Articles by Chris Hedge

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Lee Lakeman and the Whoredom of the Left
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024

16 Nov 2024 – The radical feminist Lee Lakeman has spent her life calling out patriarchy for its oppression, the left for its bankruptcy, neoliberalism for its cruelty and organizing women to fight back.

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The Politics of Cultural Despair
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Nov 2024

6 Nov 2024 – It is despair that is killing us. It fosters what Roger Lancaster calls “poisoned solidarity,” the intoxication forged from the negative energies of fear, envy, hatred and a lust for violence.

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Israel’s War on Journalism
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Nov 2024

25 Oct 2024 – Israel’s genocide includes the most draconian censorship and intentional murder of journalists since the creation of the modern war correspondent. The consequences will be catastrophic.

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Genocidal Scorecard
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Nov 2024

30 Oct 2024 – The Nakba that in 1948 saw Zionist militias drive 750,000 Palestinians from their homes, carry out more than 70 massacres and seize 78 percent of Palestine, has returned on steroids. It is the final chapter in “a intentional, systematic, State-organized forced displacement and replacement of the Palestinians.”

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Dismantling the US Empire (w/ Cornel West)
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Oct 2024

23 Oct 2024 – Prof. Cornel West, renowned political activist, philosopher, public intellectual, author and now independent US presidential candidate, joins host Chris Hedges to highlight the critical issues that define his fight for justice and equality.

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Extermination Works. At First.
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Oct 2024

14 Oct 2024 – Israel will continue its mass killing to achieve its immediate goals, but in the long run the blowback from its genocide will doom the Zionist state.

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Picking Up the Kids: by Mr. Fish and Roger Waters
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Oct 2024

9 Oct 2024 – This cartoon was inspired by an idea from Roger Waters, co-founder of Pink Floyd, and drawn by Mr. Fish. 10 Downing Street, London:

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Burn the Planet and Lock Up the Dissidents
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Oct 2024

6 Oct 2024 – The fossil fuel industry, and the politician class they own, have no intention of halting the ecocide. As the climate crisis worsens, so do the laws and security measures to keep us in bondage.

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The Looming Catastrophe in the Middle East
The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Sep 2024

28 Sep 2024 – The Chris Hedges Report with Gideon Levy

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Israeli Aggressions: ‘I’m Terrified for What Comes Next’–Chris Hedges to George Galloway
George Galloway interviews Chris Hedges | MOATS - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Sep 2024

18 Sep 2024 – We’ve all seen the provocations by Israel, says Chris Hedges. The consequences of this latest one on people’s pagers and electronic devices could be catastrophic. Middle East war looms.

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Greenwald and Hedges on Media, Terror, Gaza, and More
Glenn Greenwald interviews Chris Hedges | Systems Update - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Sep 2024

22 Sep 2024 – The Security State Will Destroy You – Israel’s Terrifying Expanding War

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The War on Gaza
Joe Sacco | The Chris Hedges Report - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Sep 2024

24 Aug 2024 – “Fantagraphics has released a series of graphic commentaries and reflections by Joe Sacco.

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Genocide on Gaza
Joe Sacco | The Chris Hedges Report - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Aug 2024

22 Aug 2024 – Fantagraphics has released a series of graphic commentaries and reflections by Joe Sacco.

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Thou Shalt Not Commit Genocide
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

16 Aug 2023 – Opposing genocide is a moral not a political choice.

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My Thoughts on Biden Dropping Out
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

22 Jul 2024 – Barely able to stumble his way through the words on a TelePrompter and not always cognizant of what is happening around him, Joe Biden’s billionaire supporters pulled the plug. He was their creature. The Democrats gave us Trump in 2020. They look set to give us Trump again. God help us.

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My Thoughts on the Attempted Trump Assassination
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

14 Jul 2024 – The assassination of Trump would not remove the yearning of tens of millions of people, many conditioned by the Christian right, for a cult leader. Most of the leaders of the Christian right have built cult followings of their own. These Christian fascists…

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The Old Evil
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

12 Jul 2024 – I returned to occupied Palestine after two decades and experienced once more the visceral evil of Israel’s occupation. It was like this for Blacks in the segregated south and Indigenous Americans. It was like this for Algerians under the French. It was like this in India, Ireland and Kenya under the British.

