You Can Arrest Journalists, But You Can’t Arrest the Truth
Posted by Joshua Scheer I have reported this time and time again, and it bears repeating: where are our so-called “leaders”? As democratic norms erode in real time, we are…
TRUMP’S WARS: THE POPULIST CRITIQUE
By Charles Derber Trump’s foreign policy is coming into clearer focus, as his attacks on Venezuela and his threats against Colombia, Mexico, Cuba and Greenland, as well as Iran, have…
ICE Executes Beloved ICU Nurse in Minneapolis — Nation Erupts, Government Lies Exposed.
By Joshua Scheer Some of the responses to the brutal murder of Alex Pretti by federal agents. Pretti, a U.S. citizen and an ICU nurse at a Veterans Affairs hospital…
We Tolerated Their Violence Abroad. Now We See Its Victims Here
Posted by Joshua Scheer I wanted to post this stand‑alone tweet from Chris Hedges for those who wanted to have his thoughts on what’s going on — as the streets…
Is Trump a Useful Idiot? Project 2025 Is in Power Now
Posted by Joshua Scheer With Project 2025 in full effect, Chris Hedges explains that Trump is neither necessary nor a real player. The “death grip” on our society is already…
Tracking, Targeting, and Terrorizing: ICE’s Surveillance State
By Joshua Scheer I just wrote about the murder of a man in Minneapolis and the country’s descent toward a fascist state, and of course what goes along with that…
Safe for ICE, Unsafe for Refuge: How the State Reclaimed the Church
By Joshua Scheer Two community leaders were arrested Sunday after disrupting church services at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, chanting “ICE out” and “Justice for Renee Good.” The protest…
Fascism, ICE, and the Union Rank-and-File: Why January 23 Must Be More Than a Protest
By Joshua Scheer As has been said by the sage of ScheerPost Chris Hedges “Effective resistance—or effective mass mobilization, as any effective union will tell you—requires months and months of…
F(ascism) YOU!
Posted by Joshua Scheer A cartoon by the one and only, sadly but truly, Mr. Fish. It is vital for the times we are living in, and like much of…
From Raid to Revolt: Minnesota Organizes a January 23 Shutdown
Posted by Joshua Scheer I had to share this—one of the president’s goons telling someone, “This is what happens when you report on their illegal, unethical, and immoral behavior.” @nowthisimpact…
Trump’s Attack on Birthright Citizenship Seeks to Further Codify White Supremacy
ByCamilo Pérez-Bustillo for Truthout the Supreme Court has scheduled a hearing early next year regarding historic challenges to the Trump administration’s attempt to undermine the Fourteenth Amendment’s longstanding guarantee of…
FBI Labels Antifa a Major Terror Threat, but Lawmakers Say Evidence Is Lacking as Trump’s Obsession Distracts From Far-Right Extremism
Joshua Scheer At a recent House Homeland Security Committee hearing, FBI official Michael Glasheen — operations director of the Bureau’s National Security Branch — described the anti-fascist movement antifa as…
Far-right extremists have been organizing online since before the internet – and AI is their next frontier
By Michelle Lynn Kahn for The Conversation Neo-Nazis, like these in Orlando, Fla., organize on social media today but were early adopters of precursors to the internet in the 1980s.…
Trump Intervenes in Honduran Election, Endorses Right-Wing Candidate and Pledges to Pardon Former Narco-Trafficking President
By: Joshua Scheer Trump threw his support behind right-wing candidate Nasry “Tito” Asfura in Honduras’s upcoming presidential election along with pardoning former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was sentenced…
Michael Brenner: Core Trump
“For the U.S. president, the truth has no claim” — Michael Brenner scrutinizes the effects of Trump’s behavior on foreign policy over the past 100-plus days.