For over two decades, I and a handful of others ā Sheldon Wolin, Noam Chomsky, Chalmers Johnson, Barbara Ehrenreich and Ralph Nader ā warned that the expanding social inequality…
The fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, ending a 55-year dynasty begun by his father, dramatically shifts the pieces on the chessboard…
This is the keynote talk I gave on Nov. 1 at the conference, The End of Empire, at University of California Santa…
This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. Reporting from Israel in the aftermath of October 7th demands guts and courage. Censorship, rouge…
Joining host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report is Lawrence Wilkerson, a retired Army colonel and former chief…
There are some 4,000 foreign reporters accredited in Israel to cover the war. They stay in luxury hotels. They go on dog and pony shows orchestrated…
āThe crime of all crimes.ā That is how the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda declared genocide in the final judgment of Prosecutor v.…
Norfolk, U.K. ā I am sitting with Roger Hallam, his gray hair pulled back in a ponytail, in the visitorās room at HM Prison…
The dark machinery of empire, whose mendacity and savagery Julian Assange exposed to the world, spent 14 years trying to destroy him.…
Israel has been poisoned by the psychosis of permanent war. It has been morally bankrupted by the sanctification of victimhood, which it…
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