The Trump-Russia Saga and the Death Spiral of American Journalism
Chris Hedges - Feb 25th 2023 2:02pm ESTDe-Pressed – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Reporters make mistakes. It is the nature of the trade. There are always a few stories we wish were reported more carefully. Writing on deadline with often only a few hours before publication is an imperfect art. But when mistakes occur, they must be acknowledged and publicized. To […]
The Chris Hedges Report Show with Pulitzer-prize winning investigative reporter Jeff Gerth on the failure of the U.S. press to report the true story during the Trump-Russia saga.
Chris Hedges - Feb 24th 2023 6:09pm ESTSubscribe now Walter Lippmann in his 1920 book Liberty and the News warned that when journalists “arrogate to themselves the right to determine by their own consciences what shall be reported and for what purpose, democracy is unworkable.” Perhaps no other quote sums up the debacle known as Russiagate, the hundreds if not thousands of […]
The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Pulitzer-prize winning investigative reporter Jeff Gerth on the failure of the U.S. press to report the true story during the Trump-Russia saga.
Chris Hedges - Feb 21st 2023 8:48pm ESTSubscribe now Walter Lippmann in his 1920 book Liberty and the News warned that when journalists “arrogate to themselves the right to determine by their own consciences what shall be reported and for what purpose, democracy is unworkable.” Perhaps no other quote sums up the debacle known as Russiagate, the hundreds if not thousands of […]
Listen to this text of the talk I gave in Washington, D.C. on Sunday at the Rage Against The War Machine rally
Chris Hedges - Feb 20th 2023 12:27pm ESTNarrated by Eunice Wong Text originally published 02/19/2023 Subscribe now Murder King – by Mr. Fish Idolatry is the primal sin from which all other sins derive. Idols tempt us to become God. They demand the sacrifice of others in the mad quest for wealth, fame or power. But the idol always ends by requiring self-sacrifice, […]
This is the text of a talk I gave in Washington, D.C. on Sunday at the Rage Against The War Machine rally.
Chris Hedges - Feb 19th 2023 8:09pm ESTMurder King – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Idolatry is the primal sin from which all other sins derive. Idols tempt us to become God. They demand the sacrifice of others in the mad quest for wealth, fame or power. But the idol always ends by requiring self-sacrifice, leaving us to perish on the blood-soaked […]
The Chris Hedges Report Show with actor Eunice Wong and director David Herskovits on William Shakespeare as Oracle and their new production of Shakespeare’s play Pericles
Chris Hedges - Feb 17th 2023 4:40pm ESTSubscribe now I carried copies of William Shakespeare’s plays into conflicts in Central America, the Middle East and the Balkans. When I was taken prisoner by the Iraqi Republican Guard in Basra during the Shiite uprising following the first Gulf War, I had a copy of Anthony and Cleopatra in the pocket of my M-65 […]
The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with actor Eunice Wong and director David Herskovits on William Shakespeare as Oracle and their new production of Shakespeare’s play Pericles
Chris Hedges - Feb 14th 2023 3:56pm ESTShare I carried copies of William Shakespeare’s plays into conflicts in Central America, the Middle East and the Balkans. When I was taken prisoner by the Iraqi Republican Guard in Basra during the Shiite uprising following the first Gulf War, I had a copy of Anthony and Cleopatra in the pocket of my M-65 field […]
Listen to this Article: “There Are No Permanent Allies, Only Permanent Power”
Chris Hedges - Feb 13th 2023 10:20pm ESTNarrated by Eunice Wong Text Originally published 02/12/2023 Share Give Enough Rope – by Mr. Fish On Sunday, February 19, I will be at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington at noon to speak at the anti-war rally, Rage Against the War Machine. There, I will be joined by Jimmy Dore, Dennis Kucinich, Ann Wright, Jill […]
There Are No Permanent Allies, Only Permanent Power
Chris Hedges - Feb 12th 2023 10:34am ESTGive Enough Rope – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now On Sunday, February 19, I will be at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington at noon to speak at the anti-war rally, Rage Against the War Machine. There, I will be joined by Jimmy Dore, Dennis Kucinich, Ann Wright, Jill Stein, Max Blumenthal, Cynthia McKinney, Anya Parampil, […]
The Chris Hedges Report Show with Matt Taibbi about Russiagate and the most pernicious campaign of censorship since the red baiting of Joe McCarthy in the 1950s.
Chris Hedges - Feb 10th 2023 3:25pm ESTSubscribe now Matt Taibbi has published an investigation about a vast propaganda campaign called “Hamilton 68, launched a year after Donald Trump won the presidency, to smear critics of the Democratic Party, from the left and the right, as Russian assets. Hamilton 68 claimed it used complex data analysis and relied on so-called disinformation experts […]
The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Matt Taibbi about Russiagate and the most pernicious campaign of censorship since the red baiting of Joe McCarthy in the 1950s.
Chris Hedges - Feb 7th 2023 1:52pm ESTSubscribe now Matt Taibbi has published an investigation about a vast propaganda campaign called “Hamilton 68, launched a year after Donald Trump won the presidency, to smear critics of the Democratic Party, from the left and the right, as Russian assets. Hamilton 68 claimed it used complex data analysis and relied on so-called disinformation experts […]
Listen to this Article: Woke Imperialism
Chris Hedges - Feb 6th 2023 2:01pm ESTNarrated by Eunice Wong Text originally published Feb. 5, 2023 Subscribe now Identity Politics – by Mr. Fish The brutal murder of Tyre Nichols by five Black Memphis police officers should be enough to implode the fantasy that identity politics and diversity will solve the social, economic and political decay that besets the United States. […]
The Chris Hedges Report Show with Italian investigative journalist Stefania Maurizi, the only international reporter who worked on the entirety of the WikiLeaks secret trove of leaked documents.
