The Israeli government, backed by the Trump administration, is laying the groundwork for the full expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza, a move that has the potential to ignite a regional conflagration. CHRIS HEDGES APR 12 Israel is poised to carry out the largest campaign of ethnic cleansing since the end of World War II. Since […]
Liberal institutions, including universities, traditionally surrender without a fight to the dictates of autocrats. Ours are no exception. CHRIS HEDGES March 24 I was not surprised when Columbia University’s interim president Katrina Armstrong caved to the demands of the Trump administration. She agreed to ban face masks or face coverings, prohibit protests in academic buildings and create […]
Israel has begun the final stage of its genocide. The Palestinians will be forced to choose between death or deportation. There are no other options. CHRIS HEDGES March 22 This is the last chapter of the genocide. It is the final, blood-soaked push to drive the Palestinians from Gaza. No food. No medicine. No shelter. […]
Christian extremists in America bond with Jewish extremists in Israel not over religion but a shared fascism. Fascism can only be defeated with a rival militancy — a militancy communists, anarchists and socialists in the 1930s exhibited — one that offers an alternative vision and does not compromise with despotic power. CHRIS HEDGES March […]
First we got a mafia economy. Then we got a mafia state. We must rid ourselves of the ruling criminal class or become its victims. By Chris Hedges Feb 15, 2025 Kiss the ring. Grovel before the Godfather. Give him tribute, a cut of the spoils. If he and his family get rich you […]
It is despair that is killing us. It fosters what the Roger Lancaster calls “poisoned solidarity,” the intoxication forged from the negative energies of fear, envy, hatred and a lust for violence. By CHRIS HEDGES Nov. 6 In the end, the election was about despair. Despair over futures that evaporated with deindustrialization. Despair […]
Israel’s genocide includes the most draconian censorship and intentional murder of journalists since the creation of the modern war correspondent. The consequences will be catastrophic. By CHRIS HEDGES Oct 25 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 by […]
Hundreds of thousands of people are being forced to flee, once again, after more than half of Gaza’s population took sanctuary in the border town of Rafah. This is part of Israel’s sadistic playbook. By Chris Hedges May 13, 2024 Run, the Israelis demand, run for your lives. Run from Rafah the way […]
The courageous stance of students across the country in defiance of genocide is accompanied by a near total blackout of their voices. Their words are the ones we most need to hear. By Chris Hedges May 8, 2024 NEW YORK CITY: I am sitting on a fire escape across the street from Columbia University […]
This is a sermon I gave Sunday April 28 at a service held at the encampment for Gaza at Princeton University. The service was organized by students from Princeton Theological Seminary. By CHRIS HEDGES 28 April, 2024 In the conflicts I covered as a reporter in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and the […]
University students across the country, facing mass arrests, suspensions, evictions and expulsions are our last, best hope to halt the genocide in Gaza. By CHRIS HEDGES 25 April, 2024 PRINCETON, N.J — Achinthya Sivalingam, a graduate student in Public Affairs at Princeton University did not know when she woke up this morning that […]
Julian Assange will make his final appeal this week to the British courts to avoid extradition. If he is extradited it is the death of investigations into the inner workings of power by the press. By CHRIS HEDGES FEB 18, 2024 LONDON — If Julian Assange is denied permission to appeal his extradition to […]
The ruling by the International Court of Justice was a legal victory for South Africa and the Palestinians, but it will not halt the slaughter. CHRIS HEDGES Jan 27, 2024 The International Court of Justice (ICJ) refused to implement the most crucial demand made by South African jurists: “the State of Israel shall immediately suspend […]
Israel’s Genocide Betrays the Holocaust By obscuring and falsifying the lessons of the Holocaust we perpetuate the evil that defined it. By CHRIS HEDGES Dec 29 Israel’s lebensraum master plan for Gaza, borrowed from the Nazi’s depopulation of Jewish ghettos, is clear. Destroy infrastrutrue, medical facilities and sanitation, including access to clean water. Block shipments of […]
Israel’s settler colonial project perpetuates the cycle of violence against the indigenous inhabitants of historic Palestine. Palestinians have been forced to speak back in the language Israel speaks. By CHRIS HEDGES Dec 10, 2023 I knew Dr. Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, the co-founder of Hamas, along with Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Yassin. Al-Rantisi’s family were […]