The Chris Hedges Report
Episodes
Is Iran the 'Leading State Sponsor of Terrorism?' (w/ John Kiriakou) | The Chris Hedges Report
03 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In an attempt to justify and garner popular support for the American-Israeli war on Iran, the Trump administration is pressuring its allied nations to...
Making the Film 'Palestine 36' (w/ director Annemarie Jacir) | The Chris Hedges Report
30 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In filmmaker Annemarie Jacir’s new film, Palestine 36, one of the most pivotal moments in Palestine’s history is brought to life for the first tim...
Why Israel Wants a War with Iran (w/ Gideon Levy) | Chris Hedges Report
26 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
As the war between the United States, Israel, and Iran intensifies, the justifications for its outbreak grow increasingly murky, shifting between nucl...
How Israel Convinced Trump to Wage War Against Iran (w/ Max Blumenthal) | The Chris Hedges Report
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
As the chaos and destruction of the war in Iran escalates by the day, a lesser known element of the conflict remains ensconced in the shadows of state...
How the War With Iran Will Trigger a Global Financial Crisis (w/ Yanis Varoufakis) | The Chris Hedges Report
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
As the U.S.-Israel and Iran War enters its second week, American and Israeli strategy becomes increasingly opaque, while Iran’s resolve hardens. Pro...
Why America is Losing the War With Iran (w/ John Mearsheimer) | The Chris Hedges Report
12 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
As the U.S.-Israel and Iran War enters its second week, American and Israeli strategy becomes increasingly opaque, while Iran’s resolve hardens. Pro...
Can Israel & the U.S. Sustain Iran's Military Power? (w/ Alastair Crooke) | The Chris Hedges Report
07 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
While the official White House X account posts video montages featuring video games and Hollywood movies spliced with real footage of their attack...
The Predatory Hegemon (w/ Stephen Walt) | The Chris Hedges Report
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
As Donald Trump’s administration continues down the path of self destruction, it is taking the rest of the American population down with it. The aba...
What Is the World’s Future in the ‘New World Order?’ (W/ John Mearsheimer) | The Chris Hedges Report
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Karl Marx, in his essay “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,” said that history repeats itself, “the first time as tragedy, the second t...
Is the 'New World Order' Really New? (w/ Yanis Varoufakis) | The Chris Hedges Report
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
As U.S. hegemony continues to dwindle, Donald Trump and his international allies are making preparations to maintain some grip on world power. One of ...
Decolonizing The World (w/ Amin Husain) | The Chris Hedges Report
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Palestinian professor and activist Amin Husain knows what Western settler colonialism looks, sounds and feels like. Growing up in Palestine, Husain ex...
Deconstructing Trump's Gaza 'Peace' Plan (w/ Norman Finkelstein) | The Chris Hedges Report
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Lawlessness has been a common theme characterizing the events of the first weeks of the year. The kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, ...
The Narco-Trafficking Elite Set to Run Venezuela (w/ Maureen Tkacik) | The Chris Hedges Report
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
History, as it’s understood in most Western countries, often misses important chapters that leave critical gaps in the story of how modern countries...
The Trillion Dollar War Machine (w/ William D. Hartung) | The Chris Hedges Report
01 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The military-industrial-complex (MIC) is unique in its ability to pull untold flows of tax revenue into “defensive” infrastructure that benefits n...
How the 'Epstein Class' Fails to the Top | The Chris Hedges Report (w/ Anand Giridharadas)
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Noam Chomsky once said “The more privilege you have, the more opportunity you have. The more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have....
Taking Power Amidst the Turbulence (w/ Dylan Saba) | The Chris Hedges Report
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
While Palestine has always represented a contradiction in the Western-established world order, the genocide in Gaza has brought the issue to the foref...
The Encampments (w/ Mahmoud Khalil and Michael Workman) | The Chris Hedges Report
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The ongoing genocide in Gaza has become a litmus test of institutional integrity. When a university denies the reality of Israel’s brutality, it rev...
