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The Chris Hedges Report Podcast

Covering US foreign policy, economic realities, and civil liberties in American society. chrishedges.substack.com

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25:23

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Kavitha Chekuru...

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2023/05/17

Shireen Abu Akleh, the Al Jazeera reporter with more than two decades of experience covering armed conflicts, knew the protocol. She and other reporters remained in the open, clearly visible to Israeli snipers about 650 feet away. Her flak jacket was emblazoned with the word “PRESS.”There were two initial rounds of shooting that were fired at the journalists. In the first, producer Ali Al-Samoudi was shot. As the journalists turned to run away from the gunfire, Shireen was shot below her

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13:05

Listen to this Article: "Sammy Goes to School"

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2023/05/16

Narrated by Eunice WongText originally published May 12, 2023With Sammy at the graduation ceremony for formerly incarcerated students at Rutgers University in Newark on FridayNewark, N.J. — We know the story. The absent father who leaves when his son is five-years-old and moves back to Puerto Rico. The single mother, rarely at home because she works long hours to keep her three children fed and pay the rent. The poverty. The crime. The instability. Later, the stepfather who drinks, uses drugs and

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7:23

Listen to this talk I gave in New York City at a...

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2023/05/11

Narrated by Eunice WongText originally published: May 3, 2023And Our Flags Are Still There - by Mr. FishThe detention and persecution of Julian Assange eviscerates all pretense of the rule of law and the rights of a free press. The illegalities, embraced by the Ecuadorian, British, Swedish and U.S. governments are ominous. They presage a world where the internal workings, abuses, corruption, lies and crimes, especially war crimes, carried out by corporate states and the global ruling elite, will be

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31:13

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Professor...

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2023/05/11

When the new 20-dollar bill is issued in 2030 it is scheduled to have on one side a portrait of Harriet Tubman, the fiery abolitionist who made over a dozen clandestine trips south to free enslaved people and later served as a scout for the Union Army during the Civil War. The back of the bill is supposed to have a statue of the slaveholding 7th president, Andrew Jackson, who was one of the principal organizers of the genocidal campaigns against Native Americans. It is a bit like Germany issuing a

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33:27

The Chris Hedges Show Podcast with Ellen Schrecker on...

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2023/05/04

The integrity and quality of public higher education in America has been under assault for decades, as Ellen Schrecker documents in her new book The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s. The American dream of high-quality, affordable mass higher education is no longer within reach of many Americans. Tuitions, once low, if not free, have soared, and with them tremendous student debt. Although the Biden administration has made an effort to reduce some of this debt, but millions of

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11:32

Listen to "The Enemy From Within"

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2023/05/01

Narrated by Eunice WongText originally published April 30, 2023You Are What They Eat - by Mr. FishAmerica is a stratocracy, a form of government dominated by the military. It is axiomatic among the two ruling parties that there must be a constant preparation for war. The war machine’s massive budgets are sacrosanct. Its billions of dollars in waste and fraud are ignored. Its military fiascos in Southeast Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East have disappeared into the vast cavern of historical

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33:29

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with filmmaker Talia...

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2023/04/26

The real story of war is never told by Hollywood. Its senselessness, cruelty, gruesomeness and impersonalized wholesale industrial slaughter of innocents are redeemed for the old cliches of glory, honor, heroism and patriotism. The power of the lie makes it nearly impossible for those who return from war and speak the truth about war to be heard. Talia Lugacy in her new independent film This is Not a War Story rips back the veil on the vast enterprise of death that war is and tells the unflinching

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12:30

Listen to this Article: "The United States of Paralysis"

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2023/04/25

Narrated by Eunice WongText originally published April 23, 2023Follow the Money - by Mr. FishPolitical paralysis is snuffing out what is left of our anemic democracy. It is the paralysis of doing nothing while the ruling oligarchs, who have increased their wealth by nearly a third since the pandemic began and by close to 90 percent over the past decade, orchestrate virtual tax boycotts as millions of Americans go into bankruptcy to pay medical bills, mortgages, credit card debt, student debt, car

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15:16

Listen to this Article: "Taking Back Our Universities...

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2023/04/24

Narrated by Eunice WongText originally published April 15, 2023No Respect - by Mr. FishNew Brunswick, N.J. — Here are some of the senior administrators I did not see joining us on the picket lines set up by striking teachers and staff at Rutgers University. Brian Strom, the chancellor of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, whose salary is $925,932 a year. Steven Libutti, the vice chancellor for Cancer Programs for Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, who makes $929,411 a year. Patrick Hobbs,

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8:34

Listen to this talk: "The Hypocrisy of the Christian...

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2023/04/20

Narrated by Eunice WongThe text of this talk was posted on April 6, 2023Blessed Be The Protesters - by Mr. FishWe are not here to debate the moral squalor that defines the life of the hedge fund billionaire and chair of the seminary’s trustee board, Michael Fisch. We are not here to denounce him for the personal fortune, reportedly worth at least $10 billion, a fortune he built preying on the poorest among us, those families that went into debt to pay his prison telecommunications company’s

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29:57

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Roger Hallam,...

