Listen to this Article: “Israel and the Rise of Jewish Fascism”
Chris Hedges - Dec 17th 2022 9:50am ESTNarrated by Eunice Wong Text originally published Dec 11, 2022 Where there’s smoke – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed coalition government of Jewish extremists, fanatic Zionists and religious bigots represents a seismic change in Israel, one that will exacerbate Israel’s pariah status, erode external support for Israel, fuel a third Palestinian uprising, […]
Listen to this Article: “Know Thine Enemy”
Chris Hedges - Dec 15th 2022 2:43pm ESTNarrated by Eunice Wong Text originally published Dec. 4, 2022 Subscribe now Power Couple – by Mr. Fish The Congressional decision to prohibit railroad workers from going on strike and force them to accept a contract that meets few of their demands is part of the class war that has defined American politics for decades. […]
The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Dennis Kucinich on the folly of the proxy war in Ukraine and how the military-industrial-complex has become the enemy from within.
Chris Hedges - Dec 14th 2022 8:05am ESTThere was once a wing of the Democratic Party that stood up to the war industry. J. William Fulbright. George McGovern. Mike Gravel. William Proxmire. But that was decades ago. The new Democrats, especially with the presidency of Bill Clinton, became shills not only for corporate America but the arms industry. No weapons system is […]
Israel and the Rise of Jewish Fascism
Chris Hedges - Dec 11th 2022 6:41pm ESTWhere there’s smoke – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed coalition government of Jewish extremists, fanatic Zionists and religious bigots represents a seismic change in Israel, one that will exacerbate Israel’s pariah status, erode external support for Israel, fuel a third Palestinian uprising, or intifada, and create irreconcilable political divides within the Jewish […]
The Chris Hedges Report video with Adam Hochschild on his new book American Midnight: The Great War, A Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis
Chris Hedges - Dec 10th 2022 8:22am ESTHigh school history textbooks have as remarkable ability to leave out one of the most crucial moments in 20th century history that took place during World War I and its aftermath. In popular American mythology we leap from the war to the roaring twenties. This willful historical amnesia blots out one of the darkest periods […]
The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Adam Hochschild on his new book American Midnight: The Great War, A Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis
Chris Hedges - Dec 7th 2022 3:25pm ESTSubscribe now High school history textbooks have as remarkable ability to leave out one of the most crucial moments in 20th century history that took place during World War I and its aftermath. In popular American mythology we leap from the war to the roaring twenties. This willful historical amnesia blots out one of the […]
Know Thine Enemy
Chris Hedges - Dec 4th 2022 6:07pm ESTPower Couple – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now The Congressional decision to prohibit railroad workers from going on strike and force them to accept a contract that meets few of their demands is part of the class war that has defined American politics for decades. The two ruling political parties differ only in rhetoric. They […]
Listen to this Article: “The Good Priest”
Chris Hedges - Dec 3rd 2022 8:20am ESTNarrated by Eunice Wong Original Text published 11/13/2022 Subscribe now Father Michael Doyle – by Mr. Fish During the two years the cartoonist Joe Sacco and I spent on our book Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, written out of the poorest pockets of America, we invariably encountered heroic men and women who — against […]
The Chris Hedges Report television show speaks with the economist Richard Wolff about inflation, growing income inequality and the looming disasters built into the U.S. economic system
Chris Hedges - Dec 2nd 2022 1:27pm ESTInflation, at 7.75 percent, along with soaring interest rates, massive personal debt, stagnant and, in real terms, declining wages are crippling the public. As inflation raises prices faster than wages, there is a continued redistribution of income and wealth upward from employees to employers and more suffering for workers and their families. The Federal Reserve […]
The Chris Hedges Report Podcast speaks with the economist Richard Wolff about inflation, growing income inequality and the looming disasters built into the U.S. economic system
Chris Hedges - Dec 1st 2022 8:13am ESTListen to this Article: “Reading Proust in War”
Chris Hedges - Nov 30th 2022 2:48pm ESTNarrated by Eunice Wong Text originally published Nov. 20, 2022 Subscribe now Marcel Proust – by Mr. Fish During the war in Bosnia, I worked my way through the seven volumes of Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.” The novel, populated with 400 characters, was not an escape from the war. The specter of […]
The Chris Hedges Report Show with former presidential candidate Ralph Nader featuring bonus content
Chris Hedges - Nov 25th 2022 2:52pm ESTSubscribe now You can find more of Ralph Nader at ralphnader.substack.com The midterm elections are over, and two more years of Congressional gridlock are likely in store. Republicans have taken a narrow majority in the House, while Democrats have held the Senate. What do we make of the current political landscape, where rhetoric runs so […]
The Chris Hedges Report Podcast features former presidential candidate Ralph Nader who talks about the midterm elections, the upcoming presidential race and the future of U.S. democracy
Chris Hedges - Nov 23rd 2022 12:26pm ESTSubscribe now
Reading Proust in War
Chris Hedges - Nov 20th 2022 11:17am ESTMarcel Proust – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now During the war in Bosnia, I worked my way through the seven volumes of Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.” The novel, populated with 400 characters, was not an escape from the war. The specter of death and the expiring world of La Belle Époque haunts […]
The Chris Hedges Report Show with Justin E. H. Smith on Marcel Proust’s masterpiece In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu) Featuring Bonus Content
Chris Hedges - Nov 18th 2022 2:41pm ESTSubscribe now A century ago, on November 18, 1922, Marcel Proust died. He worked feverishly in his final hours on his masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu, In Search of Lost Time. His 4,000 page novel is one of the most remarkable works of literature of the 20th century. During the war in Bosnia, […]
The Chris Hedges Report with Justin E. H. Smith on Marcel Proust’s masterpiece In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu).
