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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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When Religious Mafia & Rightwing Extremists Take Over (w/ Rollo Romig) | The Chris Hedges Report
One of the most stark examples of the expanding tide of authoritarianism worldwide was the 2017 murder of Gauri Lankesh, an Indian journalist and activist…
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'The Silent Holocaust' — The Israeli and CIA Sponsored Guatemalan Genocide (w/ Jennifer Harbury) | The Chris Hedges Report
Known as the “Silent Holocaust,” the genocide in Guatemala is seldom mentioned in modern history. The United States, with support from Israel, backed yet…
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This Is Not a Drill (w/ Roger Waters) | The Chris Hedges Report
Fame and fortune are often corrupting forces, ones that beget power and comfort. To stand with the afflicted requires sacrificing this privilege and few embody…
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The End of Academic Freedom (w/ Maura Finkelstein) | The Chris Hedges Report
The gutting of public funding for higher education in the United States has led to the takeover of universities by private donors, many of whom are Zionist…
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Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump and Sexual Blackmail Networks (w/ Nick Bryant) | The Chris Hedges Report
Perhaps the biggest elephant in the room of American politics is the existence of a pedophilic blackmail network that involves some of the most powerful people…
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Everything You Need To Know About War With Iran (w/ Alastair Crooke) | The Chris Hedges Report
Following attacks on Iran by Israel and the United States, the world held its breath as the prospect of World War III loomed on the horizon. After 12 days of…
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Will Zohran Mamdani Empower or Betray the Working Class? (w/ Kshama Sawant) | The Chris Hedges Report
Zohran Mamdani’s emphatic victory in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary has shaken the core of American politics. A self-described democratic…
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Starvation and Profiteering in Gaza (w/ Francesca Albanese) | The Chris Hedges Report
There is not much more that can be said about the unfathomable levels of devastation the genocide in Gaza has reached. Francesca Albanese, the United Nations…
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Why You Should Hate the Rich Even More (w/ Rob Larson)
The ultra-wealthy hover above the realities of the world around them like extraterrestrial aliens. Their material reality physically separates them from the…
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Journalists and Their Shadows (w/ Patrick Lawrence) | The Chris Hedges Report
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 —…
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How Paradise Lost Revolutionized the World (w/ Orlando Reade) | The Chris Hedges Report
There are few pieces of literature that remain as prescient and relevant throughout history as John Milton’s Paradise Lost. Thomas Jefferson, Malcolm X…
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The Shared Mythological History of Israel and the US (w/ Joan Scott) | The Chris Hedges Report
The narratives surrounding Israel and their genocidal campaign against the Palestinians took decades to create and embed into the West’s psyche. The Holocaust…
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Facing the Climate Crisis and Human Mortality (w/ Eiren Caffall) | The Chris Hedges Report
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…
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The Dark Money Game (w/ Alex Gibney) | The Chris Hedges Report
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…
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The West Serves as Israel's Police (w/ Richard Medhurst) | The Chris Hedges Report
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…
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Israel’s Eradication of Gaza’s Healthcare System (w/ Dr. Feroze Sidhwa) | The Chris Hedges Report
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…
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Emptying Gaza (w/ Norman Finkelstein) | The Chris Hedges Report
Israel, both materially and rhetorically, has made their intent to destroy the Palestinian people clear. One of the most renowned and courageous Middle East…
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The Economics of a Dying Empire (w/ Richard Wolff) | The Chris Hedges Report
“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…
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The Secret Military History of the Internet (w/ Yasha Levine) | The Chris Hedges Report
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…
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Erasing History: How Fascism Works (w/ Jason Stanley)
Ever since the first Donald Trump administration, the word “fascism” has dominated discussion around Trump’s policies and ambitions to the extent of semantic…
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America’s Constitutional Crisis (w/ Katherine Franke) | The Chris Hedges Report
Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest and detention in a Louisiana ICE facility is a harbinger for a new authoritarian era of the United States. Khalil’s arrest, the…
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Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal (w/ Mohammed el-Kurd) | The Chris Hedges Report
Any account of the decades-long occupation of Palestine from a Palestinian is immediately expected to be refined within a specific lens to appeal to the pathos…
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How the Media Walked us into Autocracy (w/ Ralph Nader) | The Chris Hedges Report
The American corporate coup d'état is almost complete as the first weeks of the Trump administration exemplify. If there has been one person who saw this…
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Chris Hedges: The World After Gaza (w/ Chris Hedges) | The Chris Hedges Report
The Holocaust is the quintessential example of human evil for people in the West. In the rest of the world, especially in the Global South, the atrocity of the…
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (w/ Omar El Akkad) | The Chris Hedges Report
To the West, the concept of the rules-based order functions either as a list on paper to be ignored, or a strict set of laws to be weaponized. Omar El Akkad…
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Virtue Hoarders and the Rejection of Liberalism (w/ Catherine Liu) | The Chris Hedges Report
The material needs of working class people in America continue to be obscured and co-opted by politicians and people claiming to know what’s best on both sides…
