Aaron Bushnell’s Divine Violence – read by Eunice Wong
Chris Hedges - Mar 2nd 2024 3:41pm ESTSubscribe now Text Originally published Feb 29, 2024 Divine Violence – by Mr. Fish Aaron Bushnell, when he placed his cell phone on the ground to set up a livestream and lit himself on fire in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington D.C., resulting in his death, pitted divine violence against radical evil. As […]
The Chris Hedges Report with Pulitzer-prize winning reporter Gretchen Morgenson on how Private Equity billionaires bought up America and turned workers into serfs.
Chris Hedges - Mar 1st 2024 5:13pm ESTThe U.S. economy is being held hostage by a small cohort of financiers who run private equity firms — Apollo, Blackstone, the Carlyle Group and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. These equity firms buy up and plunder businesses, piling on debt, refusing to reinvest, slashing staff and often driving companies into bankruptcy. The object is not to […]
Aaron Bushnell’s Divine Violence
Chris Hedges - Feb 29th 2024 11:16am ESTDivine Violence – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Aaron Bushnell, when he placed his cell phone on the ground to set up a livestream and lit himself on fire in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington D.C., resulting in his death pitted divine violence against radical evil. As an active duty member of the […]
The Chris Hedges Report with Rabbi Shaul Magid on Zionism and the subversion of Judaism.
Chris Hedges - Feb 23rd 2024 11:33am ESTSubscribe now Has Zionism, especially Liberal Zionist, exhausted itself? The humanistic constructs of liberal Zionism, always in conflict with itself because of its refusal to grant Palestinians equal civil and political rights, has led many Israelis to embrace a far more chauvinistic and fanatic religious Zionism. What does this mean for Israel? And, as important, […]
Julian Assange’s Grand Inquisitor
Chris Hedges - Feb 22nd 2024 7:37am ESTKangaroo Courtship – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now LONDON — The prosecution for the U.S., which is seeking to deny Julian Assange’s appeal of an extradition order, begun by the Trump administration and embraced by the Biden administration, grounded its arguments on Wednesday in the dubious affidavits filed by a U.S. federal prosecutor in the […]
This is a panel discussion I took part in with former UK Ambassador Craig Murray and other diplomats, activists and journalists following the first day of Julian Assange’s final appeal hearing.
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Julian Assange’s Day in Court
Chris Hedges - Feb 21st 2024 3:01am ESTAnd Our Flags Are Still There – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now LONDON — By the afternoon the video link, which would have allowed Julian Assange to follow his final U.K. appeal to prevent his extradition, had been turned off. Julian, his attorneys said, was too ill to attend, too ill even to follow the court […]
This is a panel I moderated on Monday evening with Stella Assange, attorney Jennifer Robinson and Kristinn Hrafnsson, Editor-in-Chief of WikiLeaks, at The Frontline Club in London.
Chris Hedges - Feb 20th 2024 2:19pm ESTJulian Assange’s Final Appeal – Read by Eunice Wong
Chris Hedges - Feb 19th 2024 5:41pm ESTSubscribe now Text originally published Feb. 18, 2024 Assange – by Mr. Fish LONDON — If Julian Assange is denied permission to appeal his extradition to the United States before a panel of two judges at the High Court in London this week, he will have no recourse left within the British legal system. His […]
Julian Assange’s Final Appeal
Chris Hedges - Feb 18th 2024 7:43am ESTAssange – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now LONDON — If Julian Assange is denied permission to appeal his extradition to the United States before a panel of two judges at the High Court in London this week, he will have no recourse left within the British legal system. His lawyers can ask the European Court […]
I will moderate this event on Monday at 7:00 pm with Stella Assange, attorney Jennifer Robinson and Kristinn Hrafnsson, Editor-in-Chief of WikiLeaks, at The Frontline Club in London.
Chris Hedges - Feb 16th 2024 5:45pm ESTThe link for tickets is here. Day X: Justice for Assange Part of the FRONTLINE CLUB 2024 collection Julian Assange’s Final Appeal to be held in UK High Court By Frontline Club Date and time Mon, 19 Feb 2024 19:00 – 20:30 GMT Location Frontline Club 13 Norfolk Place London W2 1QJ United Kingdom About […]
The Chris Hedges Report with Pulitzer-prize winning former New York Times reporter Gretchen Morgenson on the collapse of journalism, the digital sewer and the new dark age.
Chris Hedges - Feb 16th 2024 3:33pm ESTSubscribe now The media landscape in the U.S. is collapsing as journalism outlets at the national, state and local levels close or gut staff. One-third of the country’s newspapers have shut down and two-thirds of its newspaper journalists have lost jobs since 2005. An average of 2.5 newspapers closed each week in 2023, compared to […]
Free Julian Assange
Chris Hedges - Feb 15th 2024 3:44pm ESTThe Chris Hedges Report with Dr. Ahmed Alhussaina, vice president of Israa University in Gaza, on Israel’s demolition of every university, along with hundreds of schools and cultural centers, in Gaza.
