Author and journalist Brin-Jonathan Butler chronicles the disturbing history of chess’ greatest players and those obsessed with the game.
Hedges Report: The Toxic Pursuit of Greatness in Chess
Tag: The Chris Hedges Report
Hedges Report: Erasing Palestine
Micaela Sahhar reframes monumental events in Palestinian history through an intimate lens of her own family’s displacement during the 20th century.
Hedges Report: On Israel Exporting Occupation Technology
Antony Loewenstein discusses the ease with which Israel has used Gaza to experiment with tools of war and surveillance as a means of control as well as profit thanks to their grave human rights abuses.
Hedges Report: UN Members Complicit in Genocide
U.N. Special Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese discusses why, in her most recent report, she called out more than 60 nations for their collective-crime roles in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Hedges Report: Is Israel ‘On the Brink?’
Ilan Pappé discusses his new book and the dynamics causing him to expect that, under a disintegrated and religious extremist Israel, the “Zionist project will collapse in front of our eyes.”
Hedges Report: Drug Trafficking, Murder & US Special Forces
Shadowy forces sent to do the dirty work of the United States overseas are wreaking havoc at home, says Seth Harp.
Hedges Report: Fighting Back Against Trump’s Regime
United States citizens must empower themselves to fight back against an increasingly authoritarian Trump administration as well as the Democratic wing of the uniparty, argues Ralph Nader.
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.
The Chris Hedges Report: Israel’s Genocidal ‘Aid’
Former Green Beret Anthony Aguilar says that so-called aid distribution in Gaza is a trap for Palestinians intended to drive them into concentration camps.
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…