With tariffs on China reaching comical numbers, the instability in Donald Trump’s economic strategy continues to grow. Geopolitical Economy Report editor and journalist Ben Norton, who lives in China, joins host Robert Scheer on this episode of Scheer Intelligence to make sense of the developments and why the U.S.’s typical economic bullying tactics will not... Read More

This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. Israel, both materially and rhetorically, has made their intent to destroy the Palestinian people clear. One of the most renowned and courageous Middle East scholars, Norman Finkelstein, has assiduously documented the Palestinian plight for decades and he joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of... Read More

Our offshore concentration camps, for now, are in El Salvador and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. But don’t expect them to remain there. Once they are normalized, not only for U.S.-deported immigrants and residents, but U.S. citizens, they will migrate to the homeland. It is a very short leap from our prisons, already rife with abuse and... Read More

Israel is poised to carry out the largest campaign of ethnic cleansing since the end of World War II. Since March 2, it has blocked all food and humanitarian aid into Gaza and cut off electricity, so that the last water desalination plant no longer functions. The Israeli military has seized half of the territory... Read More

These are levels of craziness that are part of the decline I suspect of all empires when they consume themselves,” Professor Richard Wolff says of America’s current situation in the outset of Donald Trump’s second term. He joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report to discuss the history and rationale... Read More

The internet, from its inception, was created to be a tool of mass surveillance. It was developed first as a counterinsurgency tool for the Vietnam War and the rest of the Global South, but like many devices of foreign policy naturally it made its way back to U.S. soil. Yasha Levine, in his book Surveillance... Read More

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. No clean water. No electricity. Israel is swiftly turning Gaza into a Dantesque cauldron of human misery where Palestinians are being killed in their hundreds and soon, again, in... Read More

This was a talk I gave at the Sanctuary for Independent Media. Thank you to them for hosting me, and allowing my team to upload this talk I gave to The Chris Hedges Report. Visit their YouTube channel, where this originally aired, here. My old office in Gaza is a pile of rubble. The streets... Read More

Any account of the decades-long occupation of Palestine from a Palestinian is immediately expected to be refined within a specific lens to appeal to the pathos of Western society. Well meaning activists, journalists and politicians may intend to share the stories of Palestinians, but too often end up curating them into a digestible format, one... Read More

Christian Nationalists who form the bedrock of support for Donald Trump — 80 percent voted for Trump in the last election according to a voter survey by the Associated Press — have mounted a concerted campaign calling on the White House to back Israel’s annexation of the West Bank and Gaza. This campaign includes visits... Read More

LAGO de CHAPALA, Mexico—Watching that procession of hapless European supplicants passing through the Oval Office this week, my mind wandered briefly and came back with an imaginary scene I found pleasurable and instructive all at once: What if Claudia Sheinbaum went to see President Trump right after Andrzej Duda, the ineffectual Polish president, Emmanuel Macron,... Read More

The Holocaust is the quintessential example of human evil for people in the West. In the rest of the world, especially in the Global South, the atrocity of the Holocaust — genocide — has had a closer proximity both in time and place. Colonialism in Africa, destructive wars in Asia and most recently, genocide in... Read More

The recent United Nations vote to condemn Russia for the war in Ukraine saw unlikely allies in Russia and the United States, which both voted against the resolution. On this episode of the ScheerPost podcast, Ray McGovern joins host Robert Scheer to discuss what this vote means and how a potential new peace with Russia... Read More

Former CIA Russia expert, Ray McGovern, discusses with Robert Scheer the historic significance of President Trump’s latest efforts to end the war in Ukraine. McGovern compares the meeting that took place today between Russian and US representatives in Saudi Arabia to Nixon’s historic opening of negotiations with China which led to the end of the... Read More

In this latest episode of the Scheer Intelligence podcast, host Robert Scheer welcomes recurring guest Ray McGovern. McGovern, a former CIA analyst, reflects on his Cold War-era experience, contrasting past apolitical intelligence with today’s politicized and misleading assessments, particularly on Iraq, Ukraine, and Russia-China relations. The two also discuss U.S. foreign policy, including Trump and... Read More

umerous international and domestic leaders reacted to President Donald Trump’s announcement, made during a joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, proposing the United States “take over” the Gaza Strip. Along with this declaration, Trump suggests that the Palestinians affected by the conflict should be relocated to Jordan and Egypt. His intention to... Read More

Farah El-Sharif, writer, academic and Visiting Scholar at Stanford, is uncompromisingly blunt in her assessment of the Middle East. The decades of repression faced by an entire people have produced a fragmented society—culturally and through colonially imposed borders. To help understand why the Muslim world is so broken, corrupt and full of contradictions, El Sherif... Read More