In the first installment of How We Got Here, Jeffrey Wernick examined James Madison’s constitutional design and the safeguards intended to restrain concentrated power. In Part Two, he turned to…
This is part one of a special four-part series by Jeffery Wernick for ScheerPost: How We Got Here. In this opening episode, Wernick examines James Madison’s original constitutional vision and…
Jonathan Cook Substack War and profit are intimately tied together. The billionaires cannot secure their profits without war, or the threat of it – whether against workers at home or…
As Washington Moves to Bind Itself Even More Closely to Israel’s Security Apparatus, Former State Department Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson Warns That the Real Crisis Is No Longer Iran—It’s…
As central banks stockpile gold and reduce reliance on U.S. Treasury debt, a decades-long shift away from dollar hegemony is accelerating—driven by sanctions, war, and a growing distrust of Washington’s…
A bill’s provision to integrate the U.S. and Israeli militaries will go to a U.S. House vote after an effort to stop it failed Thursday. Passage will make it nearly…
Alfred McCoy Tom Dispatch While Washington’s war with Iran drags on, month after month, without any end in sight, the world is witnessing the very real limits of U.S. global…
We face a choice. Tyranny or revolution. Chris Hedges MEXICO CITY — There are two ways to confront global capitalism. There are mass movements, especially strikes, which disrupt commerce and…
Joshua Scheer At the Vancouver Web Summit, Chris Hedges and Aaron Maté examine Gaza, the erosion of international law, AI-powered warfare, media censorship, and whether meaningful reform is still possible…
Invoking George Washington, John Quincy Adams and the American abolitionist tradition, Jeffrey Wernick argues that permanent foreign attachments and endless war have pushed the United States far from the values…
Chris Hedges Report In the United States, but also around the world, fascism is on the rise again, similar to what occurred in Germany and Italy after World War I.…
What is hegemony? Is the United States losing it? Michael Brenner for Consortium News HEGEMONY. “Hegemony, Hegemon everywhere — but not a ‘definition’ in sight.” Talk about American foreign policy…
Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. And It Will Change The World. It is so widely accepted that the USA is losing the war that now even neoconservative hawks admit it. They…
Jeffrey Wernick ScheerPost There is a principle the founders held that the contemporary American government has substantially abandoned. The principle is that the state cannot kill without due process. Due…
Chris Hedges, Stephen Walt and Ryan Grim on America’s Failing War Machine Joshua Scheer As the United States sinks deeper into another catastrophic Middle East confrontation, veteran journalist Chris Hedges…