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The Impending Collapse of the U.S. Empire
Chris Hedges | Declassified UK – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2024

18 Jun 2024 – The world as we know it is run by an exclusive class of U.S. racketeers who operate with virtually unlimited weapons and money, Matt Kennard’s book reveals.

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Nero’s Guests
Chris Hedges – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jun 2024

16 Jun 2024 – I gave this talk in Blackburn, England during a campaign event for my friend Craig Murray who is running for parliament. Like George Galloway, who was recently elected to parliament, Craig’s central campaign issue is the genocide in Gaza.

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The Slow-Motion Execution of Julian Assange Continues
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

21 May 2024 – The ruling by the High Court in London permitting Julian Assange to appeal his extradition order leaves him languishing in precarious health in a high-security prison. That is the point.

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Israel’s Willing Executioners
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

13 May 2024 – Hundreds of thousands of people are being forced to flee, once again, after more than half of Gaza’s population [2M] took sanctuary in the border town of Rafah. This is part of Israel’s sadistic playbook.

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The Nation’s Conscience
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 May 2024

8 May 2024 – The courageous stance of students across the US in defiance of genocide is accompanied by a near total blackout of their voices. Their words are the ones we most need to hear. The genocide has awakened a sleeping giant. Let us pray the giant prevails.

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Interview: The Walls Are Closing in on the Ability to Dissent, Says Cancelled Chris Hedges
George Galloway, MP interviews Chris Hedges | MOATS – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 May 2024

5 May 2024 – “It’s clear nothing is going to impede the Israeli assault on Gaza. They’ve sold out their own hostages.”

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Revolt in the US Universities
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Apr 2024

25 Apr 2024 – University students across the country, facing mass arrests, suspensions, evictions and expulsions are our last, best hope to halt the genocide in Gaza.

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Sermon for Gaza
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Apr 2024

This is a sermon I gave Sunday April 28 at a service held at the encampment for Gaza at Princeton University. The service was organized by students from Princeton Theological Seminary.

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The Death of Amr
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Apr 2024

3 Apr 2024 – Over 13,000 children have been killed in Gaza. Amr Abdallah was one of them.

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A Genocide Foretold
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Apr 2024

30 Mar 2024 – The genocide in Gaza is the final stage of a process begun by Israel decades ago. Anyone who did not see this coming blinded themselves to the character and ultimate goals of the apartheid state.

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The Crucifixion of Julian Assange
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Apr 2024

27 Mar 2024 – British courts for five years have dragged out Julian Assange’s show trial. He continues to be denied due process as his physical and mental health deteriorates. This is the point.

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Israel’s Trojan Horse
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

18 Mar 2024 – The “temporary pier” being built on the Mediterranean coast of Gaza is not there to alleviate the famine, but to herd Palestinians onto ships and into permanent exile.

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PEN America Self-Destructs
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

23 Mar 2024 – PEN America, once an important defender of rights for writers, editors and artists, has, under the direction of former State Department official Suzanne Nossel, abandoned its mission, destroyed its credibility and provoked a revolt among its members. 

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Dear Child
Chris Hedges | Dear Child - TRANSCEND Media Servicr, 18 Mar 2024

14 Mar 2024 – A look through the eyes of a child in Gaza. ‘Dear Child I’ takes the viewer on an uncompromising journey into the life of a child living under Israeli bombardment. The film intentionally challenges viewers to look at their own actions or lack thereof.

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Joe Biden’s Parting Gift to USA Will be Christian Fascism
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

17 Mar 2024 – The Democratic Party had one last chance to implement the kind of New Deal Reforms that could save us from another Trump presidency and Christian fascism. It failed.

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Aaron Bushnell’s Divine Violence
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

29 Feb 2024 – Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation was ultimately a religious act, one that radically delineates good and evil and calls us to resist. Divine violence terrifies a corrupt and discredited ruling class. It exposes their depravity. It illustrates that not everyone is paralyzed by fear. It is a siren call to battle radical evil. That is what Bushnell intended. His sacrifice speaks to our better selves.