Chris Hedges - Feb 12th 2024 8:11am ESTSubscribe now The Israeli attacks on Gaza has included systematic attacks on Gaza’s cultural and educational institutions. Israel has damaged or destroyed all 12 of Gaza’s universities. Some 280 government schools and 65 UNRWA-run schools have also been destroyed or damaged, often resulting in dozens of fatalities. About 133 remaining schools are used to shelter […]
Let Them Eat Dirt – Read by Eunice Wong
Chris Hedges - Feb 9th 2024 4:14pm ESTSubscribe now Text originally posted Feb 8, 2024 Let Them Eat Dirt – by Mr. Fish There was never any possibility that the Israeli government would agree to a pause in the fighting proposed by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, much less a ceasefire. Israel is on the verge of delivering the coup de grâce […]
Let Them Eat Dirt
Chris Hedges - Feb 8th 2024 4:28pm ESTLet Them Eat Dirt – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now There was never any possibility that the Israeli government would agree to a pause in the fighting proposed by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, much less a ceasefire. Israel is on the verge of delivering the coup de grâce in its war on Palestinians […]
The Chris Hedges Report with human rights attorney, author and Professor Noura Erakat on Israel’s manipulation of legal systems to perpetuate its campaign of erasure of the Palestinians.
Chris Hedges - Feb 2nd 2024 12:43pm ESTTime and time again, the human rights attorney Noura Erakat writes, we see evidence of the law’s assumed insignificance in the dispossession of Palestinians. Great Britain remained committed to establishing a Jewish national homeland in Palestine despite its legal duties as the Mandatory Power to shepherd local Arab peoples to independence. The Permanent Mandates Commission […]
The Silence of the Damned
Chris Hedges - Jan 31st 2024 11:40am ESTThe Sword of Damocles – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now There is no effective health care system left in Gaza. Infants are dying. Children are having their limbs amputated without anesthesia. Thousands of cancer patients and those in need of dialysis lack treatment. The last cancer hospital in Gaza has ceased functioning. An estimated 50,000 […]
It May be Genocide, But it Won’t Be Stopped – Read by Eunice Wong
Chris Hedges - Jan 27th 2024 9:43pm ESTSubscribe now Text Originally posted Jan. 26, 2024 Red Ink – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now The International Court of Justice (ICJ) refused to implement the most crucial demand made by South African jurists: “the State of Israel shall immediately suspend its military operations in and against Gaza.” But at the same time, it delivered […]
The Chris Hedges Report with Craig Mokhiber, former director of the N.Y. office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, on the ICJ ruling, U.N. failures, and U.S. complicity with genocide.
Chris Hedges - Jan 27th 2024 10:39am ESTHe noted that the UN had failed to prevent previous genocides against the Tutsis in Rwanda, Muslims in Bosnia, the Yazidi in Iraqi Kurdistan and the Rohingya in Myanmar and wrote: “High Commissioner we are failing again. “The current wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people, rooted in an ethno-nationalist colonial settler ideology, in continuation of […]
It May be Genocide, But it Won’t Be Stopped
Chris Hedges - Jan 26th 2024 3:07pm ESTRed Ink – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now The International Court of Justice (ICJ) refused to implement the most crucial demand made by South African jurists: “the State of Israel shall immediately suspend its military operations in and against Gaza.” But at the same time, it delivered a devastating blow to the foundational myth of […]
The Four Horsemen of Gaza’s Apocalypse – Read by Eunice Wong
Chris Hedges - Jan 24th 2024 12:50pm ESTText Originally published Jan 21, 2024 Subscribe now Blood Brothers – by Mr. Fish Joe Biden’s inner circle of strategists for the Middle East — Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan and Brett McGurk — have little understanding of the Muslim world and a deep animus towards Islamic resistance movements. They see Europe, the United States and […]
“The Death of Israel” – A talk Given by Chris Hedges at The Islamic Society of Central New Jersey
Chris Hedges - Jan 23rd 2024 8:10am ESTThe Four Horsemen of Gaza’s Apocalypse
Chris Hedges - Jan 21st 2024 1:55pm ESTBlood Brothers – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Joe Biden’s inner circle of strategists for the Middle East — Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan and Brett McGurk — have little understanding of the Muslim world and a deep animus towards Islamic resistance movements. They see Europe, the United States and Israel as involved in a clash […]
The Chris Hedges Report with cartoonist Joe Sacco about his iconic books Palestine and Footnotes on Gaza and how Israel’s repeated slaughter of Palestinians in the past led to the current genocide.
Chris Hedges - Jan 19th 2024 1:19pm ESTThe cartoonist Joe Sacco invented nonfiction graphic journalism, marrying rigorous and detailed reporting with illustrations that leap off the page and give his stories a texture, depth and power that is hard for most writers to match. He pioneered this work with nine issues on the Palestinians living under Israeli occupation from 1993 to 1995. […]