Dennis Kucinich: Iraq Plus 20 – Lies as Weapons of Mass Destruction
Part One: The Script for the Lead-Up to War
Missing Links in Textbook History: The Roots of the American War in Vietnam
Jim Mamer continues his series deconstructing the flaws in American history taught in high school classrooms, this time tackling the Vietnam War.
NYT Book Review in Denial on Japanese Persecution in World War II
The insistence that not all Japanese people were banned from California severely damages the credibility of the New York Times.
Missing Links in Textbook History: Cold War Origins
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost Paranoia strikes deep Into your life it will creep It starts when you’re always afraid You step out of line, the man come…
Nostalgia for the Cuban Missile Crisis
By Roger Harris / CounterPunch Sixty years ago, a crowd of us young people anxiously massed around a black-and-white TV in my college student union building. The US and the…
Scott Ritter: The Nightmare of NATO Equipment Being Sent to Ukraine
The West’s recent approval of more military assistance for Kiev risks nuclear nightmare, fails Ukrainian expectations and rebukes the World War II history enshrined in a prominent Soviet war memorial…
California’s Lost History of Lynching Latinos in LA More Than 100 Years Ago
By Victoria Valenzuela / L.A. TACO This article was originally published in L.A. TACO, a James Beard Award-Winning local food publication. Not far from Union Station in downtown Los Angeles,…
Taking ‘Peace’ Out of the Nobel Peace Prize
Despite the occasional polite nod to Alfred Nobel, the committee — which will name this year’s award on Saturday — has never made known his vision of peace through global…
John Kiriakou: Pardoning Turkeys Instead of Humans
Almost no pardon applications ever actually make it to the president’s desk if you don’t go gobble gobble.
My Thanksgiving: How Testifying for Native Americans Made Me a Witness to History
I'm a scholar of Native American history. But my real education came from working with Native people in the present.
[rewind] Robert Scheer: Three Antidotes to America’s Toxic Thanksgiving Myth
This Thanksgiving, we're reposting three critical "Scheer Intelligence" episodes that highlight the country's original sins of white settler colonialism and Native American genocide.
The Chris Hedges Report: Andrew Bacevich on His Book ‘After the Apocalypse’ and the Folly of Endless War
By Chris Hedges Listen to the podcast here. In the months of July and September 1940 the French historian and future resistance fighter Marc Bloch, who fought in World War…
The Cuban Missile Crisis Cover-Up
How JFK and Robert Kennedy hid the quid pro quo that saved the world from nuclear war.
The Never-Ending Impact of a Forgotten Blitzkrieg Against the American Left
How might the United States be different today if, a century ago, the leadership of this country had not acted both so ruthlessly and in such an eerily Trumpian way?