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Let Them Eat Dirt
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

8 Feb 2024 – The final stage of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, an orchestrated mass starvation, has begun. The international community does not intend to stop it.

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The Silence of the Damned
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

31 Jan 2024 – Our leading humanitarian and civic institutions, including major medical institutions, refuse to denounce Israel’s genocide in Gaza. This exposes their hypocrisy and complicity.

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It May Be Genocide, but It Won’t Be Stopped
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

26 Jan 2024 – The ruling by the International Court of Justice was a legal victory for South Africa and the Palestinians, but it will not halt the slaughter.

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The Four Horsemen of Gaza’s Apocalypse
The Chris Hedges Report - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

21 Jan 2024 – Joe Biden relies on advisors who view the world through the prism of the West’s civilizing mission to the “lesser breeds” of the earth to formulate his policies towards Israel and the Middle East.

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The Myth of Israel’s ‘Democracy’
Ilan Pappé | The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jan 2024

5 Jan 2024 – Israeli historian Ilan Pappé on Israel’s end game in Gaza and the future of the Israeli apartheid state.

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Israel’s Genocide Betrays the Holocaust
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

29 Dec 2023 – Israel’s lebensraum master plan for Gaza, borrowed from the Nazi’s depopulation of Jewish ghettos, is clear. Destroy infrastructure, medical facilities, sanitation, access to clean water. Block shipments of food and fuel. Unleash indiscriminate violence to kill and wound hundreds a day. Let starvation and epidemics turn Gaza into a mortuary.

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The Cost of Bearing Witness
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

23 Dec 2023 – There are scores of Palestinian writers and photographers, many of whom have been killed, who are determined to make us see the horror of this genocide. They will vanquish the lies of the killers.

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The Weapons Israel Tests on Palestinians Will Be Used Against All of Us
The Chris Hedges Report | Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

11 Dec 2023 – As Antony Loewenstein explains, Palestine has been a testing ground for repressive technologies exported around the world, from spy software to killer drones.

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The Death of Israel
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

17 Dec 2023 – Israel will appear triumphant after its genocidal campaign. Backed by the USA, its murderous rampages and genocidal violence will exterminate or ethnically cleanse Palestinians. Its dream of a state exclusively for Jews will be realized. But it will have signed its own death sentence… Israel is a pariah state.

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The Evil Israel Does Is the Evil Israel Gets
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Dec 2023

8 Dec 2023 – Israel’s settler colonial project perpetuates the cycle of violence against the indigenous inhabitants of historic Palestine. Palestinians have been forced to speak back in the language Israel speaks. Make no mistake: Karma is a bitch; what goes around comes around.

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Israel Reopens the Gaza Slaughterhouse
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

1 Dec 2023 – The skies over Gaza are filled — after a seven-day truce — with projectiles of death. The Gazan concentration camp is a cacophony of explosions and cries for help beneath collapsed buildings. Warplanes. Attack helicopters. Drones. Artillery shells. Tank shells. Mortars. Bombs. Missiles.

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Israel’s War on Hospitals
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

20 Nov 2023 – Israel is carrying out a campaign to make Gaza uninhabitable. This campaign includes destroying all of Gaza’s hospitals. The message Israel is sending is clear – Nowhere is safe. If you stay you die.

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Israel Is Shutting Down Its Human Laboratory in Gaza
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

17 Nov 2023 – Israel uses Palestinians imprisoned in Gaza as human guinea pigs for its weapons and technology industries.

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The Horror, The Horror
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Nov 2023

11 Nov 2023 – Israel’s genocidal attacks, killing hundreds of Palestinians a day, including some 160 children, have expanded to shelling the remaining hospitals in Gaza. Israel’s orgy of death will not crush Hamas. Hamas is an idea. This idea is fed on the blood of martyrs. Israel is giving Hamas an abundant supply.

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Letter to the Children of Gaza
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Nov 2023

8 Nov 2023 – Dear child. We have failed you. This is the awful guilt we carry. We tried. But we did not try hard enough. We will write and film. This is what we do. It is not much. But it is something. We will tell your story again. Maybe it will be enough to earn the right to ask for your forgiveness.

