The Chris Hedges Report

2 months ago | chrishedges.substack.com | Catherine Liu |Chris Hedges

This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. 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 of the political aisle. While Republicans and right-wingers address some of these needs head on, they do so by luring people through empty rhetoric and culture war distractions.

2 months ago | chrishedges.substack.com | Chris Hedges |John Vaillant

This article is read by Eunice Wong, a Juilliard-trained actor, featured on Audible's list of Best Women Narrators. Her work is on the annual Best Audiobooks lists of the New York Times, Audible, AudioFile, & Library Journal. www.eunicewong.actorText originally published Jan.

Jan 15, 2025 | chrishedges.substack.com | Chris Hedges

This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. “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 Institute of Technology (MIT) and member of the Coalition for Palestine at MIT. On this episode of The Chris Hedges Report, Solomon and fellow MIT PhD student Prahlad Iyengar detail their battle against the historic institution’s active participation in the genocide in Gaza.

Jan 12, 2025 | chrishedges.substack.com | Chris Hedges |John Vaillant

A Final Toast - by Mr. FishThe apocalyptic wildfires that have erupted in the boreal forest in Siberia, the Russian Far East and Canada, climate scientists repeatedlywarned, would inevitably move southwards as rising global temperatures created hotter, more fire-prone landscapes. Now they have.

Jan 8, 2025 | chrishedges.substack.com | Chris Hedges

A friend Arthur Heitzer commented on your essay "Don't Deify Carter," where you wrote, “He armed the Mujahideen in Afghanistan AFTER the Soviet intervention in 1979, a decision that cost the U.S. $3 billion, saw the deaths of 1.5 million Afghans and led to the creation of the Taliban and Al Qaeda.” He pointed out that "According to both Brzezinski and Robert Gates, head of the CIA at the time, Carter was convinced to secretly arm the Mujahideen PRIOR to Soviet intervention with the...