‘They Cooked Up Their Own Intelligence’ Chris Hedges on Israel’s war on Iran | The Listening Post
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Chris Hedges: War With Iran
Chris Hedges - Jun 22nd 2025 5:57am EDT A banner bearing a painting that represents various categories of the Iranian society is deployed against the facade of a building in Tehran, with a message that reads in Farsi: ” we are all soldiers of Iran”, on June 22, 2025. (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images) War opens a Pandora’s box of evils that […]
‘WE WOULD LOSE’ War with Iran (w/ Col. Lawrence Wilkerson)
Chris Hedges - Jun 21st 2025 9:43pm EDTGiven the news of the US launching strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities today, we’re sharing Col. Lawrence Wilkerson’s warning of what a war with Iran could mean for the West from last year. Buy my new book “A Genocide Foretold” The Chris Hedges Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my […]
Rule of Idiots – Read by Eunice Wong
Chris Hedges - Jun 21st 2025 3:55pm EDTThis 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 May 26, 2025 Buy my new book “A Genocide Foretold” Full text: The last […]
Iran, Israel, USA and World War 3 | Chris Hedges | UNAPOLOGETIC
Chris Hedges - Jun 20th 2025 10:46am EDTHedges reflects on his years reporting from war zones, the cynical nihilism driving Netanyahu’s assault, and how Israel’s genocide in Gaza has become a “spectacle” that has irreparably broken trust between North and South. Are Israel’s and the Pentagon’s stated shifting priorities real, or a façade to continue diminishing societal infrastructure in the region? Will […]
War Deja Vu
Chris Hedges - Jun 19th 2025 8:44am EDT Deja Voodoo — by Mr. Fish Subscribe now There are few differences between the lies told to ignite the war with Iraq and the lies told to ignite a war with Iran. The assessments of our intelligence agencies and international bodies are, as they were during the calls to invade Iraq, airily dismissed for hallucinations. […]
Why You Should Hate the Rich Even More (w/ Rob Larson)
Chris Hedges - Jun 18th 2025 7:21pm EDTThis interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. The ultra-wealthy hover above the realities of the world around them like extraterrestrial aliens. Their material reality physically separates them from the rest of society with gated communities and private jets but paradoxically, their very wealth also severs them psychologically, unable to understand the reality […]
Q&A: Genocide in Gaza, Political Assassinations in America and War With Iran
Chris Hedges - Jun 16th 2025 7:05pm EDTThe 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
The Last Days of Gaza – Read by Eunice Wong
Chris Hedges - Jun 15th 2025 4:22pm EDTThis 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 May 26, 2025 Buy my new book “A Genocide Foretold” Full text: This is […]
Q&A: Genocide in Gaza, Political Assassinations in America and War With Iran (Tomorrow, 7pm ET)
Chris Hedges - Jun 15th 2025 10:02am EDTJoin me for a live Q&A on my YouTube channel and X account tomorrow, Monday June 16 at 7:00 pm ET. We will discuss the ongoing developments in regards to the Middle East; war with Iran, the genocide in Gaza, politically driven assassinations in America and more. Questions will be taken from the comment section […]
The Folly of A War With Iran
Chris Hedges - Jun 13th 2025 3:16pm EDT And Now a Word From Our Monster – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now The neoconservatives who orchestrated the disastrous wars with Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya — and who were never held accountable for the profligate waste of $8 trillion taxpayer dollars, as well as $69 billion squandered in Ukraine — look set to lure […]
Journalists and Their Shadows (w/ Patrick Lawrence) | The Chris Hedges Report
Chris Hedges - Jun 12th 2025 3:19pm EDTThis interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. Journalist A. J. Liebling famously said, “Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.” Today, in a world dominated by corporate capitalism — including subservient politicians and careerists — the press’s freedom has been eroded to mere margins. Journalist and writer […]
American Concentration Camps – Read by Eunice Wong
Chris Hedges - Jun 10th 2025 9:23pm EDTThis 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 May 26, 2025 Buy my new book “A Genocide Foretold” Full text: Our offshore […]
The Last Days of Gaza
