Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years forThe New York Times,where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas forThe Dallas Morning News,The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. He is the host of showThe Chris Hedges Report.
Recent articles by Chris Hedges
17 April 2025
Israel is about to empty Gaza
As Israel prepares to ethnically cleanse the whole of Gaza, it is also setting the stage for a regional crisis.
26 March 2025
The last chapter of the genocide
Israel has begun the final stage of its genocide. The Palestinians will be forced to choose between death or deportation. There are no other options.
18 January 2025
The ceasefire charade
Israel, going back decades, has played a duplicitous game. It signs a deal with the Palestinians that is to be implemented in phases. The first phase gives Israel what it wants — in this case the release of the Israeli hostages in Gaza — but Israel habitually fails to implement subsequent phases that would lead to a just and equitable peace. It eventually provokes the Palestinians with indiscriminate armed assaults to retaliate, defines a Palestinian response as a provocation and abrogates the ceasefire deal to reignite the slaughter.
16 January 2025
Entering the ‘Pyrocene’: Devastation in California is the harbinger of the apocalypse
Wildfires in California replicate the massive fire storms in the boreal forest in Canada and Siberia, the lungs of the earth. Our addiction to fossil fuel has ignited an age of fire.
2 January 2025
A rogue reporter vs. the American Empire
The American material life is taken for granted. Things just appear. There is no consideration for what country the Empire destroyed to fuel their cars, which people are earning pennies inside sweatshops for their clothes or how many children’s hands touched the lithium in their phone batteries fresh out of the mine. The U.S. Empire makes sure these realities are out of the public consciousness and only the shiny, finished products end up in the public view, no questions asked. Matt Kennard, founder of the independent investigative outlet Declassified UK, joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris...
2 November 2024
Genocidal scorecard
A United Nations report, published on Monday, lays out in chilling detail the advances made by Israel in Gaza as it seeks to eradicate “the very existence of the Palestinian people in Palestine.” This genocidal project, the report ominously warns, “is now metastasizing to the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.”
18 June 2024
Nero’s guests: Israel has been poisoned by the psychosis of permanent war
Israel has been poisoned by the psychosis of permanent war. It has been morally bankrupted by the sanctification of victimhood, which it uses to justify an occupation that is even more savage than that of apartheid South Africa. Its ‘democracy’ — which was always exclusively for Jews — has been hijacked by extremists who are pushing the country towards fascism.
22 May 2024
The slow-motion execution of Julian Assange continues
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.
16 May 2024
Israel’s willing executioners
Hundreds of thousands of people are being forced to flee, once again, after more than half of Gaza’s population took sanctuary in the border town of Rafah. This is part of Israel’s sadistic playbook.
10 May 2024
Students are the nation’s conscience
The courageous stance of students across the country in defiance of genocide is accompanied by a near total blackout of their voices. Their words are the ones we most need to hear.
2 May 2024
Resisting radical evil
Ruling institutions — the state, the press, the church, the courts, universities — mouth the language of morality, but they serve the structures of power, no matter how venal, which provide them with money, status and authority.
6 April 2024
The death of Amr
Over 13,000 children have been killed in Gaza. Amr Abdallah was one of them.
10 February 2024
Let them eat dirt
The final stage of Israels genocide in Gaza, an orchestrated mass starvation, has begun. The international community does not intend to stop it.
1 February 2024
The silence of the damned
Our leading humanitarian and civic institutions, including major medical institutions, refuse to denounce Israels genocide in Gaza. This exposes their hypocrisy and complicity.
22 January 2024
The four horsemen of Gazas apocalypse
Joe Biden relies on advisors who view the world through the prism of the Wests civilising mission to the lesser breeds of the earth to formulate his policies towards Israel and the Middle East.
7 January 2024
Israels genocide betrays the Holocaust
If we forget the lessons of the Holocaust, we forget who we are and what we are capable of becoming.
21 December 2023
The death of Israel
Settler colonial states have a terminal shelf life. Israel is no exception.
19 October 2023
Israels culture of deceit
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.
22 September 2023
Humanitarian imperialism created the Libyan nightmare
NATOs 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.
9 July 2023
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.
13 June 2023
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 paralysed as past civilisations were when facing catastrophic destruction.
30 January 2023
Ukraine: the war that went wrong
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.
18 December 2022
Israel and the rise of Jewish fascism
The mask is being lifted from the face of Israels apartheid state, exposing a grinning deaths head that portends the obliteration of the few restraints against killing Palestinians.