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The Chris Hedges Report
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges interviews a wide array of authors, journalists, artists and cultural figures on complex topics of history, politics and war.
Episodes
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The Iran War Is the Biggest Strategic Blunder in US History (w/ John Mearsheimer) | TCHR
John Mearsheimer breaks down the current state of the Iran War, and how the conflict increasingly appears to look like the most dire strategic mistake in US…
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Documenting the U.S. Media’s Complicity in the Genocide of Gaza (w/ Robin Andersen) | TCHR
Chris Hedges, who has extensive experience as a former New York Times Middle East Bureau Chief, describes the information published by the Israeli State as…
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Why This Former U.S. Army Physician is Running for Congress (w/ Dr. Adam Hamawy) | TCHR
The bipartisan US-backed genocide in Gaza exposed the corruption of the political system in the United States and the hypocrisy of the Democratic Party, which…
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Why the Iran War Won’t End Soon (w/ Alastair Crooke) | TCHR
The United States and Israel’s attacks on Iran have inflamed West Asia to the point that it has turned “into a matrix of smaller wars taking place across the…
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How the Epstein Network is Privatizing the Government & Building Out the Surveillance State (w/Whitney Webb) | TCHR
Under the radar, the billionaire class is building the infrastructure and models necessary to create a dystopian future in which cities become billionaire…
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Why the U.S. Military is 'Earth's Greatest Enemy' (w/ Abby Martin) | The Chris Hedges Report
In Abby Martin's new film, 'Earth's Greatest Enemy,' she exposes how the US military has unleashed death, devastation and more pollution than any other…
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How America's Corporate Class Became Legally Unaccountable (w/ Marie Gottschalk) | TCHR
Compared to other wealthy Western nations, the United States stands out for its high incarceration rates and military spending and declining standard of…
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Democracy Necessitates Resistance (w/ Roger Hallam) | The Chris Hedges Report
We are living in an age of climate collapse, which will most likely result in mass displacement and death, warns Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction…
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Rebuilding 'Home' in the 21st Century (w/ Ece Temelkuran) | The Chris Hedges Report
Forced to leave her home country due to political and economic repression under the dictatorship of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish author Ece Temelkuran sought…
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What Happens 'When the World Sleeps' (w/ Francesca Albanese) | The Chris Hedges Report
United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese shares stories of the immense suffering in Palestine and laments the gutting of international law in her…
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Weaponizing Civil Death to Crush Dissidents (w/ Hüseyin Doğru) | The Chris Hedges Report
The war on information in the West has tread new grounds since the genocide in Palestine. Journalists and media outlets who report on the imperialist endeavors…
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Fighting the Corporate Duopoly at the Ballot Box (w/ Kshama Sawant) | The Chris Hedges Report
In this episode of The Chris Hedges Report, Chris Hedges speaks with Kshama Sawant, a revolutionary socialist based in Seattle, Washington, who is challenging…
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His Harrowing Experience in an Israeli Torture Dungeon (w/ Thiago Ávila) | The Chris Hedges Report
Since the Zionist siege of Gaza began 19 years ago, people from around the world have been organizing to break through it and establish a humanitarian corridor…
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Where Will the Coming Iran War Negotiations Lead? (w/ Mohammad Marandi) | The Chris Hedges Report
As the global economy teeters on the brink of a major crisis, the United States, with the aid of the Pakistani government, is once again attempting to finalize…
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Is the Ceasefire Dead? (w/ Alastair Crooke) | The Chris Hedges Report
The US-Israeli war heated up again over the weekend as Iran launched “Operation Victory” in response to Israel’s continued attacks on Southern Lebanon and…
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Jeffrey Epstein, the Russian Mob, & the Hidden Assets of the Maxwells (w/ Moe Tkacik) | The Chris Hedges Report
The release of the Epstein Files has shocked the public with unimaginable stories of the pedophilia, exploitation of women and brash depravity of the ruling…
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How the War on Terror Created the Age of Trump (W/ Matt Kennard) | The Chris Hedges Report
In the United States, but also around the world, fascism is on the rise again, similar to what occurred in Germany and Italy after World War I. Its foot…
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A Discussion on the New Novel 'Palaces of the Crow' (w/ Ray Nayler) | The Chris Hedges Report
