Lee Camp: 13 Facts About American Prisons That Will Blow Your Mind
The U.S. prison system is a crime against humanity. Here are just some of the reasons why.
Chris Hedges: Don’t Be Fooled By Joe Biden
What is exceptional about America is its culture of sadism.
Lee Camp: The CIA Has Been Taking Over for Decades—Even Former Presidents Tried to Warn Us
If you're looking for proof the CIA and the whole cavalcade of other intelligence agencies working with them have gotten too big, look no further than the DNI's latest report.
Hedges: The Unraveling of the American Empire
US leadership has stumbled from one military debacle to another, a trajectory mirroring the sad finales of other historical imperial powers.
The Extraordinary Rendition of Japanese Latin Americans During World War II
During the war, the U.S. government orchestrated the mass abduction of more than 6,000 Japanese, Germans, Italians, and Jews with the collaboration of 18 Latin American countries and interned them…
‘Scheer Intelligence’ Interview With Janet Yang Wins NAEJ Award
"The Power and Pain of Being Asian American During the Coronavirus Crisis," a prescient episode of veteran journalist Robert Scheer's podcast which features Hollywood powerhouse Janet Yang, has received a…
Book Review: Driving the Samburu Bride
Driving the Samburu BrideBy Diane C. Perlov Reviewed by H Patricia Hynes / Original to ScheerPost Diane Perlov’s memoir of the two years she lived among semi-nomadic people in northern…
Lee Camp: How Corporate America Supports Racism, Hatred & Exploitation (in New & Fun Ways!)
Corporations like General Mills and ExxonMobil aren’t going to save us from white supremacist violence or climate annihilation with their piddly tweets.
Lee Camp: Why Biden’s Choice to Bomb Outer Space Is So Damn Exciting
At a time of unprecedented crises, what Americans and the world needs most is obviously another arena for humans to annihilate each other in.
Hedges: The Evil Within Us
Millions of largely white Americans, hermetically sealed within the ideology of the Christian Right, yearn to destroy the 'Satanic' forces they blame for the debacle of their lives. And one…
Wise Observations on White Racism
By Paul Von Blum / Original to ScheerPost A review of Dispatches from the Race War, by Tim Wise On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was murdered by white police…
Chris Hedges: Bandaging the Corpse
Biden's bailout will not alter the structural inequities and other fundamental underpinnings of America's death spiral.
Will 2021 Be Public Banking’s Watershed Moment?
Faced with the dire Covid-19 crisis, some lawmakers are starting to see publicly-owned banks as the key to ensuring an equitable economic recovery.