Shooting unarmed people is not bravery. It is not courage. It is not even war. It is a crime. It is murder. You are a murderer.
Author: Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, Presbyterian minister, author, and television host. His books include America: The Farewell Tour; American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America; War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction; Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009); Death of the Liberal Class (2010); Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (2012), written with cartoonist Joe Sacco, which was a New York Times best-seller; and Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt (2015). He previously worked overseas for the Dallas Morning News, the Christian Science Monitor, and NPR, and hosted the Emmy-nominated RT America show On Contact.
You Saved Julian Assange
Let us take a lesson from the courageous men and women who took to the streets for 14 years to save Julian. They showed us how it is done.
Ali Abunimah on Oct. 7 and Israel’s Propaganda War
Months later, the most outrageous of these claims of Hamas atrocities have been debunked, but the damage has already been done.
Julian Assange’s Final Appeal
If Julian Assange is extradited it is the death of investigations into the inner workings of power by the press.
Israel Reopens the Gaza Slaughterhouse
There is a sadistic pleasure voiced by many Israelis over the genocide and a groundswell of calls for the murder or expulsion of Palestinians
Israel is Shutting Down its Human Laboratory in Gaza
Israel tests drones, surveillance technology, smart fences, experimental bombs and AI-controlled guns on Gaza, often with lethal results.
Letter to the Children of Gaza
You see the limp bodies when they are dug out. I am a reporter. It is my job to see this. You are a child. You should never see this.
Exterminate the Brutes
Our past, including our recent past in the Middle East, is built on the idea of subduing or wiping out the “inferior” races of the earth.
Israel’s Final Solution for the Palestinians
There has always been a strain of Jewish fascism within the Zionist project. Now it has taken control of the Israeli state.
Israel’s Long War on Gaza
Norman Finkelstein joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss Israel’s 17 year blockade of Gaza and its crucial significance to recent events.
Palestinians Speak the Language of Violence Israel Taught Them
Israel has spoken the blood-soaked language of violence since Zionist militias seized more than 78 percent of historic Palestine.
Craig Murray on the ‘Slow Motion Execution’ of Julian Assange
Former British Ambassador and whistleblower Craig Murray describes the torturous ordeal Julian Assange has been subjected to over more than a decade.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – The Israel Lobby’s Useful Idiot
Kennedy, bereft of a moral compass and a belief system rooted in verifiable fact, has not only failed the Palestinians, he has failed us.
The Forgotten Victims of America’s Class War
The author’s hometown, Mechanic Falls, Maine, a former mill town of 3,107 people, struggles to survive, like rural towns all across America.
There Are Very Few Good Films About War. “20 Days in Mariupol” is an Exception
Most war films leave those who return from war and attempt to speak the awful truth alienated and ignored.
Cornel West and the Campaign to End Political Apartheid
The two ruling parties have destroyed our democracy. Voting for one or the other will not bring it back.
“Journalists Abandoned Julian Assange and Slit Their Own Throats”
The failure by journalists to mount a campaign to free Julian Assange is one more catastrophic and self-defeating blunder by the news media.
They Lied About Afghanistan. They Lied About Iraq. And They Are Lying About Ukraine.
The U.S. public has been conned, once again, into pouring billions into another endless war. [su_dropcap...
Requiem for Our Species
The effects of the climate crisis intrude with increasing regularity into our lives and yet we do not act. We are as paralyzed...
Dr. Cornel West Announces He Is Running for President
A voice for serious social and political change in an electoral system saturated with corporate money and rigged to crush third parties.
The Lords of Chaos
The politicians and shills in the media who orchestrated 20 years of military debacles in the Middle East must be held accountable.
Ukraine’s Death by Proxy
Proxy wars are a cynical way for a state to project power and weaken adversaries. They devour the countries they purport to defend.
There Are No Permanent Allies, Only Permanent Power
The author argues that we must build left-right coalitions on issues such as militarism, health care, a living wage and union organizing
Pimps of War: Neocons Who Fueled 20 Years of Mideast Carnage Are Back for More
The warmongering buffoons who drove the U.S. to disaster in Iraq and Afghanistan are now eager for war with Russia.
Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
The longer the proxy war in Ukraine continues, the closer we come to a direct confrontation with Russia, which could lead to nuclear war.
Roy Bourgeois: A Life in Opposition to Power
An interview with the priest who took his vows to stand with the crucified so seriously the Catholic Church expelled him.
The Puppets and the Puppet Masters
The judicial proceedings against Assange give a faux legality to the state persecution of the most courageous journalist of our generation.
Monarchs Belong in the Dustbin of History
No institution helps obscure the crimes of empire and buttress class rule and white supremacy as effectively as the British monarchy.
Stop Pretending US Is a Functioning Democracy
There are no institutions, including the press, an electoral system, the presidency, the or courts, that can be defined as democratic.
The Greatest Evil Is War
Preemptive war, whether in Iraq or Ukraine, is a war crime. It does not matter if the war is launched on the basis of lies and fabrications.
Teaching, Learning While Creating Theater in the U.S. Prisons
Chris Hedges discusses his book “Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison.” “God ‘Caged’ in Jersey,” he declares.
The US Empire’s Slow But Determined Execution of Julian Assange
The journalist and Wikileaks founder committed the greatest sin. He exposed the imperial project as a criminal enterprise.
The Evil We Do Is the Evil We Get
The explosions and collapse of the towers were, to me, intimately familiar. The hijackers spoke to America in the idiom we taught them.