Articles by Chris Hedges | Films For Action

Chris Hedges · 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 —...

The Last Election

Chris Hedges · The presidential election in 2024 may be the last free vote taken in the United States. Dictatorships only hold elections with predetermined outcomes or do not hold them at all. Trump is...

Imperial Boomerang

Chris Hedges · The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including the killing of the intensive-care nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or...

The Flotillas to Gaza Are the World’s Conscience

Chris Hedges · The numerous attempts by activists in flotillas, to break the siege on Gaza, are a potent reminder that hope comes through acts of resistance and that we must never accept the status quo.

The Machinery of Terror

Chris Hedges · The Trump administration is consolidating the familiar machinery of terror of all authoritarian states. We must resist now. If we wait, it will be too late.

The Grand Illusion of Dying Empires

Chris Hedges · All empires, when they are dying, worship the idol of war. War will save the empire. War will resurrect past glory. War will teach an unruly world to obey. But those who bow down before...

America the Rogue State

Chris Hedges · The evisceration of the rule of law at home and abroad solidifies America as a rogue state.

Trump’s Greatest Ally Is the Democratic Party

Chris Hedges · The Democratic Party and its liberal allies refuse to call for mass mobilization and strikes — the only tools that can thwart Trump’s emergent authoritarianism — fearing they too will be...

America Is a Banana Republic

Chris Hedges · El Presidente Donald Trump is the gringo version of brutal and corrupt dictators foisted on Latin American countries by their oligarchs and Yankee imperialists.

Trump’s War on America

Chris Hedges · Trump’s newest presidential memoranda criminalizes critics of empire, capitalism, Christian nationalism, abuses by the state and those who fight racism and gender discrimination.

We Are All Antifa Now

Chris Hedges · The designation of the amorphous group antifa as a terrorist organization allows the state to brand all dissidents as supporters of antifa and prosecute them as terrorists.

The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk

Chris Hedges · Martyrs are used by messianic movements to sanctify violence. To show any mercy or understanding toward the enemy is to betray the martyr and the cause the martyr died defending.

The Persecution of Francesca Albanese

Chris Hedges · The sanctioning by the Trump administration of Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur, is an ominous harbinger of the end of the rule of international law.

Trump, Epstein and the Deep State

Chris Hedges · The Trump administration’s refusal to release the Epstein files and videos is done not only to protect Trump, but the ruling class. They all belong to the same club.

Profiting From Genocide

Chris Hedges · The latest United Nations report names hundreds of corporations, banks, technology firms, universities, pension funds and charities that profit from the Israeli occupation and genocide.

Gaza’s Hunger Games

Chris Hedges · Israel is weaponizing starvation. The objective is to dismantle all remnants of civil society and reduce Palestinians to herds of desperate scavengers who can be driven from historic...

War Deja Vu

Chris Hedges · The lies told to ignite the war with Iraq have been resurrected to ignite a war with Iran. The assessments of intelligence agencies and international bodies are dismissed, replaced by...

The Rule of Idiots

Chris Hedges · In the last days of all empires the idiots take over. They mirror the collective stupidity of a civilization that has detached itself from reality.

American Concentration Camps

Chris Hedges · Once a regime starts to send people to concentration camps — including those in El Salvador — it creates a system of detention that eschews due process and disappears citizens into black...

Restoring Lies and Insanity to American History

Chris Hedges · The assault on historical memory by the Trump administration is designed to obliterate our shared understanding of reality and whitewash the crimes of the past to whitewash the crimes of...

UN Report Warns of Escalating Genocide in Gaza

Chris Hedges · A United Nations report, published in October, lays out in chilling detail the advances made by Israel in Gaza as it seeks to eradicate “the very existence of the Palestinian people in...

The Politics of Cultural Despair

Chris Hedges · 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...

How to Defeat the Billionaire Class

Chris Hedges · Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant and the Socialist Alternative (SA) party have, for nearly a decade, waged one of the most effective battles against the city’s moneyed elites...

You Saved Julian Assange

Chris Hedges · After 14 years of persecution, Julian Assange will go free. We must honor the hundreds of thousands of people across the globe who made this happen.

Nero’s Guests

Chris Hedges · I gave this talk in Blackburn, England during a campaign event for my friend Craig Murray who is running for parliament. Like George Galloway, who was recently elected to parliament...

Aaron Bushnell’s Divine Violence

Chris Hedges · Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation was ultimately a religious act, one that radically delineates good and evil and calls us to resist.

