The Chris Hedges Report Podcast

This article is read by Eunice Wong , a Juilliard-trained actor, featured on Audible's list of Best Women Narrators . Her work is on the annual Best Audiobooks lists of the New York Times, Audible, AudioFile, & Library Journal. www.eunicewong.actor Text originally published May 26, 2025 Full text: The last days of dying empires are dominated by idiots. The Roman, Mayan, French, Habsburg, Ottoman,...

This article is read by Eunice Wong , a Juilliard-trained actor, featured on Audible's list of Best Women Narrators . Her work is on the annual Best Audiobooks lists of the New York Times, Audible, AudioFile, & Library Journal. www.eunicewong.actor Text originally published May 26, 2025 Full text: This is the end. The final blood-soaked chapter of the genocide . It will be over soon. Weeks. At mos...

This article is read by Eunice Wong , a Juilliard-trained actor, featured on Audible's list of Best Women Narrators . Her work is on the annual Best Audiobooks lists of the New York Times, Audible, AudioFile, & Library Journal. www.eunicewong.actor Text originally published May 26, 2025 Full text: Our offshore concentration camps, for now, are in El Salvador and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. But don’t exp...

This article is read by Eunice Wong , a Juilliard-trained actor, featured on Audible's list of Best Women Narrators . Her work is on the annual Best Audiobooks lists of the New York Times, Audible, AudioFile, & Library Journal. www.eunicewong.actor Text originally published May 26, 2025 Full text: The media, universities, the Democratic Party and liberals, by embracing the fiction of “rampant anti...

The interview starts at 9 minutes into the recording. Text below is from KPFA, linked here , where this podcast was originally posted. You can participate in the fund drive special here . FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – Pledge $120 and receive Chris Hedges new book, A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine. In it, the Pulitzer Prize–winning former Middle East Bureau Chi...

This article is read by Eunice Wong , a Juilliard-trained actor, featured on Audible's list of Best Women Narrators . Her work is on the annual Best Audiobooks lists of the New York Times, Audible, AudioFile, & Library Journal. www.eunicewong.actor Text originally published March 11, 2025 I Stink Therefore I Am - by Mr. Fish The attacks on colleges and universities — Donald Trump’s administration...

This article is read by Eunice Wong , a Juilliard-trained actor, featured on Audible's list of Best Women Narrators . Her work is on the annual Best Audiobooks lists of the New York Times, Audible, AudioFile, & Library Journal. www.eunicewong.actor Text Originally posted Mar. 22, 2025 This is the last chapter of the genocide. It is the final, blood-soaked push to drive the Palestinians from Gaza....

This article is read by Eunice Wong , a Juilliard-trained actor, featured on Audible's list of Best Women Narrators . Her work is on the annual Best Audiobooks lists of the New York Times, Audible, AudioFile, & Library Journal. www.eunicewong.actor Text Originally posted Feb. 18, 2025 One Mind - by Mr. Fish The Trump administration’s war with the deep state is not a purgative. It is not about free...

This article is read by Eunice Wong , a Juilliard-trained actor, featured on Audible's list of Best Women Narrators . Her work is on the annual Best Audiobooks lists of the New York Times, Audible, AudioFile, & Library Journal. www.eunicewong.actor Kiss the Ring - by Mr. Fish Kiss the ring. Grovel before the Godfather. Give him tribute, a cut of the spoils. If he and his family get rich you get ri...

This article is read by Eunice Wong , a Juilliard-trained actor, featured on Audible's list of Best Women Narrators . Her work is on the annual Best Audiobooks lists of the New York Times, Audible, AudioFile, & Library Journal. www.eunicewong.actor Text Originally published Feb. 07, 2025 And Then the World Blew Up - by Mr. Fish The billionaires, Christian fascists, grifters, psychopaths, imbeciles...

This article is read by Eunice Wong , a Juilliard-trained actor, featured on Audible's list of Best Women Narrators . Her work is on the annual Best Audiobooks lists of the New York Times, Audible, AudioFile, & Library Journal. www.eunicewong.actor Text originally published Feb. 01, 2025 Explore Gaza - by Mr. Fish Gaza is a wasteland of 50 million tons of rubble and debris. Rats and dogs scavenge...

This article is read by Eunice Wong , a Juilliard-trained actor, featured on Audible's list of Best Women Narrators . Her work is on the annual Best Audiobooks lists of the New York Times, Audible, AudioFile, & Library Journal. www.eunicewong.actor Text originally published Jan. 12, 2025 A Final Toast - by Mr. Fish The apocalyptic wildfires that have erupted in the boreal forest in Siberia , the R...

