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Julian Assange’s Day in Court

And Our Flags Are Still There – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now LONDON — By the afternoon the video link, which would have allowed Julian Assange to follow his final U.K. appeal to prevent his extradition, had been turned off. Julian, his attorneys said, was too ill to attend, too ill even to follow the court […]

This is a panel I moderated on Monday evening with Stella Assange, attorney Jennifer Robinson and Kristinn Hrafnsson, Editor-in-Chief of WikiLeaks, at The Frontline Club in London.

Julian Assange’s Final Appeal – Read by Eunice Wong

Subscribe now Text originally published Feb. 18, 2024 Assange – by Mr. Fish LONDON — If Julian Assange is denied permission to appeal his extradition to the United States before a panel of two judges at the High Court in London this week, he will have no recourse left within the British legal system. His […]

Julian Assange’s Final Appeal

Assange – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now LONDON — If Julian Assange is denied permission to appeal his extradition to the United States before a panel of two judges at the High Court in London this week, he will have no recourse left within the British legal system. His lawyers can ask the European Court […]

I will moderate this event on Monday at 7:00 pm with Stella Assange, attorney Jennifer Robinson and Kristinn Hrafnsson, Editor-in-Chief of WikiLeaks, at The Frontline Club in London.

The link for tickets is here. Day X: Justice for Assange Part of the FRONTLINE CLUB 2024 collection Julian Assange’s Final Appeal to be held in UK High Court By Frontline Club Date and time Mon, 19 Feb 2024 19:00 – 20:30 GMT Location Frontline Club 13 Norfolk Place London W2 1QJ United Kingdom About […]

The Chris Hedges Report with Pulitzer-prize winning former New York Times reporter Gretchen Morgenson on the collapse of journalism, the digital sewer and the new dark age.

Subscribe now The media landscape in the U.S. is collapsing as journalism outlets at the national, state and local levels close or gut staff. One-third of the country’s newspapers have shut down and two-thirds of its newspaper journalists have lost jobs since 2005. An average of 2.5 newspapers closed each week in 2023, compared to […]

Free Julian Assange

The Chris Hedges Report with Dr. Ahmed Alhussaina, vice president of Israa University in Gaza, on Israel’s demolition of every university, along with hundreds of schools and cultural centers, in Gaza.

Subscribe now The Israeli attacks on Gaza has included systematic attacks on Gaza’s cultural and educational institutions. Israel has damaged or destroyed all 12 of Gaza’s universities. Some 280 government schools and 65 UNRWA-run schools have also been destroyed or damaged, often resulting in dozens of fatalities. About 133 remaining schools are used to shelter […]

Let Them Eat Dirt – Read by Eunice Wong

Subscribe now Text originally posted Feb 8, 2024 Let Them Eat Dirt – by Mr. Fish There was never any possibility that the Israeli government would agree to a pause in the fighting proposed by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, much less a ceasefire. Israel is on the verge of delivering the coup de grâce […]

Let Them Eat Dirt

Let Them Eat Dirt – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now   There was never any possibility that the Israeli government would agree to a pause in the fighting proposed by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, much less a ceasefire. Israel is on the verge of delivering the coup de grâce in its war on Palestinians […]

The Chris Hedges Report with human rights attorney, author and Professor Noura Erakat on Israel’s manipulation of legal systems to perpetuate its campaign of erasure of the Palestinians.

Time and time again, the human rights attorney Noura Erakat writes, we see evidence of the law’s assumed insignificance in the dispossession of Palestinians. Great Britain remained committed to establishing a Jewish national homeland in Palestine despite its legal duties as the Mandatory Power to shepherd local Arab peoples to independence. The Permanent Mandates Commission […]

The Silence of the Damned

The Sword of Damocles – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now There is no effective health care system left in Gaza. Infants are dying. Children are having their limbs amputated without anesthesia. Thousands of cancer patients and those in need of dialysis lack treatment. The last cancer hospital in Gaza has ceased functioning. An estimated 50,000 […]

It May be Genocide, But it Won’t Be Stopped – Read by Eunice Wong

Subscribe now Text Originally posted Jan. 26, 2024 Red Ink – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now The International Court of Justice (ICJ) refused to implement the most crucial demand made by South African jurists: “the State of Israel shall immediately suspend its military operations in and against Gaza.” But at the same time, it delivered […]

The Chris Hedges Report with Craig Mokhiber, former director of the N.Y. office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, on the ICJ ruling, U.N. failures, and U.S. complicity with genocide.

