Excerpt from the new book The Greatest Evil is War by Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges - Sep 29th 2022 12:36pm EDTCover design by Mr. Fish Subscribe now I flew to Kansas City to see Tomas Young. Tomas was paralyzed in Iraq in 2004. He was receiving hospice care at his home. I knew him by reputation and the movie documentary Body of War. He was one of the first veterans to publicly oppose the war […]
The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Roger Waters, co-founder of Pink Floyd, about his music, activism and current This is Not a Drill tour
Chris Hedges - Sep 28th 2022 11:38pm EDTSubscribe now Roger Waters, the British rock legend and co-founder of Pink Floyd, is in the midst of his “This Is Not A Drill” tour. In his concerts he weds his musical genius to the most pressing social issues of our day, including permanent war, police violence, the crimes of Israeli occupation against the Palestinians, […]
Listen to this Article: “The Return of Fascism”
Chris Hedges - Sep 27th 2022 9:33pm EDTNarrated by Eunice Wong Subscribe now The Bankruptcy of the Liberal Ass – by Mr. Fish Energy and food bills are soaring. Under the onslaught of inflation and prolonged wage stagnation, wages are in free fall. Billions of dollars are diverted by Western nations at a time of economic crisis and staggering income inequality to […]
The Return of Fascism
Chris Hedges - Sep 24th 2022 2:14pm EDTThe Bankruptcy of the Liberal Ass — by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Energy and food bills are soaring. Under the onslaught of inflation and prolonged wage stagnation, wages are in free fall. Billions of dollars are diverted by Western nations at a time of economic crisis and staggering income inequality to fund a proxy war […]
The Chris Hedges Report Show with John Shipton, father of Julian Assange, about his son’s looming extradition and the imperative of mass resistance, featuring bonus content
Chris Hedges - Sep 23rd 2022 7:48pm EDTSubscribe now Tyrannies invert the rule of law. They turn the law into an instrument of injustice. They cloak their crimes in a faux legality. They use the decorum of the courts and trials, to mask their criminality. Those, such as Julian Assange, who expose that criminality to the public are dangerous, for without the […]
Listen to This Article: “Strike, Strike, Strike”
Chris Hedges - Sep 21st 2022 4:12pm EDTNarrated by Eunice Wong Subscribe now Strike, Strike, Strike – by Mr. Fish The ruling oligarchs are terrified that, for tens of millions of people, the economic dislocation caused by inflation, stagnant wages, austerity, the pandemic and the energy crisis is becoming unendurable. They warn, as Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund […]
Listen to This Article: “Let’s Stop Pretending America is a Functioning Democracy”
Chris Hedges - Sep 21st 2022 4:02pm EDTNarrated by Eunice Wong Subscribe now Endgame – by Mr. Fish There is a fatal disconnect between a political system that promises democratic equality and freedom while carrying out socioeconomic injustices that result in grotesque income inequality and political stagnation. Decades in the making, this disconnect has extinguished American democracy. The steady stripping away of […]
Listen to This Article: “Strike, Strike, Strike”
Chris Hedges - Sep 21st 2022 2:52pm EDTNarrated by Eunice Wong Subscribe now Strike, Strike, Strike – by Mr. Fish The ruling oligarchs are terrified that, for tens of millions of people, the economic dislocation caused by inflation, stagnant wages, austerity, the pandemic and the energy crisis is becoming unendurable. They warn, as Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund […]
The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with John Shipton, father of Julian Assange, about his son’s looming extradition and the imperative of mass resistance
Chris Hedges - Sep 21st 2022 12:52pm EDTSubscribe now A society that prohibits the capacity to speak in truth extinguishes the capacity to live in justice. Tyrannies invert the rule of law. They turn the law into an instrument of injustice. They cloak their crimes in a faux legality. They use the decorum of the courts and trials, to mask their criminality. […]
Strike, Strike, Strike
Chris Hedges - Sep 18th 2022 8:56am EDTStrike, Strike, Strike – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now The ruling oligarchs are terrified that, for tens of millions of people, the economic dislocation caused by inflation, stagnant wages, austerity, the pandemic and the energy crisis is becoming unendurable. They warn, as Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and NATO […]
The Chris Hedges Report Show with author Nathaniel Philbrick on How George Armstrong Custer Became a Martyr Used to Justify Genocide and US Imperialism
Chris Hedges - Sep 16th 2022 4:40pm EDTPainting by Frederick Remington of “Custer’s Last Charge.” George A. Custer, (1839-1876), made his last stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn, July 25, 1876. Custer lost the battle. Undated illustration. Subscribe now The playwright Eugene O’Neill said that one of the few events worth celebrating in American history took place on June 25, […]
The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with author Nathaniel Philbrick on How George Armstrong Custer Became a Martyr Used to Justify Genocide and US Imperialism
Chris Hedges - Sep 14th 2022 1:33pm EDTSubscribe now Image: Pictograph by Red Horse, 1881 The playwright Eugene O’Neill said that one of the few events worth celebrating in American history took place on June 25, 1876, when Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho, led by Crazy Horse and Chief Gall, annihilated a unit of the 7th Cavalry under the command of Lt. […]
Listen to this Article: “Monarchs Belong in the Dustbin of History”
