Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—the Israel lobby’s useful idiot
“The Kennedy Promise.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The long nightmare of oppression of Palestinians is not a tangential issue. It is a black and white issue of a settler-colonial state…
Chris Hedges
There are very few good films about war. 20 Days in Mariupol is an exception
“Witness.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Films about war, shorn of the bone crushing fear, the putrid stench of the corpses, the deafening noise of explosions, the constant exhaustion and the…
Journalists abandoned Julian Assange and slit their own throats
“When Goliaths Infiltrate the Fourth Estate.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The persecution of Julian Assange, along with the climate of fear, wholesale government surveillance and use of the Espionage Act…
They lied about Afghanistan. They lied about Iraq. And they are lying about Ukraine
“Preying for Peace.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The playbook the pimps of war use to lure us into one military fiasco after another, including Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and…
Dr. Cornel West announces he is running for president
“Go West.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Dr. Cornel West, the moral philosopher and civil rights activist, has formally announced he is running for president on the People’s Party ticket. Cornel…
Why the conspiracy theory about Trump and Russia won’t go away
“Run for Your Lives.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. There is no report, investigation or new revelation, including the recent release of Special Counsel John Durham’s “Report on Matters Related to…
The enemy from within
“You Are What They Eat.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. America is a stratocracy, a form of government dominated by the military. It is axiomatic among the two ruling parties that…
The United States of paralysis
“Follow the Money.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Political paralysis is snuffing out what is left of our anemic democracy. It is the paralysis of doing nothing while the ruling oligarchs,…
The lord of chaos
“We’re Number One.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Two decades ago, I sabotaged my career at the New York Times. It was a conscious choice. I had spent seven years in…
Ukraine’s death by proxy
“Proxyboy.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. There are many ways for a state to project power and weaken adversaries, but proxy wars are one of the most cynical. Proxy wars devour…
Chris Hedges: Rage Against the War Machine speech
“Murder King.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Idolatry is the primal sin from which all other sins derive. Idols tempt us to become God. They demand the sacrifice of others in…
Woke imperialism
“Identity Politics.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The brutal murder of Tyre Nichols by five Black Memphis police officers should be enough to implode the fantasy that identity politics and diversity…
Ukraine: the war that went wrong
“Everything Must Go.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Empires in terminal decline leap from one military fiasco to the next. The war in Ukraine, another bungled attempt to reassert US global…
The plague of social isolation
“Cell Damage.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The is very little to recommend about my old gym, other than the low monthly fee, where I worked out nearly every day from…
Russell Banks, John Brown and the American soul
“Russell Banks.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The deep malaise that defines American society—the rage, despair and widespread feelings of betrayal and loss—is rarely captured and almost never explained in the…
America’s theatre of the absurd
“Macdeath.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Our political class does not govern. It entertains. It plays its assigned role in our fictitious democracy, howling with outrage to constituents and selling them…
Israel and the rise of Jewish fascism
“Where There’s Smoke.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed coalition government of Jewish extremists, fanatic Zionists and religious bigots represents a seismic change in Israel, one that will exacerbate…
The politicians who destroyed our democracy want us to vote for them to save it
“The Body Politic.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The bipartisan project of dismantling our democracy, which took place over the last few decades on behalf of corporations and the rich, has…
The puppets and the puppet masters
“Armed and Dangerous.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. This is the speech given by Chris Hedges outside the Department of Justice in Washington, DC on Saturday October 8 at a rally…
The return of fascism
“The Bankruptcy of the Liberal Ass.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Energy and food bills are soaring. Under the onslaught of inflation and prolonged wage stagnation, wages are in free fall.…