He noted that the UN had failed to prevent previous genocides against the Tutsis in Rwanda, Muslims in Bosnia, the Yazidi in Iraqi Kurdistan and the Rohingya in Myanmar and wrote: “High Commissioner we are failing again. “The current wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people, rooted in an ethno-nationalist colonial settler ideology, in continuation of […]

It May be Genocide, But it Won’t Be Stopped

Red Ink – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now The International Court of Justice (ICJ) refused to implement the most crucial demand made by South African jurists: “the State of Israel shall immediately suspend its military operations in and against Gaza.” But at the same time, it delivered a devastating blow to the foundational myth of […]

The Four Horsemen of Gaza’s Apocalypse – Read by Eunice Wong

Text Originally published Jan 21, 2024 Subscribe now Blood Brothers – by Mr. Fish Joe Biden’s inner circle of strategists for the Middle East — Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan and Brett McGurk — have little understanding of the Muslim world and a deep animus towards Islamic resistance movements. They see Europe, the United States and […]

“The Death of Israel” – A talk Given by Chris Hedges at The Islamic Society of Central New Jersey

The Four Horsemen of Gaza’s Apocalypse

Blood Brothers – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Joe Biden’s inner circle of strategists for the Middle East — Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan and Brett McGurk — have little understanding of the Muslim world and a deep animus towards Islamic resistance movements. They see Europe, the United States and Israel as involved in a clash […]

The Chris Hedges Report with cartoonist Joe Sacco about his iconic books Palestine and Footnotes on Gaza and how Israel’s repeated slaughter of Palestinians in the past led to the current genocide.

The cartoonist Joe Sacco invented nonfiction graphic journalism, marrying rigorous and detailed reporting with illustrations that leap off the page and give his stories a texture, depth and power that is hard for most writers to match. He pioneered this work with nine issues on the Palestinians living under Israeli occupation from 1993 to 1995. […]

I will speak at The Islamic Society of Central Jersey on Jan. 18 at 6:00 pm on “The Death of Israel: How a Settler Colonial State Destroyed Itself”

Reserve a spot at this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chris-hedges-at-iscj-tickets-793596667997 Event held at The Islamic Society of Central Jersey, located at 4145 Route 1 South and Promenade Blvd. Monmouth Junction, NJ 08852-0628 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 Chris Hedges Report with Miko Peled, the son of an Israeli general who served in the Special Forces in the Israeli army, on the racist indoctrination and militarization of Israeli society.

Subscribe now The Israeli army, known as the Israel Defense Forces or IDF, is integral to understanding Israeli society. Nearly all Israelis do three years of military service. Most men continue to serve in the reserves until middle age. Its generals often retire to occupy senior positions in government an industry. The dominance of the […]

The Case for Genocide

I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream- by Mr. Fish Subscribe now The exhaustive 84-page brief submitted by South Africa to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) charging Israel with genocide is hard to refute. Israel’s campaign of indiscriminate killing, wholesale destruction of infrastructure, including housing, hospitals and water treatment plants, along with its use […]

The Chris Hedges Report with Israeli historian Ilan Pappé on Israel’s end game in Gaza and the future of the Israeli apartheid state

“Religious nationalism is to religion what National Socialism was to socialism,” warned Leibowitz, who died in 1994. He understood that the blind veneration of the military, especially after the 1967 war that captured the West Bank and East Jerusalem, was dangerous and would lead to the ultimate destruction of democracy. “Our situation will deteriorate to […]

Israel’s Genocide Betrays the Holocaust – Read by Eunice Wong

Subscribe now Text Originally Published Dec 29, 2023 Never Again and Again and Again – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Israel’s lebensraum master plan for Gaza, borrowed from the Nazi’s depopulation of Jewish ghettos, is clear. Destroy infrastrutrue, medical facilities and sanitation, including access to clean water. Block shipments of food and fuel. Unleash indiscriminate […]

The Death of Israel – Read by Eunice Wong

Text Originally posted Dec 17, 2023 Subscribe now Birth of a New Nation – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Israel will appear triumphant after it finishes its genocidal campaign in Gaza and the West Bank. Backed by the United States, it will achieve its demented goal. Its murderous rampages and genocidal violence will exterminate or […]