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The Chris Hedges Show with Author Curtis Wilkie Featuring Bonus Content

Subscribe 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

Subscribe 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”

Narrated 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

Doomsday 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

Subscribe 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.

Subscribe 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

Subscribe 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

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 military culture. […]

When The Just Go to Prison

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, Illinois. I hold a receiver on the […]

The Chris Hedges Report Show with Nathaniel Philbrick featuring Bonus Content

Subscribe 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”

Narrated 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

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 […]

The Chris Hedges Report Show with Dr. James Gilligan featuring Bonus Content

Subscribe 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”

Narrated 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

Subscribe 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 […]

The Chris Hedges Report Show with Eurydice featuring Bonus Content

Subscribe now TRANSCRIPT Chris Hedges:  Welcome to TheChris Hedges Report. A licentious, money drenched, morally bankrupt, and intellectually vacuous ruling class, accountable to no one and free to plunder and pray on the week like human vultures, rise to power in societies in terminal decline where the rule of law has collapsed and desperate human […]

War with Iran

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) is reviewing options to […]

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Eurydice

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Listen to this Article: “NATO: The Most Dangerous Military Alliance on the Planet”

Narrated by Eunice Wong Original Text published 07/10/2022 Subscribe now Together We Are Wrong – by Mr. Fish The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and the arms industry that depends on it for billions in profits, has become the most aggressive and dangerous military alliance on the planet. Created in 1949 to thwart Soviet expansion […]

NATO: The Most Dangerous Military Alliance on the Planet

Together We Are Wrong — by Mr. Fish Subscribe now The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and the arms industry that depends on it for billions in profits, has become the most aggressive and dangerous military alliance on the planet. Created in 1949 to thwart Soviet expansion into Eastern and Central Europe, it has evolved […]

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with John Feffer

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Mark Kurlansky featuring Bonus Content

Subscribe now The writer Mark Kurlansky, by a series of coincidences, spent his life as a journalist and author in the shadow of Ernest Hemingway, starting with his presence in Idaho on the day Hemingway died. Kurlansky would reside and work during his career in Paris, the Basque region of Spain, Cuba, and Ketchum, Idaho—all […]

Listen to this Article: “The Disappearance of Meghan Marohn”

Narrated by Eunice Wong Original Text published 06/30/2022 Subscribe now A few days before Meghan Marohn, a 42-year-old English teacher at Shaker High School in Latham, New York, disappeared, she confided to friends that she had gone into hiding to escape from a man who had “brutally harassed and intimidated me because I wouldn’t sleep […]

The Disappearance of Meghan Marohn

Subscribe now A few days before Meghan Marohn, a 42-year-old English teacher at Shaker High School in Latham, New York, disappeared, she confided to friends that she had gone into hiding to escape from a man who had “brutally harassed and intimidated me because I wouldn’t sleep with him.” She said she was too afraid […]