Chris Hedges - Feb 3rd 2023 6:13pm ESTJulian Assange and WikiLeaks have carried out the most important investigative journalism of our generation, revealing to the public the inner workings of power through the release of voluminous leaked documents. No other news organization has come close. This information has exposed the crimes, lies and fraud of the powerful, sparking the judicial lync… Read […]
The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Italian investigative journalist Stefania Maurizi, the only international reporter who worked on the entirety of the WikiLeaks secret trove of leaked documents.
Chris Hedges - Feb 2nd 2023 1:17pm ESTSubscribe now Julian Assange and WikiLeaks have carried out the most important investigative journalism of our generation, revealing to the public the inner workings of power through the release of voluminous leaked documents. No other news organization has come close. This information has exposed the crimes, lies and fraud of the powerful, sparking the judicial […]
Listen to this Article: “Ukraine: The War That Went Wrong”
Chris Hedges - Jan 30th 2023 6:47pm ESTNarrated by Eunice Wong Text originally published: January 29, 2023 Subscribe now Everything Must Go – Mr. Fish Empires in terminal decline leap from one military fiasco to the next. The war in Ukraine, another bungled attempt to reassert U.S. global hegemony, fits this pattern. The danger is that the more dire things look, the […]
Ukraine: The War That Went Wrong
Chris Hedges - Jan 29th 2023 12:51pm ESTEverything Must Go – Mr. Fish Subscribe now Empires in terminal decline leap from one military fiasco to the next. The war in Ukraine, another bungled attempt to reassert U.S. global hegemony, fits this pattern. The danger is that the more dire things look, the more the U.S. will escalate the conflict, potentially provoking open […]
The Chris Hedges Report podcast with Julian Assange’s brother, Gabriel Shipton, on his film Ithaka about Julian’s prolonged torture and slow motion execution
Chris Hedges - Jan 28th 2023 1:42pm ESTSubscribe now The film Ithaka, the title taken from a poem by C.P Cavafy, chronicles the slow-motion torture and execution of the Australian journalist Julian Assange, currently awaiting extradition to the United States in a high security prison in London. It charts his journey from publisher of the most important revelations of our generation of […]
Listen to this Article: “The Plague of Social Isolation”
Chris Hedges - Jan 28th 2023 1:42pm ESTNarrated by Eunice Wong Text Originally posted January 21, 2023 Subscribe now Cell Damage – by Mr. Fish There is very little to recommend my old gym, other than the low monthly fee, where I worked out nearly every day from 2007 until the pandemic shut it down. The locker rooms were grimy with moldering […]
The Plague of Social Isolation
Chris Hedges - Jan 28th 2023 1:42pm ESTCell Damage – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now There is very little to recommend my old gym, other than the low monthly fee, where I worked out nearly every day from 2007 until the pandemic shut it down. The locker rooms were grimy with moldering carpets. There were brown rings around the basins and a […]
The Chris Hedges Report Show with Kevin Gosztola on Julian Assange and the End of Press Freedom
Chris Hedges - Jan 28th 2023 1:42pm ESTSubscribe now The long persecution of Julian Assange, the publisher of Wikileaks, is set to culminate in its final act – a trial in the United States this year. Kevin Gosztola has spent the last decade reporting on Assange, WikiLeaks and the wider war on whistleblowers. His new book, “Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case […]
The Chris Hedges Report podcast with Kevin Gosztola on Julian Assange and the End of Press Freedom
Chris Hedges - Jan 28th 2023 1:42pm ESTSubscribe now The long persecution of Julian Assange, the publisher of Wikileaks, is set to culminate in its final act – a trial in the United States this year. Kevin Gosztola has spent the last decade reporting on Assange, WikiLeaks and the wider war on whistleblowers. His new book, “Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case […]
The Chris Hedges Report Show with Julian Assange’s brother, Gabriel Shipton, on his film Ithaka about Julian’s prolonged torture and slow motion execution
Chris Hedges - Jan 27th 2023 10:23pm ESTSubscribe now The film Ithaka, the title taken from a poem by C.P Cavafy, chronicles the slow-motion torture and execution of the Australian journalist Julian Assange, currently awaiting extradition to the United States in a high security prison in London. It charts his journey from publisher of the most important revelations of our generation of […]
The Chris Hedges Report podcast with Julian Assange’s brother, Gabriel Shipton, on his film Ithaka about Julian’s prolonged torture and slow motion execution
Chris Hedges - Jan 26th 2023 1:07pm ESTSubscribe now The film Ithaka, the title taken from a poem by C.P Cavafy, chronicles the slow-motion torture and execution of the Australian journalist Julian Assange, currently awaiting extradition to the United States in a high security prison in London. It charts his journey from publisher of the most important revelations of our generation of […]
Listen to this Article: “The Plague of Social Isolation”
Chris Hedges - Jan 22nd 2023 3:05pm ESTNarrated by Eunice Wong Text Originally posted January 21, 2023 Subscribe now Cell Damage – by Mr. Fish There is very little to recommend my old gym, other than the low monthly fee, where I worked out nearly every day from 2007 until the pandemic shut it down. The locker rooms were grimy with moldering […]
The Plague of Social Isolation
Chris Hedges - Jan 21st 2023 9:25am ESTCell Damage – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now There is very little to recommend my old gym, other than the low monthly fee, where I worked out nearly every day from 2007 until the pandemic shut it down. The locker rooms were grimy with moldering carpets. There were brown rings around the basins and a […]