Chris Hedges - Nov 16th 2022 4:57pm ESTSubscribe now A century ago, on November 18, 1922, Marcel Proust died. He worked feverishly in his final hours on his masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu, In Search of Lost Time. His 4,000 page novel is one of the most remarkable works of literature of the 20th century. During the war in Bosnia, […]
Listen to this Article: “Writing on War”
Chris Hedges - Nov 14th 2022 7:39pm ESTNarrated by Eunice Wong Cover Design by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Writing on War And Living in a World from Hell By Chris Hedges As this century began, I was writing War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, my reflections on two decades as a war correspondent, 15 of them with the New York […]
The Good Priest
Chris Hedges - Nov 13th 2022 10:34am ESTFather Michael Doyle – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now During the two years the cartoonist Joe Sacco and I spent on our book Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, written out of the poorest pockets of America, we invariably encountered heroic men and women who — against overwhelming odds — rose up to fight lonely […]
The Chris Hedges Report Show with Andrew Bacevich on his book “After the Apocalypse” and the folly of endless war, featuring bonus content
Chris Hedges - Nov 12th 2022 7:51am ESTSubscribe now In the months of July and September 1940 the French historian and future resistance fighter Marc Bloch, who fought in World War I and World War II, wrote a short book called L’Étrange Défaite or Strange Defeat. It was a searing condemnation of the French high command and political class which was responsible […]
Listen to this Article: “Death of an Oracle”
Chris Hedges - Nov 11th 2022 4:39pm ESTNarrated by Eunice Wong Text Published 10/30/2022 The poet Gerald Stern, who died last Friday at the age of 97, spent his life thundering against the mendacity and abuse of power; rebelling against all forms of authority, big and small; defying social conventions; and wielding his finely honed writing on behalf of the demonized, forgotten […]
The Chris Hedges Report with Andrew Bacevich on his book “After the Apocalypse” and the folly of endless war
Chris Hedges - Nov 9th 2022 1:59pm ESTSubscribe now In the months of July and September 1940 the French historian and future resistance fighter Marc Bloch, who fought in World War I and World War II, wrote a short book called L’Étrange Défaite or Strange Defeat. It was a searing condemnation of the French high command and political class which was responsible […]
Listen to this Article: “The Politicians Who Destroyed Our Democracy Want Us to Vote for Them to Save It”
Chris Hedges - Nov 7th 2022 11:26am ESTNarrated by Eunice Wong The Body Politic – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now The bipartisan project of dismantling our democracy, which took place over the last few decades on behalf of corporations and the rich, has left only the outward shell of democracy. The courts, legislative bodies, the executive branch and the media, including public […]
The Politicians Who Destroyed Our Democracy Want Us to Vote for Them to Save It
Chris Hedges - Nov 6th 2022 12:19pm ESTThe Body Politic – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now The bipartisan project of dismantling our democracy, which took place over the last few decades on behalf of corporations and the rich, has left only the outward shell of democracy. The courts, legislative bodies, the executive branch and the media, including public broadcasting, are captive to […]
The Chris Hedges Report Show with Medea Benjamin on her book “War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict”, featuring bonus content
Chris Hedges - Nov 4th 2022 3:27pm EDTSubscribe now No one, including the most bullish supporters of Ukraine, expect the nation’s war with Russia to end soon. The fighting has been reduced to artillery duels across hundreds of miles of front lines and creeping advances and retreats. Ukraine, like Afghanistan, will bleed for a very long time. This is by design. The […]
The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Medea Benjamin on her book “War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict”
Chris Hedges - Nov 3rd 2022 1:30pm EDTSubscribe now No one, including the most bullish supporters of Ukraine, expect the nation’s war with Russia to end soon. The fighting has been reduced to artillery duels across hundreds of miles of front lines and creeping advances and retreats. Ukraine, like Afghanistan, will bleed for a very long time. This is by design. The […]