Chris Hedges - Sep 12th 2022 2:39pm EDTNarrated by Eunice Wong Subscribe now Off With Her Head — by Mr. Fish Subscribe now The fawning adulation of Queen Elizabeth in the United States, which fought a revolution to get rid of the monarchy, and in Great Britain, is in direct proportion to the fear gripping a discredited, incompetent and corrupt global ruling […]
Monarchs Belong in the Dustbin of History
Chris Hedges - Sep 11th 2022 6:57pm EDTOff With Her Head – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now The fawning adulation of Queen Elizabeth in the United States, which fought a revolution to get rid of the monarchy, and in Great Britain, is in direct proportion to the fear gripping a discredited, incompetent and corrupt global ruling elite. The global oligarchs are not […]
The Chris Hedges Show with Historian Paul Street About the Bankrupt Liberalism and Gilded Absurdities of the Democratic Party, Featuring Bonus Content
Chris Hedges - Sep 9th 2022 7:24pm EDTSubscribe now What are we to make of a Democratic Party that has embraces an election strategy that includes demobilizing the majority working-class non-Republican electorate; legitimizing right-wing agendas and narratives; seeks bipartisan cooperation with right-wing politicians such as Liz Cheney; refuses to attack archaic minority rule institutions including the E… Read more
The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Historian Paul Street About the Bankrupt Liberalism and Gilded Absurdities of the Democratic Party
Chris Hedges - Sep 7th 2022 6:07pm EDTSubscribe now What are we to make of a Democratic Party that has embraces an election strategy that includes demobilizing the majority working-class non-Republican electorate; legitimizing right-wing agendas and narratives; seeks bipartisan cooperation with right-wing politicians such as Liz Cheney; refuses to attack archaic minority rule institutions including the Electoral College and the Senate filibuster; […]
Listen to This Article: “Let’s Stop Pretending America is a Functioning Democracy”
Chris Hedges - Sep 6th 2022 1:57pm EDTSubscribe now Narrated by Eunice Wong Endgame – by Mr. Fish There is a fatal disconnect between a political system that promises democratic equality and freedom while carrying out socioeconomic injustices that result in grotesque income inequality and political stagnation. Decades in the making, this disconnect has extinguished American democracy. The steady stripping away of […]
The Chris Hedges Show with Patrick Lawrence Featuring Bonus Content
Chris Hedges - Sep 5th 2022 2:04pm EDTSubscribe now The Ukraine conflict has plunged the world into a geopolitical crisis. But this is not, as the writer Patrick Lawrence points out, the only crisis. The war in Ukraine has exacerbated the crisis within the western press, inflicting damage that he believes is ultimately irreparable. The press in the U.S. and most of Europe […]
Let’s Stop Pretending America Is A Functioning Democracy
Chris Hedges - Sep 4th 2022 1:38pm EDTEndgame – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now There is a fatal disconnect between a political system that promises democratic equality and freedom while carrying out socioeconomic injustices that result in grotesque income inequality and political stagnation. Decades in the making, this disconnect has extinguished American democracy. The steady stripping away of economic and political power […]
Listen to This Article: “Ukraine and the Politics of Permanent War”
Chris Hedges - Aug 31st 2022 3:55pm EDTSubscribe now Narrated by Eunice Wong Originally posted 08/28/2022 War Inc. – by Mr. Fish 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 […]
The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Patrick Lawrence Examines How the Western Press Has Become a Propaganda Tool of the War Industry and Ukrainian Government
Chris Hedges - Aug 30th 2022 6:26pm EDTSubscribe now The Ukraine conflict has plunged the world into a geopolitical crisis. But this is not, as the writer Patrick Lawrence points out, the only crisis. The war in Ukraine has exacerbated the crisis within the western press, inflicting damage that he believes is ultimately irreparable. The press in the U.S. and most of Europe […]
Ukraine and the Politics of Permanent War
Chris Hedges - Aug 28th 2022 12:17pm EDTWar Inc. – by Mr. Fish Subscribe 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 […]
The Chris Hedges Show with Dr. Gerald Horne on the life and legacy of W.E.B Du Bois, Featuring Bonus Content
Chris Hedges - Aug 26th 2022 2:56pm EDTPhoto of 82-year-old Dr. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868 – 1963), co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), taken on Jan. 1, 1950. Photo by Keystone/Getty Images. Subscribe now W.E.B Du Bois was the first Black to earn a doctorate from Harvard University, one of the founders of the […]
The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Dr. Gerald Horne on W.E.B. Du Bois who was one of America’s most important intellectuals
Chris Hedges - Aug 24th 2022 9:27pm EDTSubscribe now W.E.B Du Bois was the first Black to earn a doctorate from Harvard University, one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or NAACP, and the Niagara Movement, and one of the seminal scholars of American history, author of works such as The Souls of Black Folk, […]
Listen to this Article: “When the Just Go to Prison”
Chris Hedges - Aug 22nd 2022 7:41pm EDTNarrated by Eunice Wong Text Originally published 07/31/2022 Pig and Whistle -by Mr. Fish Subscribe now MARION, Illinois — Daniel Hale, dressed in a khaki uniform, his hair cut short and sporting a long, neatly groomed brown beard, is seated behind a plexiglass screen, speaking into a telephone receiver at the federal prison in Marion, […]