The Chris Hedges Report with Paola Caridi on the origins and aims of Hamas and why armed resistance against Israeli occupation is the only option most Palestinians have left.
Chris Hedges - Mar 29th 2024 12:43pm EDTSubscribe now Hamas, like all resistance groups from the African National Congress to The Irish Republic Army, Palestinian resistance organizations, from the Palestine Liberation Organization to Few Few groups are as demonized or as misunderstood in the Middle East as Hamas. Hamas is not, despite what Israel and Washington say, a terrorist organization – although […]
The Crucifixion of Julian Assange
Chris Hedges - Mar 26th 2024 10:35pm EDTThe Crucifixion of Julian Assange – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Prosecutors representing the United States, whether by design or incompetence, refused — in the two-day hearing I attended in London in February — to provide guarantees that Julian Assange would be afforded First Amendment rights and would be spared the death penalty if extradited […]
Professor Norman Finkelstein and Chris Hedges speaking at Princeton University on the Gaza Genocide.
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PEN America Self-Destructs
Chris Hedges - Mar 23rd 2024 7:33pm EDTPoison Pen – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now PEN America, once an important defender of rights for writers, editors and artists, has, under the direction of former State Department official Suzanne Nossel, abandoned its mission, destroyed its credibility and provoked a revolt among its members. Its refusal to condemn the genocide in Gaza and Israel’s […]
The Chris Hedges Report with attorney Katherine Gallagher and Palestinian plaintiff Ayman Nijim on their lawsuit demanding the Biden administration halt weapons shipments to Israel.
Chris Hedges - Mar 22nd 2024 1:18pm EDTSubscribe now The Center for Constitutional Rights has filed the lawsuit on behalf of the human rights organization, Defense for Children – Palestine; Al-Haq, a Palestinian human rights group based in the occupied West Bank; and eight Palestinians and US citizens with relatives in Gaza accusing President Joe Biden and other senior officials of being […]
Live Stream link to watch Professor Norman Finkelstein and myself today, Thursday, March 21, at 4:30 pm EST, discuss the genocide in Gaza at Princeton University.
Chris Hedges - Mar 21st 2024 8:28am EDTSubscribe now Thursday, March 21st, 4:30 pm at Princeton University. You can watch the live stream with Professor Norman Finkelstein and myself today here. The Chris Hedges Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
Israel’s Trojan Horse – Read by Eunice Wong
Chris Hedges - Mar 20th 2024 11:54am EDTSubscribe now Text Originally published March 18, 2024 Israel’s Trojan Horse – by Mr. Fish Piers allow things to come in. They allow things to go out. And Israel, which has no intention of halting its murderous siege of Gaza, including its policy of enforced starvation, appears to have found a solution to its problem […]
Joe Biden’s Parting Gift to America Will be Christian Fascism – Read by Eunice Wong
Chris Hedges - Mar 19th 2024 11:32am EDTSubscribe now Text originally posted on March 17, 2024 Onward Christian Fascism – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Joe Biden and the Democratic Party made a Trump presidency possible once and look set to make it possible again. If Trump returns to power, it will not be due to Russian interference, voter suppression or because […]
Israel’s Trojan Horse
Chris Hedges - Mar 18th 2024 5:56pm EDTIsrael’s Trojan Horse – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Piers allow things to come in. They allow things to go out. And Israel, which has no intention of halting its murderous siege of Gaza, including its policy of enforced starvation, appears to have found a solution to its problem of where to expel the 2.3 […]
Joe Biden’s Parting Gift to America Will be Christian Fascism
Chris Hedges - Mar 17th 2024 7:25pm EDTOnward Christian Fascism – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Joe Biden and the Democratic Party made a Trump presidency possible once and look set to make it possible again. If Trump returns to power, it will not be due to Russian interference, voter suppression or because the working class is filled with irredeemable bigots and […]
The Chris Hedges Report with Ali Abunimah, founder of The Electronic Intifada, on the Israeli propaganda machine and a compliant press that reports Israeli lies as fact.
Chris Hedges - Mar 15th 2024 2:12pm EDTIsrael, like all settler colonial projects, is built on lies – the lie that the land historically belongs to the colonizers, the lie that Palestinians have no national identity, the lie that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East, the lie that a peaceful settlement is thwarted by the Palestinians rather than the […]
Dear Child Film
Chris Hedges - Mar 14th 2024 12:53pm EDTA look through the eyes of a child in Gaza. This short film takes the viewer through an agonising, yet hopeful journey of what it means to be a child under Israeli fire in Gaza today. Part one of the Dear Child initiative, longer version coming soon. Written by Chris Hedges, narrated by Eunice Wong. […]
The Chris Hedges Report with John Vailant, author of “Fire Weather,” on the climate catastrophe and the uncontrollable firestorms, each more deadly than the next, incinerating the planet.
Chris Hedges - Mar 8th 2024 5:58pm ESTSubscribe now On May 2016 a monster wildfire engulfed the city of Fort McMurray in the Canadian province of Alberta, destroying thousands of homes and forcing the evacuation of 88,000 people. The freakishly destructive conflagration, which tore into town with such speed that residents barely escaped in their cars as their houses flared and vaporized, […]
Conversation on the Gaza Genocide with Norman Finkelstein
Chris Hedges - Mar 7th 2024 12:41am ESTThursday, March 21st, 4:30pm at Princeton. No need to register for event, in person only. Hedges and Finklestein at One Event! March 21, 4:30pm, Princeton U The Chris Hedges Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
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 […]