Patrick Lawrence: The Pathology of Ukrainian Nationalism
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost What kind of people are these? I asked as I considered, in my previous commentary, the bottomless corruption and cynical theft that have…
Chris Hedges: Ukraine: The War That Went Wrong
NATO support for the war in Ukraine, designed to degrade the Russian military and drive Vladimir Putin from power, is not going according to plan. The new sophisticated military hardware…
Patrick Lawrence: The Shadows Descend in Ukraine
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Two of my favorite New York Times words are “shadowy” and “murky.” They are brilliantly suited to the Manichean version of our world…
Patrick Lawrence: Investigate This, Jim Jordan
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Somewhere between the first and second times I heard someone say “weaponize,” this term and its derivatives—“weaponizing,” “weaponization,” and so on—began to repel…
Chris Hedges: The Plague of Social Isolation
The rupture of social bonds and loss of community, caused by the decades-long assault on the poor and working class and the ravages of the pandemic, have resulted in a…
Patrick Lawrence: Japan Reenlists as Washington’s Spear-Carrier
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost It is always the same when Japanese premiers travel to Washington to summit at the White House. Nothing seems to happen and nobody…
Veterans Understand Martin Luther King Jr’s Powerful Demand for Peace
Foreign policy is a blind spot for Americans. This became part of Martin Luther King’s message.
Chris Hedges: Russell Banks, John Brown and the American Soul
There are few contemporary novelists who have explored the dark undercurrents of American society with more insight and pathos than Russell Banks, who died earlier this month.
Patrick Lawrence: ‘Pessimism of the Mind, Optimism of the Will’
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Some years ago now, while researching a book that eventually came out as Somebody Else’s Century, I spent time in Ahmedabad, a city…
Patrick Lawrence: Dimming the Lights
Two U.S. universities have recently taken the cultivation of ignorance to new lows, although at this point one hesitates to make any assumption as to where the bottom lies.
Caitlin Johnstone: Unprovoked!
In the mass media you’re not allowed to talk about the U.S.-NATO actions that diplomats, politicians, academics — even the head of the C.I.A. — have long warned would lead…
Chris Hedges: America’s Theater of the Absurd
The 15 rounds of voting it took to install Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House is part of the carnival of folly that passes for politics.
Patrick Lawrence: Europe and the Legitimization of Deception
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost The U.S., having no need of or gift for statecraft, has long practiced what I’ve taken to calling the diplomacy of no diplomacy.…
Patrick Lawrence: The Sino-Russian Summit You Didn’t Read About
The New York Times coverage of the recent summit between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping misses some of its most important details, writes Patrick Lawrence.
Patrick Lawrence: A War of Rhetoric & Reality
Washington put us all on notice when Zelensky got to town: It has no intention of seeking a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine crisis and every intention of recommitting indefinitely…