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  • Jeffrey Epstein, the Russian Mob, & the Hidden Assets of the Maxwells (w/ Moe Tkacik) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Jun 4th 2026 3:44pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. The release of the Epstein Files has shocked the public with unimaginable stories of the pedophilia, exploitation of women and brash depravity of the ruling class. While these stories have been the major source of public outrage, a deeper dive into the Epstein Files reveals […]

  • Trump’s Iranian Nightmare – Read by Eunice Wong

    Chris Hedges - Jun 2nd 2026 6:46pm EDT

    This article is read by Eunice Wong. You can find her work at www.eunicewong.actor. Text originally published May 14, 2026. The Chris Hedges Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Pre-order my new book “Requiem for Gaza” Full Text: America’s newest quagmire […]

  • Discussing The Rise of the Global South on The Jimmy Dore Show

    Chris Hedges - Jun 2nd 2026 8:03am EDT

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

  • Tyranny or Revolution

    Chris Hedges - Jun 1st 2026 10:12am EDT

    Tyranny or Revolution – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now MEXICO CITY — There are two ways to confront global capitalism. There are mass movements, especially strikes, which disrupt commerce and government to force the ruling class to create systems of justice and equality — albeit ones where capitalists retain significant power. The National Coordinator of […]

  • The Rise of the Global South

    Chris Hedges - May 28th 2026 5:54pm EDT

    Hubris Gargantua – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now The humiliating defeat of Israel and the United States in their war on Iran, along with the savagery of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, are ushering in a new world order. This order is one where voices of reason and stability emanate not from the West — […]

  • How the War on Terror Created the Age of Trump (W/ Matt Kennard) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - May 27th 2026 9:14pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. In the United States, but also around the world, fascism is on the rise again, similar to what occurred in Germany and Italy after World War I. Its foot soldiers in the US include right wing extremists who enter the military, where they are welcomed […]

  • Can the Imperial Core be Reformed? | Chris Hedges & Aaron Maté at the Vancouver Web Summit

    Chris Hedges - May 26th 2026 6:41pm EDT

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

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  • Chris Hedges, Stephen Walt and Ryan Grim on the Limits of U.S. Power in Iran

    Chris Hedges - May 22nd 2026 9:22pm EDT

    The Chris Hedges Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Pre-order my new book “Requiem for Gaza” Share Photos U.S. Forces Move Through Southern Iraq IRAQ, MARCH 21: U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division 3-7 infantry Corporal Charles Johnson, (L) from Myrtle Beach, […]

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  • A Discussion on the New Novel ‘Palaces of the Crow’ (w/ Ray Nayler) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - May 20th 2026 9:11pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. “We tell the stories that perpetuate the narrative or the myth we want, and we erase the others,” Chris Hedges states in this interview with Ray Nayler about his new book, “Palaces of the Crow,” which centers around four teenagers from varying backgrounds who struggle […]

  • Trump’s Iranian Nightmare

    Chris Hedges - May 14th 2026 12:10pm EDT

    Because We Say So – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now America’s newest quagmire in the Middle East is like its old quagmires in the Middle East. It is based, as were the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, on a gross misreading of our adversaries, a catastrophic failure to understand the limits of imperial power and […]

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  • The History of National Resistance Movements in Palestine (w/ Ramzy Baroud) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - May 13th 2026 9:39pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. Dr. Ramzy Baroud, a Palestinian historian and author, in his new book, “Before the Flood: A Gaza Family Memoir Across Three Generations of Colonial Invasion, Occupation, and War in Palestine,” traces the long arc of Palestinian resistance to the Zionist settler-colonial state leading to its […]

  • Join Me for a Live Q & A on June 29 on Dostoevsky’s ‘The Idiot’

    Chris Hedges - May 12th 2026 5:51pm EDT

    Join me at 7:00 pm on June 29 for a livestream in which we will discuss Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Idiot. If you can, read before joining! The novel was inspired by a painting by Hans Holbein the Younger called Christ’s Body in the Tomb. The painting was completed between 1520 or 1522. I have a […]

