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Chris Hedges Report: Shared Mythological History Of Israel And US

May 29, 2025 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. Resistance Report Chris Hedges, Genocide, History, Israel, Palestine, United States

The narratives surrounding Israel and their genocidal campaign against the Palestinians took decades to create and embed into the West’s psyche. The Holocaust, decades after its end, became a central part of the Jewish and Israeli identity. Enemies of the Israeli state were conflated with Nazis. The physical location of Israel became essential to Christian evangelicals who believe the second coming of Jesus Christ was to take place there. The late Amy Kaplan, in her book, Our American Israel: The Story of an Entangled Alliance, explored how these narratives developed through popular culture and the media’s reporting on the Israeli government’s actions throughout the 20th century, particularly in the United States.

US Protects Israel As Netanyahu Vows To ‘Take Over’ Gaza

May 25, 2025 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. Resistance Report Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump, Gaza, Genocide, International Criminal Court (ICC), Israel, Palestine, Starvation

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has admitted that Israel’s goal is to colonize Gaza. “We will take control of all the territory of the [Gaza] Strip”, Netanyahu pledged on 19 May. Israel had agreed to a ceasefire in January, but unilaterally violated the agreement in March and restarted its brutal war on Gaza. Donald Trump personally gave Israel the green light to break the truce, according to Israeli officials. Israel’s extreme-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a member of the Israeli security cabinet and Netanyahu ally, boasted that the IDF is “destroying everything left in the Gaza Strip”, and that “the army is leaving no stone unturned”, reported the top Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

The Chris Hedges Report: Facing The Climate Crisis And Human Mortality

May 22, 2025 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. Resistance Report Capitalism, climate crisis, Environment, Mortality

In a world gripped by daily catastrophes, there is one that affects all but lacks the attention it deserves. The climate crisis — pervaded by ecological collapse, war, endless resource accumulation fueled by capitalism — is the issue of our time. The warning signs are there but as author Eiren Caffall tells host Chris Hedges, people are not able to handle the facts regarding the “fragility of our ecosystem, and [they] just don’t really have a great way of managing the emotional impact of that.” Caffall joins Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report to discuss her novel, All the Water in the World, and her memoir, The Mourner’s Bestiary.

Trump’s Far-Fetched Attempt To Divide Russia And China Is Clearly Failing

May 19, 2025 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. Resistance Report Anti-Racism, BRICS, China, Dedollarization, Donald Trump, Fascism, Germany, Henry Kissinger, History, Japan, Marco Rubio, Multipolarity, Racism, Richard Nixon, Russia, Trade, Vladimir Putin, World War II, Xi Jinping

US President Donald Trump claimed he would “un-unite” Russia and China. However, this divide-and-conquer strategy — which prominent US officials like Henry Kissinger have advocated since the 1970s — is clearly failing. In a meeting in Moscow celebrating the 80th anniversary of their nations’ shared victory in World War Two, Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin reaffirmed that “China-Russia relations have reached the highest level in history”. In a lengthy statement, Beijing and Moscow vowed to “jointly resist any attempts to interfere with and disrupt the traditional friendship and deep mutual trust between China and Russia”.

Pentagon Strategy Increases Risk Of Nuclear War With China

May 15, 2025 K. J. Noh, BreakThrough News. Resistance Report China, Nuclear War, Pentagon, Russia

China and Russia released a joint declaration on the need for global strategic stability, which included an explicit condemnation of the US's nuclear counterforce strategy. Historian Peter Kuznik and filmmaker Regis Tremblay join us to discuss the risks of nuclear war in the current moment and the historical implications of the Russia-China alliance. Our understanding of China — and U.S.-China relations — has become a defining feature of all global politics. The China Report is a new show produced in collaboration with Pivot to Peace where every week, we will be helping you through all the propaganda with an independent view of the country we are taught to hate, but know so little about.

Trump’s Tariffs Are Uniting China, Europe, Japan, South Korea, And ASEAN

May 10, 2025 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. Resistance Report ASEAN, China, Donald Trump, European Union (EU), Japan, South Korea, Tariffs, Trade War

Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent revealed that the US government has what he called a “grand encirclement” strategy aimed at isolating and weakening China. Trump hit China with tariffs of 145%, imposing what is essentially a trade embargo. The Trump administration wanted to pressure Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, and India to follow the US and “approach China as a group”, Bessent said, according to Bloomberg. This strategy is clearly failing. The finance ministers and central bank governors of China, Japan, South Korea, and members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) met in Italy on May 4 and published a joint statement pledging “to further strengthen regional financial cooperation”.

Trump’s Tariffs Turbocharge De-Dollarization

May 6, 2025 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. Resistance Report BRICS, China, De-dollarization, Donald Trump, Japan, Tariffs

Donald Trump has made it clear that one of his top goals is to maintain the dominance of the US dollar as the global reserve currency. When he was running for president in 2024, Trump promised he would punish any country that sought alternatives to the US currency by hitting them with sky-high tariffs. “Many countries are leaving the dollar. They’re not going to leave the dollar with me!”, Trump vowed at a campaign rally. “I’ll say, ‘You leave the dollar, you’re not doing business with the United States, because we’re going to put 100% tariff on your goods'”. Since Trump has returned for his second term as US president, however, his tariffs and trade war have actually accelerated the decline of the dominance of the US dollar, not slowed it.

