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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 […]

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Mark Kurlansky

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Listen to this Article: “Fascists in Our Midst”

Narrated by Eunice Wong Original Text Published 06/27/2022 Elephants in the Womb — Mr. Fish Subscribe now The Supreme Court is relentlessly funding and empowering Christian fascism. It not only overturned Roe v. Wade, ending a constitutional right to an abortion, but ruled on June 21 that Maine may not exclude religious schools from a […]

Fascists In Our Midst

Subscribe now Elephants in the Womb — Mr. Fish Subscribe now The Supreme Court is relentlessly funding and empowering Christian fascism. It not only overturned Roe v. Wade, ending a constitutional right to an abortion, but ruled on June 21 that Maine may not exclude religious schools from a state tuition program. It has ruled […]

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Robert Cox Featuring Bonus Content

Subscribe now In the fall of 1980, I was a second-year student at Harvard Divinity School. I intended, like my father to become a Presbyterian minister. But I was by nature a writer and a news junkie who devoured at least two newspapers a day and had already published freelance articles in papers such as […]

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Robert Cox

Subscribe now In the fall of 1980, I was a second-year student at Harvard Divinity School. I intended, like my father to become a Presbyterian minister. But I was by nature a writer and a news junkie who devoured at least two newspapers a day and had already published freelance articles in papers such as […]

Listen to this Article: “The Triumph of Death”

Narrated by Eunice Wong Original Text published 06/19/2022 Subscribe now The Four Horsemen – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now It is hard to be sanguine about the future. The breakdown of the ecosystem is well documented. So is the refusal of the global ruling elite to pursue measures that might mitigate the devastation. We accelerate […]

The Triumph of Death

The Four Horsemen — by Mr. Fish Subscribe now It is hard to be sanguine about the future. The breakdown of the ecosystem is well documented. So is the refusal of the global ruling elite to pursue measures that might mitigate the devastation. We accelerate the extraction of fossil fuels, wallow in profligate consumption, including […]