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The ‘Diseased Body’ of the Middle East (w/ Farah El-Sharif) | The Chris Hedges Report
Farah El Sherif, writer, academic and Visiting Scholar at Stanford, is uncompromisingly blunt in her assessment of the Middle East. The decades of repression…
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Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism (w/ Yanis Varoufakis) | The Chris Hedges Report
The year 2008 signaled to many the weak foundations of modern capitalism in the hands of the greedy, untethered financial sector—the “vampire squid” investment…
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War on Gaza (w/ Joe Sacco) | The Chris Hedges Report
Mary Shelley, in the preface to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, writes, “Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but…
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America's Academic Gulag (w/ MIT Student Activists) | The Chris Hedges Report
“You can't just sit there and build drones and not talk about who it's serving and who does it help,” says Richard Solomon, PhD student at the Massachusetts…
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The Zionists Kill Doctors in Gaza and Silence Them Here (w/ Rupa Marya) | The Chris Hedges Report
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said, “The protection of hospitals during warfare is paramount and must be respected by all sides, at all…
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Exposing Big Tech’s Complicity in Genocide | The Chris Hedges Report
The vast censorship and suppression campaign launched by American tech companies since October 7, 2023 has been both systemic and deliberate. Instagram…
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The Meaning of Christmas (w/ Rev. Munther Isaac) | The Chris Hedges Report
In a case of tragic coincidence, the place most closely associated with the uplifting story of Jesus Christ, Christmas and the teachings of the Bible is now…
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Enduring the Trauma of Genocide (w/ Gabor Maté) | The Chris Hedges Report
While the trauma that Palestinians continue to face in Gaza is sustained, brutal and seemingly never-ending, the way people experience the effects of trauma…
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The Fall of Assad & What it Means for The Mid East (w/ Alastair Crooke) | The Chris Hedges Report
The fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, ending a 55-year dynasty begun by his father, dramatically shifts the pieces on the chessboard of the Middle…
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A Rogue Reporter vs. The American Empire (w/ Matt Kennard) | The Chris Hedges Report
The American material life is taken for granted. Things just appear. There is no consideration for what country the Empire destroyed to fuel their cars, which…
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Stories from the Center of the World (w/ Jordan Elgrably) | The Chris Hedges Report
The years of war and terror imposed upon the Middle East have left its people, as Jordan Elgrably tells host Chris Hedges, “tired of saying that [they’re]…
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Surveillance Education (w/ Nolan Higdon & Allison Butler) | The Chris Hedges Report
Any technology created by the US military industrial complex and adopted by the general public was always bound to come with a caveat. To most, the internet…
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Israel’s War on the Foreign Press (w/ Jeremy Loffredo) | The Chris Hedges Report
Reporting from Israel in the aftermath of October 7th demands guts and courage. Censorship, rouge military personnel and an entire state hellbent on their…
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Do Not Vote for those Who Support Genocide (w/ Kshama Sawant) | The Chris Hedges Report
A truly representative and honest voice for the working class—one that takes part in the struggle, resists cozying up to the centers of power, makes tangible…
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The World According to Trump (w/ Col. Lawrence Wilkerson) | The Chris Hedges Report
Donald Trump will become the 47th president of the United States and given the host of global debacles the US has its hands in—ranging from the genocide in…
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Genocide as Colonial Erasure (w/ Francesca Albanese) | The Chris Hedges Report
“The crime of all crimes.” That is how the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda declared genocide in the final judgment of Prosecutor v. Akayesu, the…
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The Escalating Crisis in the Middle East (w/ John Mearsheimer) | The Chris Hedges Report
Decades of Islamophobia, relentless propaganda campaigns and heavily financed lobbying efforts have made it difficult to understand the political realities of…
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Dismantling the American Empire (w/ Cornel West) | The Chris Hedges Report
It is rare to hear a United States presidential candidate clearly and eloquently spell out the realities of the country — whether it’s the genocide in Gaza…
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Robert Fisk and the Great War for Civilization (w/ Lara Marlowe) | The Chris Hedges Report
There is a careful art to good journalism. It involves not only seeing and writing what happens but also understanding the reason why, and the precedent that…
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The Secret History of Neoliberalism (w/ George Monbiot) | The Chris Hedges Report
Watch this interview at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=see5c5Sgi14 The current world order is designed to be complex and confusing. Its function enshrines…
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Where Olive Trees Weep: Processing the Trauma of Occupation | The Chris Hedges Report
The world has failed Palestine. The United States and European Union pay lip service to principles of human rights and democracy while providing limitless…
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The Looming Catastrophe in the Middle East (w/ Gideon Levy) | The Chris Hedges Report
Video and transcript available at: https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-looming-catastrophe-in-the-middle It has become quite rare to hear any meaningful…
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How Wokeness Kills Class Politics and Empowers Empire (w/ Christian Parenti) | The Chris Hedges Report
Watch this interview, or read the transcript, at: Oftentimes the idea of “wokeness” or “woke” ideology, whether calling it as such or acknowledging its…
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The Systemic Roots of Western Islamophobia (w/ Peter Oborne) | The Chris Hedges Report
Since the turn of the 21st century, the world has become deeply familiar with the global “war on terror.” Framed by the West’s ostensibly patriotic and…