Chris Hedges: Israel’s war on journalism
“Catch and Kill Journalism.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. There are some 4,000 foreign reporters accredited in Israel to cover the war. They stay in luxury hotels. They go on dog…
“Catch and Kill Journalism.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. There are some 4,000 foreign reporters accredited in Israel to cover the war. They stay in luxury hotels. They go on dog…
“Which Genocide Are You On?” Illustration by Mr. Fish. It comes back in a rush, the stench of raw sewage, the groan of the diesel, sloth-like Israeli armoured personnel carriers,…
“Free as a Bird.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The dark machinery of empire, whose mendacity and savagery Julian Assange exposed to the world, spent 14 years trying to destroy him.…
“When You’re Smiling.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Run, the Israelis demand, run for your lives. Run from Rafah the way you ran from Gaza City, the way you ran from…
“Where Have All the Flowers Gone.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Achinthya Sivalingam, a graduate student in Public Affairs at Princeton University did not know when she woke up this morning…
“Onward Christian Fascism.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Joe Biden and the Democratic Party made a Trump presidency possible once and look set to make it possible again. If Trump returns…
“And Our Flags Are Still There.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. LONDON — By the afternoon the video link, which would have allowed Julian Assange to follow his final UK appeal…
“Red Ink.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) refused to implement the most crucial demand made by South African jurists: “the State of Israel shall immediately…
“Blood Brothers.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Joe Biden’s inner circle of strategists for the Middle East—Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan and Brett McGurk—have little understanding of the Muslim world and a…
“I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The exhaustive 84-page brief submitted by South Africa to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) charging Israel with genocide…
“Never Again and Again and Again.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Israel’s lebensraum master plan for Gaza, borrowed from the Nazi’s depopulation of Jewish ghettos, is clear. Destroy infrastructure, medical facilities…
“Birth of a New Nation.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Israel will appear triumphant after it finishes its genocidal campaign in Gaza and the West Bank. Backed by the United States,…
“Slaughterhouse.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The skies over Gaza are filled—after a seven-day truce—with projectiles of death. Warplanes. Attack helicopters. Drones. Artillery shells. Tank shells. Mortars. Bombs. Missiles. Gaza is…
“No Pain No Gain.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. CAIRO, Egypt — The Palestinians are human laboratory rats to the Israeli military, intelligence services and arms and technology industries. Israel’s drones,…
“Children of Gaza.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Dear child. It is past midnight. I am flying at hundreds of miles an hour in the darkness, thousands of feet over the…
“Made in Israel.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Israel, with the backing of its US and European allies, is preparing to launch not only a scorched earth campaign in Gaza but…
“This Way for the Genocide, Ladies and Gentlemen.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. I have been in urban warfare in El Salvador, Iraq, Gaza, Bosnia and Kosovo. Once you fight street…
“Out of Sight, Out of Mind.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The indiscriminate shootings of Israelis by Hamas and other Palestinian resistance organizations, the kidnapping of civilians, the barrage of rockets…
“Business is Booming.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. “We came, we saw, he died,” Hillary Clinton famously quipped when Muammar Gaddafi, after seven months of US and NATO bombing, was overthrown…
“Welcome In.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Corporate capitalism, defined by the cult of the self and the ruthless exploitation of the natural world and all forms of life for profit,…