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2023/04/19

Roger Hallam, the co-founder in 2018 of Extinction Rebellion, was recently released after nearly four months on jail. He was imprisoned for making a 20-minute speech on zoom. He was arrested and jailed because he called for civil disobedience by climate activists, specifically the blocking of major road networks in London. Hallam is one of the most important and fearless leaders in the climate movement. He was arrested in 2017 after spray painting King's College London's Great Hall. He was charged

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30:40

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Dan Cohen and...

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2023/04/13

In Eric Hobsbawm’s book Bandits he examined how outlaws such as Salvatore Giuliano, Robin Hood, and Pancho Villa, transform themselves into social revolutionaries. The filmmakers Dan Cohen and Kim Ives have done the same in their three-part film “Another Vision: Inside Haiti’s Uprising.” They tell the story of Jimmy ‘Barbecue’ Cherizier, who has united half of Port au Prince’s slums, and the Revolutionary Forces of the G9 Family and Allies. The armed neighborhood federation is in the crosshairs of

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15:30

Listen to this Article: "The Donald Trump Problem"

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2023/04/11

Narrated by Eunice WongText originally published March 26, 2023Make Me Great Again - by Mr. FishDonald Trump — facing four government-run investigations, three criminal and one civil, targeting himself and his business — is not being targeted because of his crimes. Nearly every serious crime he is accused of carrying out has been committed by his political rivals. He is being targeted because he is deemed dangerous for his willingness, at least rhetorically, to reject the Washington Consensus

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31:20

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Dr. Margaret...

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2023/04/06

The national emergency and public health emergency declarations related to the COVID-19 pandemic will terminate on May 11, 2023. These emergency declarations, in place since 2020, waived or modified requirements in a range of areas, including in the Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP programs, as well as in private health insurance. The end of these special measures will see between 5 and 14 million Americans lose their Medicaid coverage, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. More than 30 million

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34:30

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Lori Grinker on...

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2023/03/30

I first encountered Lori Grinker’s remarkable work as a photographer in her book AFTERWAR: Veterans from a World in Conflict, where a century of war is represented by and through portraits of individuals and their haunting stories of war. Her other books include Dear Grinkers, a photographic series on diaspora, Six Days From Forty, an installation revolving around her brother’s life and his death from AIDS, and A Portrait of Audrey and All the Little Things, which considers her mother’s struggles

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15:42

Listen to this Article: "Ukraine’s Death by Proxy"

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2023/03/25

Narrated by Eunice WongText originally published: 03/11/2023Proxyboy - by Mr. FishThere are many ways for a state to project power and weaken adversaries, but proxy wars are one of the most cynical. Proxy wars devour the countries they purport to defend. They entice nations or insurgents to fight for geopolitical goals that are ultimately not in their interest. The war in Ukraine has little to do with Ukrainian freedom and a lot to do with degrading the Russian military and weakening Vladimir

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32:36

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Katherine...

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2023/03/23

On April 28, 2012 an intruder broke through the metal door leading into the garden patio of the investigative reporter Regina Martínez. He apparently surprised the Mexican journalist in her bathroom, where her body was discovered. The diminutive reporter, barely five feet tall, tried to fight off her attacker – skin was found under her fingernails. Her jaw was broken with brass knuckles. A rag was wrapped around her neck. She was apparently suffocated to death. She was one of one hundred and fifty

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13:50

Listen to This Article: "The Lords of Chaos"

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2023/03/22

Narrated by Eunice WongText originally published 03/19/2023We’re Number One — by Mr. FishTwo decades ago, I sabotaged my career at The New York Times. It was a conscious choice. I had spent seven years in the Middle East, four of them as the Middle East Bureau Chief. I was an Arabic speaker. I believed, like nearly all Arabists, including most of those in the State Department and the CIA, that a “preemptive” war against Iraq would be the most costly strategic blunder in American history. It would

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37:40

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Seymour Hersh on...

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2023/03/14

On Monday, September 26, 2022, a series of underwater explosions blew huge holes into the Nord Stream 1 and 2, two pairs of pipelines, constructed to carry Russian natural gas to Germany under the Baltic Sea. These four pipelines, steel-reinforced concrete cables built to withstand the direct impact of the anchor of an aircraft carrier, were destroyed in a clandestine act of sabotage, according to an investigation by Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh. The pair of Nord Stream 1

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34:04

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Kshama Sawant on...

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2023/03/08

Kshama Sawant, a socialist who served for over a decade on the Seattle City Council, has announced she will not seek reelection. Instead, she will launch a national coalition called Workers Strike Back this March in cities around the country. This coalition will organize for a $ 25 an hour minimum wage, build grassroots labor unions in corporations such as Amazon and advocate for a shorter work week without a cut in benefits and pay. It will also employ strikes when its demands are not met. It will

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