Patrick Lawrence: Psychosis and Its Consequences
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Remember that startling remark Karl Rove made while serving as an adviser to George W. Bush? It was October 2004, the so-called war…
‘No Justice, No Jeeps!’ Scenes From the Auto Workers Strike
By Keith Brower Brown, Luis Feliz Leon and Jane Slaughter / Labor Notes The strike is on. Last night the Auto Workers (UAW) shut down three major assembly plants at…
The Lehman Disaster and Why It Matters Today
On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers, a giant investment bank with a storied history, filed for bankruptcy. The shock was profound; world markets melted down.
Westmoreland Revisited
Given the official U.S. optimism over Ukraine’s counteroffensive, Barbara Koeppel concludes that Washington has not learned any lessons from failed wars in Vietnam, and later Iraq and Afghanistan.
America’s Auto Workers: On Strike Against Inequality. Again
UAW activists years ago helped usher in a vastly more equal society. Can history repeat?
EFF to Michigan Court: Governments Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Use a Drone to Spy on You Without a Warrant
By Hannah Zhao / Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Should the government have to get a warrant before using a drone to spy on your home and backyard? We think so,…
Libya’s Climate Disaster Shows We Can’t Afford Erratic Leaders Like Trump and Haftar Anymore
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – For the past two weeks the Mediterranean has been reeling from the massive devastation wrought regionally by Hurricane Daniel,…
China Deepens Ties With Venezuela, Challenging US ‘Hegemonic Mindset’
Condemning Washington’s “hegemonic mindset” and sanctions, China strengthened its strategic partnership with Venezuela. The oil-rich South American nation’s President Nicolás Maduro took a historic trip to Beijing, and applied to…
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders and The Lies She Spread About People ‘Weaponizing FOIA’
By Kevin Gosztola / The Dissenter After a journalist sued the state for records on Arkansas Republican Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ travel expenses, Sanders called for an “emergency” legislative session…
Bidenomics: Millions to Rebuild Maui, Billions for Ukraine
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch Last month, President Joe “No Comment on Hawaii” Biden’s Twitter boosters hurried to claim that the measly $700 he initially boasted of for Maui fire…
UAW Strike Puts Massive CEO-Worker Pay Gap in the Spotlight
"The CEOs gave themselves 40% pay increases in the last four years alone," United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain said from the picket line. "And they want to call us…
Ralph Nader: Corporate Criminal Behavior Almost Exposé Proof
By Ralph Nader / Nader.org Corporate law firms have taught their wayward corporate clients how to use accretions of privileges and immunities to ward off or wait out the most…
Chris Hedges: Humanitarian Imperialism Created the Libyan Nightmare
NATO’s military intervention in Libya in 2011, which overthrew the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, resulted in a chaotic and murderous failed state. Libyans pay a horrific price for this catastrophe.
Financial Criminal Carrie Tolstedt Avoids Prison Time for Her Role in Account Fraud
By Max Jones / Original to ScheerPost Former head of the Wells Fargo community banking division, Carrie Tolstedt, “agreed to plead guilty to the criminal charge of obstructing regulators’ investigation”…
Ex-UK Amb. Craig Murray: “The US Has Completely Ceased to be a Democracy”
By Max Blumenthal / The Grayzone Craig Murray is the former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, a whistleblower, journalist and one of the leading voices for the freedom of Julian Assange.…