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Israel’s Final Solution for the Palestinians
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Nov 2023

3 Nov 2023 – When Jewish extremists, fanatic Zionists, religious zealots, ultranationalists and crypto-fascists in the apartheid state of Israel say they want to wipe Gaza off the face of the earth, believe them.

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Exterminate All the Brutes
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Oct 2023

28 Oct 2023 – All settler colonial projects, including Israel, reach a point when they embrace wholesale slaughter and genocide to eradicate a native population that refuses to capitulate.

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Israel’s Culture of Deceit
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Oct 2023

18 Oct 2023 – Israel, which always seeks to blame Palestinians for the atrocities it carries out, is the least trustworthy source about the bombing of the hospital in Gaza.

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Let Them Eat Cement
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Oct 2023

22 Oct 2023 – Israel is not only decimating Gaza with airstrikes but employing the oldest and cruelest weapon of war — starvation. The U.S. and its Western allies are as morally bankrupt and as complicit in genocide as those who witnessed the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews and did nothing.

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This Way for the Genocide, Ladies and Gentlemen
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Oct 2023

14 Oct 2023 – Washington and European governments are cheerleading Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza. The failure to intervene to halt the carnage threatens to ignite violence throughout the region.

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Palestinians Speak the Language of Violence Israel Taught Them
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Oct 2023

8 Oct 2023 – 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.

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Fascism Comes to the USA
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

8 Oct 2023 – The failure of the liberal class to halt the corporate assault on working people has spawned an ascendant Christian fascism that is poised to seize power and radically reshape the United States of America.

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Why Our Popular Mass Movements Fail
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

1 Oct 2023 – The wave of global popular protests that erupted in 2010 and lasted a decade were extinguished. This means new tactics and new strategies.

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Humanitarian Imperialism Created the Libyan Nightmare
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Sep 2023

16 Sep 2023 – NATO’s military intervention in Libya in 2011, which overthrew the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, resulted in a chaotic and murderous failed state. Libyans pay a horrific price for this catastrophe.

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The Pedagogy of Power
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Sep 2023

10 Sep 2023 – The ruling classes always work to keep the powerless from understanding how power functions. This assault has been aided by a cultural left determined to banish “dead white male” philosophers.

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Our Collective Trauma Is the Road to Tyranny
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Sep 2023

3 Sep 2023 – US society spawns trauma and this trauma expresses itself in a variety of self-destructive pathologies, including the erosion of democracy and rise of neo-fascism.

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The Crucifixion of Julian Assange
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

This is a sermon I gave on Sunday 20 Aug in Oslo, Norway at Kulturkirken Jakob (St. James Church of Culture). Actor and film director Liv Ullmann read the scripture passages.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – The Israel Lobby’s Useful Idiot
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Aug 2023

12 Aug 2023 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. regurgitates every lie, racist trope, distortion of history, and demeaning comment about the backwardness of the Palestinians peddled by Israel’s most retrograde and far-right elements. This alone discredits him as a progressive candidate. It calls into question his judgment and sincerity.

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There Are Very Few Good Films about War—“20 Days in Mariupol” Is an Exception
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jul 2023

Feature war films and documentaries, from The Sands of Iwo Jima to Saving Private Ryan, are war pornography that romanticize those wielding the instruments of death, justify the unjustifiable, pay homage to the war machine, entice naïve youngsters into becoming cannon fodder, and distort the public’s perception of war. Those who return and attempt to speak the truth are alienated and ignored.

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Journalists Abandoned Julian Assange and Slit Their Own Throats
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jul 2023

9 Jul 2023 – The failure by journalists to mount a campaign to free Julian Assange, or expose the vicious smear campaign against him, is one more catastrophic and self-defeating blunder by the news media.

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They Lied about Afghanistan. They Lied about Iraq. And They Are Lying about Ukraine.
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jul 2023

2 Jul 2023 – The U.S. public has been conned, once again, into pouring billions into another endless war. The war industry, not Putin, is our most dangerous enemy.

