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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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19:09

Listen to this Article: "Lynching the Deplorables"

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2023/03/07

Narrated by Eunice WongText originally published 03/05/23Executing the Law - by Mr. FishThere is little that unites me with those who occupied the Capitol building on Jan. 6. Their vision for America, Christian nationalism, white supremacy, blind support for Trump and embrace of reactionary fact-free conspiracy theories leaves a very wide chasm between their beliefs and mine. But that does not mean I support the judicial lynching against many of those who participated in the Jan. 6 events, a

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30:53

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Maximillian...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2023/03/01

Working men and women kept the country from disintegrating during the pandemic. They staffed the hospitals, stocked the shelves, drove the buses, manned the cash registers, cooked and delivered the food, grew the produce, drove the trucks and collected the garbage. While they were recognized as essential frontline workers they were also sacrificed in disproportionate numbers in a system of grotesque inequality. In late 2020 and early 2021, at the height of the pandemic, Maximillian Alvarez conducted

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13:11

Listen to This Article: "The Trump-Russia Saga and...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2023/02/28

Narrated by Eunice WongText originally published 02/26/2023De-Pressed - by Mr. FishReporters make mistakes. It is the nature of the trade. There are always a few stories we wish were reported more carefully. Writing on deadline with often only a few hours before publication is an imperfect art. But when mistakes occur, they must be acknowledged and publicized. To cover them up, to pretend they did not happen, destroys our credibility. Once this credibility is gone, the press becomes nothing more

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31:23

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Pulitzer-prize...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2023/02/22

Walter Lippmann in his 1920 book Liberty and the News warned that when journalists “arrogate to themselves the right to determine by their own consciences what shall be reported and for what purpose, democracy is unworkable.” Perhaps no other quote sums up the debacle known as Russiagate, the hundreds if not thousands of stories and news reporters that falsely painted the Trump administration as a tool of Russia and Vladimir Putin. The flawed reporting is an example of the steep erosion of

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7:48

Listen to this text of the talk I gave in Washington,...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2023/02/20

Narrated by Eunice WongText originally published 02/19/2023Murder King - by Mr. FishIdolatry is the primal sin from which all other sins derive. Idols tempt us to become God. They demand the sacrifice of others in the mad quest for wealth, fame or power. But the idol always ends by requiring self-sacrifice, leaving us to perish on the blood-soaked altars we erected for others. For empires are not murdered, they commit suicide at the feet of the idols that entrance them. We are here today to denounce

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29:44

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with actor Eunice...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2023/02/14

I carried copies of William Shakespeare’s plays into conflicts in Central America, the Middle East and the Balkans. When I was taken prisoner by the Iraqi Republican Guard in Basra during the Shiite uprising following the first Gulf War, I had a copy of Anthony and Cleopatra in the pocket of my M-65 field jacket, along with Homer’s The Iliad. Sigmund Freud turned to Shakespeare, along with the Greek myths, to lay the foundations for Freudian Psychoanalysis. Karl Marx liberally quoted from

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13:23

Listen to this Article: "There Are No Permanent...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2023/02/14

Narrated by Eunice WongText Originally published 02/12/2023Give Enough Rope - by Mr. FishOn Sunday, February 19, I will be at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington at noon to speak at the anti-war rally, Rage Against the War Machine. There, I will be joined by Jimmy Dore, Dennis Kucinich, Ann Wright, Jill Stein, Max Blumenthal, Cynthia McKinney, Anya Parampil, David Swanson and other left-wing, anti-war activists I have shared platforms with for many years. I will also be joined by Ron Paul, Scott

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31:28

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Matt Taibbi...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2023/02/07

Matt Taibbi has published an investigation about a vast propaganda campaign called “Hamilton 68, launched a year after Donald Trump won the presidency, to smear critics of the Democratic Party, from the left and the right, as Russian assets. Hamilton 68 claimed it used complex data analysis and relied on so-called disinformation experts to ferret out information on social media that emanated from the Kremlin. Hamilton 68, a computerized “dashboard” designed to be used by reporters and academics to

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12:02

Listen to this Article: Woke Imperialism

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2023/02/06

Narrated by Eunice WongText originally published Feb. 5, 2023Identity Politics - by Mr. FishThe brutal murder of Tyre Nichols by five Black Memphis police officers should be enough to implode the fantasy that identity politics and diversity will solve the social, economic and political decay that besets the United States. Not only are the former officers Black, but the city’s police department is headed by Cerelyn Davis, a Black woman. None of this helped Nichols, another victim of a modern-day

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30:08

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Italian...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2023/02/02

Julian Assange and WikiLeaks have carried out the most important investigative journalism of our generation, revealing to the public the inner workings of power through the release of voluminous leaked documents. No other news organization has come close. This information has exposed the crimes, lies and fraud of the powerful, sparking the judicial lynching of Assange who awaits extradition to the US in a high security prison in London. It has allowed people across the globe to understand what their

