Robert F. Kennedy: A Golden Age Cut Short
54 years ago today, June 6, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated and America turned into a darker, meaner place in the five decades that have followed.
Hedges: America’s Gun Fetish
There will be no gun control, not only because of the gun lobby and a corrupt political class, but because for many white Americans the idea of the gun is…
The Chris Hedges Report: How to Defeat the Billionaire Class
Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant describes how her party has mobilized ordinary people to win victories in the war being waged on the working class and the poor—despite opposition from…
[rewind] Ron Kovic and Maj. Danny Sjursen: The Great Con of American Patriotism
The two veterans trace the United States' violent trajectory since the Vietnam War.
Hedges: How to Defeat the Billionaire Class
There are ways to defeat the billionaire class and many of these tactics have been pioneered or refined by Socialist City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant and the Socialist Alternative party in…
Progressive Summer Lee Wins Pennsylvania Primary Despite AIPAC Opposition
Declaring victory with a slim margin in the PA primary, Lee said, "The people took on the corporations and the people won."
Ralph Nader: The New Corporate Dictators
Today’s corporate dictators are like no others, beyond with unparalleled wealth towering over that held by Rockefeller and Carnegie (adjusted for inflation).
Sleepy Joe’s $33 Billion Abomination
Trump Derangement Syndrome still lives on in America's political debate as virulent as ever.
John Kiriakou: Biden’s Orwellian ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ and Other Assaults on Free Press
From the announcement of the Biden Administration's new “Disinformation Governance Board" to NewsGuard's "Disinformation Fingerprints" project, free speech is under attack in the U.S.
Ralph Nader: Dishonoring Earth Day 2022 with An Oil, Gas, Coal & Nuclear Heyday
Washington is silent on using taxes on fossil-fuel price profiteering for more wind, solar and the little mentioned energy conservation retrofits of buildings throughout the U.S.
Putin is Being Written Off as an Ineffectual Monster, but a Russian Defeat is Far From Guaranteed
Putin’s political personality remains something of a mystery to this day, with many pundits excoriating him as a mad monster and war criminal.
Hedges: Let Us Now Praise Amazon Unionists
The only way to halt the global assault on the human rights of workers is to unionize.
Lee Camp: This War is Actually About Central Banking
In order to maintain their grip on the world, the U.S. ruling elite are willing to set fire to the economies of just about anyone.
Our Economic System is Making Us Mentally Ill
The neoliberal economy was supposed to bring about a utopian world order. Instead, it gave us crippling psychological stress and social breakdown. How can we ever recover?
Hedges: On Being Disappeared
The entire archive of six years of my show On Contact has been removed by YouTube.