“We tell the stories that perpetuate the narrative or the myth we want, and we erase the others,” Chris Hedges states in this interview with Ray Nayler about…
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The History of National Resistance Movements in Palestine (w/ Ramzy Baroud) | The Chris Hedges Report
Dr. Ramzy Baroud, a Palestinian historian and author, in his new book, “Before the Flood: A Gaza Family Memoir Across Three Generations of Colonial Invasion…
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How the Iran War is Accelerating the Decline of Empire (w/ Richard Wolff) | The Chris Hedges Report
The global economic impacts of the American-Israeli war on Iran are already being felt, particularly in Asia, through shortages of fuel and other necessities…
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The Revolutionary Spirit of Iran (w/ Behrooz Ghamari) | The Chris Hedges Report
The United States, in its recent war on Iran, has completely misread the Iranian people and failed to recognize the deep revolutionary spirit that pervades…
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Is There a Way out of the Iran War? (w/ John Mearsheimer) | The Chris Hedges Report
At the last minute, Iran agreed on Monday to participate in negotiations with the United States in Islamabad, Pakistan. The fragile ceasefire agreement between…
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The Trump Administration's War on Cuba (w/ Medea Benjamin) | The Chris Hedges Report
Medea Benjamin, a co-founder of the antiwar organization CODEPINK, speaks with Chris Hedges about her recent visit to Cuba as part of one of the many…
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America’s Suez Crisis (w/ Alastair Crooke) | The Chris Hedges Report
The whole world is watching as negotiations begin today in Islamabad, Pakistan between Iran and the United States following an agreement to cease military…
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Is Iran the 'Leading State Sponsor of Terrorism?' (w/ John Kiriakou) | The Chris Hedges Report
In an attempt to justify and garner popular support for the American-Israeli war on Iran, the Trump administration is pressuring its allied nations to join the…
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Making the Film 'Palestine 36' (w/ director Annemarie Jacir) | The Chris Hedges Report
In filmmaker Annemarie Jacir’s new film, Palestine 36, one of the most pivotal moments in Palestine’s history is brought to life for the first time through…
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Why Israel Wants a War with Iran (w/ Gideon Levy) | Chris Hedges Report
As the war between the United States, Israel, and Iran intensifies, the justifications for its outbreak grow increasingly murky, shifting between nuclear…
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How Israel Convinced Trump to Wage War Against Iran (w/ Max Blumenthal) | The Chris Hedges Report
As the chaos and destruction of the war in Iran escalates by the day, a lesser known element of the conflict remains ensconced in the shadows of statespeak and…
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How the War With Iran Will Trigger a Global Financial Crisis (w/ Yanis Varoufakis) | The Chris Hedges Report
As the U.S.-Israel and Iran War enters its second week, American and Israeli strategy becomes increasingly opaque, while Iran’s resolve hardens. Professor John…
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Why America is Losing the War With Iran (w/ John Mearsheimer) | The Chris Hedges Report
As the U.S.-Israel and Iran War enters its second week, American and Israeli strategy becomes increasingly opaque, while Iran’s resolve hardens. Professor John…
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Can Israel & the U.S. Sustain Iran's Military Power? (w/ Alastair Crooke) | The Chris Hedges Report
While the official White House X account posts video montages featuring video games and Hollywood movies spliced with real footage of their attacks on Iran…
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The Predatory Hegemon (w/ Stephen Walt) | The Chris Hedges Report
As Donald Trump’s administration continues down the path of self destruction, it is taking the rest of the American population down with it. The abandonment of…
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What Is the World’s Future in the ‘New World Order?’ (W/ John Mearsheimer) | The Chris Hedges Report
Karl Marx, in his essay “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,” said that history repeats itself, “the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.”…
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Is the 'New World Order' Really New? (w/ Yanis Varoufakis) | The Chris Hedges Report
As U.S. hegemony continues to dwindle, Donald Trump and his international allies are making preparations to maintain some grip on world power. One of these…
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Decolonizing The World (w/ Amin Husain) | The Chris Hedges Report
Palestinian professor and activist Amin Husain knows what Western settler colonialism looks, sounds and feels like. Growing up in Palestine, Husain experienced…
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Deconstructing Trump's Gaza 'Peace' Plan (w/ Norman Finkelstein) | The Chris Hedges Report
Lawlessness has been a common theme characterizing the events of the first weeks of the year. The kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, the murder…
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The Narco-Trafficking Elite Set to Run Venezuela (w/ Maureen Tkacik) | The Chris Hedges Report
