{"podcast":{"title":"The Chris Hedges Report Podcast","slug":"the-chris-hedges-report-podcast-6787680","podcast_index_feed_id":6787680,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/778851.rss","website_url":"https://chrishedges.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/778851/fc17490b2e62007353401c34fecc8316.jpg","author":"Chris Hedges","episode_count":260,"summary":"Covering US foreign policy, economic realities, and civil liberties in American society.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-11T10:20:46.788952+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-chris-hedges-report-podcast-6787680"},"episode":{"title":"The Gaza Riviera - Read by Eunice Wong","slug":"the-gaza-riviera-read-by-eunice-wong","published_at":"2025-08-01T23:09:59+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-chris-hedges-report-podcast-6787680/the-gaza-riviera-read-by-eunice-wong","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-chris-hedges-report-podcast-6787680","url":"https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-gaza-riviera-read-by-eunice-wong","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/169890938/2db5ab3fbc9bac5e67a69258d4393307.mp3","summary":"This article is read by Eunice Wong , a Juilliard-trained actor, featured on Audible's list of Best Women Narrators . Her work is on the annual Best Audiobooks lists of the New York Times, Audible, AudioFile, & Library Journal. www.eunicewong.actor Text originally published July 26, 2025. The Chris Hedges Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Full Text: Israelis do not see the images of skeletal corpses of Palestinian children who they have starved to death as a curse. They do not see the slain families they gun down at food hubs — designed not to deliver aid but lure starving Palestinians into a massive concentration camp in the south of Gaza in preparation for deportation — as a war crime. Israelis do not look at the savage bombing and shelling that kill or wound dozens of Palestinian civilians, where an average of 28 children die daily , as anything extraordinary. They do not see the wasteland of Gaza, pulverized by bombs and methodically being torn down by bulldozers and excavators, leaving virtually the entire population of Gaza homeless, as barbaric. They do not see the destruction of water purification plants, decimation of hospitals and clinics, where doctors and medical staff are often unable to work because they are weak from malnutrition , as savage. They do not blink at the assassinations of doctors as well as journalists , 232 of whom have been murdered for trying to document the horror. Israelis have blinded themselves morally and intellectually. They view the genocide through the lens of a bankrupt media and political class that tells them only what they want to hear and shows them only what they want to see. They are intoxicated by the power of their industrial we…","meta_description":"This article is read by Eunice Wong , a Juilliard-trained actor, featured on Audible's list of Best Women Narrators . Her work is on the annual Best Audio…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":770,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-chris-hedges-report-podcast-6787680/episodes/the-gaza-riviera-read-by-eunice-wong/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-chris-hedges-report-podcast-6787680/the-gaza-riviera-read-by-eunice-wong.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}