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, […]
The Chris Hedges Show with Author Curtis Wilkie Featuring Bonus Content
Chris Hedges - Aug 19th 2022 7:02pm EDTSubscribe now On Jan. 9, 1966, the White Knights of the Mississippi Ku Klux Klan murdered the Black civil rights activist Vernon Dahmer in Hattiesburg, Mississippi after fire-bombing and shooting into his house. It was one of thousands of hate crimes conducted in the south by whites who waged a reign of terror against Blacks […]
The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Curtis Wilkie looks Inside the Minds of White Nationalists
Chris Hedges - Aug 17th 2022 3:09pm EDTSubscribe now On Jan. 9, 1966, the White Knights of the Mississippi Ku Klux Klan murdered the Black civil rights activist Vernon Dahmer in Hattiesburg, Mississippi after fire-bombing and shooting into his house. It was one of thousands of hate crimes conducted in the south by whites who waged a reign of terror against Blacks […]
Listen to This Article: “We Are Not the First Civilization to Collapse, But We Will Probably Be the Last”
Chris Hedges - Aug 15th 2022 8:13pm EDTNarrated by Eunice Wong Text Originally published 08/14/2022 Subscribe now Share Doomsday Selfie – by Mr. Fish CAHOKIA MOUNDS, Illinois: I am standing atop a 100-foot-high temple mound, the largest known earthwork in the Americas built by prehistoric peoples. The temperatures, in the high 80s, along with the oppressive humidity, have emptied the park of […]
We Are Not the First Civilization to Collapse, But We Will Probably Be the Last
Chris Hedges - Aug 14th 2022 11:42am EDTDoomsday Selfie – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now CAHOKIA MOUNDS, Missouri: I am standing atop a 100-foot-high temple mound, the largest known earthwork in the Americas built by prehistoric peoples. The temperatures, in the high 80s, along with the oppressive humidity, have emptied the park of all but a handful of visitors. My shirt is […]
The Chris Hedges Show with John Kiriakou CIA’s Chief of Counterterrorism Operations in Pakistan, Featuring Bonus Content
Chris Hedges - Aug 12th 2022 5:27pm EDTSubscribe now The CIA, from its inception, carried out assassinations, coups, torture, and illegal spying and abuse, including of US citizens, many of which were exposed in 1975 by the Church Committee in the Senate and the Pike Committee in the House. Congress attempted to enact laws to curb the widespread criminal activity by the […]
The Chris Hedges Report Podcast: John Kiriakou, who was the CIA’s Chief of Counterterrorism Operations in Pakistan, and Chris Hedges discuss why the CIA needs to be abolished.
Chris Hedges - Aug 9th 2022 6:48pm EDTSubscribe now The CIA, from its inception, carried out assassinations, coups, torture, and illegal spying and abuse, including of US citizens, many of which were exposed in 1975 by the Church Committee in the Senate and the Pike Committee in the House. Congress attempted to enact laws to curb the widespread criminal activity by the […]
The Chris Hedges Report Show with Combat Veteran and Retired Army Colonel Andrew Bacevich Featuring Bonus Content
Chris Hedges - Aug 5th 2022 2:14pm EDTSubscribe now Andrew Bacevich, a retired Army Colonel who fought in Vietnam, and Danny Sjursen, a retired Army Major who did tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, have just published Paths of Dissent: Soldiers Speak Out Against America’s Misguided Wars. Bacevich and Sjursen, West Point graduates, like many writers in the book, come out of the […]
The Chris Hedges Report Podcast: Combat Veteran and retired Army Colonel Andrew Bacevich and Chris Hedges Dissect the Mythology of War
Chris Hedges - Aug 3rd 2022 2:48pm EDTAndrew Bacevich, a retired Army Colonel who fought in Vietnam, and Danny Sjursen, a retired Army Major who did tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, have just published Paths of Dissent: Soldiers Speak Out Against America’s Misguided Wars. Bacevich and Sjursen, West Point graduates, like many writers in the book, come out of the military culture. […]
When The Just Go to Prison
Chris Hedges - Jul 31st 2022 7:57am EDTPig 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, Illinois. I hold a receiver on the […]
The Chris Hedges Report Show with Nathaniel Philbrick featuring Bonus Content
Chris Hedges - Jul 30th 2022 2:23pm EDTSubscribe now Joining Chris to discuss Melville’s novel is Nathaniel Philbrick author of Why Read Moby Dick? as well as books such as In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleboat Essex, Mayflower: Voyage, Community, War, Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy and The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting […]
The Chris Hedges Report Podcast: Nathaniel Philbrick and Chris Hedges Discuss Herman Melville’s Moby Dick
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Listen to this Article: “The Dawn of the Apocalypse”
Chris Hedges - Jul 26th 2022 9:40pm EDTNarrated by Eunice Wong Our Climate Future – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now The past week has seen record-breaking heat waves across Europe. Wildfires have ripped through Spain, Portugal and France. London’s fire brigade experienced its busiest day since World War II. The U.K. saw its hottest day on record of 104.54 Fahrenheit. In China, more than a dozen cities issued the “highest possible heat […]
The Dawn of the Apocalypse
Chris Hedges - Jul 24th 2022 8:02am EDTOur Climate Future – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now The past week has seen record-breaking heat waves across Europe. Wildfires have ripped through Spain, Portugal and France. London’s fire brigade experienced its busiest day since World War II. The U.K. saw its hottest day on record of 104.54 Fahrenheit. In China, more than a dozen […]
The Chris Hedges Report Show with Dr. James Gilligan featuring Bonus Content
Chris Hedges - Jul 22nd 2022 3:49pm EDTSubscribe now American society is the most violent of any nation in the industrialized world. Nothing we do, from administrating the world’s largest prison system to militarizing our police, seems to help. Dr. James Gilligan, the former director of the Study of Violence at Harvard Medical School and the former director of the Bridgewater State […]
Listen to This Article: “War with Iran”
Chris Hedges - Jul 21st 2022 9:17pm EDTNarrated by Eunice Wong Biden at Bat – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now The United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia are plotting a war with Iran. The 2015 Iranian nuclear arms accord, or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which Donald Trump sabotaged, does not look like it will be revived. U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) […]
The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Dr. James Gilligan
Chris Hedges - Jul 20th 2022 6:23pm EDTSubscribe now American society is the most violent of any nation in the industrialized world. Nothing we do, from administrating the world’s largest prison system to militarizing our police, seems to help. Dr. James Gilligan, the former director of the Study of Violence at Harvard Medical School and the former director of the Bridgewater State […]