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About Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. He is the host of the Emmy Award-nominated RT America show On Contact.
  • Israel has reduced Gaza to ruins. (Photo: UNRWA)

    Israel is about to empty Gaza

    Originally published: Defend Democracy Press on April 12, 2025 (more by Defend Democracy Press)  |

    The Israeli government, backed by the Trump administration, is laying the groundwork for the full expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza, a move that has the potential to ignite a regional conflagration.

  • Stomp of Approval - by Mr. Fish

    Surrendering to Authoritarianism

    Originally published: Chris Hedges Report on March 24, 2025 (more by Chris Hedges Report)

    Liberal institutions, including universities, traditionally surrender without a fight to the dictates of autocrats. Ours are no exception.

  • Lord of the Flies – by Mr. Fish

    The last chapter of the genocide

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on March 22, 2025 (more by Internationalist 360°)

    Israel has begun the final stage of its genocide. The Palestinians will be forced to choose between death or deportation. There are no other options.

  • Assange Defense 2021

    The slow-motion execution of Assange

    Originally published: Defend Democracy Press on May 21, 2024 (more by Defend Democracy Press)  |

    The ruling by the High Court in London permitting the WikiLeaks publisher to appeal his extradition order leaves him languishing in precarious health in a high-security prison. That is the point.

  • Amr Abdallah.

    The death of Amr

    Originally published: ScheerPost on April 3, 2024 (more by ScheerPost)

    Over 13,000 children have been killed in Gaza. Amr Abdallah was one of them.

  • Gretchen Morgenson

    How private equity conquered America

    Originally published: ScheerPost on March 2, 2024 (more by ScheerPost)

    Blackstone, Apollo, and a handful of other firms are demolishing the US economy for short-term gain, and leaving workers and communities in the wreckage.

  • Kangaroo Courtship - by Mr. Fish

    Julian Assange’s grand inquisitor

    Originally published: Chris Hedges Report on February 24, 2024 (more by Chris Hedges Report)

    The prosecution lawyers in the High Court seeking to ensure Julian’s extradition to the U.S. rely almost exclusively on the judicial opinions of Gordon Kromberg, a highly controversial U.S. attorney.

  • Miko Peled

    The IDF’s war crimes are a perfect reflection of Israeli society

    Originally published: ScheerPost on January 15, 2024 (more by ScheerPost)

    Miko Peled, author and former member of IDF Special Forces, explains how Israel indoctrinates its citizens in anti-Palestinian racism from the cradle to the grave.

  • Palestine solidarity march in London on Oct. 9. (Alisdare Hickson, Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0)

    Pinnacle of horror

    Originally published: Consortium News on November 15, 2023 (more by Consortium News)  |

    Joe Biden will go down in history as an accomplice to genocide. May the ghosts of the thousands of children he has participated in murdering haunt him for the rest of his life.

  • The Executioner’s Song - by Mr. Fish

    The horror, the horror

    Originally published: Chris Hedges Report on November 11, 2023 (more by Chris Hedges Report)

    Israel’s genocidal attacks, which are killing hundreds of Palestinians a day, including some 160 children, have expanded to shelling the remaining hospitals in Gaza.

  • Made in Israel – by Mr. Fish

    Let them eat cement

    Originally published: ScheerPost on October 22, 2023 (more by ScheerPost)

    Israel is not only decimating Gaza with airstrikes but employing the oldest and cruelest weapon of war—starvation. Israel’s message, on the eve of a ground invasion, is clear. Leave Gaza or Die.

  • Out of Sight, Out of Mind – by Mr. Fish

    Palestinians speak the language of violence Israel taught them

    Originally published: ScheerPost on October 8, 2023 (more by ScheerPost)

    The indiscriminate shootings of Israelis by Hamas and other Palestinian resistance organizations, the kidnapping of civilians, the barrage of rockets into Israel, drone attacks on a variety of targets from tanks to automated machine gun nests, are the familiar language of the Israeli occupier.

  • The Crucifixion of Julian Assange – by Mr. Fish

    The crucifixion of Julian Assange

    Originally published: Countercurrents on August 21, 2023 (more by Countercurrents)  |

    The Biblical prophets — Elijah, Amos, Jeremiah, Isaiah — believed that anything worth living for was worth dying for. Their enemy was not only suffering, calumny, poverty, injustice, but a life devoid of meaning.

  • Illustration by Mr. Fish

    America’s theater of the absurd

    Originally published: MintPress News on January 11, 2022 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Our political class does not govern. It entertains.

  • The Bankruptcy of the Liberal Ass — by Mr. Fish

    The return of fascism

    Originally published: ScheerPost on September 26, 2022 (more by ScheerPost)

    As in the 1930s, a bankrupt liberalism, grotesque social inequality and declining living standards are empowering fascist movements in Europe and the U.S.

  • photo | A man inspects the damage at a building in Kiev, Ukraine, Feb. 25, 2022. Emilio Morenatti | AP

    Russia, Ukraine and the chronicle of a war foretold

    Originally published: MintPress News on February 25, 2022 (more by MintPress News)  |

    After the fall of the Soviet Union, there was a near-universal understanding among political leaders that NATO expansion would be a foolish provocation against Russia. How naive we were to think the military-industrial complex would allow such sanity to prevail.

  • Original illustration by Mr. Fish

    America’s new class war

    Originally published: MintPress News on January 18, 2022 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Organized workers, often defying their timid union leadership, are on the march across the United States.

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    1. Introduction The predominance of US economic, political and military power in the world was established at the end of the Second World War.1 With just 6.3 percent of global population, the United States held about 50 percent of the world wealth in 1948. As the only power which had used nuclear weapons on civilian […]

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