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  • Do Not Vote for those Who Support Genocide (w/ Kshama Sawant) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Oct 31st 2024 1:19pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. A truly representative and honest voice for the working class—one that takes part in the struggle, resists cozying up to the centers of power, makes tangible, material commitments rather than settling for empty rhetoric—is hard to find in the United States. Kshama Sawant, the socialist […]

  • Genocidal Scorecard

    Chris Hedges - Oct 30th 2024 9:07am EDT

    Bibi on Board – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now A United Nations report, published on Monday, lays out in chilling detail the advances made by Israel in Gaza as it seeks to eradicate “the very existence of the Palestinian people in Palestine.” This genocidal project, the report ominously warns, “is now metastasizing to the West […]

  • Genocide as Colonial Erasure (w/ Francesca Albanese) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Oct 29th 2024 2:46pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. “The crime of all crimes.” That is how the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda declared genocide in the final judgment of Prosecutor v. Akayesu, the case against the mayor of Taba, Rwanda for crimes against humanity. Today, that crime repeats itself as UN Special Rapporteur […]

  • Israel’s War on Journalism

    Chris Hedges - Oct 25th 2024 12:19pm EDT

    Catch and Kill Journalism – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now There are some 4,000 foreign reporters accredited in Israel to cover the war. They stay in luxury hotels. They go on dog and pony shows orchestrated by the Israeli military. They can, on rare occasions, be escorted by Israeli soldiers on lightning visits to Gaza, […]

  • The Escalating Crisis in the Middle East (w/ John Mearsheimer) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Oct 24th 2024 1:20pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. Decades of Islamophobia, relentless propaganda campaigns and heavily financed lobbying efforts have made it difficult to understand the political realities of the Middle East. John Mearsheimer, prominent political scientist, University of Chicago professor and self-proclaimed realist, has consistently demonstrated the courage and ability to bypass […]

  • Dismantling the American Empire (w/ Cornel West) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Oct 23rd 2024 3:10pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. It is rare to hear a United States presidential candidate clearly and eloquently spell out the realities of the country — whether it’s the genocide in Gaza, rising economic inequality or the horrors of mass incarceration. Dr. Cornel West, renowned political activist, philosopher, public intellectual, […]

  • The Choice this Election is between Corporate and Oligarchic Power

    Chris Hedges - Oct 18th 2024 1:25pm EDT

    Blood Bank – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now The choice in the elections is between corporate and oligarchic power. Corporate power needs stability and a technocratic government. Oligarchic power thrives on chaos and, as Steve Bannon says, the “deconstruction of the administrative state.” Neither are democratic. They have each bought up the political class, the […]

  • Burn the Planet and Lock Up the Dissidents – Read by Eunice Wong

    Chris Hedges - Oct 17th 2024 4:29pm EDT

    Text originally published Oct. 06, 2024 Subscribe now Roger Hallam — by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Norfolk, U.K. — I am sitting with Roger Hallam, his gray hair pulled back in a ponytail, in the visitor’s room at HM Prison Wayland. On the walls are large photographs of families picnicking on lawns, verdant meadows and […]

  • Robert Fisk and the Great War for Civilization (w/ Lara Marlowe) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Oct 16th 2024 1:22pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. There is a careful art to good journalism. It involves not only seeing and writing what happens but also understanding the reason why, and the precedent that came before it. Empathy, combined with a cunning understanding of one’s environment and ability to talk to people […]

  • Extermination Works. At First.

    Chris Hedges - Oct 14th 2024 10:20am EDT

    Extermination Nation – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Extermination works. At first. This is the terrible lesson of history. If Israel is not stopped — and no outside power appears willing to halt the genocide in Gaza or the destruction of Lebanon — it will achieve its goals of depopulating and annexing northern Gaza and […]

  • The Secret History of Neoliberalism (w/ George Monbiot) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Oct 9th 2024 2:16pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. The current world order is designed to be complex and confusing. Its function enshrines the power of our rulers, who purposely obscure its origins and underlying philosophy. Politicians, the media, so-called intellectuals at think tanks — along with the inertia of systemic falsehoods — perpetuate this […]

  • Picking Up the Kids – Drawn by Mr. Fish and inspired by an idea from Roger Waters

    Chris Hedges - Oct 8th 2024 9:29pm EDT

    This cartoon was inspired by an idea from Roger Waters, co-founder of Pink Floyd, and drawn by Mr. Fish.

