Videos by Chris Hedges
How the Iran War Will Cause a Global Financial Crisis, with Yanis Varoufakis | The Chris Hedges Report 47 min
47 min · Yanis Varoufakis says that even if the war in Iran ends soon — which it likely will not — the economic consequences will be devastating and prolonged.
The Suicidal Folly of a War With Iran 5 min
5 min · The Laurel and Hardy negotiating team of Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, coupled with Trump’s appalling ignorance of world affairs and megalomania, seem set to push the U.S. into yet...
Is the 'New World Order' Really New? (w/ Yanis Varoufakis) | The Chris Hedges Report 48 min
48 min · Trump’s Board of Peace serves as a multidimensional attempt to maintain international dominance in the face of China’s rise — but is there anything "new" about Trump's colonialism?
How to Fight ICE & Norm Finkelstein's Hope for the Future 13 min
13 min · Norm Finkelstein discusses the dire situation in Gaza, highlighting the seizure of territory by Israel, the blocking of reconstruction aid, and the severe lack of humanitarian aid, clean...
Peaceful vs. Violent Resistance — What's the Answer? 9 min
9 min · Support my independent journalism at Substack: https://chrishedges.substack.com/
Can the Left Resist in the Face of Increasing Repression? 9 min
9 min · Support my independent journalism at Substack: https://chrishedges.substack.com/
The Narco-Trafficking Elite Set to Run Venezuela (w/ Maureen Tkacik) | The Chris Hedges Report 55 min
55 min · Marco Rubio’s personal ties to drug trafficking underscore a deep irony in the Trump administration’s attempts to use the drug war as a means of achieving their imperialist goals in...
The Fraud Behind Our 'Thought Leaders' 15 min
15 min · "Thought leaders" help gut the government infrastructure that helps normal people, then advocate for their companies to "fill the gap" of government failure — failure that they...
The Trillion Dollar War Machine (W/ William D. Hartung) | The Chris Hedges Report 49 min
49 min · The military-industrial-complex has grown into a monster so influential and powerful that even its earliest critics likely never foresaw its evolution. Where will it go from here, and...
Taking Power Amidst the Turbulence (w/ Dylan Saba) | The Chris Hedges Report 41 min
41 min · As American hegemony transforms into something that will be determined by “the forces of historical contingency,” how can regular people fight back against the increasingly violent Empire?
When Religious Mafia & Rightwing Extremists Take Over (w/ Rollo Romig) | The Chris Hedges Report 49 min
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The Member States Complicit in GENOCIDE (w/ Francesca Albanese) | The Chris Hedges Report 45 min
45 min · Francesca Albanese’s new report examines how 60+ countries are complicit in Israel’s war crimes — and how their contributions will come back to haunt their own citizens.
The Rise of the Thielverse & the Surveillance State (w/ Whitney Webb) | The Chris Hedges Report 45 min
45 min · Whitney Webb traces the Thielverse’s rise and the construction of the bipartisan modern surveillance state that Trump and his benefactors are deploying against dissidents and immigrants...
Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces (w/ Seth Harp) | The Chris Hedges Report 61 min
61 min · For decades, clandestine foreign military and intelligence operations have been the deadly, destabilizing engine of American foreign policy. Today, as exposed by investigative journalist...
Chris Hedges: Can Love Persevere? 8 min
8 min · Support my independent journalism at Substack: https://chrishedges.substack.com/
It's Time to Fight Back Against Trump's Fascist Regime (W/ Ralph Nader) | the Chris Hedges Report 39 min
39 min · Support my independent journalism at Substack: https://chrishedges.substack.com/
Chris Hedges Live Q&A: Where Is America Going and Should You Leave? 68 min
68 min · In this live Q&A session, Chris Hedges provides a sobering assessment of American political and social decline, arguing for organized collective resistance and militant labor action as...
The Death of the Holocaust Industry | Chris Hedges 16 min
16 min · The genocide in Gaza has exposed the weaponization of the Holocaust as a vehicle not to prevent genocide, but to perpetuate it, not to examine the past, but to manipulate the present.
Epstein, Donald Trump and Sexual Blackmail Networks (w/ Nick Bryant) 63 min
63 min · Despite a strong desire from the public to get to the bottom of the Jeffrey Epstein case, which saw the trafficking and sexual exploitation of thousands of young girls, the cabal...
Will Zohran Empower Or Betray the Working Class? (w/ Kshama Sawant) 61 min
61 min · While Zohran Mamdani's victory warrants celebration, groundbreaking socialist campaigns of the past have fallen short on their promises to working people. Will Mamdani's movement suffer...
Chris Hedges: It's The Iraq War ALL OVER AGAIN 4 min
4 min · We are opening Pandora's box.
Chris Hedges: The Last Days of Gaza 12 min
12 min · The genocide is almost complete. When it is concluded it will not only have decimated the Palestinians, but will have exposed the moral bankruptcy of Western civilization.
