Michael Brenner: The Context Behind Yemen
In much of the media coverage of the recent U.S. bombing on Yemen, the historical context behind the violence has been omitted — making many unaware of the U.S.-backed genocide…
Michael Brenner: Europe-Jews-Muslims
Israel's inhuman treatment of the Palestinians - culminating in their massacre and mass eviction from Gaza - leaves Europeans unmoved. Instead, they cheer on the Israelis, outdo themselves in effusive…
Michael Brenner: Defeat
By Michael Brenner / Original to ScheerPost The United States is being defeated in Ukraine. One could say that it is facing defeat – or, more starkly, that it is…
The New ‘New World’
What happens when reality hits delusion? U.S. mythology and fantasy will remain resilient. Denial, doubling-down, scapegoating, recrimination and more audacious adventures are the instinctive responses, writes Michael Brenner.
Flirting With Armaggedon—Again
By Michael Brenner An oddity of our times is the cavalier manner by which analysts of public issues ignore acquired understanding and history. Their motto seems to be: the world…
Risen Word
By Michael Brenner A divide between elites and the populace is a recurrent feature of every large, organized society. That has been true without exception since the abundance generated by…
Trumpism: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Donald Trump’s political demise is a personal implosion...Yet, the movement he inspired and instigated is very much alive.
Twitter, Twits & Tycoons
By Michael Brenner The Elon Musk/Twitter affair has riveted our attention like no other celebrity melodrama since Meghan & Harry went top of the charts 4 years ago. Perfect lead…
Michael Brenner: Is America’s Destiny Manifest?
By Michael Brenner One of the GODFATHER’s most dramatic episodes is the ‘Day of the Long Knives.’ Michael executes a plan to liquidate all of the Corleone family’s enemies. Everybody…
Neo-Cons: Genesis to Ascendency
The adherents of the neo-conservative movement now dominate positions of rank within the Executive branch, and exercise intellectual hegemony among members of the foreign policy community more generally.
Last Tango in La-La Land
The West has been inhabiting a fanciful world that could exist only in our imaginations. The more that we have invested in that fantasy world, the harder we find it…
Michael Brenner on the High Risks of Cultivated Ignorance
Micheal Brenner challenges the mainstream narrative of Putin and appends four of his public speeches.
Another Casualty of the Ukraine Conflict: The Truth
The Ukraine conflict has engendered a dangerous frenzy in the West. Does it say more about us than it does about Russia or Ukraine?
On Humiliation and the Ukraine War
Russia’s actions in the Ukraine are, to a great extent, the culmination of the numerous humiliations that the West, under American instigation, has inflicted on Russia’s rulers and the country…
Lowering the Throne of America’s Delusion
The U.S. will not face reality about its foreign policy disasters but rather retreats to fantasy worlds that exist only in its own imagination, writes Michael Brenner.