  • Burn the Planet and Lock Up the Dissidents

    Chris Hedges - Oct 6th 2024 8:31am EDT

    Roger Hallam — by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Norfolk, U.K. — I am sitting with Roger Hallam, his gray hair pulled back in a ponytail, in the visitor’s room at HM Prison Wayland. On the walls are large photographs of families picnicking on lawns, verdant meadows and children playing. The juxtaposition of the photographs, no […]

  • Chris Hedges Q&A on the Middle East — LIVE

    Chris Hedges - Oct 3rd 2024 6:10pm EDT

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  • Join me tomorrow for a live Q&A, 3pm PT/ 6pm ET

    Chris Hedges - Oct 2nd 2024 5:52pm EDT

    Join me tomorrow on my YouTube channel for a live Q&A at 3pm PT / 6pm ET. I will pull questions from the comments of this post, my X, and live on YouTube. To post your questions here, you must be a paid subscriber to my Substack. Please attempt to keep your questions direct and […]

  • Where Olive Trees Weep: Processing the Trauma of Occupation | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Oct 2nd 2024 4:00pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. The world has failed Palestine. The United States and European Union pay lip service to principles of human rights and democracy while providing limitless support to Israel’s genocidal project of ethnic cleansing and apartheid. Western media outlets censor reporting of Israeli atrocities, and international humanitarian […]

  • The Looming Catastrophe in the Middle East (w/ Gideon Levy) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Sep 27th 2024 9:29pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. It has become quite rare to hear any meaningful accountability for Israel’s actions from Israeli citizens themselves. Israeli journalist Gideon Levy is an anomaly in Israel by today’s standards, as for his entire career he has challenged the apartheid and occupation of the Israeli state. […]

  • How Wokeness Kills Class Politics and Empowers Empire (w/ Christian Parenti) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Sep 25th 2024 1:11pm EDT

    This interview is also available on Rumble and podcast platforms. Oftentimes the idea of “wokeness” or “woke” ideology, whether calling it as such or acknowledging its existence, can be thought of as coinage of the right wing. Christian Parenti, professor at John Jay College, journalist and author, joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of […]

  • ‘I’m Terrified for What Comes Next.’ Chris Hedges (w/ George Galloway)

    Chris Hedges - Sep 22nd 2024 4:40pm EDT

    We’ve all seen the provocations by Israel, says Chris Hedges. The consequences of this latest one on people’s pagers and electronic devices could be catastrophic. Middle East war looms. The Chris Hedges Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Thanks for reading […]

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  • The Systemic Roots of Western Islamophobia (w/ Peter Oborne) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Sep 18th 2024 1:03pm EDT

    Since the turn of the 21st century, the world has become deeply familiar with the global “war on terror.” Framed by the West’s ostensibly patriotic and “civilized” political narrative that conveniently expands their national security power and geopolitical interests, it also pins Muslims as savage, and Islam as a barbaric religion of people that want […]

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  • To the Israeli Soldier Who Murdered Aysenur Ezgi Eygi – Read by Eunice Wong

    Chris Hedges - Sep 17th 2024 3:05pm EDT

    Text Originally published Sept. 17, 2024 Subscribe now Aysenur Ezgi Eygi – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now I know you. I met you in the dense canopies in the war in El Salvador. It was there that I first heard the single, high-pitched crack of the sniper bullet. Distinct. Ominous. A sound that spreads terror. […]

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  • ​​To the Israeli Soldier Who Murdered Aysenur Ezgi Eygi

    Chris Hedges - Sep 17th 2024 8:12am EDT

    Aysenur Ezgi Eygi – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now I know you. I met you in the dense canopies in the war in El Salvador. It was there that I first heard the single, high-pitched crack of the sniper bullet. Distinct. Ominous. A sound that spreads terror. Army units I traveled with, enraged by the […]

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  • The Cost of Resistance

    Chris Hedges - Sep 16th 2024 10:19pm EDT

    This video is a recording of a talk given by Chris Hedges at the Kairos Club London on September 11, 2024. Drawing on his intimate knowledge of resistance and repression, Hedges detailed the methods we need to adopt to defeat the powerful interests, including the fossil fuel industry and the animal agriculture industry, which have […]

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  • The Liberal Class’s Ultimate Betrayal (w/ Jimmy Dore) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Sep 11th 2024 1:26pm EDT

    This interview is also available on Rumble and podcast platforms. In his 2010 book, Death of the Liberal Class, Chris Hedges wrote “The fate of the liberal class is tragic. It has been annihilated by the corporate state it supported, while it willingly silenced radical thinkers and iconoclasts who could have rescued it.”  There has […]

  • The War on Gaza – 7.2.24

    Chris Hedges - Sep 9th 2024 4:55am EDT

    By Joe Sacco Fantagraphics has released a series of graphic commentaries and reflections by Joe Sacco, author of “Palestine” and “Footnotes in Gaza,” called “The War on Gaza.”  With the permission of Fantagrapahics and Joe Sacco, we are reprinting them on my Substack. This comic is the last installment in Sacco’s series. The Chris Hedges […]

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