https://znetwork.org/author/chrishedges/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:07:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/chrishedges/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-suicidal-folly-of-a-war-with-iran/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-suicidal-folly-of-a-war-with-iran/#comments Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:54:01 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1295173 The Laurel and Hardy negotiating team of Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, coupled with Trump’s appalling ignorance of world affairs and megalomania, seem set to push the U.S. into yet another debacle in the Middle East, one the Congress has not approved, and the public does not want. The demands imposed on Iran by the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-suicidal-folly-of-a-war-with-iran/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/is-the-new-world-order-really-new-w-yanis-varoufakis-the-chris-hedges-report/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/is-the-new-world-order-really-new-w-yanis-varoufakis-the-chris-hedges-report/#respond Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:56:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1294114 Trump’s Board of Peace is an intricate play to maintain hegemony in the face of China’s rise, sparking talk of “a new world order” — but is the rules-based international order really worth saving? As U.S. hegemony continues to dwindle, Donald Trump and his international allies are making preparations to maintain some grip on world [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/is-the-new-world-order-really-new-w-yanis-varoufakis-the-chris-hedges-report/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/deconstructing-trumps-gaza-peace-plan/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/deconstructing-trumps-gaza-peace-plan/#respond Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:53:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1293554 Lawlessness has been a common theme characterizing the events of the first weeks of the year. The kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, the murder of Renee Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross, the threat of bombing Iran by the Trump administration. Perhaps one of the worst violations of the law has slipped under the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/deconstructing-trumps-gaza-peace-plan/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rebranding-genocide/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rebranding-genocide/#respond Sun, 21 Dec 2025 12:42:14 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292597 First, it was Israel’s right to defend itself. Then it was a war, even though, by Israel’s own military intelligence database, 83 percent of the casualties were civilians. The 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, living under an Israeli air, land and sea blockade, have no army, air force, no mechanized units, no tanks, no navy, no missiles, no heavy [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rebranding-genocide/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/is-israel-on-the-brink/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/is-israel-on-the-brink/#respond Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:56:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1290653 In spite of Israel’s military dominance over its regional foes, is the Zionist entity at its most vulnerable point in its short history? And more importantly — will its actions lead to the complete collapse of the Zionist project? Legendary Israeli historian Ilan Pappé provides some answers. Transcript Chris Hedges The Israeli historian Ilan Pappé [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/is-israel-on-the-brink/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/trumps-crackdown-on-anti-war-activists/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/trumps-crackdown-on-anti-war-activists/#respond Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1289031 Medea Benjamin and CODEPINK, the organization she cofounded, are synonymous with accosting power in the United States. Their fearless confrontations with the nation’s most prominent and powerful politicians in the halls of Congress, often seen through viral videos, are a stark embodiment of the First Amendment. Despite over 20 years of activism and consistent critique of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/trumps-crackdown-on-anti-war-activists/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/journalist-chris-hedges-on-the-weaponization-of-kirks-killing/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/journalist-chris-hedges-on-the-weaponization-of-kirks-killing/#respond Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:00:50 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1288663 Journalist Chris Hedges warns that President Trump and his allies are “weaponizing” the shocking assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk to crush dissent. “We’ve reached a very frightening turning point,” says Hedges. “We’ve already seen an assault on civil liberties, on institutions, universities, the media, that are tasked with maintaining an open society. That will [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/journalist-chris-hedges-on-the-weaponization-of-kirks-killing/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-assassination-of-memory/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-assassination-of-memory/#respond Wed, 27 Aug 2025 19:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287796 As Israel ticks off its list of Nazi-like atrocities against the Palestinians, including mass starvation, it prepares for yet another – the demolition of Gaza City, one of the oldest cities on Earth. Heavy engineering equipment and gigantic armored bulldozers are tearing down hundreds of heavily damaged buildings. Cement trucks are churning out concrete to fill tunnels. Israeli tanks and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-assassination-of-memory/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/abolishing-the-first-amendment/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/abolishing-the-first-amendment/#respond Sat, 02 Aug 2025 15:21:54 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1286861 Itestified at the New Jersey state capital in Trenton last week against Bill A3558, which would adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, which conflates anti-Zionism with antisemitism. “This is a dangerous assault on free speech by seeking to criminalize legitimate criticism of Israeli policies,” I said. “The Trump administration’s campaign to ostensibly root out [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/abolishing-the-first-amendment/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/this-is-not-a-drill-w-roger-waters/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/this-is-not-a-drill-w-roger-waters/#respond Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:50:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1286832 Fame and fortune are often corrupting