The Toxic Pursuit of Greatness in Chess (w/ Brin-Jonathan Butler) | The Chris Hedges Report
06 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Achieving greatness requires immense sacrifice. Nobody knows this better than perhaps professional athletes or, as author and journalist Brin-Jonathan...
How Palestinian History Is Systemically Forgotten (w/ Micaela Sahhar) | The Chris Hedges Report
06 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“How do we understand now if we don’t understand 1948 or 1917 or all the things that happened during the British Mandate?” This is a centra...
The Palestine Lab: Exporting Occupation Technology (w/ Antony Loewenstein) | The Chris Hedges Report
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Filmmaker, author and journalist Antony Loewenstein documents how Israel has used Gaza as a weapons showcase. Spyware, killer drones, robot dogs and o...
The Member States Complicit in GENOCIDE (w/ Francesca Albanese) | The Chris Hedges Report
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After two years of genocide, it is no longer possible to hide complicity in Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians. Entire countries and corporati...
How America Left Their Own to Die in the '73 Chilean Coup (w/ John Dinges) | The Chris Hedges Report
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The meddling and infiltration of governments in Latin America by the United States is a huge chapter of its 20th century history. One of the most egre...
Is Israel 'On the Brink?' (w/ Ilan Pappé)
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Despite the demoralization and destruction produced by Israel’s two-year-long genocidal campaign on the Palestinians, Israel potentially finds itsel...
The Rise of the Thielverse and the Construction of the Surveillance State (w/ Whitney Webb) | The Chris Hedges Report
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The descent into a new, mutated and technology-focused form of American fascism is already here. Those who have kept track of the rise of the Thielver...
Drug Trafficking and Murder In the Special Forces (w/ Seth Harp) | The Chris Hedges Report
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For decades, clandestine foreign military and intelligence operations have been the deadly, destabilizing engine of American foreign policy. Today, as...
Inside America's Academic Gulags (w/ Rashid Khalidi) | The Chris Hedges Report
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Historian Rashid Khalidi, author of The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine, joins host Chris Hedges to detail the dwindling academic freedom in Americ...
It's Time to Fight Back Against Trump's Fascist Regime (w/ Ralph Nader) | The Chris Hedges Report
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Are you a worker? Yes. Are you a consumer shopper? Yes. Are you a taxpayer? Yes. Voter? Well, sometimes. Are you a parent? Yes. Are you a veteran? So...
Trump's Crackdown on Anti-War Activists (w/ CODEPINK's Medea Benjamin)
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Medea Benjamin and CODEPINK, the organization she cofounded, are synonymous with accosting power in the United States. Their fearless confrontations w...
Israel, Charlie Kirk, and the Weaponization of Murder (w/ Max Blumenthal) | The Chris Hedges Report
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Death of Holocaust Studies (w/ Raz Segal) | The Chris Hedges Report
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Raz Segal, an Israeli historian and an associate professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University, analyzes how the weaponization an...
GHF Contractor Tells All On Genocidal Israeli 'Aid' Plan (w/ Anthony Aguilar) | The Chris Hedges Report
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“I've witnessed a lot of war and in that there is nothing that compares to the level of destruction, the level of [dis]proportionality, the absolute...
Reporting on War (w/ Ben Anderson) | The Chris Hedges Report
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It is rare to find war correspondents who are willing to break the rules of access and safety imposed by dominant powers. Only by challenging these st...
To Destroy Gaza, Israel Must Destroy UNRWA (w/ Mara Kronenfeld) | The Chris Hedges Report
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Religious Mafia & Rightwing Extremists Take Over (w/ Rollo Romig) | The Chris Hedges Report
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most stark examples of the expanding tide of authoritarianism worldwide was the 2017 murder of Gauri Lankesh, an Indian journalist and acti...
'The Silent Holocaust' — The Israeli and CIA Sponsored Guatemalan Genocide (w/ Jennifer Harbury) | The Chris Hedges Report
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Known as the “Silent Holocaust,” the genocide in Guatemala is seldom mentioned in modern history. The United States, with support from Israel, bac...