Chris Hedges - Jun 9th 2025 9:12am EDT The Last Piece – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now This is the end. The final blood-soaked chapter of the genocide. It will be over soon. Weeks. At most. Two million people are camped out amongst the rubble or in the open air. Dozens are killed and wounded daily from Israeli shells, missiles, drones, bombs and […]
Trump’s Useful Idiots – Read by Eunice Wong
Chris Hedges - Jun 8th 2025 6:16pm EDTThis 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 May 26, 2025 Buy my new book “A Genocide Foretold” Full text: The media, […]
The Rule of Idiots
Chris Hedges - Jun 6th 2025 8:53am EDT Puppet Theater of the Absurd – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now The last days of dying empires are dominated by idiots. The Roman, Mayan, French, Habsburg, Ottoman, Romanoff, Iranian and Soviet dynasties crumbled under the stupidity of their decadent rulers who absented themselves from reality, plundered their nations and retreated into echo chambers where fact […]
1How ‘Paradise Lost’ Revolutionized the World (w/ Orlando Reade) | The Chris Hedges Report
Chris Hedges - Jun 5th 2025 6:06pm EDTThis interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. There are few pieces of literature that remain as prescient and relevant throughout history as John Milton’s Paradise Lost. Thomas Jefferson, Malcolm X, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Paine and dozens more drew inspiration from and studied Milton’s grand work and the revolutionary themes within it. Professor […]
‘The Biggest Problems in Legacy Media:’ A Conversation With Chris Hedges and Hasan Piker
Chris Hedges - Jun 4th 2025 1:40pm EDTBuy my new book “A Genocide Foretold” 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
Hasan Piker and Chris Hedges Discuss Gaza and Our Descent into Fascism
Chris Hedges - Jun 3rd 2025 2:50pm EDTBuy my new book “A Genocide Foretold” 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
The Shared Mythological History of Israel and the US (w/ Joan Scott) | The Chris Hedges Report
Chris Hedges - May 28th 2025 8:28pm EDTThis interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. The narratives surrounding Israel and their genocidal campaign against the Palestinians took decades to create and embed into the West’s psyche. The Holocaust, decades after its end, became a central part of the Jewish and Israeli identity. Enemies of the Israeli state were conflated with […]
Trump’s Useful Idiots
Chris Hedges - May 26th 2025 5:22pm EDT Trump’s Useful Idiots – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now The media, universities, the Democratic Party and liberals, by embracing the fiction of “rampant antisemitism,” laid the groundwork for their own demise. Columbia and Princeton, where I have taught, and Harvard, which I attended, are not incubators of hatred towards Jews. The New York Times, where […]
Gabor Maté, Chris Hedges & Aaron Maté on ‘Palestine: The Moral Issue of Our Time’
Chris Hedges - May 24th 2025 7:49pm EDTChris Hedges and Gabor Maté, introduced by award-winning journalist Aaron Maté, discuss the “moral issue of our time,” Gaza. Hedges and Gabor Maté deliver speeches, engage in a two-way discussion and take questions from the audience. Thanks to the Middle East Children’s Alliance and Nick Laparra of Let’s Give a Damn for putting on the […]
Palestine Post: A Genocide Foretold w/ Chris Hedges – Spring Fund Drive Special
Chris Hedges - May 23rd 2025 11:28pm EDTThe interview starts at 9 minutes into the recording. Text below is from KPFA, linked here, where this podcast was originally posted. You can participate in the fund drive special here. FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – Pledge $120 and receive Chris Hedges new book, A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine. In […]
Facing the Climate Crisis and Human Mortality (w/ Eiren Caffall) | The Chris Hedges Report
Chris Hedges - May 21st 2025 5:27pm EDTThis interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. In a world gripped by daily catastrophes, there is one that affects all but lacks the attention it deserves. The climate crisis — pervaded by ecological collapse, war, endless resource accumulation fueled by capitalism — is the issue of our time. The warning signs are […]
The New Dark Age
Chris Hedges - May 17th 2025 4:50pm EDT Such a Bright Future – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now CAIRO, Egypt — It is 200 miles from where I am in Cairo to the Rafah border crossing into Gaza. Parked in the arid sands in the northern Sinai of Egypt are 2,000 trucks filled with sacks of flour, water tanks, canned food, medical […]