forces, ones that beget power and comfort. To stand with the afflicted requires sacrificing this privilege and few embody that sacrifice more profoundly than the legendary musician of Pink Floyd Roger Waters. For years, through his music and political action, Waters has amplified the voices of the oppressed. He [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/this-is-not-a-drill-w-roger-waters/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-end-of-academic-freedom-w-maura-finkelstein-the-chris-hedges-report/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-end-of-academic-freedom-w-maura-finkelstein-the-chris-hedges-report/#respond Thu, 24 Jul 2025 15:53:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1286580 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 Zionist entities and billionaires. As a result, universities have become, as guest Dr. Maura Finkelstein calls them, “banks and real estate development companies that offer classes.” As demonstrated by [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-end-of-academic-freedom-w-maura-finkelstein-the-chris-hedges-report/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-persecution-of-francesca-albanese/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-persecution-of-francesca-albanese/#comments Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:46:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1286039 When the history of the genocide in Gaza is written, one of the most courageous and outspoken champions for justice and the adherence to international law will be Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur, who today the Trump administration is sanctioning. Her office is tasked with monitoring and reporting on human rights violations that [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-persecution-of-francesca-albanese/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/profiting-from-genocide/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/profiting-from-genocide/#respond Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1285770 The latest United Nations report names hundreds of corporations, banks, technology firms, universities, pension funds and charities that profit from the Israeli occupation and genocide. War is a business. So is genocide. The latest report submitted by Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, lists 48 corporations and institutions, including Palantir Technologies Inc., [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/profiting-from-genocide/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/why-you-should-hate-the-rich-even-more-w-rob-larson/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/why-you-should-hate-the-rich-even-more-w-rob-larson/#respond Mon, 30 Jun 2025 16:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1285666 Rob Larson breaks down how the hyper-concentration of wealth that pervades American society is making life worse for everyone (except the rich). He says that tax breaks, deregulation and other neoliberal doctrines make it so that “more cash [chases] the same number of assets, and it just tends to have the effect of hideously inflating [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/why-you-should-hate-the-rich-even-more-w-rob-larson/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gazas-hunger-games/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gazas-hunger-games/#respond Mon, 30 Jun 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1285662 Israel’s weaponization of starvation is how genocides always end. I covered the insidious effects of orchestrated starvation in the Guatemalan Highlands during the genocidal campaign of Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt, the famine in southern Sudan that left a quarter of a million dead — I walked past the frail and skeletal corpses of families lining roadsides — [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gazas-hunger-games/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-chris-hedges-report-starvation-and-profiteering-in-gaza-w-francesca-albanese/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-chris-hedges-report-starvation-and-profiteering-in-gaza-w-francesca-albanese/#respond Thu, 26 Jun 2025 15:50:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1285496 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 Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, has been chronicling the genocide and joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report to shed light on the current [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-chris-hedges-report-starvation-and-profiteering-in-gaza-w-francesca-albanese/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-folly-of-a-war-with-iran/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-folly-of-a-war-with-iran/#respond Mon, 16 Jun 2025 15:16:09 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1285069 The neoconservatives who orchestrated the disastrous wars with Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya — and who were never held accountable for the profligate waste of $8 trillion taxpayer dollars, as well as $69 billion squandered in Ukraine — look set to lure us into yet another military fiasco with Iran. Iran is not Iraq. Iran is not Afghanistan. Iran [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-folly-of-a-war-with-iran/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-last-days-of-gaza/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-last-days-of-gaza/#comments Tue, 10 Jun 2025 16:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284827 This is the end. The final blood-soaked chapter of the genocide. It will be over soon. Weeks. At most. Two million people are camped out amongst the rubble or in the open air. Dozens are killed and wounded daily from Israeli shells, missiles, drones, bombs and bullets. They lack  clean water, medicine and food. They have reached [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-last-days-of-gaza/feed/ 3 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/gabor-mate-chris-hedges-aaron-mate-on-palestine-the-moral-issue-of-our-time/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/gabor-mate-chris-hedges-aaron-mate-on-palestine-the-moral-issue-of-our-time/#respond Sun, 25 May 2025 14:12:38 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1284184 Chris Hedges and Gabor Maté, introduced by award-winning journalist Aaron Maté, discuss the “moral issue of our time,” Gaza. Hedges and Gabor Maté deliver speeches, engage in a two-way discussion and take questions from the audience.