This Is Not a Drill (w/ Roger Waters) | The Chris Hedges Report
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fame and fortune are often corrupting forces, ones that beget power and comfort. To stand with the afflicted requires sacrificing this privilege and f...
The End of Academic Freedom (w/ Maura Finkelstein) | The Chris Hedges Report
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The gutting of public funding for higher education in the United States has led to the takeover of universities by private donors, many of whom are Zi...
Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump and Sexual Blackmail Networks (w/ Nick Bryant) | The Chris Hedges Report
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Perhaps the biggest elephant in the room of American politics is the existence of a pedophilic blackmail network that involves some of the most powerf...
Everything You Need To Know About War With Iran (w/ Alastair Crooke) | The Chris Hedges Report
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Following attacks on Iran by Israel and the United States, the world held its breath as the prospect of World War III loomed on the horizon. After 12 ...
Will Zohran Mamdani Empower or Betray the Working Class? (w/ Kshama Sawant) | The Chris Hedges Report
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Zohran Mamdani’s emphatic victory in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary has shaken the core of American politics. A self-described democra...
Starvation and Profiteering in Gaza (w/ Francesca Albanese) | The Chris Hedges Report
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There is not much more that can be said about the unfathomable levels of devastation the genocide in Gaza has reached. Francesca Albanese, the United ...
Why You Should Hate the Rich Even More (w/ Rob Larson)
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The ultra-wealthy hover above the realities of the world around them like extraterrestrial aliens. Their material reality physically separates them fr...
Journalists and Their Shadows (w/ Patrick Lawrence) | The Chris Hedges Report
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Journalist A. J. Liebling famously said, "Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.” Today, in a world dominated by corporate ca...
How Paradise Lost Revolutionized the World (w/ Orlando Reade) | The Chris Hedges Report
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There are few pieces of literature that remain as prescient and relevant throughout history as John Milton’s Paradise Lost. Thomas Jefferson, Malcol...
The Shared Mythological History of Israel and the US (w/ Joan Scott) | The Chris Hedges Report
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The narratives surrounding Israel and their genocidal campaign against the Palestinians took decades to create and embed into the West’s psyche. The...
Facing the Climate Crisis and Human Mortality (w/ Eiren Caffall) | The Chris Hedges Report
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a world gripped by daily catastrophes, there is one that affects all but lacks the attention it deserves. The climate crisis — pervaded by ecolog...
The Dark Money Game (w/ Alex Gibney) | The Chris Hedges Report
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of The Chris Hedges Report, Chris Hedges speaks with filmmaker Alex Gibney about Gibney’s documentary series The Dark Money Game, wh...
The West Serves as Israel's Police (w/ Richard Medhurst) | The Chris Hedges Report
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Barnard, Sarah Wilkinson, Asa Winstanley and Richard Medhurst. These are some of the canaries in the coal mine for what is to come in the West...
Israel’s Eradication of Gaza’s Healthcare System (w/ Dr. Feroze Sidhwa) | The Chris Hedges Report
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If anyone can witness the genocide in Gaza with utmost clarity, it would be medical professionals working there. Their accounts continue to be as harr...
Emptying Gaza (w/ Norman Finkelstein) | The Chris Hedges Report
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Israel, both materially and rhetorically, has made their intent to destroy the Palestinian people clear. One of the most renowned and courageous Middl...
The Economics of a Dying Empire (w/ Richard Wolff) | The Chris Hedges Report
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“These are levels of craziness that are part of the decline I suspect of all empires when they consume themselves,” Professor Richard Wolff says o...
The Secret Military History of the Internet (w/ Yasha Levine) | The Chris Hedges Report
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The internet, from its inception, was created to be a tool of mass surveillance. It was developed first as a counterinsurgency tool for the Vietnam Wa...
Erasing History: How Fascism Works (w/ Jason Stanley)
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ever since the first Donald Trump administration, the word “fascism” has dominated discussion around Trump’s policies and ambitions to the exten...