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The Imminent Extradition of Julian Assange and the Death of Journalism
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jun 2023

17 Jun 2023 – Julian Assange’s legal options have nearly run out. He could be extradited to the U.S. this week. Should he be convicted in the U.S., any reporting on the inner workings of power will become a crime. Julian may be imprisoned for journalism, but he won’t be the only one.

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Dr. Cornel West Announces He Is Running for U.S. President
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jun 2023

5 Jun 2023 – Dr. Cornel West, in his first interview since deciding to enter the U.S. presidential race, explains why he is a candidate.

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Requiem for Our Species
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jun 2023

11 Jun 2023 – The effects of the climate crisis intrude with increasing regularity into our lives and yet we do not act. We are as paralyzed as past civilizations were when facing catastrophic destruction.

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The Democratic Party’s Crucifixion of Matt Taibbi
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

28 May 2023 – Extensive government blacklists, revealed by the Twitter Files, are used to censor left-wing and right-wing critics. This censorship apparatus has been turned on the reporter who exposed them.

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Calling for the Immediate Release of Julian Assange on World Press Freedom Day
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 May 2023

4 May 2023 – Talk I Gave in New York City at a Rally for Julian Assange – “This legal lynching marks the official beginning of corporate totalitarianism.”

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The Enemy from Within
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 May 2023

1 May 2023 – The US war industry, a state within a state, disembowels the nation, stumbles from one military fiasco to the next, strips us of civil liberties and pushes us towards suicidal wars with Russia and China.

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The Lords of Chaos
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Mar 2023

19 Mar 2023 – The politicians and shills in the media who orchestrated 20 years of military debacles in the Middle East, and who seek a world dominated by U.S. power, must be held accountable for their crimes.

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Lynching the Deplorables
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Mar 2023

5 Mar 2023 – The criminal investigation undertaken by the federal government against hundreds of participants in the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol is polarizing the country and shredding civil liberties.

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Ukraine’s Death by Proxy
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Mar 2023

11 Mar 2023 – Proxy wars devour the countries they purport to defend. There will come a time when the Ukrainians will become expendable to the U.S. They will disappear, as many others before them, from U.S. national discourse and popular consciousness.

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The Trump-Russia Saga and the Death Spiral of US Journalism
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Feb 2023

25 Feb 2023 – The media caters to a particular demographic, telling that demographic what it already believes — even when it is unverified or false. This pandering defines the coverage of the Trump-Russia saga.

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Rage against the War Machine Rally
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Feb 2023

This is the text of a talk I gave in Washington, D.C. on Sunday 19 Feb at the Rage Against The War Machine rally.

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There Are No Permanent Allies, Only Permanent Power
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Feb 2023

10 Feb 2023 – If we do not build left-right coalitions on issues such as militarism, health care, a living wage and union organizing, we will be impotent in the face of corporate power and the war machine.

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Woke Imperialism
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Feb 2023

5 Feb 2023 – Woke culture, devoid of class consciousness and a commitment to stand with the oppressed, is another tool in the arsenal of the imperial state.

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Ukraine: The War That Went Wrong
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Jan 2023

29 Jan 2023 – NATO support for the war in Ukraine, designed to degrade the Russian military and drive Vladimir Putin from power, is not going according to plan. The new sophisticated military hardware won’t help.

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The Plague of Social Isolation
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Jan 2023

21 Jan 2023 – The rupture of social bonds and loss of community, caused by the decades-long assault on the poor and working class and the ravages of the pandemic, have resulted in a dangerous social isolation.

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The Democrats Are Now the War Party
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jan 2023

25 Dec 2022 – The Democratic Party has become the party of permanent war, fueling massive military spending which is hollowing out the country from the inside and flirting with nuclear war.

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My War Never Ends
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Oct 2022

Writing on War and Living in a World from Hell

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Stop Worrying and Start Loving the Bomb
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Oct 2022

23 Oct 2022 – The longer the proxy war in Ukraine continues, the closer we come to a direct confrontation with Russia. Once that happens, the Dr. Strangeloves running the show will reach for the nukes.

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The Greatest Evil Is War
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Oct 2022

29 Sep 2022 – I flew to Kansas City to see Tomas Young. Tomas was paralyzed in Iraq in 2004. He was receiving hospice care at his home. I knew him by reputation and the movie documentary Body of War. He was one of the first veterans to publicly oppose the war in Iraq.

