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Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. He is the host of show The Chris Hedges Report.

Chris Hedges: America’s Theater of the Absurd

The internecine warfare in the House is not between those who respect democratic institutions and those who do not. McCarthy, backed by Trump and far-right conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene, is as morally bankrupt as those trying to bring him down.

January 11th, 2023
Chris Hedges
January 11th, 2023
By Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges: Kevin McCarthy Feature photo

PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — Our political class does not govern. It entertains. It plays its assigned role in our fictitious democracy, howling with outrage to constituents and selling them out. The Squad and the Progressive Caucus have no more intention of fighting for universal health care, workers’ rights or defying the war machine than

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Chris Hedges: The Democrats Are Now the War Party

Chris Hedges on how Democrats sold their souls to corporate donors, and, by extension, to powerful weapons makers and war hawks.

December 27th, 2022
Chris Hedges
December 27th, 2022
By Chris Hedges
Democrats War Feature photo

PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — The Democrats position themselves as the party of virtue, cloaking their support for the war industry in moral language stretching back to Korea and Vietnam, when President Ngo Dinh Diem was as lionized as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. All the wars they support and fund are “good” wars. All the enemies

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Chris Hedges: Israel and the Rise of Jewish Fascism

The mask is being lifted from the face of Israel’s apartheid state, exposing a grinning death’s head that portends the obliteration of the few restraints against the killing of the Palestinians.

December 12th, 2022
Chris Hedges
December 12th, 2022
By Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges: Israel and the Rise of Jewish Fascism

PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed coalition government of Jewish extremists, fanatic Zionists and religious bigots represents a seismic change in Israel, one that will exacerbate Israel’s pariah status, erode external support for Israel, fuel a third Palestinian uprising, or intifada, and create irreconcilable

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Chris Hedges: Know Thine Enemy

The expedited legislation passed by Congress to avert a strike by railroad unions dealt one more blow in the decades long war waged by the two ruling parties against the working class.

December 5th, 2022
Chris Hedges
December 5th, 2022
By Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges: Know Thine Enemy Feature photo

PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) —The Congressional decision to prohibit railroad workers from going on strike and force them to accept a contract that meets few of their demands is part of the class war that has defined American politics for decades. The two ruling political parties differ only in rhetoric. They are bonded in their determination

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Chris Hedges: The Return of Fascism

The bankruptcy of the liberal class means that those who decry the folly of permanent war and NATO expansion, mercenary trade deals, exploitation of workers by globalization, austerity and neoliberalism come increasingly from the far-right.

September 26th, 2022
Chris Hedges
September 26th, 2022
By Chris Hedges

PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — Energy and food bills are soaring. Under the onslaught of inflation and prolonged wage stagnation, wages are in free fall. Billions of dollars are diverted by Western nations at a time of economic crisis and staggering income inequality to fund a proxy war in Ukraine. The liberal class, terrified by the rise of

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Chris Hedges: Strike, Strike, Strike

The mounting social inequality is fueling protests around the globe. The global ruling class is determined to prevent these protests from employing the weapon that can bring them down — strikes.

September 20th, 2022
Chris Hedges
September 20th, 2022
By Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges: Strike, Strike, Strike

PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — The mounting social inequality is fueling protests around the globe. The global ruling class is determined to prevent these protests from employing the weapon that can bring them down — strikes. The ruling oligarchs are terrified that, for tens of millions of people, the economic dislocation caused by

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Chris Hedges: Monarchs Belong in the Dustbin of History

No institution helps obscure the crimes of empire and buttress class rule and white supremacy as effectively as the British monarchy.

September 13th, 2022
Chris Hedges
September 13th, 2022
By Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges: Monarchs Belong in the Dustbin of History Feature photo

PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — The fawning adulation of Queen Elizabeth in the United States, which fought a revolution to get rid of the monarchy, and in Great Britain, is in direct proportion to the fear gripping a discredited, incompetent and corrupt global ruling elite. The global oligarchs are not sure the next generation of royal

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