The Death of Israel

Chris Hedges · Israel will appear triumphant after it finishes its genocidal campaign in Gaza and the West Bank. But by the time Israel achieves its decimation of Gaza, it will have signed its own...

Phase One of Israel’s Genocidal Campaign on Gaza has Ended. Phase Two has Begun.

Chris Hedges · It will result in even higher levels of death and destruction.

Israel is Not only Decimating Gaza with Airstrikes, It's Employing the Oldest & Cruelest Weapon of War: Starvation

Chris Hedges · Israel’s message, on the eve of a ground invasion, is clear. Leave Gaza or Die.

Israel’s Culture of Deceit

Chris Hedges · Israel, which always seeks to blame Palestinians for the atrocities it carries out, is the least trustworthy source about the bombing of the hospital in Gaza.

Washington and European Governments are Cheerleading Israel’s Genocidal Campaign in Gaza

Chris Hedges · The failure to intervene to halt the carnage threatens to ignite violence throughout the region.

Hamas Speaks the Language of Violence Israel Taught Them

Chris Hedges · The indiscriminate shootings of Israelis by Hamas and other Palestinian resistance organizations, the kidnapping of civilians, the barrage of rockets into Israel, drone attacks on a...

NATO: the Most Dangerous Military Alliance on the Planet | Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges · The massive expansion of NATO, not only in Eastern and Central Europe but the Middle East, Latin America, Africa and Asia, presages endless war and a potential nuclear holocaust.

The Pimps of War

Chris Hedges · The coterie of neocons and liberal interventionists who orchestrated two decades of military fiascos in the Middle East and who have never been held to account are now stoking a war with...

On Being Disappeared

Chris Hedges · The entire archive of six years of my show On Contact has been disappeared from YouTube.

Bandaging the Corpse

Chris Hedges · Biden's bailout will not alter the structural inequities and other fundamental underpinnings of America's death spiral.

The Age of Social Murder

Chris Hedges · The ruling elites, despite the accelerating and tangible ecological collapse, mollify us, either by meaningless gestures or denial.

Cancel Culture, Where Liberalism Goes to Die

Chris Hedges · Elites and their courtiers who trumpet their moral superiority by damning and silencing those who do not linguistically conform to politically correct speech are the new Jacobins.

The Oligarchy Knows Class Warfare Is the Real Fight—Why Don't Liberals?

Chris Hedges · The Democrats and Republicans have legalized a level of greed and fraud that even heirs of the robber barons thought unsustainable.

The Ruling Elite’s War on Truth

Chris Hedges · American political leaders display a widening disconnect from reality intended to mask their complicity in the seizure of power by global corporations and billionaires.

The One-Choice Election

Chris Hedges · There is only one choice in this election. The consolidation of oligarchic power under Donald Trump or the consolidation of oligarchic power under Joe Biden.

Class: The Little Word the Elites Want You to Forget

Chris Hedges · The culture wars give the oligarchs, both Democrats and Republicans, the cover to continue the pillage.

The New 'Black Codes'

Chris Hedges · The elites are acutely aware that without police terror and the U.S. prison system, which holds 25% of the world’s prison population, there would be intense social unrest.

How to Save the Planet and Ourselves

Chris Hedges · We must reduce carbon emissions by 40% in the next 12 years to have a 50% chance of avoiding catastrophe.

Saving the Planet Means Overthrowing the Ruling Elites

Chris Hedges · We must organize to replace existing structures of power with ones capable of coping with the crisis before us.

Our Invisible Government

Chris Hedges · The most powerful and important organs in the invisible government are the nation’s bloated and unaccountable intelligence agencies.

The Coming Show Trial of Julian Assange

Chris Hedges · LONDON—On Friday morning I was in a small courtroom at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London. Julian Assange, held in Belmarsh Prison and dressed in a pale-blue prison shirt, appeared...

America's Reproductive Slaves

Chris Hedges · On Wednesday, the day it was announced that the U.S. birthrate fell for the fourth straight year, signaling the lowest number of births in 32 years, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed into law...

Capitalists, Throughout History, Have Backed Fascism to Thwart Even the Most Tepid Forms of Socialism

Chris Hedges · The corporate capitalists who hold real power view Trump as an embarrassment. They would prefer to put a more dignified face on the American empire. But for the corporate elites it is...

Confronting the Culture of Death

Chris Hedges · The issue before us is death. Not only our individual death, which is more imminent for some of us this morning than others, but our collective death.

