The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with attorney Theresa Amato, the former campaign manager for Ralph Nader, on how the two ruling parties rig the system to block third party presidential candidates.
Chris Hedges - Sep 6th 2023 3:20pm EDTSubscribe now Many Americans are aware of the campaigns of voter suppression, the difficulties in registering to vote, how casting a ballot can often be cumbersome and time consuming as well as the flawed mechanisms used to count votes. Hundreds of laws have been passed by state legislatures to address these issues following the debacle […]
Our Collective Trauma is the Road to Tyranny
Chris Hedges - Sep 3rd 2023 10:26am EDTWelcome In – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Corporate capitalism, defined by the cult of the self and the ruthless exploitation of the natural world and all forms of life for profit, thrives on the fostering of chronic psychological and physical disorders. The diseases and pathologies of despair — alienation, high blood pressure, diabetes, anxiety, […]
Join Craig Murray and myself on Saturday September 9 in New York City at 11:30 am for a brunch held in support of Julian Assange. Reservations required.
Chris Hedges - Sep 2nd 2023 2:17pm EDT1The Chris Hedges Report Show with Professor Norman Finkelstein on how woke culture and identity politics are used to perpetuate the class warfare waged by corporations and ruling oligarchs.
Chris Hedges - Sep 1st 2023 1:09pm EDTSubscribe now There are few intellectuals who have been as attacked, censored and blacklisted as long and as ruthlessly as the Middle Eastern scholar Norman Finkelstein. He has been hounded out of universities, denied speaking engagements, had his books and scholarship either ignored or dismissed. It is surprising, perhaps, that Professor Finkelstein’s latest book is… […]
The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Professor Norman Finkelstein on how woke culture and identity politics are used to perpetuate the class warfare waged by corporations and ruling oligarchs.
Chris Hedges - Aug 31st 2023 12:15pm EDTThere are few intellectuals who have been as attacked, censored and blacklisted as long and as ruthlessly as the Middle Eastern scholar Norman Finkelstein. He has been hounded out of universities, denied speaking engagements, had his books and scholarship either ignored or dismissed. It is surprising, perhaps, that Professor Finkelstein’s latest book is a savage […]
The Chris Hedges Report Show with Elizabeth Winkler on her book “Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature.”
Chris Hedges - Aug 26th 2023 12:16pm EDTSubscribe now There is no evidence that William Shakespeare authored the plays and sonnets attributed to him. But questioning the authorship is an unacceptable heresy among Shakespearean scholars who liken it to believing the moon landing was faked. These scholars have built their academic careers on the foundations of the Shakespearean myth, writing long biographies… […]
Watch this Service for Julian Assange in Oslo, Norway where I preached the sermon “The Crucifixion of Julian Assange” and actor and director Liv Ullmann read the scripture lessons.
Chris Hedges - Aug 25th 2023 4:09am EDTSubscribe now Hebrew Bible Reading: Jeremiah 37 11- 21 And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh’s army, Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to separate himself thence in the midst of the people. […]
Listen to this Sermon: The Crucifixion of Julian Assange
Chris Hedges - Aug 24th 2023 4:08pm EDTThe Crucifixion of Julian Assange – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now I dedicate this sermon to my mentor at Harvard Divinity School, Bishop Krister Stendhal. Prophets are notoriously difficult people. They are not saints. They are people of agony, as Rabbi Abraham Heschel writes, whose “life and soul are at stake.” The prophet is moved […]
The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Elizabeth Winkler on her book “Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature.”
Chris Hedges - Aug 23rd 2023 6:19am EDTSubscribe now There is no evidence that William Shakespeare authored the plays and sonnets attributed to him. But questioning the authorship is an unacceptable heresy among Shakespearean scholars who liken it to believing the moon landing was faked. These scholars have built their academic careers on the foundations of the Shakespearean myth, writing long biographies […]
The Crucifixion of Julian Assange
Chris Hedges - Aug 20th 2023 3:51pm EDTThe Crucifixion of Julian Assange – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now Hebrew Bible Reading: Jeremiah 37 11- 21 And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh’s army, Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to […]
The Chris Hedges Report Show with Iranian filmmaker Taghi Amirani on his documentary Coup 53 about the CIA coup that overthrew the democratic government in Iran seventy years ago this week.
Chris Hedges - Aug 18th 2023 3:40pm EDTOn Aug. 19, 1953, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, who had seized Iran’s vast oil fields from the British and put them under Iranian control, was removed from power in a coup organized and financed by the British and U.S. governments. He was replaced by the dictatorial Shah who immediately signed over […]
Listen to this Article: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – The Israel Lobby’s Useful Idiot
Chris Hedges - Aug 17th 2023 7:23pm EDTNarrated by Eunice Wong Text originally published August 12, 2023 Subscribe now The Kennedy Promise – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now The long nightmare of oppression of Palestinians is not a tangential issue. It is a black and white issue of a settler-colonial state imposing a military occupation, horrific violence and apartheid, backed by billions […]
The Chris Hedges Report Pocast with Iranian filmmaker Taghi Amirani on his documentary Coup 53 about the CIA coup that overthrew the democratic government in Iran sixty years ago this week.
