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with Chris Hedges
“Anyone who has been in war would understand that evil is real.” — Chris Hedges
Interview with Chris Hedges: The Greatest Evil is War
Book Reviews
Chris Hedges: How George Armstrong Custer Became a Martyr Used to Justify Genocide and US Imperialism
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with Chris Hedges
TheRealNews on Sep 16, 2022
Custer became in death a martyr to the American empire. He was in popular mythology the last to die in the battle, a symbol of martial valor, although there is scant evidence for this assertion.
The Far-Right Crusade Against Human Sexuality, by Kenn Orphan
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by Kenn Orphan
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Halifax, Nova Scotia
August 23, 2022
It has become impossible not to notice the trend. Whether it is banning the word “gay,” or banning books that contain topics related to human sexuality, or the Supreme Court decision to overturn a woman’s federal right to an abortion, the war on human sexuality and those who are sexually divergent is ramping up on multiple fronts. Even I’ve been a target of this war. Because of my outspoken advocacy for LGBTQ+ youth, I have been labeled a “groomer” by a few figures on the far right.
The Chris Hedges Report: Inside the Minds of White Nationalists
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with Chris Hedges
TheRealNews on Aug 19, 2022
On Jan. 9, 1966, the White Knights of the Mississippi Ku Klux Klan murdered the Black civil rights activist Vernon Dahmer in Hattiesburg, Mississippi after fire-bombing and shooting into his house. It was one of thousands of hate crimes conducted in the south by whites who waged a reign of terror against Blacks to frighten them from abandoning calls for desegregation and voting rights.
The Chris Hedges Report: Paths of Dissent: Soldiers Speak Out Against America’s Misguided Wars
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with Chris Hedges
TheRealNews on Aug 5, 2022
Andrew Bacevich, a retired Army Colonel who fought in Vietnam, and Danny Sjursen, a retired Army Major who did tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, have just published Paths of Dissent: Soldiers Speak Out Against America’s Misguided Wars.
The Chris Hedges Report: Herman Melville’s Moby Dick and the Soul of American Capitalism
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with Chris Hedges
TheRealNews on Jul 29, 2022
Moby Dick, which explores the self-destructive forces that define America and the collapse of a civilization, is our greatest and most prescient novel.
The Chris Hedges Report: Breaking the Cycle of American Violence, with James Gilligan
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with Chris Hedges
TheRealNews on Jul 22, 2022
Chris Hedges speaks with the Psychiatrist Dr. James Gilligan about our rash of mass shootings and his book Violence: Our Deadly Epidemic and it’s Causes.
Chris Hedges: Teaching in Prisons
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with Chris Hedges
TheRealNews on Jul 11, 2022
In a special crossover episode, Chris Hedges joins Mansa Musa on Rattling the Bars to discuss his new book, Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison.
Must Collapse Be Inevitable? Imagining A “Half-Earth” Sustainable Economy, by Pete Dolack
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by Pete Dolack
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Systemic Disorder, July 6, 2022
July 9, 2022
It seems vastly easier to imagine the future as a dystopian nightmare than as a time when today’s problems are mostly behind humanity. For every work of optimism, such as Star Trek, there are dozens of works imagining a nightmare world of deprivation, environmental destruction and severe repression amidst a world of people scrambling to survive anyway they can in a war of all against all.
The Chris Hedges Report: Splinterlands’ Climate Dystopia, with John Feffer
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with Chris Hedges
TheRealNews on Jul 8, 2022
In his dystopian novel Splinterlands, John Feffer looks ahead to life on planet earth in the year 2050. The signs of societal breakdown in the not-so-distant future, if we look, are already apparent in our world today. Feffer follows them to their logical conclusion.
The Chris Hedges Report: Living in the Shadow of Ernest Hemingway, with Mark Kurlansky
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with Chris Hedges
TheRealNews on Jul 1, 2022
Chris Hedges speaks with journalist and author Mark Kurlansky about living in the shadow of Ernest Hemingway and his new book The Importance of Not Being Ernest.
The Chris Hedges Report: The Rise of Authoritarianism in the US and Around the Globe, with Vijay Prashad
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with Chris Hedges and Vijay Prashad
TheRealNews on Jun 17, 2022
Chris Hedges speaks with historian Vijay Prashad on the rise of authoritarianism in the US and around the globe and what we must do to fight back.
The Chris Hedges Report: The Unrelentingly Radical Life of Paul Robeson, with Gerald Horne
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with Chris Hedges
TheRealNews on May 6, 2022
Heroic dissidents are demonized, marginalized, physically and psychologically destroyed, or assassinated by the American ruling class.
Ku Klux Climate: Coal, Petro-Palingenesis, and the Historical Materialism of Fossil Fascism, by Paul Street
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by Paul Street
Writer, Dandelion Salad
The Official Website of Paul Street, Mar. 28, 2022
March 30, 2022
Andreas Malm and the Zetkin Collective White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism (London: Verso, 2021)
Chris Hedges: Race and America’s Long War
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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Feb 26, 2022
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses America’s inner and outer wars and its nexus with capitalism and empire with Nikhil Pal Singh, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and history at New York University.
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