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Listen to this Article: “The Democrats are Now the War Party”

Narrated by Eunice Wong Text originally published 12/25/2022 Subscribe now Democratic Dark Side – by Mr. Fish The Democrats position themselves as the party of virtue, cloaking their support for the war industry in moral language stretching back to Korea and Vietnam, when President Ngo Dinh Diem was as lionized as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. […]

Call-In show with Chris Hedges on Jan. 1 on CSPAN’s show In Depth from noon to 2:00 pm EST.

In Depth Chris Hedges Author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges joins Book TV to talk and take calls about political revolution, war, incarceration in America and other topics. His books include “America: The Farewell Tour” and “The Greatest Evil Is War.” close

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Helen Benedict and Eyad Awwadawnan on the efforts by industrial nations to lock out the 84 million forcibly displaced migrants around the globe.

Subscribe now There are some 84 million forcibly displaced people in the world, more than at any time since World War II. They are fleeing a combination of war, civil unrest, religious conflict, poverty, persecution, local violence and the climate crisis. As conditions worsen, authoritarian governments are on the rise that denounce immigrants and refugees […]

The Democrats are Now the War Party

Democratic Dark Side – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now The Democrats position themselves as the party of virtue, cloaking their support for the war industry in moral language stretching back to Korea and Vietnam, when President Ngo Dinh Diem was as lionized as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. All the wars they support and fund are […]

The Chris Hedges Report Show with Roy Bourgeois, the priest who took his vows to stand with the crucified so seriously the Catholic Church expelled him.

Subscribe now When one makes a commitment to become a Christian, he, or she, if they are serious, are required to lift and bear the cross. This is not a rhetorical feign. If you take this call seriously it means a life in perpetual opposition to power, including the institution of the church itself, and […]

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast: Dystopia, octopus intelligence, and what makes us human with Ray Nayler

Subscribe now In Ray Nayler’s novel The Mountain in the Sea he explores the marine habitat of a hyperintelligent species of octopus, endowed with its own language and culture, is seized by a global tech corporation determined to harness this non-human intelligence for profit in new systems of artificial intelligence. This dystopian future world is […]

Listen to This Article: “Teaching Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago in Prison”

Narrated by Eunice Wong Original Text published December 18, 2022 Subscribe now No Justice No Peace – by Mr. Fish Two nights a week for the last four months, I plowed my way through the three volumes of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago with 17 students in the college degree program offered by Rutgers University […]

Teaching Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago in Prison

No Justice No Peace – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Two nights a week for the last four months, I plowed my way through the three volumes of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago with 17 students in the college degree program offered by Rutgers University in the New Jersey prison system. No one in my […]

The Chris Hedges Report Show with Dennis Kucinich on the folly of the proxy war in Ukraine and how the military-industrial-complex has become the enemy from within.

Subscribe now There 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 […]

Listen to this Article: “Israel and the Rise of Jewish Fascism”

Narrated 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”

Narrated 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.

There 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

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, 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

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 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

Subscribe 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

Power 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”

Narrated 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

Inflation, 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

Listen to this Article: “Reading Proust in War”

Narrated 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

Subscribe 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

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Reading Proust in War

Marcel 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

Subscribe 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).

Subscribe 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, […]