CODEPINK’S Medea Benjamin joins host Chris Hedges to discuss the current moment in American politics, which sees free speech sitting on a knife’s edge.
Hedges Report: Trump’s Crackdown on Anti-War Activists
Category: Assassinations
Hedges Report: We Are All Antifa Now
The designation of the amorphous group antifa as a terrorist organization allows the state to brand all dissidents as supporters of antifa and prosecute them as terrorists.
Patrick Lawrence: Who Benefits from Kirk Murder?
As of now, we have only our questions about the who and the why of the murder of Charlie Kirk. But questions, the right ones, have a power all their own.
Hedges Report: Israel, Kirk, & the Coming Repression
Max Blumenthal provides important context on Charlie Kirk’s changing relationship with Israel and tension within the Trump administration in the lead up to his assassination, and discusses the political impact of his death.
Charlie Kirk’s Death
Discourse following the Charlie Kirk assassination has left little to be hopeful about, writes Nolan Higdon.
Chris Hedges: The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk
Martyrs are used by messianic movements to sanctify violence. To show any mercy or understanding toward the enemy is to betray the martyr and the cause the martyr died defending.
Trump’s Deadly Boat Attack
The U.S. military strike that killed 11 people on a boat in the Caribbean on Sept. 2 is an act of murder and a violation of international law, experts say.
The Chris Hedges Report: When Religious Mafia & Rightwing Extremists Take Over
Rollo Romig, author of the Pulitzer Prize-finalist book I Am On the Hit List: A Journalist’s Murder and the Ruse of Autocracy in India examines the historic and political context of the 2017 murder of Gauri Lankesh and chronicles the rise…