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  • Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal (w/ Mohammed el-Kurd) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Mar 12th 2025 6:32pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. Any account of the decades-long occupation of Palestine from a Palestinian is immediately expected to be refined within a specific lens to appeal to the pathos of Western society. Well meaning activists, journalists and politicians may intend to share the stories of Palestinians, but too […]

  • Trump’s War on Education

    Chris Hedges - Mar 11th 2025 11:07am EDT

    I Stink Therefor I Am – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now The attacks on colleges and universities — Donald Trump’s administration has warned some 60 colleges that they could lose federal money if they fail to make campuses safe for Jewish students and is already pulling $400 million from Columbia University — has nothing to […]

  • Trump’s Christian Fascists and the War on Palestine

    Chris Hedges - Mar 10th 2025 10:17am EDT

    Murder the Meek – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Christian Nationalists who form the bedrock of support for Donald Trump — 80 percent voted for Trump in the last election according to a voter survey by the Associated Press — have mounted a concerted campaign calling on the White House to back Israel’s annexation of […]

  • Resistance and the Human Spirit

    Chris Hedges - Mar 9th 2025 12:01pm EDT

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  • How the Media Walked us into Autocracy (w/ Ralph Nader) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Mar 6th 2025 7:14pm EST

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. The American corporate coup d’état is almost complete as the first weeks of the Trump administration exemplify. If there has been one person who saw this coming, and has taken courageous action over the years to prevent it, it would be Ralph Nader. The former […]

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  • The Deep State and Trump — Full Interview w/ Jimmy Dore

    Chris Hedges - Mar 1st 2025 9:00pm EST

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  • Live Q&A Now! Come Join and Ask a Question

    Chris Hedges - Feb 28th 2025 7:41pm EST

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  • Chris Hedges Full Speech at Workers Strike Back Conference

    Chris Hedges - Feb 28th 2025 3:32pm EST

    Transcript of my talk: For over two decades, I and a handful of others — Sheldon Wolin, Noam Chomsky, Chalmers Johnson, Cornel West, Barbara Ehrenreich, Ralph Nader and of course Jill Stein and Kshama Sawant — warned that the expanding social inequality and the capture of our democratic institutions, including the media, the Congress, organized […]

  • Thank You for 100k Live Q&A Tonight at 7PM ET!

    Chris Hedges - Feb 28th 2025 1:02pm EST

    In honor of The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel reaching 99,000 subscribers, we are hosting a livestream Q&A at 4pm PT / 7pm ET tonight taking your questions. 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 […]

  • The World After Gaza (w/ Pankaj Mishra) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Feb 26th 2025 7:25pm EST

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. The Holocaust is the quintessential example of human evil for people in the West. In the rest of the world, especially in the Global South, the atrocity of the Holocaust — genocide — has had a closer proximity both in time and place. Colonialism in […]

  • The Purge of the Deep State and the Road to Dictatorship – Read by Eunice Wong

    Chris Hedges - Feb 23rd 2025 11:53am EST

    Subscribe now 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 posted Feb. 18, 2025 One Mind – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now The […]

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  • Watch me Speak at the Workers Strike Back Conference LIVE Now!

    Chris Hedges - Feb 22nd 2025 1:53pm EST

    This livestream description was provided by Workers Strike Back. Republicans & Democrats are parties of war & the rich. We need to fight the rich & both their parties to win what workers need. It’s been barely a month since Trump took office, and he has already carried out a blitz of attacks on working […]

  • One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (w/ Omar El Akkad) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Feb 19th 2025 2:35pm EST

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. To the West, the concept of the rules-based order functions either as a list on paper to be ignored, or a strict set of laws to be weaponized. Omar El Akkad, Egyptian-Canadian novelist and journalist, has witnessed many instances, both in the West and in […]

  • The Purge of the Deep State and the Road to Dictatorship

    Chris Hedges - Feb 18th 2025 10:39am EST

    One Mind – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now The Trump administration’s war with the deep state is not a purgative. It is not about freeing us from the tyranny of intelligence agencies, militarized police, the largest prison system in the world, predatory corporations or the end of mass surveillance. It will not restore the rule […]

  • The Mafia State

    Chris Hedges - Feb 16th 2025 4:52pm EST

    Subscribe now 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 Kiss the Ring – by Mr. Fish Kiss the ring. Grovel before the Godfather. Give […]

  • The Mafia State

    Chris Hedges - Feb 15th 2025 11:56am EST

    Kiss the Ring – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Kiss the ring. Grovel before the Godfather. Give him tribute, a cut of the spoils. If he and his family get rich you get rich. Enter his inner circle, his “made” men and women, and you do not have to follow rules or obey the law. […]

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  • The Empire Self-Destructs – Read by Eunice Wong

    Chris Hedges - Feb 14th 2025 8:21pm EST

    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 Subscribe now Text Originally published Feb. 07, 2025 And Then the World Blew Up – by Mr. […]

  • Virtue Hoarders and the Rejection of Liberalism (w/ Catherine Liu) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Feb 12th 2025 7:05pm EST

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. The material needs of working class people in America continue to be obscured and co-opted by politicians and people claiming to know what’s best on both sides of the political aisle. While Republicans and right-wingers address some of these needs head on, they do so […]

  • Virtue Hoarders and the Rejection of Liberalism (w/ Catherine Liu) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Feb 12th 2025 7:05pm EST

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. The material needs of working class people in America continue to be obscured and co-opted by politicians and people claiming to know what’s best on both sides of the political aisle. While Republicans and right-wingers address some of these needs head on, they do so […]

  • The Empire Self-Destructs

    Chris Hedges - Feb 7th 2025 3:02pm EST

    And Then the World Blew Up – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now The billionaires, Christian fascists, grifters, psychopaths, imbeciles, narcissists and deviants who have seized control of Congress, the White House and the courts, are cannibalizing the machinery of state. These self-inflicted wounds, characteristic of all late empires, will cripple and destroy the tentacles of […]

  • The ‘Diseased Body’ of the Middle East (w/ Farah El-Sharif) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Feb 5th 2025 3:47pm EST

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. Farah El Sherif, writer, academic and Visiting Scholar at Stanford, is uncompromisingly blunt in her assessment of the Middle East. The decades of repression faced by an entire people have produced a fragmented society—culturally and through colonially imposed borders. To help understand why the Muslim […]

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  • The Western Way of Genocide – Read by Eunice Wong

    Chris Hedges - Feb 2nd 2025 5:27pm EST

    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 Feb. 01, 2025 Explore Gaza – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Gaza is a […]

  • The Western Way of Genocide

    Chris Hedges - Feb 1st 2025 2:32pm EST

    Explore Gaza – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Gaza is a wasteland of 50 million tons of rubble and debris. Rats and dogs scavenge amid the ruins and fetid pools of raw sewage. The putrid stench and contamination of decaying corpses rises from beneath the mountains of shattered concrete. There is no clean water. Little […]

  • Democracy Doesn’t Exist in the United States: Chris Hedges | UpFront

    Chris Hedges - Jan 31st 2025 3:16pm EST

    As Donald Trump returns to the White House, many are raising concerns about the possible decline of liberal democracy. What then would a second Trump term mean for the next four years for the United States? And what impact will the president’s foreign policy have on the Middle East? This week on UpFront, Marc Lamont […]

  • Fire Weather – Read by Eunice Wong

    Chris Hedges - Jan 31st 2025 10:11am EST

    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 Subscribe now Text originally published Jan. 12, 2025 A Final Toast – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now […]