Hedges: Papering Over the Rot
The staggering concentration of wealth at the top has deformed our governing institutions — new window dressing will not end oligarchy.
Noam Chomsky and Chris Hedges on the State of the American Empire
On this week’s “On Contact,” host Chris Hedges talks to Professor Noam Chomsky, the pioneering linguist, prolific author of numerous seminal political works, about the state of the American Empire.…
Glenn Greenwald on the Biden Administration and Expanding Censorship
On this week’s “On Contact,” Chris Hedges talks to Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald about the incoming Biden administration and what it will mean for a country in crisis, ravaged…
Hedges: Why They Hate Us
Book excerpt explores the rupturing of social bonds, despair and rage that come from being cast aside by the ruling elites and that define the deep animus of the radical…
Chris Hedges : America Has the Tinder to Ignite Social Uprising
The ScheerPost columnist and Pulitzer winning journalist speaks to the host of "The Jimmy Dore Show" about the storming of the Capitol and what it says about American culture.
Chris Hedges & Ramesh Srinivasan Debate Twitter & Facebook Banning Trump
On DemocracyNow!, the two discuss how Twitter, Facebook and other social media companies have removed President Trump from their platforms.
On Contact: Cornel West on America’s Existential Crisis
What we can learn after witnessing enraged supporters of Trump storming the Capitol.
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.