Patrick Lawrence: Reading the Mess the Democrats Have Made
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost At writing, we are 16 months and five days from the 2024 presidential election. If a week is a long time in politics,…
Chris Hedges: The Forgotten Victims of America’s Class War
By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost MECHANIC FALLS, Maine – I am sitting in Eric Heimel’s barbershop in the center of Mechanic Falls. Russ Day, who was the owner…
Patrick Lawrence: No, The Truth About Biden Is Not Democratic
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Let us cast our minds back just briefly to the very fine afternoon of July 22, 2016. It was an especially bright Friday,…
What We Can Still Learn From J. Robert Oppenheimer
“We believe,” he wrote in 1945, “that the safety of this nation—as opposed to its ability to inflict damage on an enemy power—cannot lie wholly or even primarily in its…
Patrick Lawrence: Anything Anything Anything To Avoid Debating R.F.K. Jr.
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Our corporate newspapers and broadcasters went into attack mode as soon as Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced, in mid–April, he would seek the…
Chris Hedges: Cornel West and the Campaign to End Political Apartheid
The two ruling parties have destroyed our democracy. Voting for one or the other will not bring it back.
Patrick Lawrence: The ‘Disinformation Industry’ Lands in Court
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost What kind of a week was last week in the theater of war wherein battles rage over illegal censorship, illegal attacks on freedom…
The Jenin Operation Didn’t End. Phase Two Has Already Begun
The Israeli army's bulldozers and airstrikes not only leveled Jenin refugee camp, but paved the way for the PA to return to the camp and reassert its influence. This is…
Chris Hedges: Journalists Abandoned Julian Assange and Slit Their Own Throats
The failure by journalists to mount a campaign to free Julian Assange, or expose the vicious smear campaign against him, is one more catastrophic and self-defeating blunder by the news…
Chris Hedges: They Lied About Afghanistan. They Lied About Iraq. And They Are Lying About Ukraine.
The U.S. public has been conned, once again, into pouring billions into another endless war.
Patrick Lawrence: We Need to Talk About Nahel
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost What is it about France these days? La republique seems to be ever on the brink of exploding over one or another social…
Ralph Nader: What’s the Matter with the ‘Liberal Press’?
By Ralph Nader / Nader.org David Ignatius, a long-time Washington Post columnist on military intelligence topics, probably never dreamed his newspaper would fill over three full pages serializing his latest…
Patrick Lawrence: Russian (Melo)drama
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost After a few hours of high drama in southwestern Russia last Saturday, featuring a paramilitary leader, 4,000 to 6,000 followers, and a small…
Patrick Lawrence: Why Can’t Blinken and Sullivan Get China Right?
The Biden admin's continuation of Trump-era policies with China have not boded well thus far.
Chris Hedges: The Imminent Extradition of Julian Assange and the Death of Journalism
Julian Assange’s legal options have nearly run out. He could be extradited to the U.S. this week. Should he be convicted in the U.S., any reporting on the inner workings…