America’s Constitutional Crisis (w/ Katherine Franke) | The Chris Hedges Report
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest and detention in a Louisiana ICE facility is a harbinger for a new authoritarian era of the United States. Khalil’s arrest...
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal (w/ Mohammed el-Kurd) | The Chris Hedges Report
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Any account of the decades-long occupation of Palestine from a Palestinian is immediately expected to be refined within a specific lens to appeal to t...
How the Media Walked us into Autocracy (w/ Ralph Nader) | The Chris Hedges Report
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The American corporate coup d'état is almost complete as the first weeks of the Trump administration exemplify. If there has been one person who saw ...
Chris Hedges: The World After Gaza (w/ Chris Hedges) | The Chris Hedges Report
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Holocaust is the quintessential example of human evil for people in the West. In the rest of the world, especially in the Global South, the atroci...
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (w/ Omar El Akkad) | The Chris Hedges Report
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To the West, the concept of the rules-based order functions either as a list on paper to be ignored, or a strict set of laws to be weaponized. Omar El...
Virtue Hoarders and the Rejection of Liberalism (w/ Catherine Liu) | The Chris Hedges Report
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The material needs of working class people in America continue to be obscured and co-opted by politicians and people claiming to know what’s best on...
The ‘Diseased Body’ of the Middle East (w/ Farah El-Sharif) | The Chris Hedges Report
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Farah El Sherif, writer, academic and Visiting Scholar at Stanford, is uncompromisingly blunt in her assessment of the Middle East. The decades of rep...
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism (w/ Yanis Varoufakis) | The Chris Hedges Report
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The year 2008 signaled to many the weak foundations of modern capitalism in the hands of the greedy, untethered financial sector—the “vampire squi...
War on Gaza (w/ Joe Sacco) | The Chris Hedges Report
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Shelley, in the preface to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, writes, “Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out o...
America's Academic Gulag (w/ MIT Student Activists) | The Chris Hedges Report
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“You can't just sit there and build drones and not talk about who it's serving and who does it help,” says Richard Solomon, PhD student at the Mas...
The Zionists Kill Doctors in Gaza and Silence Them Here (w/ Rupa Marya) | The Chris Hedges Report
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said, “The protection of hospitals during warfare is paramount and must be respected by all sides...
Exposing Big Tech’s Complicity in Genocide | The Chris Hedges Report
01 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The vast censorship and suppression campaign launched by American tech companies since October 7, 2023 has been both systemic and deliberate. Instagra...
The Meaning of Christmas (w/ Rev. Munther Isaac) | The Chris Hedges Report
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In a case of tragic coincidence, the place most closely associated with the uplifting story of Jesus Christ, Christmas and the teachings of the Bible ...
Enduring the Trauma of Genocide (w/ Gabor Maté) | The Chris Hedges Report
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While the trauma that Palestinians continue to face in Gaza is sustained, brutal and seemingly never-ending, the way people experience the effects of ...
The Fall of Assad & What it Means for The Mid East (w/ Alastair Crooke) | The Chris Hedges Report
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, ending a 55-year dynasty begun by his father, dramatically shifts the pieces on the chessboard of the Mi...
A Rogue Reporter vs. The American Empire (w/ Matt Kennard) | The Chris Hedges Report
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The American material life is taken for granted. Things just appear. There is no consideration for what country the Empire destroyed to fuel their car...
Stories from the Center of the World (w/ Jordan Elgrably) | The Chris Hedges Report
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The years of war and terror imposed upon the Middle East have left its people, as Jordan Elgrably tells host Chris Hedges, “tired of saying that [th...
Surveillance Education (w/ Nolan Higdon & Allison Butler) | The Chris Hedges Report
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Any technology created by the US military industrial complex and adopted by the general public was always bound to come with a caveat. To most, the in...
Israel’s War on the Foreign Press (w/ Jeremy Loffredo) | The Chris Hedges Report
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reporting from Israel in the aftermath of October 7th demands guts and courage. Censorship, rouge military personnel and an entire state hellbent on t...
