2022 Was Rikers Island’s Deadliest Year. Again.
19 people have died in New York City’s notorious pretrial detention center. Advocates are calling for a court-appointed federal receivership to intervene.
Despite US Opposition, UN Passes Resolution Condemning Death Penalty
Joe Biden ran for president as an abolitionist. It is time for him to put this country on record as committed to ending the death penalty.
ICC Wanted to Investigate Israeli War Crimes. Now It’s Caving to US Pressure.
Two years after launching an investigation of war crimes in Palestine, the ICC is still dragging its feet.
Pentagon Admits They Can’t Account for Half Their Assets
“The Defense Department has failed its fifth-ever audit, unable to account for more than half of its assets..."
The Madness of Nuclear Warfare Is Alive and Well in America
Collectively, it seems that we may be on the verge of returning to a nightmarish past, where we lived in fear of a nuclear war that would kill us all,…
Chris Hedges and Dennis Kucinich on How the War Machine Took Over the Democratic Party
By Chris Hedges / The Real News Network From The Real News Network: There was once a wing of the Democratic Party that stood up to the war industry. J.…
‘An Attack on Free Expression’: Musk Under Fire for Suspending Journalists From Twitter
"Musk suspending journalists' accounts is petty and vindictive and absolutely disgraceful—and especially so because Musk has styled himself, however absurdly, as a champion of free speech."
Big Tech Has Rigged the Game Against Artists
In their new book, “Chokepoint Capitalism,” Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow examine Big Tech’s takeover of the creative labor market.
Neoliberalism and Its Discontents
By Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander Cockburn / CounterPunch All through the 1980s and 1990s, professorial mountebanks like James Q. Wilson and Charles Murray grew plump from best sellers about…
Senate Passes Massive $858 Billion NDAA
The spending bill now heads to President Biden's desk.
You Know Gay Rights Are Mainstream When Biden Picks up the Rainbow Flag
Larry Gross, author of the LGBTQ civil rights treatise, “Up From Invisibility,” honors the achievement of the new same-sex marriage law with only feint appreciation for the president who signed…
Correction on Lee Camp Story
By SP Staff FOR THE RECORD Dec. 15: Early this morning, ScheerPost republished a column and video by Lee Camp from MintPress News titled, “Pentagon Admits They Can’t Account for…
Project Censored: Hunting the Twitter Files
Nolan Higdon on how legacy media censors details about censorship.
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