Tag: The Chris Hedges Report
The Chris Hedges Report: Hip hop, censorship, and Palestinian resistance
Legendary UK-based hip-hop artist and activist Kareem Dennis, aka Lowkey, uses his considerable talents as a musician to pay homage to the voices and struggles of the oppressed, from the plight of migrants that have…
The Chris Hedges Report with Dr. Cornel West
Dr. Cornel West is the most important standard bearer for the Black prophetic tradition, the most important intellectual and spiritual movement in our history. Rooted in the experience of American racism, capitalist exploitation, and imperialism,…
The Chris Hedges Report: Gerald Horne on the unrelentingly radical life of Paul Robeson
Heroic dissidents are demonized, marginalized, physically and psychologically destroyed, or assassinated by the American ruling class. Before the persecution of Julian Assange, before the FBI assassination of Fred Hampton and Malcolm X, before the murder…
The Chris Hedges Report: Ukraine and the resurgence of American militarism
The war in Ukraine, stoked in part by NATO expansion and the violation of promises made to Moscow at the end of the Cold War, now looks set to become a lengthy war of attrition—one…
The Chris Hedges Report: Ukraine and the ‘worthy’ and ‘unworthy’ victims of war
Rulers divide the world into ‘worthy’ and ‘unworthy’ victims; those we are allowed to pity, such as Ukrainians enduring the hell of modern warfare, and those whose suffering is minimized, dismissed, or ignored. This bifurcation…
The Chris Hedges Report: How to defeat the billionaire class
Read the transcript of this video: https://therealnews.com/the-chris-hedges-report-how-to-defeat-the-billionaire-class Since being elected to office in 2013, Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant and her socialist party have been locked in a bitter battle against the city’s moneyed elites,…
The Chris Hedges Report: Breaking the cycle of American violence
American society is the most violent of any nation in the industrialized world. Nothing we do, from administrating the world’s largest prison system to militarizing our police, seems to help. Dr. James Gilligan argues that…
The Chris Hedges Report: Disaster patriarchy and the global war on women
The leaked majority draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health—which suggests the Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, returning the question of abortion to the states—is part of a broader assault…
The Chris Hedges Report: Julian Assange’s father, John Shipton, speaks out
Julian Assange has spent over a decade fighting imprisonment, extradition, and CIA espionage. On Oct. 8, Chris Hedges and others will gather in Washington, DC, to demand Assange’s release at the same time that protestors…
The Chris Hedges Report: The Psychology of White Supremacists
In 1966, the Mississippi Ku Klux Klan assassinated Black civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer. A new book from former Boston Globe reporter Curtis Wilkie, ”When Evil Lived in Laurel: The White Knights and the Murder…
The Chris Hedges Report: Dr. Gabor Maté on trauma, addiction, and illness under capitalism
Dr. Gabor Maté joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss his new book, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture. Dr. Gabor Maté is a physician and childhood development specialist…
The Chris Hedges Report: Dr. Gerald Horne on the legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois
The Chris Hedges Report examines some of W.E.B. Du Bois’s fundamental ideas with his biographer Dr. Gerald Horne, who holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies at The University of Houston. Dr….
The Chris Hedges Report: Ukraine and the crisis of media censorship
Throughout the Ukraine war, Western news outlets have mindlessly parroted the opinions of a ruling elite and overseen a public discourse that is often unhinged from the real world. Patrick Lawrence was a…
Inflation, Europe’s energy crisis, and the Fed with Richard Wolff | The Chris Hedges Report
Read the transcript of this interview: https://therealnews.com/richard-wolff-the-feds-response-to-inflation-is-another-upward-transfer-of-wealth The Federal Reserve has responded to runaway inflation by hiking up interest rates at the same time that Americans are drowning in historic levels of personal debt. With…
Lori Grinker’s photos capture history through portraits | The Chris Hedges Report
Lori Grinker was just an art school student when she was assigned to shoot a project on young boxers under the guidance of legendary trainer Cus D’Amato. It was through this project that she met…
Was Shakespeare a woman? | The Chris Hedges Report
The notion of a grand literary deception surrounding the works of William Shakespeare is probably one of the less offensive conspiracy theories in circulation. Within literary academia, however, it’s absolute heresy. Yet many writers and thinkers,…