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16:50

Listen to this Article: "Ukraine: The War That Went...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2023/01/30

Narrated by Eunice WongText originally published: January 29, 2023Everything Must Go - Mr. FishEmpires in terminal decline leap from one military fiasco to the next. The war in Ukraine, another bungled attempt to reassert U.S. global hegemony, fits this pattern. The danger is that the more dire things look, the more the U.S. will escalate the conflict, potentially provoking open confrontation with Russia. If Russia carries out retaliatory attacks on supply and training bases in neighboring NATO

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33:22

The Chris Hedges Report podcast with Julian Assange's...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2023/01/26

The film Ithaka, the title taken from a poem by C.P Cavafy, chronicles the slow-motion torture and execution of the Australian journalist Julian Assange, currently awaiting extradition to the United States in a high security prison in London. It charts his journey from publisher of the most important revelations of our generation of fraud, war crimes, lies and corruption by the powerful to his refuge for seven years in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London from 2012 to 2019, his seizure and arrest by

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11:30

Listen to this Article: "The Plague of Social Isolation"

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2023/01/22

Narrated by Eunice WongText Originally posted January 21, 2023Cell Damage - by Mr. FishThere is very little to recommend my old gym, other than the low monthly fee, where I worked out nearly every day from 2007 until the pandemic shut it down. The locker rooms were grimy with moldering carpets. There were brown rings around the basins and a thin blackish layer of slime, composed, I suspect, of dead skin, urine, hair, dust, dirt and assorted bacteria on the floor of the shower stalls. To step into

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32:00

The Chris Hedges Report podcast with Kevin Gosztola...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2023/01/18

The long persecution of Julian Assange, the publisher of Wikileaks, is set to culminate in its final act – a trial in the United States this year. Kevin Gosztola has spent the last decade reporting on Assange, WikiLeaks and the wider war on whistleblowers. His new book, “Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange,” methodically lays out the complex issues surrounding the case, the gross distortions to the legal system used to facilitate through the extradition of Julian, now in

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16:39

Listen to this Article: "Russell Banks, John Brown...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2023/01/16

Narrated by Eunice WongOriginal Text posted January 15, 2023Russell Banks - by Mr. FishThe deep malaise that defines American society — the rage, despair and widespread feelings of betrayal and loss — is rarely captured and almost never explained in the pages of newspapers or on screens. To grasp what has happened to the United States, the savage economic and emotional cost of deindustrialization; the destruction of our democratic institutions; the Neolithic violence that sees us beset with almost

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13:50

Listen to this Article: "America’s Theater of the...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2023/01/14

Narrated by Eunice WongText originally published January 8, 2023Macdeath - by Mr. FishOur political class does not govern. It entertains. It plays its assigned role in our fictitious democracy, howling with outrage to constituents and selling them out. The Squad and the Progressive Caucus have no more intention of fighting for universal health care, workers’ rights or defying the war machine than the Freedom Caucus fights for freedom. These political hacks are modern versions of Sinclair Lewis’s

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31:08

The Chris Hedges Report with Boyah J. Farah about his...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2023/01/12

Boyah J. Farah fled the war in Somalia arriving in the United States as a refugee with his mother and siblings when he was fifteen. His romantic dreams of America quickly ran into the dark undercurrents of American racism. Living in a housing project in Bedford, Massachusetts he was forced to discover the curse of being Black in America, the daily humiliations and small, but insidious ways he was made to constantly feel an outsider by whites. He had experienced tribalism in Somalia. He saw in the

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30:54

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Mickey Huff &...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2023/01/05

Democratic debate and dialogue have all but vanished in the United States. There is widespread censorship imposed by social media platforms, private corporations about which we know nothing, while they know everything about us. Mainstream news outlets champion censorship and deplatforming in the name of democracy. Brian Seltzer, for example, on CNN justified banning Donald Trump form social media because, he said, “reducing a liar’s reach is not the same as censoring freedom of speech.” Sean Hannity

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12:46

Listen to this Article: "The Democrats are Now the...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2023/01/02

Narrated by Eunice WongText originally published 12/25/2022Democratic Dark Side - by Mr. FishThe Democrats position themselves as the party of virtue, cloaking their support for the war industry in moral language stretching back to Korea and Vietnam, when President Ngo Dinh Diem was as lionized as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. All the wars they support and fund are “good” wars. All the enemies they fight, the latest being Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping, are incarnations of

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30:59

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Helen Benedict...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2022/12/29

There are some 84 million forcibly displaced people in the world, more than at any time since World War II. They are fleeing a combination of war, civil unrest, religious conflict, poverty, persecution, local violence and the climate crisis. As conditions worsen, authoritarian governments are on the rise that denounce immigrants and refugees as contaminants and impose draconian policies to turn them back, including at sea where whole boats of refugees are drowned. Pope Francis calls the

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