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Emptying Gaza (w/ Norman Finkelstein)
• April 18, 2025
• 7,200 Words • 4 Comments • Reply
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
Department of Homeland Security agents detaining Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk last week. (WhoIsCentreLeft/Wikim edia Commons/Public Domain)
American Freefall
• April 3, 2025
• 1,500 Words • 213 Comments • Reply
Some people worth citing this week. They speak of different matters, but when we put all their apples and oranges into a basket we discover they belong together, their bright colors confronting us with a challenge: It is time to do something — something very few of us have considered until now. Rashid Khalidi, in... Read More
Surrendering to Authoritarianism
• March 24, 2025
• 2,000 Words • 6 Comments • Reply
I was not surprised when Columbia University’s interim president Katrina Armstrong caved to the demands of the Trump administration. She agreed to ban face masks or face coverings, prohibit protests in academic buildings and create an internal security force of 36 New York City Police officers empowered to “remove individuals from campus and/or arrest them... Read More
Mahmoud Khalil NYC detention protest. SWinxy, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Season of the Sophists
• March 15, 2025
• 2,700 Words • 163 Comments • Reply
Mahmoud Khalil, 30–year-old holder of a green card permitting him permanently to live and work in the United States, spouse of an American, lettered in his field after study at an Ivy League university, with nothing on his record to suggest criminal activity of any kind: Mahmoud Khalil is now under arrest and awaiting deportation... Read More
Trump’s War on Education
• March 11, 2025
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he attacks on colleges and universities — Donald Trump’s administration has warned some 60 colleges that they could lose federal money if they fail to make campuses safe for Jewish students and is already pulling $400 million from Columbia University — has nothing to do with fighting antisemitism. Antisemitism is a smoke screen, a cover... Read More
Trump’s Christian Fascists and the War on Palestine
• March 11, 2025
• 1,800 Words • 33 Comments • Reply
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
President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 2025. The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
All the Gloves Come Off in Gaza
• February 7, 2025
• 2,500 Words • 414 Comments • Reply
Donald Trump does not seem to have too much trouble shocking people. In the three weeks since he resumed his residency in the White House, he has shocked the Danes (America must have Greenland), the Canadians (Canada will become our 51st state), the Panamanians (the Canal is ours), and the Mexicans (It’s “the Gulf of... Read More
Reactions to Trump’s Plan for U.S. Control In Gaza
• February 6, 2025
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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
The Zionists Kill Doctors in Gaza and Silence Them Here (w/ Dr. Rupa Marya)
• January 9, 2025
• 6,100 Words • 8 Comments • Reply
This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said, “The protection of hospitals during warfare is paramount and must be respected by all sides, at all times.” International law enshrines medical facilities as sanctuaries for those in direst need but as Dr. Rupa Marya tells... Read More
Genocide: The New Normal
• January 7, 2025
• 1,300 Words • 21 Comments • Reply
Joe Biden’s parting gift of $8 billion in weapons sales to the apartheid state of Israel acknowledges the gruesome reality of the genocide in Gaza. This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. This is a permanent, endless war designed not to destroy Hamas, or free Israeli hostages, but... Read More
A Ukrainian soldier with the 1st Airmobile Battalion, 79th Air Assault Brigade calls out to a fellow soldier, letting the other soldier know he is set and ready to cover his movement during pairs movement training at the Yavoriv Combat Training Center on the International Peacekeeping and Security Center, near Yavoriv, Ukraine, May 15, 2017. “170515-A-RH707-394” by U.S. Department of Defense Current Photos is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0.
Our World of Wars, Our War of Worlds
• December 31, 2024
• 2,200 Words • 144 Comments • Reply
It is some years now since a lot of people began imagining the specter of World War III in the near or middle distance. This kind of thinking has been especially common since the U.S., with determination and purpose, provoked Russia to intervene in Ukraine three years ago this coming February. A few weeks later... Read More
The Meaning of Christmas (w/ Rev. Munther Isaac)
• December 20, 2024
• 10,400 Words • 9 Comments • Reply
In a case of tragic coincidence, the place most closely associated with the uplifting story of Jesus Christ, Christmas and the teachings of the Bible is now being subject to some of the most sustained and severe death and destruction that modern society has seen. Rev. Munther Isaac, the pastor at the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas... Read More
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The ICC Warrants and the World They Announce
• November 24, 2024
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LONDON—There is an old, often-told story about a front-page article one of the big dailies here once ran as severe weather hit in these parts. “Storm in Channel, Continent Cut Off,” the headline read. Nobody is certain any newspaper ever published any such story with any such headline. The majority view is that it is... Read More
"Israel Does 'The Wet Work.'"
