#chris-hedges — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #chris-hedges, aggregated by home.social.
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"But it is how [Epstein benefactor Leslie] Wexner has accumulated this leverage that illuminates the dark inner workings of our political system. These 'public-private partnerships' [Whitney] Webb reveal - despite the banality of their name - function as a way for oligarchs to funnel [public] money into privately-developed business projects."
#ChrisHedges, 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qbs91ivQmg
Very pleased to see @whitneywebb here : )
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#AmericanFascists is a prescient book written by #ChrisHedges in 2007, which at the time of launch was dismissed as alarmist:
"All it will take, Hedges writes, is one more national crisis on the order of September 11 for the #ChristianRight to make a concerted drive to destroy #Americandemocracy. The movement awaits a crisis. At that moment they will reveal themselves for what they truly are -- the American heirs to #fascism. Hedges issues a potent, impassioned warning. We face an imminent threat. His book reminds us of the dangers liberal, democratic societies face when they tolerate the #intolerant."
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/69095.American_Fascists
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Gaza’s Board of Pieces
“Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza is a mirage, a conjuring trick in which peace is unilaterally declared as Israel seizes more Palestinian land and brings the genocide to its grim conclusion․”
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/gazas-board-of-pieces
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#ChrisHedges : “…the #genocide is a message by the global ruling class that we will stop at nothing as the #climate breaks down, that genocide is a legitimate tool in our eyes that we will use. I think that message has gotten through; it's clear. Israel has been, of course, exposed for what it—for those of us who covered Israel—what we always knew it was, but that kind of mask has been lifted from the Zionist state.”
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#ChrisHedges | How the Epstein Network is Privatizing the Government & Building Out the Surveillance State (w/Whitney Webb) | TCHR
Whitney Webb explains how Leslie Wexner privatized Ohio’s state government, and is using his position between the markets and the state to help the Thielverse build out the ‘Silicon Heartland.’
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/how-the-epstein-network-is-privatizing
#WhitneyWebb #DataCenters #LeslieWexner #US #Ohio #Surveillance #AI
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Why the U.S. Military is 'Earth's Greatest Enemy' (w/ Abby Martin) | The Chris Hedges Report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKtDJcDPvjc
#USmilitary #ChrisHedges #uspolitics #usa #uspol #USimperialism #pollution #AbbyMartin #peace #trumpWarCrimes #USwarCrimes #USwarMachine #FuckTrump #warcrimes #climatecrisis
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#ChrisHedges | Why the U.S. Military is 'Earth's Greatest Enemy' (w/ Abby Martin) | The Chris Hedges Report
"It would take the average American driver over 40 years to burn as much fuel as a single flight of a Boeing Pegasus. The US flies more than 600 of these tankers, triple the rest of the world combined."
"You cannot call yourself an environmentalist if you are not anti-imperialist."
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/why-the-us-military-is-earths-greatest
https://earthsgreatestenemy.com/
#AbbyMartin #US #War #Gaza #Iraq #Climate #ClimateCatastrophe #Environmentalism #AntiImperialism
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#MarieGottschalk talks to #Chrishedges about corporate unaccountability and #PoliceBrutality
She has this to say, although it is unclear to me from the discussion if she is referring to all white Americans or just rural Americans:
“More white people are killed by U.S. police officers each year than people from any other racial or ethnic group. Eight of the 10 states with the highest rates of fatal police shootings are in the West, where black people constitute barely 3 % of state populations on average. As for the other leading states, one is West Virginia, which is one of the whitest and least diverse states. The other is Louisiana, one of the most racially and ethnically diverse states. White people make up the majority of people in rural areas in nearly every state and also constitute two thirds of the people killed by the police in rural communities.”
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/how-americas-corporate-class-became
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I am wary of using the term "fascist" wrt the USA.
The word "fascist" tends to draw attention excessively towards the theatrical elements of Trumpian power, such as semi-uniformed thugs abducting people.
This focus obscures the more subtle systemic fascism, from mass incarceration to voter suppression to redlining to The Pledge to compulsory worship of the military.
#ChrisHedges usefully contrasts Trump's oligarchic fascism with the Dems' corporate fascism.
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I strongly recommend this interview with #FrancescaAlbanese on #Israel's #genocide by #ChrisHedges:
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What Happens 'When the #World #Sleeps' (w/ #FrancescaAlbanese) | The #ChrisHedges Report #yt
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#ChrisHedges | 'United States Has Wedded to Idiocy': Chris Hedges | Talk to Al Jazeera
As the United States marks 250 years of independence, author and journalist Chris Hedges reflects on the promise of the American experiment, its greatest achievements, and its deepest contradictions.
