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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 with Dr. Gabor Maté...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2022/10/12

Dr. Gabor Maté in his new book “The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture,” which he wrote with his son Daniel, argues that what is defined as normal in a consumer society is at war with basic human needs. The engine of capitalism, defined by the cult of the self, thrives on the fostering of psychological and physical chronic disorders, including high blood pressure, diabetes, anxiety, depression, addictions and suicide. It rewards the core traits of psychopaths:

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34:10

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Roy Bourgeois,...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2022/10/05

When one makes a commitment to become a Christian, he, or she, if they are serious, are required to lift and bear the cross. This is not a rhetorical feign. If you take this call seriously it means a life in perpetual opposition to power, including the institution of the church itself, and a commitment to always stand with those the theologian James Cone calls the crucified of the earth. It is a hard and lonely road, one that will see you, if you truly stand with the oppressed soon be treated like

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36:10

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

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2022/09/29

Roger Waters, the British rock legend and co-founder of Pink Floyd, is in the midst of his “This Is Not A Drill” tour. In his concerts he weds his musical genius to the most pressing social issues of our day, including permanent war, police violence, the crimes of Israeli occupation against the Palestinians, including the killing of the Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by the Israeli military and the imprisonment of Julian Assange. When Waters performs the song “The Powers that Be” above him

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14:22

Listen to this Article: "The Return of Fascism"

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2022/09/28

Narrated by Eunice WongThe Bankruptcy of the Liberal Ass - by Mr. FishEnergy and food bills are soaring. Under the onslaught of inflation and prolonged wage stagnation, wages are in free fall. Billions of dollars are diverted by Western nations at a time of economic crisis and staggering income inequality to fund a proxy war in Ukraine. The liberal class, terrified by the rise of neo-fascism and demagogues such as Donald Trump, have thrown in their lot with discredited and reviled establishment

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16:54

Listen to This Article: "Strike, Strike, Strike"

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2022/09/21

Narrated by Eunice WongStrike, Strike, Strike - by Mr. FishThe ruling oligarchs are terrified that, for tens of millions of people, the economic dislocation caused by inflation, stagnant wages, austerity, the pandemic and the energy crisis is becoming unendurable. They warn, as Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, have done, about the potential for social unrest, especially as we head towards winter.Social

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32:34

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with John Shipton,...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2022/09/21

A society that prohibits the capacity to speak in truth extinguishes the capacity to live in justice.Tyrannies invert the rule of law. They turn the law into an instrument of injustice. They cloak their crimes in a faux legality. They use the decorum of the courts and trials, to mask their criminality. Those, such as Julian Assange, who expose that criminality to the public are dangerous, for without the pretext of legitimacy the tyranny loses credibility and has nothing left in its arsenal but

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26:19

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with author Nathaniel...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2022/09/14

Image: Pictograph by Red Horse, 1881The playwright Eugene O’Neill said that one of the few events worth celebrating in American history took place on June 25, 1876, when Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho, led by Crazy Horse and Chief Gall, annihilated a unit of the 7th Cavalry under the command of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. There are few battles in American history that have generated as much controversy or been as meticulously dissected and examined. And with good reason. The death of

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13:27

Listen to this Article: "Monarchs Belong in the...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2022/09/12

Narrated by Eunice WongOff With Her Head — by Mr. FishThe fawning adulation of Queen Elizabeth in the United States, which fought a revolution to get rid of the monarchy, and in Great Britain, is in direct proportion to the fear gripping a discredited, incompetent and corrupt global ruling elite.The global oligarchs are not sure the next generation of royal sock puppets - mediocrities that include a pedophile prince and his brother, a cranky and eccentric king who accepted suitcases and bags stuffed

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32:51

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Historian Paul...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2022/09/07

What are we to make of a Democratic Party that has embraces an election strategy that includes demobilizing the majority working-class non-Republican electorate; legitimizing right-wing agendas and narratives; seeks bipartisan cooperation with right-wing politicians such as Liz Cheney; refuses to attack archaic minority rule institutions including the Electoral College and the Senate filibuster; repeatedly backs down from hauling Donald Trump into court and funds far-right Republican candidates in

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11:27

Listen to This Article: "Let's Stop Pretending...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2022/09/06

Narrated by Eunice WongEndgame - by Mr. FishThere is a fatal disconnect between a political system that promises democratic equality and freedom while carrying out socioeconomic injustices that result in grotesque income inequality and political stagnation.Decades in the making, this disconnect has extinguished American democracy. The steady stripping away of economic and political power was ignored by a hyperventilating press that thundered against the barbarians at the gate — Osama bin Laden,

