Chris Hedges: The Empire is Not Done with Julian Assange
As is clear from the memoir of one of his attorneys, Michael Ratner, the ends have always justified the means for those demanding his global persecution.
‘Out of Mesopotamia’ Is a Great War Novel
Iranian-American author captures how combat has a Peter Pan quality, allowing fighters, as well as war correspondents, to escape from the drudgery of daily life and never grow up.
Chris Hedges: The Great Delusion
The real lesson we should learn from the rise of a demagogue such as Trump and a pandemic that our for-profit health care industry proved unable to contain is that…
Chris Hedges: The Collective Suicide of the Liberal Class
No one can, or should, take them seriously. They stand for nothing. They fight for nothing.
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.