Neoliberalism's Dark Path to Fascism

Chris Hedges · Neoliberalism transforms freedom for the many into freedom for the few. Its logical result is neofascism.

Crucifying Julian Assange

Chris Hedges · What is happening to Assange should terrify the press. And yet his plight is met with indifference and sneering contempt.

The Cult of Trump

Chris Hedges · Cult leaders arise from decayed communities and societies in which people have been shorn of political, social and economic power. The disempowered, infantilized by a world they cannot...

The Coming Collapse

Chris Hedges · It is impossible for any doomed population to grasp how fragile the decayed financial, social and political system is on the eve of implosion.

The Cult of Violence Always Kills the Left

Chris Hedges · The Weather Underground, a clandestine revolutionary organization that advocated violence, was seen by my father and other clergy members who were involved in Vietnam anti-war protests...

The Oligarchs’ ‘Guaranteed Basic Income’ Scam

Chris Hedges · Beware the architects of our neofeudalism calling on the government to pay a guaranteed basic income

The Useful Idiocy of Donald Trump

Chris Hedges · The problem with Donald Trump is not that he is imbecilic and inept—it is that he has surrendered total power to the oligarchic and military elites. They get what they want. They do what...

Thought Police for the 21st Century: Google, Facebook Suppress Left Media Under the Guise of Combating "Fake News"

Chris Hedges · DETROIT—The abolition of net neutrality and the use of algorithms by Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter to divert readers and viewers from progressive, left-wing and anti-war sites...

The End of Empire

Chris Hedges · The death spiral appears unstoppable, meaning the U.S. as we know it will no longer exist within a decade or, at most, two.

The Silencing of Dissent

Chris Hedges · Now that the ideology of global capitalism has been discredited, the ruling elites are turning to blacklists, internet censorship and charges of “fake news” to shut down their critics.

The Great Flood

Chris Hedges · How many times will we rebuild Florida’s cities, Houston, coastal New Jersey, New Orleans and other population centers ravaged by storms lethally intensified by global warming? At what...

How ‘Antifa’ Mirrors the ‘Alt-Right’

Chris Hedges · Behind the rhetoric of the “alt-right” about white nativism and protecting American traditions, history and Christian values is the lust for violence. Behind the rhetoric of antifa, the...

Trump Is the Symptom, Not the Disease

Chris Hedges · The persecution of Mumia Abu-Jamal, MOVE members and all the radicals of four decades ago is not ancient history. It is the genesis of the present.

The Reign of Idiots

Chris Hedges · Donald Trump. King of the horrifingly dumb and dangerously greedy.

The Pandora's Box of War

Chris Hedges · War opens a Pandora’s box of evils that once unleashed are beyond anyone’s control. The invasion of Afghanistan set out to defeat al-Qaida, and nearly 16 years later, we are embroiled in...

A Last Chance for Resistance

Chris Hedges · The crawl toward despotism within a failed democracy is always incremental. No regime planning to utterly extinguish civil liberties advertises its intentions in advance. It pays lip...

Make America Ungovernable

Chris Hedges · Donald Trump’s regime is rapidly reconfiguring the United States into an authoritarian state. All forms of dissent will soon be criminalized. Civil liberties will no longer exist...

We Can't Battle the Bigotry Stoked by Trump without a Strategy to Alleviate the Chronic Misery Behind It

Chris Hedges · My relatives in Maine are deplorables. I cannot write on their behalf. I can write in their defense.

The Revenge of the Lower Classes and the Rise of American Fascism

Chris Hedges · College-educated elites, on behalf of corporations, carried out the savage neoliberal assault on the working poor. Now they are being made to pay. Their duplicity—embodied in politicians...

Post-Brexit, The Far Right Could Easily Ascend to Power, But There's One Way We Can Prevent That

Chris Hedges · Great Britain’s decision to leave the European Union has wiped out many bankers and global speculators. They will turn, as they did in 2008, to governments to rescue them from default...

Con Vs. Con

Chris Hedges · During the presidential election cycle, liberals display their gutlessness. Liberal organizations, such as MoveOn.org, become cloyingly subservient to the Democratic Party. Liberal...

Reform or Revolution

Chris Hedges · Chris Hedges on revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg in the context of the upcoming US election.

Welcome to 1984

Chris Hedges · The façade of democracy and the disempowerment of the citizenry by corporations has sparked a nationwide revolt. Elites, fearing unrest, will soon become ruthless. We must engage now in...

