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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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The Chris Hedges Report Podcast: Dystopia, octopus...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2022/12/24

In Ray Nayler’s novel The Mountain in the Sea he explores the marine habitat of a hyperintelligent species of octopus, endowed with its own language and culture, is seized by a global tech corporation determined to harness this non-human intelligence for profit in new systems of artificial intelligence. This dystopian future world is one of total surveillance, vast polluted dead zones, climate breakdown, a pervasive alienation, frequent targeted assassinations by governments and corporations against

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18:08

Listen to This Article: "Teaching Aleksandr...

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2022/12/23

Narrated by Eunice WongOriginal Text published December 18, 2022No Justice No Peace - by Mr. FishTwo nights a week for the last four months, I plowed my way through the three volumes of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago with 17 students in the college degree program offered by Rutgers University in the New Jersey prison system. No one in my class endures the extremities imposed on the millions who worked as slave labor, and often died, in the Soviet gulag, or work camps, set up after

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14:25

Listen to this Article: “Israel and the Rise of...

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2022/12/17

Narrated by Eunice WongText originally published Dec 11, 2022Where there’s smoke - by Mr. FishBenjamin Netanyahu’s proposed coalition government of Jewish extremists, fanatic Zionists and religious bigots represents a seismic change in Israel, one that will exacerbate Israel’s pariah status, erode external support for Israel, fuel a third Palestinian uprising, or intifada, and create irreconcilable political divides within the Jewish state. Alon Pinkas, writing in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz,

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12:40

Listen to this Article: "Know Thine Enemy"

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2022/12/15

Narrated by Eunice WongText originally published Dec. 4, 2022Power Couple - by Mr. FishThe Congressional decision to prohibit railroad workers from going on strike and force them to accept a contract that meets few of their demands is part of the class war that has defined American politics for decades. The two ruling political parties differ only in rhetoric. They are bonded in their determination to reduce wages; dismantle social programs, which the Bill Clinton administration did with welfare;

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33:00

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Dennis Kucinich...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2022/12/14

There was once a wing of the Democratic Party that stood up to the war industry. J. William Fulbright. George McGovern. Mike Gravel. William Proxmire. But that was decades ago. The new Democrats, especially with the presidency of Bill Clinton, became shills not only for corporate America but the arms industry. No weapons system is too costly. No war, no matter how disastrous, goes unfunded. The massive military budget, with $858 billion in military spending allocated for Fiscal Year 2023, an

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32:46

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Adam Hochschild...

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2022/12/07

High school history textbooks have as remarkable ability to leave out one of the most crucial moments in 20th century history that took place during World War I and its aftermath. In popular American mythology we leap from the war to the roaring twenties. This willful historical amnesia blots out one of the darkest periods in American history – the severe state repression of political dissidents, the press, labor and Black Americans. This state repression saw the widespread use of political

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17:13

Listen to this Article: "The Good Priest"

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2022/12/03

Narrated by Eunice WongOriginal Text published 11/13/2022Father Michael Doyle - by Mr. FishDuring the two years the cartoonist Joe Sacco and I spent on our book Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, written out of the poorest pockets of America, we invariably encountered heroic men and women who — against overwhelming odds — rose up to fight lonely and often losing battles on behalf of the oppressed. Bill Means, Charlie Abourezk and Leonard Crow Dog in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. Larry Gibson and Judy

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33:22

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast speaks with the...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2022/12/01

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17:42

Listen to this Article: "Reading Proust in War"

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2022/11/30

Narrated by Eunice WongText originally published Nov. 20, 2022Marcel Proust - by Mr. FishDuring the war in Bosnia, I worked my way through the seven volumes of Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.” The novel, populated with 400 characters, was not an escape from the war. The specter of death and the expiring world of La Belle Époque haunts Proust’s work. He wrote it as he was dying; in fact, Proust was making corrections to the manuscript the night before his death in his hermetically sealed,

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31:39

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast features former...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2022/11/23

This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chrishedges.substack.com/subscribe

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29:46

The Chris Hedges Report with Justin E. H. Smith on...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2022/11/16

A century ago, on November 18, 1922, Marcel Proust died. He worked feverishly in his final hours on his masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu, In Search of Lost Time. His 4,000 page novel is one of the most remarkable works of literature of the 20th century. During the war in Bosnia, I plowed my way through its seven volumes, populated with 400 characters, not as an escape from the war, for the specter of death and the twilight of an expiring society haunts Proust’s work, but as a way to reflect