This article is read by Eunice Wong , a Juilliard-trained actor, featured on Audible's list of Best Women Narrators . Her work is on the annual Best Audiobooks lists of the New York Times, Audible, AudioFile, & Library Journal. www.eunicewong.actor Text originally filed January 16, 2025 Piece Plan - by Mr. Fish Israel, going back decades, has played a duplicitous game. It signs a deal with the Pal...

This article is read by Eunice Wong , a Juilliard-trained actor, featured on Audible's list of Best Women Narrators . Her work is on the annual Best Audiobooks lists of the New York Times, Audible, AudioFile, & Library Journal. www.eunicewong.actor Text originally published Dec. 30, 2024 This, That or the Other Carter - by Mr. Fish Jimmy Carter, out of office, had the courage to call out the “abom...

This article is read by Eunice Wong , a Juilliard-trained actor, featured on Audible's list of Best Women Narrators . Her work is on the annual Best Audiobooks lists of the New York Times, Audible, AudioFile, & Library Journal. www.eunicewong.actor Text originally published Dec. 23, 2024 Inside Out - by Mr. Fish For over two decades, I and a handful of others — Sheldon Wolin , Noam Chomsky , Chalm...

This article is read by Eunice Wong , a Juilliard-trained actor, featured on Audible's list of Best Women Narrators . Her work is on the annual Best Audiobooks lists of the New York Times, Audible, AudioFile, & Library Journal. www.eunicewong.actor Text originally published Dec. 10, 2024 The Power of the Pen - Mr. Fish Dear Refaat, We are not silent. We are being silenced. The students who, during...

This article is read by Eunice Wong , a Juilliard-trained actor, featured on Audible's list of Best Women Narrators . Her work is on the annual Best Audiobooks lists of the New York Times, Audible, AudioFile, & Library Journal. www.eunicewong.actor Text originally posted Nov. 18, 2024 Forget Us Not - by Mr. Fish NEW YORK: I am in the The Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center next to the St. V...

This article is read by Eunice Wong , a Juilliard-trained actor, featured on Audible's list of Best Women Narrators . Her work is on the annual Best Audiobooks lists of the New York Times, Audible, AudioFile, & Library Journal. www.eunicewong.actor Text originally published Nov. 16, 2024 An Unjust Burden — by Mr. Fish I just got off the phone with the Canadian feminist and activist Lee Lakeman . S...

Text Originally posted Dec, 04, 2024 We do not yet know the motive for the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. But it would not surprise me if the killer stalked Thompson because UnitedHealthcare had denied medical coverage, or forced a family or an individual into bankruptcy, after the company failed to cover a serious illness. Insurers reject about 1 in 7 claims for treatment,...

Text Originally published Oct. 30, 2024 Bibi on Board - by Mr. Fish 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.”  The Nakba or “ca...

Text originally filed Nov. 6, 2024 The Mourning After - by Mr. Fish In the end, the election was about despair. Despair over futures that evaporated with deindustrialization. Despair over the loss of 30 million jobs in mass layoffs. Despair over austerity programs and the funneling of wealth upwards into the hands of rapacious oligarchs. Despair over a liberal class that refuses to acknowledge the...

Text originally published Oct. 06, 2024 Roger Hallam — by Mr. Fish Norfolk, U.K. — I am sitting with Roger Hallam , his gray hair pulled back in a ponytail, in the visitor’s room at HM Prison Wayland . On the walls are large photographs of families picnicking on lawns, verdant meadows and children playing. The juxtaposition of the photographs, no doubt hung to give the prison visiting room a homey...

Text Originally published Sept. 17, 2024 Aysenur Ezgi Eygi - by Mr. Fish I know you. I met you in the dense canopies in the war in El Salvador . It was there that I first heard the single, high-pitched crack of the sniper bullet. Distinct. Ominous. A sound that spreads terror. Army units I traveled with, enraged by the lethal accuracy of rebel snipers, set up heavy .50 caliber machine guns and spr...

Text Originally published July 22, 2024 Joe Biden was discarded by the same billionaire class he assiduously served throughout his political career. Barely able to stumble his way through the words on a TelePrompter and not always cognizant of what is happening around him, his billionaire supporters pulled the plug. He was their creature – he has been in federal office for 47 years - from start to...

Text Originally published July 12, 2024 Which Genocide Are You On? - by Mr. Fish RAMALLAH, Occupied Palestine: It comes back in a rush, the stench of raw sewage, the groan of the diesel, sloth-like Israeli armored personnel carriers, the vans filled with broods of children, driven by chalky faced colonists, certainly not from here, probably from Brooklyn or somewhere in Russia or maybe Britain. Li...