Cornel West’s Presidential Candidacy Is ‘For the Least of These’
“I don’t want to chip at poverty. I want to eliminate, abolish poverty.”
Here’s Why Cornel West Switched To Green Party In Presidential Campaign (w/ Chris Hedges)
By Jimmy Dore / YouTube Progressive activist and academic Cornel West grabbed headlines recently when he announced he would be running for President under the People’s Party banner. Now West…
Chris Hedges: Requiem for Our Species
The effects of the climate crisis intrude with increasing regularity into our lives and yet we do not act. We are as paralyzed as past civilizations were when facing catastrophic…
Chris Hedges: Dr. Cornel West Announces He Is Running for President
Dr. Cornel West, in his first interview since deciding to enter the U.S. presidential race, explains why he is a candidate.
American Police are Basically Untouchable. How Did It Get This Bad?
To understand where US law enforcement’s impunity comes from, we have to look at the historic role of police in maintaining a racial and class-based order.
Chris Hedges: The Democratic Party’s Crucifixion of Matt Taibbi
Extensive government blacklists, revealed by the Twitter Files, are used to censor left-wing and right-wing critics. This censorship apparatus has been turned on the reporter who exposed them.
Chris Hedges on Weapons to Ukraine, Military Buildup to China and Pentagon Spending
By Mnar Adley and Alan MacLeod / MintPress News The war in Ukraine is well into its second year, and the United States is insistent on pumping billions more into…
Chris Hedges: Why the Conspiracy Theory About Trump and Russia Won’t Go Away
The latest investigation into the charges that Donald Trump’s campaign worked in concert with the Russian government exposes a cynical collaboration between Trump opponents and the FBI.
ScheerPost Finalist in Nine SoCal Journalism Award Categories
By SP Staff / Original to ScheerPost The Los Angeles Press Club recently announced the finalists for its 65th annual Southern California Journalism Awards naming ScheerPost staff and contributors as…
Chris Hedges: Sammy Goes to School
By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost Newark, N.J. — We know the story. The absent father who leaves when his son is five-years-old and moves back to Puerto Rico.…
Chris Hedges: Julian Assange and World Press Freedom Day
This is a talk Chris Hedges gave in New York City at rally calling for the immediate release of Julian Assange on World Press Freedom Day.
Chris Hedges: The Enemy From Within
The war industry, a state within a state, disembowels the nation, stumbles from one military fiasco to the next, strips us of civil liberties and pushes us towards suicidal wars…
Chris Hedges: The United States of Paralysis
The longer the corporate state erodes the social bonds that knit us to society and give us a sense of purpose and meaning the more inevitable an authoritarian state and…
Extinction Rebellion’s Roger Hallam: It’s not the climate, it’s the system | The Chris Hedges Report
By Chris Hedges / Real News Network Earlier this year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an international body of UN scientists, delivered a “final warning” to drastically cut…
Chris Hedges: Taking Back Our Universities From Corporate Apparatchiks
American universities are appendages of the corporate state. Educators are increasingly poorly paid, denied benefits and job security while senior administrators pay themselves obscene salaries.