  • America’s Suicide Pact – Read by Eunice Wong

    Chris Hedges - May 11th 2026 9:26pm EDT

    This article is read by Eunice Wong. You can find her work at www.eunicewong.actor. Text originally published May 8, 2026. The Chris Hedges Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Pre-order my new book “Requiem for Gaza” Full Text: Civilizations, as the […]

  • America’s Suicide Pact

    Chris Hedges - May 8th 2026 9:16am EDT

    Live of DIY – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Civilizations, as the historian Arnold J. Toynbee famously argued, “die from suicide, not by murder.” They collapse from within. They fall prey to moral, social and spiritual decay. They are seized by a parasitic ruling class. Democratic institutions seize up. The citizenry is immiserated, wealth is […]

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  • Israel Has Kidnapped Two of Our Most Important Pro-Palestine Activists

    Chris Hedges - May 3rd 2026 10:07pm EDT

    Two foreign activists — Thiago Avila and Saif Abu Keshek — from a Gaza-bound flotilla who were brought to Israel for interrogation and appeared before an Israeli court on May 3 (Photos by Ilia Yefimovichvia Getty Images) Nothing illustrates the inversion of the international and moral order more than the genocide in Gaza and the […]

  • Will the Iran War Cause a Global Depression? (w/ Prof. Richard Wolff) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Apr 30th 2026 8:47pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. The global economic impacts of the American-Israeli war on Iran are already being felt, particularly in Asia, through shortages of fuel and other necessities, the closure of factories and the loss of jobs. We are now on a path heading for a global recession, or […]

  • The Revolutionary Spirit of Iran (w/ Behrooz Ghamari) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Apr 29th 2026 8:32pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. The United States, in its recent war on Iran, has completely misread the Iranian people and failed to recognize the deep revolutionary spirit that pervades Iranian culture. Rather than inciting Iranian people against their government, the US-Israeli war on Iran has united the population. Rather […]

  • Trump the God – Read by Eunice Wong

    Chris Hedges - Apr 22nd 2026 8:39pm EDT

    This article is read by Eunice Wong. You can find her work at www.eunicewong.actor. Text originally published April 20, 2026. The Chris Hedges Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Pre-order my new book “Requiem for Gaza” Full Text: During the two […]

  • Is There a Way out of the Iran War? (w/ John Mearsheimer) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Apr 20th 2026 9:26pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. At the last minute, Iran agreed on Monday to participate in negotiations with the United States in Islamabad, Pakistan. The fragile ceasefire agreement between the two countries ends on Wednesday. Following the US attack on and seizure of an Iranian cargo ship in the Sea […]

  • Trump the God

    Chris Hedges - Apr 20th 2026 11:46am EDT

    Holy Shit – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now During the two years I spent writing “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America,” I encountered numerous mini-Trumps. These self-proclaimed pastors — very few had any formal religious training — preyed on the despair of their congregants. They were surrounded by sycophants and could […]

  • Is Hezbollah Beating Israel in Lebanon? (w/ Laith Marouf) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Apr 18th 2026 6:50am EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. The Chris Hedges Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Pre-order my new book “Requiem for Gaza” Thanks for reading The Chris Hedges Report! This post is public so feel free to […]

  • Chris Hedges Live Q&A on Iran War NOW — Come Ask a Question!

    Chris Hedges - Apr 17th 2026 7:08pm EDT

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  • Chris Hedges Live Q&A TODAY — 7 P.M. ET

    Chris Hedges - Apr 17th 2026 8:03am EDT

    Join me for a live Q&A on my YouTube channel and X account, Friday April 17, at 7:00 – 8:00pm ET. Questions will be taken from the comment section of this Substack post, as well as during the live on YouTube/X. We will discuss the war with Iran and the ongoing ceasefire negotiations. Please attempt […]

  • Trump’s On a Jihad Against Everyone (MOATS w/ George Galloway)

    Chris Hedges - Apr 16th 2026 1:37pm EDT

    Pre-order my new book “Requiem for Gaza” 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 share it. Share

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  • The Trump Administration’s War on Cuba (w/ Medea Benjamin) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Apr 14th 2026 8:50pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. Medea Benjamin, a co-founder of the antiwar organization CODEPINK, speaks with Chris Hedges about her recent visit to Cuba as part of one of the many humanitarian delegations that have visited the island in response to the severe economic blockade imposed by the Trump administration. […]