The Lie of Patriotism

Chris Hedges · When Rory Fanning, a burly veteran who served in the 2nd Army Ranger Battalion and was deployed in Afghanistan in 2002 and 2004, appeared at the Donald Trump rally in Chicago last month...

The Illusion of Freedom - Why Corporate Systems of Power Must Be Destroyed

Chris Hedges · The seizure of political and economic power by corporations is unassailable. Who funds and manages our elections? Who writes our legislation and laws? Who determines our defense policies...

The Creeping Villainy of American Politics

Chris Hedges · The threefold rise in hate crimes against Muslims since the Paris and San Bernardino attacks and the acceptance of hate speech as a legitimate form of political discourse signal the...

Apocalyptic Capitalism

Chris Hedges · The charade of the 21st United Nations climate summit will end, as past climate summits have ended, with lofty rhetoric and ineffectual cosmetic reforms. Since the first summit more than...

The Age of the Demagogues

Chris Hedges · The increase in nihilistic violence such as school shootings and Friday’s lethal assault on a Planned Parenthood clinic, the frequent executions of poor people of color by police, and...

States of Terror

Chris Hedges · It is nearly certain that we will endure, sooner rather than later, another catastrophic terrorist attack on American soil. The blundering of our military into the Middle East; the...

Where Is Our Jeremy Corbyn?

Chris Hedges · The politics of Jeremy Corbyn, elected by a landslide Saturday to lead Britain’s Labour Party after its defeat at the polls last May, are part of the global revolt against corporate...

Noam Chomsky Has 'Never Seen Anything Like This'

Chris Hedges · Noam Chomsky is America’s greatest intellectual. His massive body of work, which includes nearly 100 books, has for decades deflated and exposed the lies of the power elite and the myths...

The Great Unraveling: In Times of National Crisis and Public Outrage, Strange and Dangerous Candidates Often Arise

Chris Hedges · The ideological and physical hold of American imperial power, buttressed by the utopian ideology of neoliberalism and global capitalism, is unraveling. Most, including many of those at...

We Are All Greeks Now

Chris Hedges · The poor and the working class in the United States know what it is to be Greek. They know underemployment and unemployment. They know life without a pension. They know existence on a...

Corporate Capitalism Is the Foundation of Police Brutality and the Prison State

Chris Hedges · Our national conversation on race and crime is based on a fiction. It is the fiction that the organs of internal security, especially the judiciary and the police, can be adjusted...

The Electoral Farce

Chris Hedges · I intend to devote no more time to the upcoming presidential elections than walking to my local polling station on Election Day, voting for a third-party candidate, most likely the Green...

"We Are In a Revolutionary Moment": Chris Hedges Explains Why An Uprising Is Coming, And Soon

Chris Hedges · The status quo is doomed but whether the future will be progressive or reactionary is uncertain, Hedges tells Salon

Marx Was Right

Chris Hedges · Karl Marx exposed the peculiar dynamics of capitalism, or what he called “the bourgeois mode of production.” He foresaw that capitalism had built within it the seeds of its own...

Make the Rich Panic

Chris Hedges · It does not matter to the corporate rich who wins the presidential election. It does not matter who is elected to Congress. The rich have the power. They throw money at their favorites...

Choosing Life

Chris Hedges · MINISINK, N.Y.—The affable, soft-spoken dairy farmer stood outside his 70-stall milking barn on his 230-acre family farm. When his father started farming there in 1950 were about 800...

The Time Is Right for a Palace Revolution

Chris Hedges · PRINCETON, N.J.—Tariq Ali is part of the royalty of the left. His more than 20 books on politics and history, his seven novels, his screenplays and plays and his journalism in the Black...

The Terror We Give Is the Terror We Get

Chris Hedges · We fire missiles from the sky that incinerate families huddled in their houses. They incinerate a pilot cowering in a cage. We torture hostages in our black sites and choke them to death...

How America's Sporting Events Have Turned into Mass Religious Events to Bless Wars and Militarism

Chris Hedges · BOSTON, Jul 7, 2014 —On Saturday I went to one of the massive temples across the country where we celebrate our state religion. The temple I visited was Boston’s Fenway Park. I was...

Killing Ragheads for Jesus: On Watching 'American Sniper'

Chris Hedges · “American Sniper” lionizes the most despicable aspects of U.S. society—the gun culture, the blind adoration of the military, the belief that we have an innate right as a “Christian”...

A Message From the Dispossessed

Chris Hedges · The terrorist attack in France that took place at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo was not about free speech. It was not about radical Islam. It did not illustrate the fictitious...

