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  • 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

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  • 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 […]

  • Do Not Vote for those Who Support Genocide (w/ Kshama Sawant) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Oct 31st 2024 1:19pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. A truly representative and honest voice for the working class—one that takes part in the struggle, resists cozying up to the centers of power, makes tangible, material commitments rather than settling for empty rhetoric—is hard to find in the United States. Kshama Sawant, the socialist […]

  • Genocidal Scorecard

    Chris Hedges - Oct 30th 2024 9:07am EDT

    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 ominously warns, “is now metastasizing to the West […]

  • Genocide as Colonial Erasure (w/ Francesca Albanese) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Oct 29th 2024 2:46pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. “The crime of all crimes.” That is how the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda declared genocide in the final judgment of Prosecutor v. Akayesu, the case against the mayor of Taba, Rwanda for crimes against humanity. Today, that crime repeats itself as UN Special Rapporteur […]

  • Israel’s War on Journalism

    Chris Hedges - Oct 25th 2024 12:19pm EDT

    Catch and Kill Journalism – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now There are some 4,000 foreign reporters accredited in Israel to cover the war. They stay in luxury hotels. They go on dog and pony shows orchestrated by the Israeli military. They can, on rare occasions, be escorted by Israeli soldiers on lightning visits to Gaza, […]

  • The Escalating Crisis in the Middle East (w/ John Mearsheimer) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Oct 24th 2024 1:20pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. Decades of Islamophobia, relentless propaganda campaigns and heavily financed lobbying efforts have made it difficult to understand the political realities of the Middle East. John Mearsheimer, prominent political scientist, University of Chicago professor and self-proclaimed realist, has consistently demonstrated the courage and ability to bypass […]

  • Dismantling the American Empire (w/ Cornel West) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Oct 23rd 2024 3:10pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. It is rare to hear a United States presidential candidate clearly and eloquently spell out the realities of the country — whether it’s the genocide in Gaza, rising economic inequality or the horrors of mass incarceration. Dr. Cornel West, renowned political activist, philosopher, public intellectual, […]

  • The Choice this Election is between Corporate and Oligarchic Power

    Chris Hedges - Oct 18th 2024 1:25pm EDT

    Blood Bank – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now The choice in the elections is between corporate and oligarchic power. Corporate power needs stability and a technocratic government. Oligarchic power thrives on chaos and, as Steve Bannon says, the “deconstruction of the administrative state.” Neither are democratic. They have each bought up the political class, the […]

  • Burn the Planet and Lock Up the Dissidents – Read by Eunice Wong

    Chris Hedges - Oct 17th 2024 4:29pm EDT

    Text originally published Oct. 06, 2024 Subscribe now Roger Hallam — by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Norfolk, U.K. — I am sitting with Roger Hallam, his gray hair pulled back in a ponytail, in the visitor’s room at HM Prison Wayland. On the walls are large photographs of families picnicking on lawns, verdant meadows and […]

  • Robert Fisk and the Great War for Civilization (w/ Lara Marlowe) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Oct 16th 2024 1:22pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. There is a careful art to good journalism. It involves not only seeing and writing what happens but also understanding the reason why, and the precedent that came before it. Empathy, combined with a cunning understanding of one’s environment and ability to talk to people […]

  • Extermination Works. At First.

    Chris Hedges - Oct 14th 2024 10:20am EDT

    Extermination Nation – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Extermination works. At first. This is the terrible lesson of history. If Israel is not stopped — and no outside power appears willing to halt the genocide in Gaza or the destruction of Lebanon — it will achieve its goals of depopulating and annexing northern Gaza and […]

  • The Secret History of Neoliberalism (w/ George Monbiot) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Oct 9th 2024 2:16pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. The current world order is designed to be complex and confusing. Its function enshrines the power of our rulers, who purposely obscure its origins and underlying philosophy. Politicians, the media, so-called intellectuals at think tanks — along with the inertia of systemic falsehoods — perpetuate this […]

  • Picking Up the Kids – Drawn by Mr. Fish and inspired by an idea from Roger Waters

    Chris Hedges - Oct 8th 2024 9:29pm EDT

    This cartoon was inspired by an idea from Roger Waters, co-founder of Pink Floyd, and drawn by Mr. Fish.

  • Burn the Planet and Lock Up the Dissidents

    Chris Hedges - Oct 6th 2024 8:31am EDT

    Roger Hallam — by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Norfolk, U.K. — I am sitting with Roger Hallam, his gray hair pulled back in a ponytail, in the visitor’s room at HM Prison Wayland. On the walls are large photographs of families picnicking on lawns, verdant meadows and children playing. The juxtaposition of the photographs, no […]

  • Chris Hedges Q&A on the Middle East — LIVE

    Chris Hedges - Oct 3rd 2024 6:10pm EDT

    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.

  • Join me tomorrow for a live Q&A, 3pm PT/ 6pm ET

    Chris Hedges - Oct 2nd 2024 5:52pm EDT

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