• November 11, 2024
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11 NOVEMBER—The notion of a distant ally serving as “an unsinkable aircraft carrier” seems to be nearly as old as aircraft carriers. It means a usefully located landmass, typically but not always an island, that cannot be scuttled and can serve as a forward base for the projection of force. Over the decades, various hegemonic... Read More
The World According to Trump (w/ Col. Wilkerson)
• November 7, 2024
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Donald Trump will become the 47th president of the United States and given the host of global debacles the US has its hands in—ranging from the genocide in Gaza, to Israel’s attacks on Lebanon and Iran to the Ukraine war—nobody is quite certain what direction the country will take with the former president at the... Read More
The Escalating Crisis in the Middle East (w/ John Mearsheimer)
• October 24, 2024
• 7,800 Words • 19 Comments • Reply
Decades of Islamophobia, relentless propaganda campaigns and heavily financed lobbying efforts have made it difficult to understand the political realities of the Middle East. John Mearsheimer, prominent political scientist, University of Chicago professor and self-proclaimed realist, has consistently demonstrated the courage and ability to bypass the noise, delivering honest and well-informed analysis on global affairs.... Read More
Harris Comes Out of the Closet on Israel
• October 24, 2024
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Well, Kamala Harris has had her fun with all those “progressive” voters, in and at the edge of the Democratic Party, who were much taken—or taken in, better put—as the vice president played the empathy card in her many statements of concern for the fate of the Palestinians of Gaza. Let us be clear, to... Read More
"Goodbye Lebanon" – High Israeli Official. Biden Says OK, So Far
• October 20, 2024
• 900 Words • 17 Comments • Reply
Biden’s bombs and missiles, dropped daily on Lebanon, a U.S. ally, by his puppet master Netanyahu, is wreaking havoc in this small defenseless country. The Israeli genocidal machine is waging an incinerating assault on fleeing civilians and critical facilities. The scorched-earth Israeli strategy is the same as what we have seen in Gaza. Attack in... Read More
Extermination Works. At First.
• October 14, 2024
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Extermination works. At first. This is the terrible lesson of history. If Israel is not stopped — and no outside power appears willing to halt the genocide in Gaza or the destruction of Lebanon — it will achieve its goals of depopulating and annexing northern Gaza and turning southern Gaza into a charnel house where... Read More
Powerlessness
• September 27, 2024
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Let us begin with some facts of the cold, hard kind concerning conditions in Gaza and the West Bank after nearly a year of terrorist Israel’s daily assaults on the Palestinian populations in both places. These statistics derive from a World Bank report issued this month, Impacts of the Conflict in the Middle East on... Read More
“Kamala Harris” by Gage Skidmore is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gaza: Kamala Harris and the Disgrace of Denial
• September 3, 2024
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Outrage is a very fine thing. So is indignity. They are good for the circulation and keep one alert, I have always found. This is why I read The New York Times as diligently as I do. The once-but-no-longer newspaper of record never lets me down. So it was last Wednesday, when The Times published... Read More
A ‘Meaningful’ Election Where Neither Candidate Condemns US-Sponsored Genocide?
• August 23, 2024
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It is around that time in an election year where the typical platitudes and ultimatums exclaiming it is “do or die,” “now or never” are being thrown around. The overarching narrative from the past two elections remains the same: the Democrats are not great: they bolster the military industrial complex, make empty promises to working... Read More
The Rise and Coming Demise of the Israel Lobby w/ Ilan Pappé
• August 21, 2024
• 11,400 Words • 112 Comments • Reply
This interview is also available on Rumble and podcast platforms. The Israel lobby wields some of the most influence over American politics than any lobbying group in Washington. As Ilan Pappé, the Israeli historian, professor and author, and host Chris Hedges detail in this latest episode of The Chris Hedges Report, the lobby’s rise to... Read More
Netanyahu addresses US Congress. Photo from Wikimedia Commons by the Office of Speaker Mike Johnson from July 24, 2024
Israel Runs the U.S. No, the U.S. Runs Israel. No, Wait …
• August 10, 2024
• 2,600 Words • 232 Comments • Reply
That deranged speech Bibi Netanyahu delivered to a joint session of Congress last month: I cannot get it entirely out of my mind. It did not change anything — neither the Israeli prime minister nor his hosts seem to desire or intend to change anything in U.S.–Israeli relations. And in this way, there is not... Read More
Max Blumenthal: The Washington Post’s Attack on the Grayzone
and • June 14, 2024
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After erroneously stating that The Grayzone was funded by Iranian media, the Washington Post had to issue a retraction. The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal explains how and why it happened. Click to subscribe on: Apple / Spotify / Amazon / YouTube / Rumble Everyday the Washington Post’s “democracy dies in darkness” grows evermore ironic and detached... Read More
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An Attack on Intelligence
• May 10, 2024
• 2,500 Words • 140 Comments • Reply
Not in my lifetime,” I used to think when contemplating America’s decline and fall—a decline and fall I eagerly anticipate as a prelude to remaking our crumbly republic such that it stands for the ideals it professes to uphold but unreservedly ignores. Blind justice, disinterested leaders and institutions, tolerance of others, freedom of thought and... Read More
Canceling the Valedictorian
• April 16, 2024
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The university's decision to cancel its valedictorian's commencement speech continues a troubling pattern of suppressing free speech on Palestine-related topics. he University of Southern California’s (USC) cancellation of its 2024 valedictorian, Asna Tabassum’s, commencement speech on Monday garnered attention from national and international media. Andrew T. Guzman, the provost, announced the university’s decision to cancel... Read More
PEN America Self-Destructs
• March 24, 2024
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In May 2013 I resigned from PEN America over the appointment of former State Department official Suzanne Nossel. A decade later, PEN America has become a propaganda arm of the state. PEN America, once an important defender of rights for writers, editors and artists, has, under the direction of former State Department official Suzanne Nossel,... Read More
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The Silence of the Damned
• January 31, 2024
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Our leading humanitarian and civic institutions, including major medical institutions, refuse to denounce Israel’s genocide in Gaza. This exposes their hypocrisy and complicity. There is no effective health care system left in Gaza. Infants are dying. Children are having their limbs amputated without anesthesia. Thousands of cancer patients and those in need of dialysis lack... Read More
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