Chris Hedges: the last days of Gaza
“The Last Piece.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. This is the end. The final blood-soaked chapter of the genocide. It will be over soon. Weeks. At most. Two million people are…
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Chris Hedges: Trumpland
“Trumpland USA.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The Christian fascists and oligarchs gleefully handing Donald Trump his sharpie and executive orders are not making war on the deep state, ...
Chris Hedges: Surrendering to authoritarianism
“Stomp of Approval.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. I was not surprised when Columbia University’s interim President Katrina Armstrong caved to the demands of the Trump administration. Sh...
Chris Hedges: Trump’s war on education
“I Stink Therefore I Am.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The attacks on colleges and universities—Donald Trump’s administration has warned some 60 colleges that they could lose federal mo...
Chris Hedges: Genocide is the new normal
“And So Castles Made of Sand.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Joe Biden’s parting gift of $8 billion in weapons sales to the apartheid state of Israel acknowledges the gruesome reality…
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…
Chris Hedges: the old evil
“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,…
Chris Hedges: You saved Julian Assange
“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.…
Chris Hedges: Israel’s willing executioners
“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…
Chris Hedges: Revolt in the universities
“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…
Chris Hedges: Joe Biden’s parting gift to America will be Christian fascism
“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…
Chris Hedges: Julian Assange’s day in court
“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…
It may be genocide, but it won’t be stopped
“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…
The four horsemen of Gaza’s apocalypse
“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…
Chris Hedges: The case for genocide
“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…
Israel’s genocide betrays the Holocaust
“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…
The death of Israel
“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,…
Israel reopens the Gaza slaughterhouse
“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…
Israel is shutting down its human laboratory in Gaza
“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,…
Chris Hedges: Letter to the children of Gaza
“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…