The UN’s Vague ‘New Agenda for Peace’
Vijay Prashad says that the report — apart from identifying the conflict between the unipolar and multipolar worlds, and showing concern over the metastasizing weapons industry — throws moral scaffolding…
Victoria Nuland Meets With Niger Junta Leaders
Nuland met with Moussa Salaou Barmou, who has previously received training from the US military.
Taliban’s Massively Successful Opium Eradication Raises Questions About What US Was Doing All Along
It has already been called “the most successful counter-narcotics effort in human history.” Armed with little more than sticks, teams of counter-narcotics brigades travel the country, doing something the US…
Patrick Lawrence: The Dialectic of the Draft
Americans will understand themselves less fantastically if they consider the extent to which the end of the Selective Service System a half century ago gave them permission to put their…
‘The Greatest Fighting Force in Human History’
The Perpetual Wars You Aren't Supposed to Notice.
Poll Shows Majority of Americans Oppose Further Aid in Ukraine
By Talia Mullin / Original to ScheerPost On Aug. 4, 2023, CNN released a poll, conducted with Social Science Research Solutions (SSRS), which found that most Americans oppose Congress authorizing…
Ken’s Rights? Research Shows Barbie Is Surprisingly Accurate on How ‘Men’s rights Activists’ Are Radicalized
By Lucy Nicholas / The Conversation In the Barbie movie, we open with a picture of a perfect Barbieland where (almost) everyone is happy, diversity and sisterhood are embraced, and…
Right-Wing Extremism Means Homeschooling Surge in US Should Concern Us All
With the book-banning right targeting mainstream schools, homeschooling is surging. More regulation is needed
Another Chance to Reduce Child Poverty
My story is proof that public programs can help kids escape poverty. Now lawmakers have a chance to help more kids get out.
Bola Tinubu, Nigerian President and ECOWAS Chair, Laundered Millions for Heroin Dealers
Before leading the charge for intervention, ECOWAS chair Bola Tinubu spent years laundering millions for heroin dealers in Chicago, and has since been ensnared in numerous corruption scandals.
Ellen Brown: War By Other Means: Short Selling JPMorgan Chase
By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost When the FDIC put Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank into receivership in March, a study reported on the Social Science Research…
78 Years Ago in Hiroshima and Nagasaki: What Oppenheimer Wrought
The official U.S. bombing survey on what happened in Hiroshima 78 years ago today.
Patrick Lawrence: Independent Journalism as It Was
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost This is an extract from Lawrence’s Journalists and Their Shadows, available now from Clarity Press, or as a pre-order from Google Books or…
US/France Threaten Intervention in Resource-Rich Niger: Fears of War in West Africa
The US and France have threatened intervention to re-install a pro-Western regime in Niger, which produces uranium needed for nuclear energy, has untapped oil reserves, and hosts strategic US drone…