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: The Persecution of Francesca Albanese

Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur for Palestine, has become a target of US sanctions for her candid reports on the genocide in Gaza. Chris Hedges explores her warnings, her courage, and the global silence surrounding Israel’s crimes.

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By Chris Hedges
Francesca Albanese speaking at a conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 10, 2025.

Originally published at ScheerPost on July 02, 2025. Republished with permission. 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

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Chris Hedges: Profiting From Genocide

Chris Hedges breaks down a damning new UN report by Francesca Albanese exposing how tech giants, arms manufacturers, banks, and universities are profiting from Israel’s genocide of Palestinians.

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By Chris Hedges
Murder in the Bank – by. Mr. Fish

Originally published at ScheerPost on July 02, 2025. Republished with permission. 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., Lockheed Martin, Alphabet Inc., Amazon,

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Starving Gaza into Submission: Chris Hedges on the Final Chapter of Genocide

In Gaza’s final hours, Israel uses starvation as a weapon, the U.S. supplies the arms, and the world watches in silence.

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By Chris Hedges
A jigsaw puzzle made of black-and-white cartoon skulls, nearly complete, with one missing piece on a red background.

Originally published at ScheerPost on May 27, 2025. Republished with permission. 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

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Chris Hedges: Zionist Influence Is Destroying Liberal Institutions from Within

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges argues that liberal institutions—media, universities, and the Democratic Party—have weaponized antisemitism to crush dissent, aiding their own destruction in the process.

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Trump’s Useful Idiots – by Mr. Fish

Originally published at ScheerPost on May 27, 2025. Republished with permission. The media, universities, the Democratic Party and liberals, by embracing the fiction of “rampant antisemitism,” laid the groundwork for their own demise. Columbia and Princeton, where I have taught, and Harvard, which I attended, are not incubators of hatred towards

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Chris Hedges: Israel is About to Empty Gaza

Starvation, siege, and mass expulsion are no longer threats but policies. As Gaza is shattered, the machinery of ethnic cleansing grinds forward, dragging the region—and perhaps the world—toward a reckoning.

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By Chris Hedges
Israel is About to Empty Gaza Bibi Mr Fish

Washington — (Scheerpost) — Israel is poised to carry out the largest campaign of ethnic cleansing since the end of World War II. Since March 2, it has blocked all food and humanitarian aid into Gaza and cut off electricity, so that the last water desalination plant no longer functions. The Israeli military has seized half of the territory — Gaza

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Chris Hedges: How Fascism Came

Hedges unravels the toxic brew of deindustrialization, corporate greed, and authoritarian religion fueling America’s descent into fascism.

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By Chris Hedges
Inside Out – by Mr. Fish

Washington DC — (Scheerpost) — For over two decades, I and a handful of others — Sheldon Wolin, Noam Chomsky, Chalmers Johnson, Barbara Ehrenreich and Ralph Nader — warned that the expanding social inequality and steady erosion of our democratic institutions, including the media, the Congress, organized labor, academia and the courts, would

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Chris Hedges: Organized Oblivion

From the Armenian genocide to Gaza, survivors face a common struggle: fighting the erasure of their history and identity in the face of calculated annihilation.

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By Chris Hedges
Forget Us Not by Mr. Fish

Washington DC — (Scheerpost) — I am in the The Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center next to the St. Vartan Armenian Cathedral in Manhattan. I am holding a bound, hand-written memoir, which includes poetry, drawings, and scrapbooked images, by Zaven Seraidarian, a survivor of the Armenian genocide. The front cover of the book, one of six

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