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/gabor-mate-chris-hedges-aaron-mate-on-palestine-the-moral-issue-of-our-time/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/emptying-gaza-w-norman-finkelstein/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/emptying-gaza-w-norman-finkelstein/#respond Sat, 19 Apr 2025 15:52:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1282687 Israel, both materially and rhetorically, has made their intent to destroy the Palestinian people clear. One of the most renowned and courageous Middle East scholars, Norman Finkelstein, has assiduously documented the Palestinian plight for decades and he joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report. Finkelstein and Hedges assess the current [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/emptying-gaza-w-norman-finkelstein/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/restoring-lies-and-insanity-to-american-history/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/restoring-lies-and-insanity-to-american-history/#respond Sat, 05 Apr 2025 14:29:28 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1282056 President Donald Trump’s latest executive order titled “RESTORING TRUTH AND SANITY TO AMERICAN HISTORY” replicates a tactic used by all authoritarian regimes. In the name of countering bias, they distort the nation’s history into self-serving mythology. History will be used to justify the power of the ruling elites in the present by deifying the ruling elites of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/restoring-lies-and-insanity-to-american-history/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/americas-constitutional-crisis/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/americas-constitutional-crisis/#respond Mon, 31 Mar 2025 15:32:22 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1281812 In conversation with Chris Hedges legal scholar Katherine Franke explains trump’s authoritarian Crackdown. The United States is facing a constitutional crisis one that if it is not resolved will cement into place an authoritarian State. (0:00) Intro (3:23) Constitutional crisis (8:11) How Columbia put a target on Mahmoud Khalil’s back (12:52) Columbia’s Groveling for Zionism [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/americas-constitutional-crisis/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-last-chapter-of-the-genocide/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-last-chapter-of-the-genocide/#respond Wed, 26 Mar 2025 17:52:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1281622 This is the last chapter of the genocide. It is the final, blood-soaked push to drive the Palestinians from Gaza. No food. No medicine. No shelter. No clean water. No electricity. Israel is swiftly turning Gaza into a Dantesque cauldron of human misery where Palestinians are being killed in their hundreds and soon, again, in their thousands and tens [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-last-chapter-of-the-genocide/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-purge-of-the-deep-state-and-the-road-to-dictatorship/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-purge-of-the-deep-state-and-the-road-to-dictatorship/#respond Mon, 24 Feb 2025 15:51:32 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1280177 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 This is a reading of an article riginally posted Feb. 18, 2025 The Trump administration’s war with the deep state is not [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-purge-of-the-deep-state-and-the-road-to-dictatorship/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-western-way-of-genocide/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-western-way-of-genocide/#respond Tue, 04 Feb 2025 17:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1279303 Gaza is a wasteland of 50 million tons of rubble and debris. Rats and dogs scavenge amid the ruins and fetid pools of raw sewage. The putrid stench and contamination of decaying corpses rises from beneath the mountains of shattered concrete. There is no clean water. Little food. A severe shortage of medical services and hardly any habitable shelters. Palestinians [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-western-way-of-genocide/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/technofeudalism-what-killed-capitalism-w-yanis-varoufakis/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/technofeudalism-what-killed-capitalism-w-yanis-varoufakis/#respond Thu, 30 Jan 2025 16:48:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1279064 The year 2008 signaled to many the weak foundations of modern capitalism in the hands of the greedy, untethered financial sector—the “vampire squid” investment banks as journalist Matt Taibbi called them. Rising from the ashes of the crash, these banks used government money—”socialism for the bankers”—to enrich themselves and Big Business. This money never got [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/technofeudalism-what-killed-capitalism-w-yanis-varoufakis/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/americas-academic-gulag-w-mit-student-activists/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/americas-academic-gulag-w-mit-student-activists/#respond Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:48:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1278508 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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and member of the Coalition for Palestine at MIT. On this episode of The Chris Hedges Report, Solomon and fellow MIT PhD student [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/americas-academic-gulag-w-mit-student-activists/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/welcome-to-the-pyrocene/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/welcome-to-the-pyrocene/#respond Wed, 15 Jan 2025 19:13:56 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1278461 The apocalyptic wildfires that have erupted in the boreal forest in Siberia, the Russian Far East and Canada, climate scientists repeatedly warned, would inevitably move southwards as rising global temperatures created hotter, more fire-prone landscapes. Now they have. The failures in California, where Los Angeles has had no significant rainfall in eight months, are not only failures of preparedness — [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/welcome-to-the-pyrocene/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/genocide-the-new-normal/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/genocide-the-new-normal/#comments Tue, 07 Jan 2025 17:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1278115 Joe Biden’s parting gift of $8 billion in weapons sales to the apartheid state of Israel acknowledges the gruesome reality of the genocide in Gaza. This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. This is a permanent, endless war designed not to destroy Hamas, or free Israeli hostages, but to eradicate, once and for all, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/genocide-the-new-normal/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/exposing-big-techs-complicity-in-genocide/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/exposing-big-techs-complicity-in-genocide/#respond Thu, 02 Jan 2025 16:48:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1277880 Joining host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report are three courageous individuals who chose to put their careers on the line to fight against Big Tech suppression of voices fighting for Palestinian lives. Saima Akhter, a former data analyst at Meta; Hossam Nasr, a former software engineer at Microsoft; and Tariq [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/exposing-big-techs-complicity-in-genocide/feed/ 0