Chris Hedges - Aug 16th 2023 5:45pm EDTSubscribe now On Aug. 19, 1953, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, who had seized Iran’s vast oil fields from the British and put them under Iranian control, was removed from power in a coup organized and financed by the British and U.S. governments. He was replaced by the dictatorial Shah who immediately […]
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – The Israel Lobby’s Useful Idiot
Chris Hedges - Aug 12th 2023 1:37pm EDTThe Kennedy Promise – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now The long nightmare of oppression of Palestinians is not a tangential issue. It is a black and white issue of a settler-colonial state imposing a military occupation, horrific violence and apartheid, backed by billions of U.S. dollars, on the indigenous population of Palestine. It is the […]
The Chris Hedges Report Show on how corporate power has neutered comedy with comedian Lee Camp
Chris Hedges - Aug 11th 2023 2:46pm EDTSubscribe now The fusion of politics, news and entertainment has given prominence to comics especially those such as Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, John Oliver and Bill Maher who serve as attack dogs for the Democratic Party, which has joined forces with the establishment wing of the old Republican Party against Donald Trump and […]
The Chris Hedges Report Podcast on how corporate power has neutered comedy with comedian Lee Camp
Chris Hedges - Aug 9th 2023 9:34pm EDTSubscribe now The fusion of politics, news and entertainment has given prominence to comics especially those such as Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, John Oliver and Bill Maher who serve as attack dogs for the Democratic Party, which has joined forces with the establishment wing of the old Republican Party against Donald Trump and […]
Listen to this Article: “Nurses Fight Godzilla”
Chris Hedges - Aug 8th 2023 4:49pm EDTNarrated by Eunice Wong Text originally published Aug. 3, 2023 Red Crosshairs – by Mr. Fish NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Judy Danella, president of United Steel Workers Local 4-200 — the union that represents Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital’s more than 1,700 nurses — stands in a church basement before a room full of her […]
The Chris Hedges Report Show with Dr. Judith Herman who discusses the three stages to recovery from trauma and her new book “Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice”
Chris Hedges - Aug 4th 2023 7:12pm EDTDr. Judith Herman in her classic work Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror, which we discussed last week, detailed three stages to recovery. In the first stage the survivor focuses on the complex and demanding task of establishing safety in the present, with the goal of protection from […]
Nurses Fight Godzilla
Chris Hedges - Aug 3rd 2023 8:29pm EDTRed Crosshairs – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Judy Danella, president of United Steel Workers Local 4-200 — the union that represents Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital’s more than 1,700 nurses — stands in a church basement before a room full of her union members. Her voice quavers slightly as she […]
The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Dr. Judith Herman who discusses the three stages to recovery from trauma and her new book “Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice”
Chris Hedges - Aug 2nd 2023 8:29pm EDTSubscribe now Dr. Judith Herman in her classic work Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror, which we discussed last week, detailed three stages to recovery. In the first stage the survivor focuses on the complex and demanding task of establishing safety in the present, with the goal of […]
Listen to This Article: The Forgotten Victims of America’s Class War
Chris Hedges - Jul 31st 2023 9:08pm EDTNarrated by Eunice Wong Test Originally published July 30, 2023 Subscribe now Main Street America – by Mr. Fish MECHANIC FALLS, Maine – I am sitting in Eric Heimel’s barbershop in the center of Mechanic Falls. Russ Day, who was the owner for 52 years before he sold it to Eric, cut my hair as […]
The Forgotten Victims of America’s Class War
Chris Hedges - Jul 30th 2023 8:28pm EDTMain Street America- by Mr. Fish Subscribe now MECHANIC FALLS, Maine – I am sitting in Eric Heimel’s barbershop in the center of Mechanic Falls. Russ Day, who was the owner for 52 years before he sold it to Eric, cut my hair as a boy. The shop looks the same. The mounted trout on […]
The Chris Hedges Report Show with Dr. Judith Herman on her book “Trauma and Recovery” which The New York Times called “one of the most important psychiatric works published since Freud.”
Chris Hedges - Jul 28th 2023 6:46pm EDTSubscribe now Dr. Judith Herman’s book Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror, as The New York Times wrote, is “one of the most important psychiatric works published since Freud.” It is the foundational text, along with The Body Keeps Score, written by Dr. Herman’s close collaborator Bessel van […]
The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Dr. Judith Herman on her book “Trauma and Recovery” which The New York Times called “one of the most important psychiatric works published since Freud.”
Chris Hedges - Jul 27th 2023 11:39am EDTSubscribe now Dr. Judith Herman’s book Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror, as The New York Times wrote, is “one of the most important psychiatric works published since Freud.” It is the foundational text, along with The Body Keeps Score, written by Dr. Herman’s close collaborator Bessel van […]
Listen to This Article: There Are Very Few Good Films About War. “20 Days in Mariupol” is an Exception
Chris Hedges - Jul 26th 2023 8:03pm EDTNarrated by Eunice Wong Text originally published July 22, 2023 Subscribe now Witness – by Mr. Fish Films about war, shorn of the bone crushing fear, the putrid stench of the corpses, the deafening noise of explosions, the constant exhaustion and the nervous anxiety that comes with trying to understand what is happening in the […]