• Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism (w/ Yanis Varoufakis) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Jan 29th 2025 1:01pm EST

    The year 2008 signaled to many the weak foundations of modern capitalism in the hands of the greedy, untethered financial sector—the “vampire squid” investment banks as journalist Matt Taibbi called them. Rising from the ashes of the crash, these banks used government money—”socialism for the bankers”—to enrich themselves and Big Business. This money never got […]

  • Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism (w/ Yanis Varoufakis) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Jan 29th 2025 1:01pm EST

    The year 2008 signaled to many the weak foundations of modern capitalism in the hands of the greedy, untethered financial sector—the “vampire squid” investment banks as journalist Matt Taibbi called them. Rising from the ashes of the crash, these banks used government money—”socialism for the bankers”—to enrich themselves and Big Business. This money never got […]

  • My Birthday Toast to my Palestinian Arabic Teacher Ruba Jafer

    Chris Hedges - Jan 28th 2025 8:53pm EST

    Read my full toast below: Ruba, when we met for our first class, gave me a taste of what I would soon discover to be her unique version of a charm offensive. “My friends,” she told me, “say you are famous. But I’ve never heard of you.” And there it was, her characteristic brutal honestly, […]

  • Chris Hedges: The Nature of Good and Evil

    Chris Hedges - Jan 28th 2025 5:01pm EST

    On my last Q&A, a commenter asked me how I prevent myself from partaking in tribal hatred of the other, and instead focus my critiques on centers of power. I replied by discussing the nature of good & evil, and how both manifest within all of us, as well as in the most dire, distressful […]

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  • Chris Hedges: The Nature of Good and Evil

    Chris Hedges - Jan 28th 2025 5:01pm EST

    On my last Q&A, a commenter asked me how I prevent myself from partaking in tribal hatred of the other, and instead focus my critiques on centers of power. I replied by discussing the nature of good & evil, and how both manifest within all of us, as well as in the most dire, distressful […]

  • The Ceasefire Charade – Read by Eunice Wong

    Chris Hedges - Jan 27th 2025 8:39pm EST

    This article is read by Eunice Wong, a Juilliard-trained actor, featured on Audible’s list of Best Women Narrators. Her work is on the annual Best Audiobooks lists of the New York Times, Audible, AudioFile, & Library Journal. www.eunicewong.actor Subscribe now Text originally filed January 16, 2025 Piece Plan – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Israel, […]

  • Chris Hedges Live Q&A NOW: What Happens Under Trump in Palestine

    Chris Hedges - Jan 23rd 2025 7:05pm EST

    Come ask me a question! Thanks for reading The Chris Hedges Report! This post is public so feel free to share it. Share The Chris Hedges Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

  • Chris Hedges Live Q&A Tomorrow: What Happens Under Trump in Palestine

    Chris Hedges - Jan 22nd 2025 8:32pm EST

    Join me tomorrow on my YouTube channel for a live Q&A at 4pm PT / 7pm ET. I will pull questions from the comments of this post, my X, and live on YouTube. We will discuss the future of Palestine under Trump. With the recent ceasefire and a new administration seemingly dedicated to the Zionist […]

  • War on Gaza (w/ Joe Sacco) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Jan 22nd 2025 2:39pm EST

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. Mary Shelley, in the preface to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, writes, “Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.” In the chaos of war and inequity, cartoonist Joe Sacco pioneered the first graphic illustration […]

  • Trump, Musk, Gaza, the Rise of Totalitarianism and the End of the US Empire

    Chris Hedges - Jan 20th 2025 7:29pm EST

    Thanks for reading The Chris Hedges Report! This post is public so feel free to share it. Share The Chris Hedges Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

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  • The Ceasefire Charade

    Chris Hedges - Jan 16th 2025 10:05am EST

    Piece Plan – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Israel, going back decades, has played a duplicitous game. It signs a deal with the Palestinians that is to be implemented in phases. The first phase gives Israel what it wants — in this case the release of the Israeli hostages in Gaza — but Israel habitually […]

  • America’s Academic Gulag (w/ MIT Student Activists) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Jan 15th 2025 3:27pm EST

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. “You can’t just sit there and build drones and not talk about who it’s serving and who does it help,” says Richard Solomon, PhD student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and member of the Coalition for Palestine at MIT. On this episode of […]

  • Fire Weather

    Chris Hedges - Jan 12th 2025 6:07pm EST

    A Final Toast – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now The apocalyptic wildfires that have erupted in the boreal forest in Siberia, the Russian Far East and Canada, climate scientists repeatedly warned, would inevitably move southwards as rising global temperatures created hotter, more fire-prone landscapes. Now they have. The failures in California, where Los Angeles has […]