Do Not Vote for those Who Support Genocide (w/ Kshama Sawant) | The Chris Hedges Report
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A truly representative and honest voice for the working class—one that takes part in the struggle, resists cozying up to the centers of power, makes...
The World According to Trump (w/ Col. Lawrence Wilkerson) | The Chris Hedges Report
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump will become the 47th president of the United States and given the host of global debacles the US has its hands in—ranging from the geno...
Genocide as Colonial Erasure (w/ Francesca Albanese) | The Chris Hedges Report
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“The crime of all crimes.” That is how the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda declared genocide in the final judgment of Prosecutor v. Aka...
The Escalating Crisis in the Middle East (w/ John Mearsheimer) | The Chris Hedges Report
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Decades of Islamophobia, relentless propaganda campaigns and heavily financed lobbying efforts have made it difficult to understand the political real...
Dismantling the American Empire (w/ Cornel West) | The Chris Hedges Report
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It is rare to hear a United States presidential candidate clearly and eloquently spell out the realities of the country — whether it’s the genocid...
Robert Fisk and the Great War for Civilization (w/ Lara Marlowe) | The Chris Hedges Report
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There is a careful art to good journalism. It involves not only seeing and writing what happens but also understanding the reason why, and the precede...
The Secret History of Neoliberalism (w/ George Monbiot) | The Chris Hedges Report
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Watch this interview at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=see5c5Sgi14 The current world order is designed to be complex and confusing. Its function ens...
Where Olive Trees Weep: Processing the Trauma of Occupation | The Chris Hedges Report
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The world has failed Palestine. The United States and European Union pay lip service to principles of human rights and democracy while providing limit...
The Looming Catastrophe in the Middle East (w/ Gideon Levy) | The Chris Hedges Report
28 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Video and transcript available at: https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-looming-catastrophe-in-the-middle It has become quite rare to hear any meani...
How Wokeness Kills Class Politics and Empowers Empire (w/ Christian Parenti) | The Chris Hedges Report
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Watch this interview, or read the transcript, at: Oftentimes the idea of “wokeness” or “woke” ideology, whether calling it as such or ack...
The Systemic Roots of Western Islamophobia (w/ Peter Oborne) | The Chris Hedges Report
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Since the turn of the 21st century, the world has become deeply familiar with the global “war on terror.” Framed by the West’s ostensibly patrio...
The Liberal Class’s Ultimate Betrayal (w/ Jimmy Dore) | The Chris Hedges Report
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Support my independent journalism at Substack: https://chrishedges.substack.com/ Follow me on social media: https://linktr.ee/chrishedges In his...
Campaigning Against Genocide (w/ Dr. Jill Stein & Butch Ware) | The Chris Hedges Report
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Genocide is the moral imperative of our era,” declares Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein in this episode of The Chris Hedges Reports ...
The Middle East's Roots Lie In the Fall of the Ottomans w/ Eugene Rogan | The Chris Hedges Report
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Modern borders represent mere lines in the sand when understanding the deep history behind the forces that drew them. In the contemporary Middle East,...
The Rise and Coming Demise of the Israel Lobby w/ Ilan Pappé | The Chris Hedges Report
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Israel lobby wields some of the most influence over American politics than any lobbying group in Washington. As Ilan Pappé, the Israeli historian...
The Arab Jew Experience Exposes the Myths of Middle Eastern Antisemitism | The Chris Hedges Report
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A significant justification for Israel’s existence relies on the narrative that, because of the inherent and rabid antisemitism of Arabs and Islam, ...
Israel's Mask Is Slipping (w/ David Hearst)
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The latest chapter of Israel's occupation of Palestine has raged on for nearly the last year, marking a significant shift in the decades-long clash th...
A Diary of Genocide w/ Atef Abu Saif | The Chris Hedges Report
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this first episode of the new and independent iteration of The Chris Hedges Report, Palestinian novelist Atef Abu Saif and Hedges explore Saif's ex...