CIA spymaster James Angleton shaped the US-Israeli relationship in secrecy. Newly unredacted files shed light on his wanton betrayal of his country to assist Israel’s theft of US nuclear material…
On the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a trove of military and presidential admissions dismantles the myth of necessity.
What follows is a revised and updated version of an essay from my 2020 book, Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Yale professor Jason Stanley explains why the censorship of history is crucial to the functioning of authoritarian states.
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.
Check through the ScheerPost archive on the history of settler colonialism and how it continues in Gaza today.
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night We…
Unexploded Ordnance and the Weaponry We Leave Behind.
A new book, The Hamilton Scheme, explores a very different founder than the one we’ve come to think we know.
Rewriting the Past by Adding In What's Been Left Out.