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/united-states-has-wedded-to-idiocy
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I may have posted this Kshama Sawant interview with Chris Hedges earlier. Today Hedges posted his endorsement of Sawant on his Substack. Note that Alice Walker and Mumia Abu-Jamal have also endorsed her. She is one of my favorite politicians. She points out that Smith ought to be prosecuted for war crimes (Iraq War).
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#ChrisHedges | Fighting the Corporate Duopoly at the Ballot Box (w/ Kshama Sawant) | The Chris Hedges Report
"[M]y campaign is fighting to end all military aid to the Israeli state, to end weapons and #tech for #genocide and imperialist war. We’re fighting to stop the #AI data center and mass layoff juggernaut. We are also fighting to shut down #ICE and the #DetentionCenters, to win #FreeHealthCare for all funded by taxing the rich, to win national #RentControl and a massive expansion of #AffordableHousing, also funded by taxing the rich, and for a $25 an hour national #MinimumWage."
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/fighting-the-corporate-duopoly-at
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#ChrisHedges | The Joke is on Us
“Trump has also been necessary to expose the plastic progressives, the liberal anti-Trump imperialists who, in their opposition to Trump’s deal with Iran, can only look like warmongering imperial psychopaths,” writes Nate Bear. “From all those sharing memes on social media about surrender, from the Democrats and CNN talking heads decrying the deal, to Jimmy Fallon dragging Trump for giving Iran back the money the US stole, there is no articulation of an alternative to endlessly bombing Iran. There’s no anger from liberals over dead Iranians, or at the imperial state, at Zionism or the embedded death machinery that made this violence possible. No, they’re just embarrassed for empire. And they don’t want to recognise the limits of that empire.”
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They've got Pauline Hanson speaking.
"... Maurice Reilly, walked on to the stage and removed the banner with another staff member.
“We’re not doing stunts, all right … we’re at the press club,” Reilly could be heard saying."This is the National Press Club which un-invited / un-booked / cancelled journalist Chris Hedges.
Clearly it's a stunt venue.
#MauriceReilly #ChrisHedges #NationalPressClub #GazaGenocide
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A fascinating examination of the Israeli mindset.
#ChrisHedges | Is the Ceasefire Dead? (w/ Alastair Crooke) | The Chris Hedges Report
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/is-the-ceasefire-dead-w-alastair
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The Problem With America's Decline
https://youtube.com/shorts/CA2I9wieeBA?si=bCjnH1iBVlAJFZrb
#ChrisHedges #AmericasDecline #USterror #USimperialism #USpol #ClassWar #RullingClass #FuckTrump #FuckMAGA
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The Rise of the Global South
The war on Iran has not only ended in a humiliating defeat for the United States, but resulted in a dramatic shift in the balance of power in the Middle East and the Global South. By Chris Hedges
https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/the-rise-of-the-global-south/
#GlobalSouth #MiddleEast #USpolitics #USimperialism #ChrisHedges #power
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#ChrisHedges | Jeffrey Epstein, the Russian Mob, & the Hidden Assets of the Maxwells (w/ Moe Tkacik) | The Chris Hedges Report
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-the-russian-mob-and
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How the War on Terror Created the Age of Trump with Matt Kennard - The Chris Hedges Report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BN3FwJdQbc
#WarOnTerror #USpol #USterror #FarRight #FarRightExtremist #FuckTrump #HardRight #ChrisHedges #MattKennard #trumpVirus
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#ChrisHedges | How the War on Terror Created the Age of Trump (W/ Matt Kennard) | The Chris Hedges Report
"Matt Kennard shows in his new book that the bipartisan War on Terror laid the groundwork for the Trump presidency and the rise of fascism — now, with extremists empowered, we face the consequences. "
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/how-the-war-on-terror-created-the
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#ChrisHedges | Can the Imperial Core be Reformed? | Chris Hedges & Aaron Maté at the Vancouver Web Summit
At the #VancouverWebSummit, #AaronMaté and I discussed the state of the U.S. amidst the rise of weaponized AI, the Iran War and the #Gaza genocide in a discussion moderated by #SharonNadeem.
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/can-the-imperial-core-be-reformed
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The History of National Resistance in Palestine (w/ Ramzy Baroud) | The Chris Hedges Report
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America’s Suicide Pact
America’s suicidal march began long before Donald Trump. Trump and the buffoons around him are the inevitable final chapter of the decaying empire. ~ Chris Hedges, May 08, 2026
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/americas-suicide-pact
#ChrisHedges #hypermasculinity #USpol #hypermilitarism #EpsteinClass #Trump #AmericanExceptionalism #Neoliberal
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"I don't fight #fascists because I think I'll win.
I fight fascists because they're fascists." - #ChrisHedges
