Chris Hedges: The Ruling Elite’s War on Truth
American political leaders display a widening disconnect from reality intended to mask their complicity in the seizure of power by global corporations and billionaires.
On Contact: Hedges and Street on the Strength of Right-Wing Populism
Despite losing, Donald Trump has solidified support from an angry, disposed working class that cuts across racial lines.
Chris Hedges: American Requiem
However inequitable its bias, capitalist democracy at least offered the possibility of incremental and piecemeal reform. Now it is a corpse.
On Contact: Taibbi and Hedges on the Media Landscape
On Chris Hedges' show, On Contact, the host speaks with journalist and author Matt Taibbi about the rapidly disintegrating media landscape and its consequences.
Chris Hedges: The Politics of Cultural Despair
It is despair that is killing us, eating into the social fabric, rupturing social bonds, and manifesting in self-destructive pathologies.
Trump’s Barrett Nomination Another Step Toward Christian Fascism
All fascist and totalitarian movements paper over their squalid belief systems with the veneer of morality.
Chris Hedges: The Cost of Resistance
You can measure the effectiveness of resistance by the fury of the response by ruling elites.
Assange Extradition and the War on Journalism
A timely discussion with Chris Hedges, Daniel Ellsberg, James Goodale and Sue Udry.
Chris Hedges: American Bloodlands
The enraged, polarized segments of the population are rapidly consolidating as the political center disintegrates.
Chris Hedges: How Corporate Tyranny Works
Those, like environmental lawyer Steven Donziger, who fight the corporate control of our society on behalf of the vulnerable find the institutions of power unite to crucify them.
On Contact: The Price of Speaking Out Against Forever War
Chris Hedges discusses "Ghost RIders of the Baghdad: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Myth of the Surge," with author Danny Sjursen, combat veteran and West Point graduate.
Chris Hedges: America’s Death March
Regardless of the outcome, the election will not stop the rise of hypernationalism, crisis cults and other signs of an empire's terminal decline.
On Contact: Graphic Novel Explores Struggle of Dene People of Canada
Chris Hedges talks to comics journalist Joe Sacco about his new book, “Paying the Land.”
Chris Hedges: America’s Social Hell
This is Kabir’s America. It is our America. And our shame.
On Contact: Policing the Police Is a Strategy Doomed to Failure
Prior restrictions and checks on police behavior have failed completely and police power is greater today than ever.