The Crisis in the Middle East With Chris Hedges
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
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🗓️ 24 June 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff has a one-on-one discussion with Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges, who draws on history, his years as a correspondent and NY Times Middle East Bureau Chief, and his current work on and in the Middle East. He explains why Israel attacked Iran and what the short and long-term prospects are for their war. He also devotes some of his analyses to examining Israel's genocidal policies toward Palestinians.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, friends, to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the economic |
| 0:26.7 | dimensions of our lives and those of our children. |
| 0:30.5 | I'm your host, Richard Wolfe. |
| 0:33.5 | I want to remind you that Charlie Fabian is available for your comments and suggestions. |
| 0:39.3 | I want to thank you for sending so many of them in. |
| 0:42.3 | They're very useful to us, so please continue to do so. |
| 0:46.3 | Charlie.info-338 at gmail.com is his address. And likewise a reminder that the book, Understanding Capitalism, |
| 0:58.6 | is a kind of companion volume to what we do on this program. And if you're interested in that |
| 1:05.1 | way and getting deeper into it, that would be useful for you to have to consult. We're having a special program today. |
| 1:13.7 | My guest, who is enough to make it special, Chris Hedges, someone who's been on this program |
| 1:20.2 | many times before and whose work you all know anyway. |
| 1:25.5 | He's going to be with us for the full half hour. I want to take advantage |
| 1:30.1 | of all that he knows over a lifetime of work, particularly about the Middle East, and |
| 1:37.1 | its relationships to all that is going on here in the United States. So please welcome with me, Chris Hedges. Thank you, first of all, |
| 1:49.2 | Chris, for being on the show. Thanks for having me, Rick. All right, let me give you the brief |
| 1:54.5 | information bio. It doesn't do him justice, but we'll read it anyway. |
| 2:02.4 | Chris is a Pulitzer Prize winning a former foreign correspondent for the New York Times. |
| 2:08.5 | He spent two decades covering conflicts in Latin America, Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle |
| 2:15.2 | East, where he spent seven years and served as the paper's Middle East |
| 2:21.3 | Bureau Chief. He is the author of 16 books, including several New York Times bestsellers. |
| 2:29.5 | His latest book is entitled, A Genocide Foretold, Reporting on Survival and Resistance |
| 2:39.0 | in Occupied Palestine. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University, |
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