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The Puppets and the Puppet Masters
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Oct 2022

9 Oct 2022 – Merrick Garland and those who work in the Department of Justice are the puppets, not the puppet masters. They are the façade, the fiction, that the longstanding persecution of Julian Assange has something to do with justice. Like the High Court in London, they carry out an elaborate judicial pantomime.

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The Return of Fascism
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Sep 2022

24 Sep 2022 – As in the 1930s, a bankrupt liberalism, grotesque social inequality and declining living standards are empowering fascist movements in Europe and the U.S.

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Ukraine and the Crisis of Media Censorship
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Sep 2022

2 Sep 2022 – Throughout the Ukraine war, Western news outlets have mindlessly parroted the opinions of a ruling elite and overseen a public discourse that is often unhinged from the real world.

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Monarchs Belong in the Dustbin of History
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Sep 2022

11 Sep 2022 – No institution helps obscure the crimes of empire and buttress class rule and white supremacy as effectively as the British monarchy.

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Let’s Stop Pretending America Is a Functioning Democracy
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Sep 2022

4 Sep 2022 – The U.S. posits itself as a champion of opportunity, freedom, human rights and civil liberties, even as half the country struggles at subsistence level, militarized police gun down and imprison the poor with impunity, and the primary business of the state is war. This collective self-delusion masks who we have become. Under inverted totalitarianism, there is no attempt, unlike fascism and state socialism, to address the needs of the poor.

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Ukraine and the Politics of Permanent War
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Aug 2022

28 Aug 2022 – Permanent War Requires Permanent Censorship

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We Are Not the First Civilization to Collapse, but We Will Probably Be the Last
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Aug 2022

14 Aug 2022 – The archeological remains of past civilizations, including those of the prehistoric Cahokia temple mound complex in Illinois, are sobering reminders of our fate.

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When the Just Go to Prison
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Aug 2022

31 Jul 2022 – When those who expose the crimes of the state are criminalized and sent to prison, tyranny is inevitable. Daniel Hale’s imprisonment is a microcosm of the vast gulag being constructed for all of us.

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War with Iran
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jul 2022

22 Jul 2022 – The United States, Saudi Arabia and Israel, responsible for military fiascos, hundreds of thousands of deaths and war crimes in the Middle East, are now plotting to attack Iran.

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The Dawn of the Apocalypse
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jul 2022

24 Jul 2022 – We were warned for decades about the death march we are on because of global warming. And yet, the global ruling class continues to frog-march us towards extinction.

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War with Iran
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Jul 2022

15 Jul 2022 – The United States, Saudi Arabia and Israel, responsible for military fiascos, hundreds of thousands of deaths and innumerable war crimes in the Middle East, are now plotting to attack Iran.

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NATO: The Most Dangerous Military Alliance on the Planet
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Jul 2022

10 Jul 2022 – The massive expansion of NATO, not only in Eastern and Central Europe but the Middle East, Latin America, Africa and Asia, presages endless war and a potential nuclear holocaust.

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Fascists in Our Midst
Chris Hedges | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jun 2022

26 Jun 2022 – Supreme Court rulings, including the overturning of Roe v. Wade, herald the ascendancy of Christian fascism in the United States.

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The Triumph of Death
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2022

The global ruling class is cementing into place a world where they govern without accountability, we are reduced to serfdom, the climate crisis accelerates, and mass death is normalized.

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How to Defeat the Billionaire Class
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jun 2022

30 May 2022 – 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 Seattle.

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No Way Out but War
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 May 2022

Permanent war has cannibalized the country. It has created a social, political, and economic morass. Each new military debacle is another nail in the coffin of Pax Americana.

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Jesus, Endless War, and the Rise of U.S. Fascism
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 May 2022

9 May 2022 – The Democratic Party is hoping to thwart an election by running against the Supreme Court decision on abortion. The Christian fascists believe military power, and its “manly” virtues, are blessed by God. No military budget is too big. No war waged by the US is evil. Violence is the primary form of communication. Vengeance is the highest good.

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