Chris Hedges: The Lords of Chaos
The politicians and shills in the media who orchestrated 20 years of military debacles in the Middle East, and who seek a world dominated by U.S. power, must be held…
Policing Cannot Fix the Problems of Inequality and Racism
By Dan Siegel / Original to ScheerPost Millions of people hit the streets around the world when George Floyd was murdered by the Minneapolis police in May 2020. We demanded…
Patrick Lawrence: China’s Great Leap in the Middle East
What Beijing just sponsored and got done, putting two millennia of diplomatic craft to work, is an exquisite example of what can be accomplished once this imperative is fully realized.
Chris Hedges: Ukraine’s Death by Proxy
Ukraine is a pawn for militarists intent on degrading Russia and ultimately China in a self-defeating quest to ensure U.S. global hegemony. The end of this war, like most proxy…
Patrick Lawrence: The Return of Non-Alignment
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost The Ukraine conflict as catalyst: I wonder how many people who pay attention understood a year ago that Russia’s intervention and the West’s…
Patrick Lawrence: Russia Takes Another Step Back From the West
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost News that Russia will suspend its participation in the New START nuclear arms pact, which arrived Tuesday via Vladimir Putin’s annual address to…
It’s Not All Balloon Buffoonery: Weaponizing Anti-China Paranoia
By Blake Fleetwood / Original to ScheerPost The U.S. suffered worldwide embarrassment in the last two weeks while the American media and Republican and Democratic politicians hyperventilated over four UFO…
Chris Hedges: Rage Against The War Machine Speech
Hedges spoke at the Washington DC rally on Feb. 19 alongside an array of other notable speakers.
Patrick Lawrence: Munich as Propaganda Fest
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost I love Wang Yi’s response when The New York Times’s Michael Crowley caught him in a hallway at the Munich Security Conference Saturday…
Patrick Lawrence: Objectivity and Its Discontents
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Look, it is one thing for reporters and line editors to abandon the fundamental principle of objectivity as they hurl their hatchets at…
Chris Hedges: There Are No Permanent Allies, Only Permanent Power
If we do not build left-right coalitions on issues such as militarism, health care, a living wage and union organizing, we will be impotent in the face of corporate power…
Patrick Lawrence: No, Joey, It Still Isn’t Morning in America
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost O.K., you have a speech of 7,000–odd words to deliver to Congress. It ought to run about an hour as these things go.…
Patrick Lawrence: The Press Reckoning on Russiagate
Jeff Gerth’s investigation for The Columbia Journalism Review exposes the dark heart of the news media’s coverage of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections.
The US Is Legitimizing Jewish Terrorism Against Palestinians
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s recent visit to Palestine offered a paltry aid package to Palestinians and a gift to Israel’s far-right in the form of the removal of…
Chris Hedges: Woke Imperialism
Woke culture, devoid of class consciousness and a commitment to stand with the oppressed, is another tool in the arsenal of the imperial state.