Chris Hedges: Trump's Useful Idiots 17 min
17 min · A bankrupt liberal class, by signing on for the Zionist witch hunt against supposed antisemites and refusing to condemn Israel for its genocide, provided the bullets to its executioners.
The Dark Money Game (w/ Alex Gibney) | The Chris Hedges Report 49 min
49 min · On this episode of The Chris Hedges Report, Chris Hedges speaks with filmmaker Alex Gibney about Gibney’s documentary series The Dark Money Game, which examines the “labyrinth of...
Chris Hedges: Trumpland 16 min
16 min · The corporate coup d'état and collapse of American democracy began long before Trump. He is simply snuffing out what remains.
Israel’s Eradication of Gaza’s Healthcare System (w/ Dr. Feroze Sidhwa) | The Chris Hedges Report 65 min
65 min · Support my independent journalism at Substack: https://chrishedges.substack.com/
America’s Constitutional Crisis (w/ Katherine Franke) | The Chris Hedges Report 44 min
44 min · The United States is facing a constitutional crisis, one that if it is not resolved, will cement into place an authoritarian state. The Trump administration has unilaterally revoked...
'WE WOULD LOSE' War with Iran (w/ Col. Lawrence Wilkerson) 16 min
16 min · You can learn more about US foreign policy, military operations and geopolitics from this 9 minute clip than you could attending university for 4+ years.
Chris Hedges: Trump's War on Education 14 min
14 min · Read the full article here (originally published March 11, 2025):
Erasing History: How Fascism Works (w/ Jason Stanley) | The Chris Hedges Report 60 min
60 min · Jason Stanley, author, American philosopher and Yale professor, joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report to give proper context to what fascism means and how...
Chris Hedges: My Thoughts on Trump Moving to End the War in Ukraine 5 min
5 min · This was pulled from my last livestream, which you can watch via Part 2.
Chris Hedges FULL SPEECH at Workers Strike Back Conference 37 min
37 min · This was a talk I gave at the Workers Strike Back conference in Seattle earlier this week.
Chris Hedges: The Mafia State 13 min
13 min · 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.
Chris Hedges: The Purge of the Deep State and the Road to Dictatorship 16 min
16 min · Donald Trump’s dismantling of the deep state presages the formation of something far worse.
How the Left Destroyed Itself (w/ Yanis Varoufakis) 9 min
9 min · Yanis Varoufakis argues that the left, originally focused on liberation from economic and social oppression, gradually abandoned its commitment to freedom. Instead, different factions of...
Chris Hedges: The Western Way of Genocide 13 min
13 min · The genocide in Gaza portends the emergence of a dystopian world where the industrialized violence of the Global North is used to sustain its hoarding of diminishing resources and wealth.
Wokeness Kills Class Politics and Empowers Empire (w/ Christian Parenti) | The Chris Hedges Report 55 min
55 min · Oftentimes the idea of “wokeness” or “woke” ideology, whether calling it as such or acknowledging its existence, can be thought of as coinage of the right wing. Christian Parenti...
Chris Hedges: The Cost of Resistance 49 min
49 min · Drawing on his intimate knowledge of resistance and repression, Hedges detailed the methods we need to adopt to defeat the powerful interests, including the fossil fuel industry and the...
Israel's Long War on Gaza w/Norman Finkelstein | The Chris Hedges Report 54 min
54 min · Israel has unleashed a horrific war of collective punishment against the people of Gaza, the latest in a long history of anti-Palestinian oppression. As corporate media shamelessly...
'Silent Coup'—How Corporations Rule the World w/Matt Kennard | The Chris Hedges Report 47 min
47 min · The 20th Century saw a great global uprising against European imperialism as the former colonial countries shook off their shackles and rose up for independence. More than a half century...
Why Americans Can't Debate Politics Anymore | The Chris Hedges Report 32 min
32 min · Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff join The Chris Hedges Report to discuss their new book, Let's Agree to Disagree: A Critical Thinking Guide to Communication, Conflict Management, and...
America's Gun Fetish | Chris Hedges 8 min
8 min · Chris Hedges explains how guns became such an important part of the American culture.
We Don’t Need the CIA | The Chris Hedges Report 34 min
34 min · Chris Hedges and John Kiriakou discuss the CIA, how it has evolved, how it sees its mission, what it does, how it works, and the effects of its clandestine operations around the globe.
American Psychosis | Chris Hedges 15 min
15 min · Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, author and activist Chris Hedges discusses modern-day consumerism, totalitarian corporate power, and living in a culture dominated by pervasive illusion.
The Politics of Cultural Despair | Chris Hedges 119 min
119 min · Author, activist and dissident Chris Hedges spoke at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy NY on October 16, 2020. In this talk he examines the cultural and social forces that have...
The Miracle of Kindness | Chris Hedges 8 min
8 min · Evil, even in the darkest moments, is impotent before the miracle of human kindness. This miracle defies prejudices and hatreds. It crosses cultures and religions. It lies at the core of...
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