Chris Hedges: Day X: Justice for Assange with Stella Assange, Jen Robinson and Kristinn Hrafnsson

Free Assange street art, Shoreditch

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Dandelion Salad
February 19, 2024

with Chris Hedges

“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.”

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Chris Hedges: How Kindness Saved My Life

Chris Hedges: How Kindness Saved My Life

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Dandelion Salad
Originally posted Jan. 14, 2020
January 20, 2024

with Chris Hedges

Emir-Stein Center on Jan 6, 2020

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 faith. Take a brief journey through the eyes of American, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges to Jerusalem, Gaza, and Iraq, and discover the sacred bonds that make us human. Continue reading

Rev. Chris Hedges and Rev. David Bullock: Christmas, Charity, Anti-Empire and the Revolutionary Jesus

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Dandelion Salad
Originally published Dec. 24, 2014
December 23, 2023

with Chris Hedges

David Alexander Bullock on Dec 25, 2018

Rev. Chris Hedges and Rev. David Bullock discuss the real meaning of Christmas with Paul Jay.

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Chris Hedges and Roger Hallam: The Climate Crisis Calls For Revolution + Extinction Rebellion Promises ‘Greatest Acts Of Civil Disobedience’ Unless Tories Meet Its Demands, by Sophie Squire

Just Stop Oil Protest

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Dandelion Salad
April 21, 2023

with Chris Hedges

TheRealNews on Apr 21, 2023

Roger Hallam, the co-founder in 2018 of Extinction Rebellion, was recently released after nearly four months on jail. He was imprisoned for making a 20-minute speech on zoom. He was arrested and jailed because he called for civil disobedience by climate activists, specifically the blocking of major road networks in London.

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Chris Hedges: Haiti’s Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier: Gang Leader or Revolutionary? + Another Vision: Inside Haiti’s Uprising

Chris Hedges: Haiti’s Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier: Gang Leader or Revolutionary? + Another Vision: Inside Haiti's Uprising

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April 14, 2023

with Chris Hedges

TheRealNews on Apr 14, 2023

Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier has been placed in the international spotlight as an emblem of Haiti’s purported “gang problem.” But who is Chérizier really? A new documentary series, “Another Vision: Inside Haiti’s Uprising,” offers a different view of Chérizier—not as the leader of a criminal enterprise, but as a political figure leading an armed revolutionary movement. Directors Dan Cohen and Kim Ives join The Chris Hedges Report to discuss their new project.

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Chris Hedges and Margaret Flowers: COVID-19 Isn’t ‘Over’—But Your Medicaid Might Be

Dr Margaret Flowers

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Dandelion Salad
April 7, 2023

with Chris Hedges and Margaret Flowers

TheRealNews on Apr 7, 2023

Dr. Margaret Flowers joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss the toll that COVID denialism will have on our society, and the generally outrageous state of US healthcare.

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Chris Hedges and Lori Grinker: Afterwar: Veterans from a World in Conflict and Mike Tyson

Chris Hedges and Lori Grinker: Afterwar: Veterans from a World in Conflict and Mike Tyson

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March 31, 2023

with Chris Hedges

TheRealNews on Mar 31, 2023

I first encountered Lori Grinker’s remarkable work as a photographer in her book Afterwar: Veterans from a World in Conflict, where a century of war is represented by and through portraits of individuals and their haunting stories of war.

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Chris Hedges: Mexico’s Epidemic of Murdered Journalists

Journalists Protest against rising violence during march in Mexico City, 2010

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Dandelion Salad
March 24, 2023

with Chris Hedges

TheRealNews on Mar 24, 2023

More than 150 journalists have been killed in Mexico since 2000. The case of Regina Martinez, an investigative journalist assassinated in her home in the state of Veracruz in 2012, is emblematic of this war being waged against the press. Katherine Corcoran, former Associated Press bureau chief for Mexico and Central America, joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss her book on the case of Regina Martinez and the wider context of the killings of journalists in Mexico, In the Mouth of the Wolf.

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Chris Hedges and Seymour Hersh: How America Destroyed the Nord Stream II Pipeline

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Dandelion Salad
March 17, 2023

with Chris Hedges

TheRealNews on Mar 17, 2023

Who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines? In February, veteran journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winner Seymour Hersh dropped a bombshell report detailing how President Joe Biden ordered the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines.

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Chris Hedges and Kshama Sawant: Workers Strike Back

Geneva, 1 May 2014 (general strike)

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Dandelion Salad
March 10, 2023

with Chris Hedges

TheRealNews on Mar 10, 2023

After over a decade on Seattle City Council, socialist Kshama Sawant is launching a national coalition called Workers Strike Back to fight for wages, universal healthcare, LGBTQ rights, a clean energy transition, and more.

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Chris Hedges and Maximillian Alvarez: Workers are Essential, Capitalists are Not

Communist Vegans - Covid-19 Exposes Capitalism

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with Chris Hedges

TheRealNews on Mar 3, 2023

TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss his recent book on the lives of frontline workers in the COVID-19 pandemic, The Work of Living.

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Chris Hedges: How the Media Misled Us About Russiagate

LIES!

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with Chris Hedges

TheRealNews on Feb 24, 2023

Veteran New York Times reporter Jeff Gerth dissects the role of the media in concocting a false narrative portraying Trump as a ‘Russian asset’ rather than a homegrown horror.

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Ralph Nader and Chris Hedges: Woke Imperialism

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with Ralph Nader and Chris Hedges

Ralph Nader Radio Hour on Feb 11, 2023

Ralph welcomes Dr. Nason Maani, co-editor of “The Commercial Determinants of Health,” to explore the larger forces, forces beyond the power of an individual to control, that shape our environment and therefore our health.

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Chris Hedges: Hamilton 68 and the Russiagate Hoax

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Dandelion Salad

with Chris Hedges

TheRealNews on Feb 10, 2023

Matt Taibbi has published an investigation about a vast propaganda campaign called “Hamilton 68,” launched a year after Donald Trump won the presidency, to smear critics of the Democratic Party, from the left and the right, as Russian assets.

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Chris Hedges and Stefania Maurizi: The Dark Truths WikiLeaks Revealed

Wi*i*eaks Truck

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with Chris Hedges

TheRealNews on Feb 3, 2023

From backroom deals between Hillary Clinton and Goldman Sachs to US covert operations in Haiti, Tunisia, Italy and beyond, WikiLeaks revealed the dark underbelly of US power.

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