Can We Please Have an Adult Conversation About China?
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research As the US legislative leader Nancy Pelosi swept into Taipei, people around the world held their breath. Her visit was an…
Patrick Lawrence: So Far As I Can Make Out
Patrick Lawrence explores how the truth about Ukraine has turned into a recipe for anger and contempt from the Western media.
Why Is There More Media Talk About Using Nuclear Weapons Than About Banning Them?
By Karl Grossman / FAIR It’s of critical importance—indeed, existential importance—to the world: the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. And a coalition of peace organizations in the United…
Patrick Lawrence: Language and Its Enemies
Media critic Patrick Lawrence lays out how the aftermath and potential consequences of Pelosi’s Taiwan visit are made obscure by certain media outlets.
Kansas Votes Overwhelmingly to Protect Abortion
Kansans have overwhelmingly voted to protect abortion rights in their state. This is a huge rejection of the anti-democratic Dobbs decision by the tyrannical Supreme Court.
Nancy Pelosi’s Reckless Trip to Taiwan: A Decision That Could Get Us All Killed
Even the foreign policy mainstream thinks Pelosi's Taiwan trip is a dangerous gamble. Why won't Biden stop her?
The Nasty Voices in Our Heads
The Paranoid Nature of American Foreign and Domestic Policy.
Patrick Lawrence: The Causes of Things
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Casus belli Over a summer sup on the back lawn the other night, a Times-reading, MSNBC–watching, NPR–listening neighbor asked what I thought she…
Patrick Lawrence: Zelensky Purge Ignored by Western Media
Zelensky’s purging of top officials as "traitors" ignored by Western media cheerleaders.
Patrick Lawrence: This Week in Fake News / Artless Dodgers
Mark 6:4 There is the case of Seymour Hersh, the great investigative reporter whose work vaults across the years from the My Lai massacre to the dirty war in Syria.…
Prosecutor Lauded for Investigating Trump Also Wants To Send Educators To Prison
As Fulton County DA Fani Willis’s profile rises, the glossy coverage has largely ignored her crusade to incarcerate teachers accused of cheating on tests.
Patrick Lawrence: This Week in Fake News / Blurred Truths
A veteran journalist's weekly critique on the state of mass media
Abolish the CIA
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch Just about every lousy U.S. foreign policy escapade from the 1950s to the late ‘70s traces back to the CIA. From the catastrophic1953 coup of…
A Lemming Leading the Lemmings: Slavoj Zizek and the Terminal Collapse of the Anti-War Left
By Jonathan Cook / MintPress News Have you noticed how every major foreign policy crisis since the U.S. and U.K.’s invasion of Iraq in 2003 has peeled off another layer…
Who Is to Blame for Inflation? The Power Brokers of Capitalism
A half-century long power play, led by corporations, Wall Street, governments, and central banks, has gone badly wrong.