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15:07

Listen to This Article: "Ukraine and the Politics of...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2022/08/31

Narrated by Eunice WongOriginally posted 08/28/2022War Inc. - by Mr. FishNo 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.On August 24, the Biden administration announced yet another massive military aid package to Ukraine worth nearly $3

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The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Patrick Lawrence...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2022/08/30

The Ukraine conflict has plunged the world into a geopolitical crisis. But this is not, as the writer Patrick Lawrence points out, the only crisis. The war in Ukraine has exacerbated the crisis within the western press, inflicting damage that he believes is ultimately irreparable. The press in the U.S. and most of Europe slavishly echoes the opinions of a ruling elite and oversees a public discourse that is often unhinged from the real world. It openly discredits or censors anything that counters

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31:39

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Dr. Gerald Horne...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2022/08/25

Illustration by Joe CiardielloW.E.B Du Bois was the first Black to earn a doctorate from Harvard University, one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or NAACP, and the Niagara Movement, and one of the seminal scholars of American history, author of works such as The Souls of Black Folk, The Philadelphia Negro, his ethnographic survey of Black life that established the field of urban sociology and Black Reconstruction in America, a work that radically

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25:45

Listen to this Article: "When the Just Go to Prison"

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2022/08/22

Narrated by Eunice WongText Originally published 07/31/2022Pig and Whistle -by Mr. FishMARION, Illinois — Daniel Hale, dressed in a khaki uniform, his hair cut short and sporting a long, neatly groomed brown beard, is seated behind a plexiglass screen, speaking into a telephone receiver at the federal prison in Marion, Illinois. I hold a receiver on the other side of the plexiglass and listen as he describes his journey from working for the National Security Agency and the Joint Special Operations

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The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Curtis Wilkie...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2022/08/17

On Jan. 9, 1966, the White Knights of the Mississippi Ku Klux Klan murdered the Black civil rights activist Vernon Dahmer in Hattiesburg, Mississippi after fire-bombing and shooting into his house. It was one of thousands of hate crimes conducted in the south by whites who waged a reign of terror against Blacks to frighten them from abandoning calls for desegregation and voting rights. These attacks including threats, beatings, shootings and arson attacks on Black churches, businesses, and homes

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13:41

Listen to This Article: "We Are Not the First...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2022/08/16

Narrated by Eunice WongText Originally published 08/14/2022Doomsday Selfie - by Mr. FishCAHOKIA MOUNDS, Illinois: I am standing atop a 100-foot-high temple mound, the largest known earthwork in the Americas built by prehistoric peoples. The temperatures, in the high 80s, along with the oppressive humidity, have emptied the park of all but a handful of visitors. My shirt is matted with sweat.I look out from the structure—-known as Monks Mound — at the flatlands below, with smaller mounds dotting the

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33:23

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast: John Kiriakou, who...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2022/08/09

The CIA, from its inception, carried out assassinations, coups, torture, and illegal spying and abuse, including of US citizens, many of which were exposed in 1975 by the Church Committee in the Senate and the Pike Committee in the House. Congress attempted to enact laws to curb the widespread criminal activity by the CIA. Senate and House intelligence oversight committees were created and after the Iran-Contra scandal a statutory Inspector General at the CIA was appointed. But this oversight has

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32:07

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast: Combat Veteran and...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2022/08/03

Andrew Bacevich, a retired Army Colonel who fought in Vietnam, and Danny Sjursen, a retired Army Major who did tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, have just published Paths of Dissent: Soldiers Speak Out Against America’s Misguided Wars. Bacevich and Sjursen, West Point graduates, like many writers in the book, come out of the military culture. They began as true believers, embracing the myths of American goodness and virtue and the military honor code pounded into them as young cadets at the military

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The Chris Hedges Report Podcast: Nathaniel Philbrick...

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2022/07/27

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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16:27

Listen to this Article: "The Dawn of the Apocalypse"

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast ·

2022/07/27

Narrated by Eunice WongThe past week has seen record-breaking heat waves across Europe. Wildfires have ripped through Spain, Portugal and France. London’s fire brigade experienced its busiest day since World War II. The U.K. saw its hottest day on record of 104.54 Fahrenheit. In China, more than a dozen cities issued the “highest possible heat warning” this weekend with over 900 million people in China enduring a scorching heat wave along with severe flooding and landslides across large swathes of

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