The Coming Climate Revolt

Chris Hedges · Chris Hedges made these remarks Saturday at a panel discussion in New York City titled “The Climate Crisis: Which Way Out?” The other panelists were Bill McKibben, Naomi Klein, Kshama...

Sacrificing the Vulnerable, From Gaza to America

Chris Hedges · Chris Hedges gave this speech Saturday at the Sauk County Fairgrounds in Baraboo, Wis., before a crowd of about 2,000. His address followed one there by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, a...

How the Brutalized Become Brutal

Chris Hedges · The horrific pictures of the beheading of American reporter James Foley, the images of executions of alleged collaborators in Gaza and the bullet-ridden bodies left behind in Iraq by the...

Why Israel Lies

Chris Hedges · All governments lie, as I.F. Stone pointed out, including Israel and Hamas.

The Palestinians' Right to Self-Defense

Chris Hedges · If Israel insists, as the Bosnian Serbs did in Sarajevo, on using the weapons of industrial warfare against a helpless civilian population then that population has an inherent right to...

Israel Is Captive to Its 'Destructive Process'

Chris Hedges · Raul Hilberg in his monumental work “The Destruction of the European Jews” chronicled a process of repression that at first was “relatively mild” but led, step by step, to the Holocaust...

The Trouble With Chris Christie

Chris Hedges · New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has been Wall Street’s anointed son for the presidency.

Our Invisible Revolution

Chris Hedges · “Did you ever ask yourself how it happens that government and capitalism continue to exist in spite of all the evil and trouble they are causing in the world?” the anarchist

Let's Get This Class War Started

Chris Hedges · “The rich are different from us,” F. Scott Fitzgerald is said to have remarked to Ernest Hemingway, to which Hemingway allegedly replied, “Yes, they have more money.”

What's Happening in Egypt is a Precursor to a Global War Between the World's Elites and the Poor

Chris Hedges · Radical Islam is the last refuge of the Muslim poor. The mandated five prayers a day give the only real structure to the lives of impoverished believers. The careful rituals of washing...

The Persecution of Lynne Stewart - A Casualty of The War on Terror Witch Hunt

Chris Hedges · Lynne Stewart, in the vindictive and hysterical world of the war on terror, is one of its martyrs. A 73-year-old lawyer who spent her life defending the poor, the marginalized and the...

The Creed of Objectivity Killed The News

Chris Hedges · The creed of objectivity and balance, formulated at the beginning of the 19th century by newspaper owners to generate greater profits from advertisers, disarms and cripples the press...

Elites Will Make Gazans of Us All

Chris Hedges · Gaza is a window on our coming dystopia. The growing divide between the world’s elite and its miserable masses of humanity is maintained through spiraling violence. Many impoverished...

The Perversion of Scholarship

Chris Hedges · Fraternities, sororities and football, along with other outsized athletic programs, have decimated most major American universities. Scholarship, inquiry, self-criticism, moral autonomy...

Occupy Draws Strength From the Powerless

Chris Hedges · There is a recipe for breaking popular movements. I watched it play out over five years in the war in El Salvador. I now see these familiar patterns in the assault against the Occupy...

Why I’m Suing Barack Obama

Chris Hedges · Attorneys Carl J. Mayer and Bruce I. Afran filed a complaint Friday in the Southern U.S. District Court in New York City on my behalf as a plaintiff against Barack Obama and Secretary of...

This Is What Revolution Looks Like

Chris Hedges · Welcome to the revolution. Our elites have exposed their hand. They have nothing to offer. They can destroy but they cannot build. They can repress but they cannot lead. They can steal...

A Movement Too Big to Fail

Chris Hedges · There is no danger that the protesters who have occupied squares, parks and plazas across the nation in defiance of the corporate state will be co-opted by the Democratic Party or groups...

Panache! Why We Must Fight

Chris Hedges · My three-year-old son’s favorite book is Out of the Blue. It has large color photographs of sea animals, from plankton to clownfish to orcas. I often find my son, dressed in his pajamas...

The Obama Deception: Why Cornel West Went Ballistic

Chris Hedges · The moral philosopher Cornel West, if Barack Obama’s ascent to power was a morality play, would be the voice of conscience. Rahm Emanuel, a cynical product of the Chicago political...

Huffington’s Plunder

Chris Hedges · I was in New York City on Thursday night at the Brecht Forum to discuss with the photographer Eugene Richards his powerful new book “War Is Personal” when I was approached for an...

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