History, as it’s understood in most Western countries, often misses important chapters that leave critical gaps in the story of how modern countries came to…
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The Trillion Dollar War Machine (w/ William D. Hartung) | The Chris Hedges Report
The military-industrial-complex (MIC) is unique in its ability to pull untold flows of tax revenue into “defensive” infrastructure that benefits no one other…
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How the 'Epstein Class' Fails to the Top | The Chris Hedges Report (w/ Anand Giridharadas)
Noam Chomsky once said “The more privilege you have, the more opportunity you have. The more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have.” Today…
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Taking Power Amidst the Turbulence (w/ Dylan Saba) | The Chris Hedges Report
While Palestine has always represented a contradiction in the Western-established world order, the genocide in Gaza has brought the issue to the forefront of…
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The Encampments (w/ Mahmoud Khalil and Michael Workman) | The Chris Hedges Report
The ongoing genocide in Gaza has become a litmus test of institutional integrity. When a university denies the reality of Israel’s brutality, it reveals…
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The Toxic Pursuit of Greatness in Chess (w/ Brin-Jonathan Butler) | The Chris Hedges Report
Achieving greatness requires immense sacrifice. Nobody knows this better than perhaps professional athletes or, as author and journalist Brin-Jonathan Butler…
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How Palestinian History Is Systemically Forgotten (w/ Micaela Sahhar) | The Chris Hedges Report
“How do we understand now if we don’t understand 1948 or 1917 or all the things that happened during the British Mandate?” This is a central question Micaela…
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The Palestine Lab: Exporting Occupation Technology (w/ Antony Loewenstein) | The Chris Hedges Report
Filmmaker, author and journalist Antony Loewenstein documents how Israel has used Gaza as a weapons showcase. Spyware, killer drones, robot dogs and other…
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The Member States Complicit in GENOCIDE (w/ Francesca Albanese) | The Chris Hedges Report
After two years of genocide, it is no longer possible to hide complicity in Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians. Entire countries and corporations are —…
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How America Left Their Own to Die in the '73 Chilean Coup (w/ John Dinges) | The Chris Hedges Report
The meddling and infiltration of governments in Latin America by the United States is a huge chapter of its 20th century history. One of the most egregious and…
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Is Israel 'On the Brink?' (w/ Ilan Pappé)
Despite the demoralization and destruction produced by Israel’s two-year-long genocidal campaign on the Palestinians, Israel potentially finds itself at its…
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The Rise of the Thielverse and the Construction of the Surveillance State (w/ Whitney Webb) | The Chris Hedges Report
The descent into a new, mutated and technology-focused form of American fascism is already here. Those who have kept track of the rise of the Thielverse, which…
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Drug Trafficking and Murder In the Special Forces (w/ Seth Harp) | The Chris Hedges Report
For decades, clandestine foreign military and intelligence operations have been the deadly, destabilizing engine of American foreign policy. Today, as exposed…
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Inside America's Academic Gulags (w/ Rashid Khalidi) | The Chris Hedges Report
Historian Rashid Khalidi, author of The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine, joins host Chris Hedges to detail the dwindling academic freedom in American…
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It's Time to Fight Back Against Trump's Fascist Regime (w/ Ralph Nader) | The Chris Hedges Report
"Are you a worker? Yes. Are you a consumer shopper? Yes. Are you a taxpayer? Yes. Voter? Well, sometimes. Are you a parent? Yes. Are you a veteran? Sometimes…
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Trump's Crackdown on Anti-War Activists (w/ CODEPINK's Medea Benjamin)
Medea Benjamin and CODEPINK, the organization she cofounded, are synonymous with accosting power in the United States. Their fearless confrontations with the…
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The Death of Holocaust Studies (w/ Raz Segal) | The Chris Hedges Report
Raz Segal, an Israeli historian and an associate professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University, analyzes how the weaponization and…
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GHF Contractor Tells All On Genocidal Israeli 'Aid' Plan (w/ Anthony Aguilar) | The Chris Hedges Report
“I've witnessed a lot of war and in that there is nothing that compares to the level of destruction, the level of [dis]proportionality, the absolute disregard…
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Reporting on War (w/ Ben Anderson) | The Chris Hedges Report
It is rare to find war correspondents who are willing to break the rules of access and safety imposed by dominant powers. Only by challenging these structures…