  • The Zionists Kill Doctors in Gaza and Silence Them Here (w/ Rupa Marya) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Jan 9th 2025 1:00pm EST

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said, “The protection of hospitals during warfare is paramount and must be respected by all sides, at all times.” International law enshrines medical facilities as sanctuaries for those in direst need but as Dr. Rupa Marya tells […]

  • Live Now — Come Ask me a Question

    Chris Hedges - Jan 8th 2025 7:21pm EST

    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 The Chris Hedges Report! This post is public so feel free to share it. Share

  • Chris Hedges Live Q&A Tonight, 4:00p.m. PT / 7:00p.m. ET — Come Ask me a Question

    Chris Hedges - Jan 8th 2025 11:02am EST

    Join me tonight on my YouTube channel for a live Q&A at 4pm PT / 7pm ET. I will pull questions from the comments of this post, my X, and live on YouTube. We will discuss entering the second era of Trump. To post your questions here, you must be a paid subscriber to my […]

  • Genocide: The New Normal

    Chris Hedges - Jan 6th 2025 3:41pm EST

    And So Castles Made of Sand – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Joe Biden’s parting gift of $8 billion in weapons sales to the apartheid state of Israel acknowledges the gruesome reality of the genocide in Gaza. This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. This is a permanent, […]

  • Don’t Deify Jimmy Carter – Read by Eunice Wong

    Chris Hedges - Jan 2nd 2025 7:59am EST

    This article is read by Eunice Wong, a Juilliard-trained actor, featured on Audible’s list of Best Women Narrators. Her work is on the annual Best Audiobooks lists of the New York Times, Audible, AudioFile, & Library Journal. www.eunicewong.actor Text originally published Dec. 30, 2024 This, That or the Other Carter – by Mr. Fish Subscribe […]

  • Exposing Big Tech’s Complicity in Genocide | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Jan 1st 2025 2:56pm EST

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. The vast censorship and suppression campaign launched by American tech companies since October 7, 2023 has been both systemic and deliberate. Instagram, Facebook, X as well as other tech platforms and companies like Google, Microsoft and Apple have actively worked to stifle information regarding the […]

  • Don’t Deify Jimmy Carter

    Chris Hedges - Dec 30th 2024 10:17am EST

    This, That or the Other Carter – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Jimmy Carter, out of office, had the courage to call out the “abominable oppression and persecution” and “strict segregation” of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza in his 2006 book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.” He dedicated himself to monitoring elections, including his […]

  • How Fascism Came – Read by Eunice Wong

    Chris Hedges - Dec 29th 2024 4:04pm EST

    This article is read by Eunice Wong, a Juilliard-trained actor, featured on Audible’s list of Best Women Narrators. Her work is on the annual Best Audiobooks lists of the New York Times, Audible, AudioFile, & Library Journal. www.eunicewong.actor Subscribe now Text originally published Dec. 23, 2024 Inside Out – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now For […]

  • How Fascism Came – Read by Eunice Wong

    Chris Hedges - Dec 29th 2024 4:04pm EST

    This article is read by Eunice Wong, a Juilliard-trained actor, featured on Audible’s list of Best Women Narrators. Her work is on the annual Best Audiobooks lists of the New York Times, Audible, AudioFile, & Library Journal. www.eunicewong.actor Subscribe now Text originally published Dec. 23, 2024 Inside Out – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now For […]

  • Letter to Refaat Alareer – Read by Eunice Wong

    Chris Hedges - Dec 27th 2024 9:20pm EST

    This article is read by Eunice Wong, a Juilliard-trained actor, featured on Audible’s list of Best Women Narrators. Her work is on the annual Best Audiobooks lists of the New York Times, Audible, AudioFile, & Library Journal. www.eunicewong.actor Subscribe now Text originally published Dec. 10, 2024 The Power of the Pen – Mr. Fish Subscribe […]

  • How Fascism Came

    Chris Hedges - Dec 23rd 2024 10:16am EST

    Inside Out – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now For over two decades, I and a handful of others — Sheldon Wolin, Noam Chomsky, Chalmers Johnson, Barbara Ehrenreich and Ralph Nader — warned that the expanding social inequality and steady erosion of our democratic institutions, including the media, the Congress, organized labor, academia and the courts, […]

  • Chris Hedges on MOATS: Catastrophe for the Palestinians and the Region

    Chris Hedges - Dec 21st 2024 7:42pm EST

    Thanks for reading The Chris Hedges Report! This post is public so feel free to share it. Share The Chris Hedges Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.