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  • The Mafia State

    Chris Hedges - Feb 16th 2025 4:52pm EST

    Subscribe now 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 Kiss the Ring – by Mr. Fish Kiss the ring. Grovel before the Godfather. Give […]

  • The Mafia State

    Chris Hedges - Feb 15th 2025 11:56am EST

    Kiss the Ring – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Kiss the ring. Grovel before the Godfather. Give him tribute, a cut of the spoils. If he and his family get rich you get rich. Enter his inner circle, his “made” men and women, and you do not have to follow rules or obey the law. […]

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  • The Empire Self-Destructs – Read by Eunice Wong

    Chris Hedges - Feb 14th 2025 8:21pm 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 Feb. 07, 2025 And Then the World Blew Up – by Mr. […]

  • Virtue Hoarders and the Rejection of Liberalism (w/ Catherine Liu) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Feb 12th 2025 7:05pm EST

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. The material needs of working class people in America continue to be obscured and co-opted by politicians and people claiming to know what’s best on both sides of the political aisle. While Republicans and right-wingers address some of these needs head on, they do so […]

  • Virtue Hoarders and the Rejection of Liberalism (w/ Catherine Liu) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Feb 12th 2025 7:05pm EST

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. The material needs of working class people in America continue to be obscured and co-opted by politicians and people claiming to know what’s best on both sides of the political aisle. While Republicans and right-wingers address some of these needs head on, they do so […]

  • The Empire Self-Destructs

    Chris Hedges - Feb 7th 2025 3:02pm EST

    And Then the World Blew Up – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now The billionaires, Christian fascists, grifters, psychopaths, imbeciles, narcissists and deviants who have seized control of Congress, the White House and the courts, are cannibalizing the machinery of state. These self-inflicted wounds, characteristic of all late empires, will cripple and destroy the tentacles of […]

  • The ‘Diseased Body’ of the Middle East (w/ Farah El-Sharif) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Feb 5th 2025 3:47pm EST

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. Farah El Sherif, writer, academic and Visiting Scholar at Stanford, is uncompromisingly blunt in her assessment of the Middle East. The decades of repression faced by an entire people have produced a fragmented society—culturally and through colonially imposed borders. To help understand why the Muslim […]

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  • The Western Way of Genocide – Read by Eunice Wong

    Chris Hedges - Feb 2nd 2025 5:27pm 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 Feb. 01, 2025 Explore Gaza – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Gaza is a […]

  • The Western Way of Genocide

    Chris Hedges - Feb 1st 2025 2:32pm EST

    Explore Gaza – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Gaza is a wasteland of 50 million tons of rubble and debris. Rats and dogs scavenge amid the ruins and fetid pools of raw sewage. The putrid stench and contamination of decaying corpses rises from beneath the mountains of shattered concrete. There is no clean water. Little […]

  • Democracy Doesn’t Exist in the United States: Chris Hedges | UpFront

    Chris Hedges - Jan 31st 2025 3:16pm EST

    As Donald Trump returns to the White House, many are raising concerns about the possible decline of liberal democracy. What then would a second Trump term mean for the next four years for the United States? And what impact will the president’s foreign policy have on the Middle East? This week on UpFront, Marc Lamont […]

  • Fire Weather – Read by Eunice Wong

    Chris Hedges - Jan 31st 2025 10:11am 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 Jan. 12, 2025 A Final Toast – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now […]

  • 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 […]