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  • Hasan Piker and Chris Hedges Discuss Gaza and Our Descent into Fascism

    Chris Hedges - Jun 3rd 2025 2:50pm EDT

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  • The Shared Mythological History of Israel and the US (w/ Joan Scott) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - May 28th 2025 8:28pm EDT

    This 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 EDT

    Chris 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 EDT

    The 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 EDT

    This 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 […]

  • Righting Wrongs (w/ Kenneth Roth) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - May 14th 2025 5:40pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. On this episode of The Chris Hedges Report, host Chris Hedges speaks with Kenneth Roth, the former executive director of the non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the author of Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Frontlines Battling Abusive Governments. Hedges and Roth discuss […]

  • The Dark Money Game (w/ Alex Gibney) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - May 7th 2025 5:45pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. On this episode of The Chris Hedges Report, Chris Hedges speaks with filmmaker Alex Gibney about Gibney’s documentary series The Dark Money Game, which examines the “labyrinth of mirrors” that facilitates untraceable corruption through the American political system. Although both the Democratic and Republican parties […]

  • Trumpland – Read by Eunice Wong

    Chris Hedges - May 6th 2025 6:10am EDT

    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 March 11, 2025 The Chris Hedges Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new […]

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  • Trumpland

    Chris Hedges - May 3rd 2025 7:25am EDT

    Trumpland USA – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now The Christian fascists and oligarchs gleefully handing Donald Trump his sharpie and executive orders are not making war on the deep state, the radical left or to protect us from “antisemites.” They are making war on verifiable fact, the rule of law and the transparency and accountability […]

  • The West Serves as Israel’s Police (w/ Richard Medhurst) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Apr 30th 2025 7:16pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. Richard Barnard, Sarah Wilkinson, Asa Winstanley and Richard Medhurst. These are some of the canaries in the coal mine for what is to come in the West as the region’s elite quickly becomes Israel’s international police. Medhurst joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of […]

  • Israel’s Eradication of Gaza’s Healthcare System (w/ Dr. Feroze Sidhwa) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Apr 23rd 2025 8:03pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. If anyone can witness the genocide in Gaza with utmost clarity, it would be medical professionals working there. Their accounts continue to be as harrowing as those of journalists and Gazans themselves, stripped of rhetoric and left with only raw truth. Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, a […]

  • My New Book, ‘A Genocide Foretold,’ is Available to Order Now

    Chris Hedges - Apr 22nd 2025 3:35pm EDT

    My new book on the genocide in Gaza, “A Genocide Foretold,” was just published. You can order a copy here. “Chris Hedges profoundly describes exactly what is happening in Palestine and talks on behalf of the victims. In his painful writings, he makes their voices heard.” — Atef Abu Saif, former Minister of Culture of […]

  • Emptying Gaza (w/ Norman Finkelstein) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Apr 17th 2025 6:01pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. Israel, both materially and rhetorically, has made their intent to destroy the Palestinian people clear. One of the most renowned and courageous Middle East scholars, Norman Finkelstein, has assiduously documented the Palestinian plight for decades and he joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of […]

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  • American Concentration Camps

    Chris Hedges - Apr 16th 2025 6:26pm EDT

    U.S. Export – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Our offshore concentration camps, for now, are in El Salvador and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. But don’t expect them to remain there. Once they are normalized, not only for U.S.-deported immigrants and residents, but U.S. citizens, they will migrate to the homeland. It is a very short leap […]

  • Come Join Me LIVE NOW for a Q&A

    Chris Hedges - Apr 15th 2025 7:07pm EDT

    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, April 15 7:00pm ET

    Chris Hedges - Apr 14th 2025 7:15pm EDT

    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. To post your questions here, you must be a paid subscriber to my Substack. Please attempt to keep your questions direct and […]

  • Israel is About to Empty Gaza

    Chris Hedges - Apr 12th 2025 11:47am EDT

    Legacy – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Israel is poised to carry out the largest campaign of ethnic cleansing since the end of World War II. Since March 2, it has blocked all food and humanitarian aid into Gaza and cut off electricity, so that the last water desalination plant no longer functions. The Israeli […]

  • Join Me and Gabor Maté for “Palestine: The Moral Issue of Our Time”

    Chris Hedges - Apr 11th 2025 10:20am EDT

    Please join Gabor Maté and me on May 5 for our discussion “Palestine: The Moral Issue of Our Time” in New York City. All proceeds from ticket sales will go to support the Middle East Children Alliance’s emergency relief effort in Gaza. The event is expected to sell out so order tickets soon. Buy tickets […]

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  • The Economics of a Dying Empire (w/ Richard Wolff) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Apr 9th 2025 6:00pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. “These are levels of craziness that are part of the decline I suspect of all empires when they consume themselves,” Professor Richard Wolff says of America’s current situation in the outset of Donald Trump’s second term. He joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of […]

  • Palestinians Speak Out Against Princeton Welcoming Israeli War Criminal on Campus

    Chris Hedges - Apr 7th 2025 6:05pm EDT

    Princeton University has invited former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett to speak on Monday April 7 at 7pm. His visit is part of his tour across North American campuses, including Harvard, Columbia, and Yale, which coincides with the deportations, detainments, and disappearances of students at these same campuses by the Trump administration for protesting Israel’s […]

  • The Secret Military History of the Internet (w/ Yasha Levine) | The Chris Hedges Report

    Chris Hedges - Apr 2nd 2025 6:33pm EDT

    This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. The internet, from its inception, was created to be a tool of mass surveillance. It was developed first as a counterinsurgency tool for the Vietnam War and the rest of the Global South, but like many devices of foreign policy naturally it made its way […]

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  • Restoring Lies and Insanity to American History

    Chris Hedges - Mar 31st 2025 11:12am EDT

    You’re Too Late — by Mr. Fish Subscribe now President Donald Trump’s latest executive order titled “RESTORING TRUTH AND SANITY TO AMERICAN HISTORY” replicates a tactic used by all authoritarian regimes. In the name of countering bias, they distort the nation’s history into self-serving mythology. History will be used to justify the power of the […]

  • Trump’s War on Education – Read by Eunice Wong

    Chris Hedges - Mar 30th 2025 4:01pm EDT

    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 March 11, 2025 Subscribe now I Stink Therefore I Am – by Mr. Fish […]