25am EDT

    Trumpland USA – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now The Christian fascists and oligarchs gleefully handing Donald Trump his sharpie and executive orders are not making war on the deep state, the radical left or to protect us from “antisemites.” They are making war on verifiable fact, the rule of law and the transparency and accountability […]

  • The West Serves as Israel’s Police (w/ Richard Medhurst) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Apr 30th 2025 7:16pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. Richard Barnard, Sarah Wilkinson, Asa Winstanley and Richard Medhurst. These are some of the canaries in the coal mine for what is to come in the West as the region’s elite quickly becomes Israel’s international police. Medhurst joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of […]

  • Israel’s Eradication of Gaza’s Healthcare System (w/ Dr. Feroze Sidhwa) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Apr 23rd 2025 8:03pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. If anyone can witness the genocide in Gaza with utmost clarity, it would be medical professionals working there. Their accounts continue to be as harrowing as those of journalists and Gazans themselves, stripped of rhetoric and left with only raw truth. Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, a […]

  • My New Book, ‘A Genocide Foretold,’ is Available to Order Now

    Chris Hedges - Apr 22nd 2025 3:35pm EDT

    My new book on the genocide in Gaza, “A Genocide Foretold,” was just published. You can order a copy here. “Chris Hedges profoundly describes exactly what is happening in Palestine and talks on behalf of the victims. In his painful writings, he makes their voices heard.” — Atef Abu Saif, former Minister of Culture of […]

  • Emptying Gaza (w/ Norman Finkelstein) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Apr 17th 2025 6:01pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. Israel, both materially and rhetorically, has made their intent to destroy the Palestinian people clear. One of the most renowned and courageous Middle East scholars, Norman Finkelstein, has assiduously documented the Palestinian plight for decades and he joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of […]

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  • American Concentration Camps

    Chris Hedges - Apr 16th 2025 6:26pm EDT

    U.S. Export – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Our offshore concentration camps, for now, are in El Salvador and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. But don’t expect them to remain there. Once they are normalized, not only for U.S.-deported immigrants and residents, but U.S. citizens, they will migrate to the homeland. It is a very short leap […]

  • Come Join Me LIVE NOW for a Q&A

    Chris Hedges - Apr 15th 2025 7:07pm EDT

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  • Chris Hedges Live Q&A Tomorrow, April 15 7:00pm ET

    Chris Hedges - Apr 14th 2025 7:15pm EDT

    Join me tomorrow 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. To post your questions here, you must be a paid subscriber to my Substack. Please attempt to keep your questions direct and […]

  • Israel is About to Empty Gaza

    Chris Hedges - Apr 12th 2025 11:47am EDT

    Legacy – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Israel is poised to carry out the largest campaign of ethnic cleansing since the end of World War II. Since March 2, it has blocked all food and humanitarian aid into Gaza and cut off electricity, so that the last water desalination plant no longer functions. The Israeli […]

  • Join Me and Gabor Maté for “Palestine: The Moral Issue of Our Time”

    Chris Hedges - Apr 11th 2025 10:20am EDT

    Please join Gabor Maté and me on May 5 for our discussion “Palestine: The Moral Issue of Our Time” in New York City. All proceeds from ticket sales will go to support the Middle East Children Alliance’s emergency relief effort in Gaza. The event is expected to sell out so order tickets soon. Buy tickets […]

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  • The Economics of a Dying Empire (w/ Richard Wolff) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Apr 9th 2025 6:00pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. “These are levels of craziness that are part of the decline I suspect of all empires when they consume themselves,” Professor Richard Wolff says of America’s current situation in the outset of Donald Trump’s second term. He joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of […]

  • Palestinians Speak Out Against Princeton Welcoming Israeli War Criminal on Campus

    Chris Hedges - Apr 7th 2025 6:05pm EDT

    Princeton University has invited former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett to speak on Monday April 7 at 7pm. His visit is part of his tour across North American campuses, including Harvard, Columbia, and Yale, which coincides with the deportations, detainments, and disappearances of students at these same campuses by the Trump administration for protesting Israel’s […]

  • The Secret Military History of the Internet (w/ Yasha Levine) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Apr 2nd 2025 6:33pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. The internet, from its inception, was created to be a tool of mass surveillance. It was developed first as a counterinsurgency tool for the Vietnam War and the rest of the Global South, but like many devices of foreign policy naturally it made its way […]

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  • Restoring Lies and Insanity to American History

    Chris Hedges - Mar 31st 2025 11:12am EDT

    You’re Too Late — by Mr. Fish Subscribe now President Donald Trump’s latest executive order titled “RESTORING TRUTH AND SANITY TO AMERICAN HISTORY” replicates a tactic used by all authoritarian regimes. In the name of countering bias, they distort the nation’s history into self-serving mythology. History will be used to justify the power of the […]

  • Trump’s War on Education – Read by Eunice Wong

    Chris Hedges - Mar 30th 2025 4:01pm EDT

    This article is read by Eunice Wong, a Juilliard-trained actor, featured on Audible’s list of Best Women Narrators. Her work is on the annual Best Audiobooks lists of the New York Times, Audible, AudioFile, & Library Journal. www.eunicewong.actor Text originally published March 11, 2025 Subscribe now I Stink Therefore I Am – by Mr. Fish […]

  • Erasing History: How Fascism Works (w/ Jason Stanley)

    Chris Hedges - Mar 26th 2025 8:56pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. Ever since the first Donald Trump administration, the word “fascism” has dominated discussion around Trump’s policies and ambitions to the extent of semantic satiation. Liberals and leftists often use fascism as a blanket term for anything right-wing politicians represent and Republicans equally use “communism” to […]

  • The Last Chapter of the Genocide

    Chris Hedges - Mar 25th 2025 9:05am EDT

    This article is read by Eunice Wong, a Juilliard-trained actor, featured on Audible’s list of Best Women Narrators. Her work is on the annual Best Audiobooks lists of the New York Times, Audible, AudioFile, & Library Journal. www.eunicewong.actor The Chris Hedges Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider […]

  • Surrendering to Authoritarianism

    Chris Hedges - Mar 24th 2025 9:22am EDT

    Stomp of Approval – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now I was not surprised when Columbia University’s interim president Katrina Armstrong caved to the demands of the Trump administration. She agreed to ban face masks or face coverings, prohibit protests in academic buildings and create an internal security force of 36 New York City Police officers […]

  • The Last Chapter of the Genocide

    Chris Hedges - Mar 22nd 2025 5:42pm EDT

    Lord of the Flies – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now This is the last chapter of the genocide. It is the final, blood-soaked push to drive the Palestinians from Gaza. No food. No medicine. No shelter. No clean water. No electricity. Israel is swiftly turning Gaza into a Dantesque cauldron of human misery where Palestinians […]

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  • America’s Constitutional Crisis (w/ Katherine Franke) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Mar 19th 2025 5:04pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest and detention in a Louisiana ICE facility is a harbinger for a new authoritarian era of the United States. Khalil’s arrest, the capitulation of Columbia University against dissent and protest by its own students and the Trump administration’s threat of stripping the […]