Chris Hedges Report: The West Serves As Israel’s Police

May 1, 2025 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. Resistance Report Chris Hedges, Israel, Press Freedom, Repression, Richard Medhurst

Richard Barnard, Sarah Wilkinson, Asa Winstanley and Richard Medhurst. These are some of the canaries in the coal mine for what is to come in the West as the region’s elite quickly becomes Israel’s international police. Medhurst joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report to talk about his own experiences in the United Kingdom and Austria, where federal agents and police arrested him and searched his home under draconian counterterrorism laws. “I was just trying to tell the truth as best as I could with the facts that we had at that time and that’s it. And I think they’re trying to make an example out of me, definitely,” Medhurst tells Hedges.

Is Trump The Last Straw For The Dollar System?

April 29, 2025 Radhika Desai, Michael Hudson and Mick Dunford, Geopolitical Economy. Resistance Report De-dollarization, Donald Trump, Global Economy, US Hegemony

As regular viewers of Geopolitical Economy Hour will know, we have done many programmes on the dollar’s shaky basis, and on how and why we can expect its role as world money to unravel. Now, suddenly, the Western press is full of forebodings of the demise of the dollar. The Financial Times alone, normally a loyal proponent of the wonders of the dollar system, has published a series of stories, each marshalling a different reason for the dollar system’s possibly imminent demise — over a dozen in April alone. So let me start us off with the following observations: What is interesting is how much these recent stories attribute to Trump the dollar system’s possible demise – evidenced by the simultaneous sell-off of US stocks, bonds, and dollars, which is surprising given that the latter two are generally considered “safe haven” assets which are bought when there is a sell-off of riskier assets like stocks.

As US Military Prepares For War On China, Silicon Valley Oligarchs Profit

April 28, 2025 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. Resistance Report China, CIA, Donald Trump, FBI, Japan, Pete Hegseth, Philippines, Silicon Valley, Taiwan, Wars and Militarism

Evidence grows showing that the US military is setting the stage for war on China. A leaked memo obtained by the Washington Post reveals that the US Department of Defense has made preparing for war with China into its top priority, giving it precedence over all other issues. The Pentagon is concentrating its resources in the Asia-Pacific region as it anticipates fighting China in an attempt to exert US control over Taiwan. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a fundamentalist self-declared “crusader” who called for overthrowing the Chinese government, took a trip in March to Japan and the Philippines, where he repeatedly threatened Beijing and boasted of US “war-fighting” preparations and “real war plans”.

Trump’s Tariffs Hurt The United States Much More Than China

April 22, 2025 Michael Hudson, Geopolitical Economy. Resistance Report BRICS, China, dollar, Donald Trump, Finance, Finance and the Economy, Neoliberalism, Russia, Tariffs, Trade

Why has US President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on countries all around the world? And in particular, why is Trump waging a trade war on China? What are his real goals? Well, to try to answer these questions, I spoke with the economist Michael Hudson, who is the author of many books, and who just published the new report “Return of the robber barons: Trump’s distorted view of US tariff history“. Michael Hudson outlined the history of the use of tariffs in the United States and in other countries, and he explained how Trump is using tariffs as a weapon of class war, to benefit the rich at the expense of the vast majority of the population, and also how Trump is trying to reshape the global financial system, in order to benefit the United States at the expense of everyone else.

The Chris Hedges Report: Emptying Gaza

April 18, 2025 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. Resistance Report Chris Hedges, Gaza, Genocide, Palestine

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 The Chris Hedges Report. Finkelstein and Hedges assess the current state of the genocide in Palestine as well as how the media and the universities have all but abandonded their principles in servitude to the Zionist agenda. Finkelstein makes clear the gravity of Israel’s unprecedented actions: “If you take any metric—number of UN workers killed, number of medics killed, number of journalists killed, proportion of civilians to combatants killed, proportion of children killed, proportion of women and children killed—if you take any metric, Israel for the 21st century is in a class all its own.”

Trump Advisor Reveals Tariff Strategy

April 11, 2025 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. Resistance Report China, dollar, Donald Trump, Taiwan, Tariffs

The top economic advisor to President Donald Trump has revealed that Washington is using tariffs as leverage to try to force countries to pay the United States to help it maintain its global empire. The chair of the US Council of Economic Advisers, Stephen Miran, delivered a speech on April 7 in which he outlined the Trump administration’s tariff strategy. An official transcript of his remarks was published by the White House. Miran claimed that the United States provides two main “global public goods”: one, a “security umbrella” overseen by the US military; and two, the dollar and Treasury securities, which are used as the main reserve asset in the international financial system.

Chris Hedges Report: The Economics Of A Dying Empire

April 10, 2025 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. Resistance Report Finance and the Economy, Trump Administration, US Empire

“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 behind the decisions made by Trump and how it relates to the decline of the US empire. From tariffs to deregulation, Wolff says it is all erratic, uncoordinated and unpredictable, which are tangible signs of America’s decay. “You cannot tell people what a tariff will do.

Massive Protest For Palestine Rocks DC As Gaza Genocide Begins Anew

April 6, 2025 Jaisal Noor, The Real News Network. Resistance Report DC, Mass Action, Palestine, State Repression, Washington

I think what we’re hoping to achieve with protests like this is like the abolitionists years ago with the longterm campaigns of petitioning and other forms of pressuring the government, and their own forms of demonstrations and others is to help build a stronger moral conscious movement in this country in solidarity with the Palestinian people and to end this genocide. And we know this country is so undemocratic, it’s so gerrymandered, it’s so difficult to get the voices of the people, even when they’re in the majority, represented inside of Congress.

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