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16:09

Listen to this Article: "Writing on War"

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2022/11/15

Narrated by Eunice WongCover Design by Mr. FishWriting on WarAnd Living in a World from HellBy Chris HedgesAs this century began, I was writing War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, my reflections on two decades as a war correspondent, 15 of them with the New York Times, in Central America, the Middle East, Africa, Bosnia, and Kosovo. I worked in a small, sparsely furnished studio apartment on First Avenue in New York City. The room had a desk, chair, futon, and a couple of bookshelves — not enough

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12:09

Listen to this Article: "Death of an Oracle"

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2022/11/11

Narrated by Eunice WongText Published 10/30/2022The poet Gerald Stern, who died last Friday at the age of 97, spent his life thundering against the mendacity and abuse of power; rebelling against all forms of authority, big and small; defying social conventions; and wielding his finely honed writing on behalf of the demonized, forgotten and oppressed. He was one of our great political poets. Poetry, he believed, had to speak to the grand and minute issues that define our lives. He was outrageous and

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31:23

The Chris Hedges Report with Andrew Bacevich on his...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2022/11/09

In the months of July and September 1940 the French historian and future resistance fighter Marc Bloch, who fought in World War I and World War II, wrote a short book called L'Étrange Défaite or Strange Defeat. It was a searing condemnation of the French high command and political class which was responsible for the humiliating defeat and disintegration of the French army with the Nazi invasion of France. Bloch, who went underground to fight the Nazi occupiers, was executed by the Gestapo in 1944

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14:17

Listen to this Article: "The Politicians Who...

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2022/11/07

Narrated by Eunice WongThe Body Politic - by Mr. FishThe bipartisan project of dismantling our democracy, which took place over the last few decades on behalf of corporations and the rich, has left only the outward shell of democracy. The courts, legislative bodies, the executive branch and the media, including public broadcasting, are captive to corporate power. There is no institution left that can be considered authentically democratic. The corporate coup d’état is over. They won. We lost.The

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The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Medea Benjamin...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2022/11/03

No one, including the most bullish supporters of Ukraine, expect the nation’s war with Russia to end soon. The fighting has been reduced to artillery duels across hundreds of miles of front lines and creeping advances and retreats. Ukraine, like Afghanistan, will bleed for a very long time. This is by design. The militarists who have waged permanent war costing trillions of dollars over the past two decades have invested heavily in controlling the public narrative. The enemy, whether Saddam Hussein

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14:52

Listen to this Article: "Stop Worrying and Love the...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2022/10/28

Narrated by Eunice WongBombs Away - by Mr. FishI have covered enough wars to know that once you open that Pandora’s box, the many evils that pour out are beyond anyone’s control. War accelerates the whirlwind of industrial killing. The longer any war continues, the closer and closer each side comes to self-annihilation. Unless it is stopped, the proxy war between Russia and the U.S. in Ukraine all but guarantees direct confrontation with Russia and, with it, the very real possibility of nuclear

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31:13

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Noam Chomsky on...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2022/10/26

All intellectuals of our generation, at least if they are honest intellectuals, are in some sense children of Noam Chomsky. No single contemporary intellectual has broken more ground or elucidated more of our reality as a society, nation and empire than Noam Chomsky. He is a world-renowned linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, essayist, social critic and political activist. He is the author of more than 150 books on topics that include linguistics, the press, the nature of empire, the

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11:50

Listen to This Article: "They Crush Our Song for a...

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2022/10/19

Narrated by Eunice WongSong - by Mr. FishAugust Wilson wrote 10 plays chronicling Black life in the 20th century. His favorite, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, is set in 1911 in a boarding house in Pittsburgh’s Hill District. The play’s title comes from “Joe Turner’s Blues,” written in 1915 by W. C. Handy. That song refers to a man named Joe Turney, the brother of Peter Turney, who was the governor of Tennessee from 1893 to 1897. Joe Turney transported Black prisoners, chained in a coffle, along the

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29:19

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Noam Chomsky on...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2022/10/18

All intellectuals of our generation, at least if they are honest intellectuals, are in some sense children of Noam Chomsky. No single contemporary intellectual has broken more ground or elucidated more of our reality as a society, nation and empire than Noam Chomsky. He is a world-renowned linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, essayist, social critic and political activist. He is the author of more than 150 books on topics that include linguistics, the press, the nature of empire, the

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