A Hell of America’s Own Making
The Pentagon’s escalating dystopian scenarios, its fixation with being overstretched by climate crises and great power conflict to the point of collapse, and its more recent goal of reducing its…
The Forged Gospel of Jesus’s Wife
Ariel Sabar masterfully dissects the dishonesty and narcissism inherent in nearly all Christian theological work in his book “Veritas: A Harvard Professor, A Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus’s…
Hedges: Kucinich Memoir Is a Moving Account of a Battle Against Corporate Power
When the 'boy mayor' of Cleveland took a stand against privatization of public power, the region's elites deployed every weapon in their arsenal against him, including attempted assassination.
Taibbi: Has the Media’s Russiagate Reckoning Finally Begun?
Matt Taibbi is definitely ready for Barry Meier’s new book, “Spooked,” even as many in the MSM aren’t going near it.
Towards a Fuller Awareness of Our Endangered World
In "Under a White Sky," Elizabeth Kolbert’s conversational prose draws readers across earth’s land, waters and air, animating a prismatic what’s-what of human follies and their unintended consequences.
How People in Trouble Created a Radical Health Care Movement
Scott Tucker reviews "Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987 – 1993" by Sarah Schulman, who was a rank-and-file member of one of the…
Matt Taibbi: Why “Securing Democracy” Will Be Taught in Journalism Schools
Haters gonna hate, but Glenn Greenwald's latest is a field guide to bringing home (another) scoop of a lifetime.
Book Review: Driving the Samburu Bride
Driving the Samburu BrideBy Diane C. Perlov Reviewed by H Patricia Hynes / Original to ScheerPost Diane Perlov’s memoir of the two years she lived among semi-nomadic people in northern…
Wise Observations on White Racism
By Paul Von Blum / Original to ScheerPost A review of Dispatches from the Race War, by Tim Wise On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was murdered by white police…
Battling White Supremacy in the Ring
Boxing, the historian Gerald Horne argues in his engaging and meticulously researched new book, was effectively weaponized by Blacks in the battle against white supremacy.
‘Out of Mesopotamia’ Is a Great War Novel
Iranian-American author captures how combat has a Peter Pan quality, allowing fighters, as well as war correspondents, to escape from the drudgery of daily life and never grow up.