Russia, Satan, and the Parviscient Crowd
Edward Curtin Ten years ago I had lunch with a man who vehemently insisted that Vladimir Putin was the satanic leader of an evil country and Hilary Clinton was a…
Edward Curtin Ten years ago I had lunch with a man who vehemently insisted that Vladimir Putin was the satanic leader of an evil country and Hilary Clinton was a…
Nicolas J. S. Davies ScheerPost On October 9th, the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize Was awarded to Navi Pillay, the South African international lawyer who defended Nelson Mandela and the anti-apartheid…
Joshua Scheer Lee Camp and Eleanor Goldfield discuss protests after an ICE agent shot a father with his child in the car, an anonymous collective documenting Gaza’s genocide, and AI…
Joshua Scheer Navi Pillay’s Nobel Peace Prize is a rare victory for someone who confronted power and told the truth. To mark that recognition, we are sharing the September 16,…
Joshua Scheer The billionaires selling us the future are making plans to escape it. They promise artificial intelligence will liberate humanity while concentrating the wealth and power to decide whose…
Chris Hedges Report Jill Lepore examines the ideological roots of our Big Tech technocrats, and how tech is facilitating the elimination of the democratic gains that centuries of political struggle…
Umer Azad There is something almost admirable about the Canadian government’s ability to respond to an American provocation with precisely the right number of carefully selected adjectives. Washington imposes tariffs.…
The billionaires have their lobbyists, the war machine has its funding, and the rest of us are told to wait for the next election. Lee Camp has a different message:…
Ellen Brown Washington’s stablecoin strategy could shore up the dollar by making U.S. Treasury bills the backing for a new digital currency. But who gets the interest, and who will…
Chris Hedges ScheerPost I had a brief experience with a fraternity at Cornell University. I was a senior in high school. I stayed in a frat for a weekend with…
Joshua Scheer Israel’s leaders have threatened the filmmakers. The documentary’s deeper challenge is to a society that treats technical expertise as an escape from moral responsibility. A government confident in…
Austin Sarat ScheerPost On September 8, the Trump Administration announced a new round of sanctions targeting aviation and companies that service some of Iran’s privately owned airlines. This followed last…
Danny Goldberg ScheerPost As Zohran Mamdani begins his ninth month in office, he continues to function on several levels at once. On the international stage, he recently met with Brazilian…
Edward Curtin Form (not genre) is the key to understanding literature that opens cracks in conventional understanding. But exactly what form is is unknowable. Goethe said there was “an open…
Steve Wasserman ScheerPost An ill wind is blowing through Europe (and not only there, as we know from these last frightening years in America). It is possible to travel through…