The Satanic Nature of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What follows is a revised and updated version of an essay from my 2020 book, Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies.
Juan Cole: Genetic Study shows ‘Phoenicians,’ like all ‘Nations’ were a Multi-Ethnic Franchise
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Harald Ringbauer et al. writing in Nature report on a genetic study of the ancient Phoenicians that is really…
The Shared Mythological History of Israel and the US (w/ Joan Scott) | The Chris Hedges Report
Chris Hedges talks to Professor Joan Scott about the late Amy Kaplan's cultural analysis of the US and Israel's mythological shared history and how it has manufactured consent for Israel's…
Genetic Study finds Echoes of the Early Modern Ethnic Cleansing of Spain’s Muslims
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A genetic history study of Spain by Gonzalo Oteo-Garcia et al. in Genome Biology eloquently confirms the story of…
The Anglo-Nazi Global Empire That Almost Was
By Kit Klarenberg / Global Delinquents As VE Day approaches, Western officials, pundits and journalists are widely seeking to exploit the 80th anniversary of Nazism’s defeat for political purposes. European…
Vijay Prashad: The Historical Revision of Buchenwald
On April 11, 1945, the U.S. took over the Buchenwald concentration camp. But it was communist prisoners who organised and liberated the Nazi camp. Today, such heroic victories of anti-fascist…
Why History Threatens Fascist Movements (w/ Jason Stanley)
Yale professor Jason Stanley explains why the censorship of history is crucial to the functioning of authoritarian states.
Jonathan Cook: Thirty Years of Middle East Lies Just Keep Coming Back to Haunt Us
The West’s ‘war on terror’ was built on a series of deceptions to persuade us that our leaders were crushing Islamist extremism. In truth, they were nourishing it.
Thanksgiving: A Time To Think About Settler Colonialism
Check through the ScheerPost archive on the history of settler colonialism and how it continues in Gaza today.
War Forever, Everywhere
Unexploded Ordnance and the Weaponry We Leave Behind.
Alexander Hamilton’s Assault on Working People, Enslaved and Free
A new book, The Hamilton Scheme, explores a very different founder than the one we’ve come to think we know.
Farewell, the American Century
Rewriting the Past by Adding In What's Been Left Out.
Patrick Lawrence: Ðiên Biên Phú at 70
How did the Vietnamese prevail at that world-historical moment? The answers shed light on the world we see outside our windows now.
Duck!
Walt Disney and Salvador Allende Are Still Fighting for Our Souls