10 Years After Snowden: Some Things Are Better, Some We’re Still Fighting For
By Matthew Guariglia, Cindy Cohn and Andrew Crocker / Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) On May 20, 2013, a young government contractor with an EFF sticker on his laptop disembarked a…
WSJ Worries Debt Limit Fight Could Jeopardize Military Contractors’ Profit
The Wall Street Journal hand-wrings about the area of the discretionary budget that appears least likely to face cuts.
Imperial Protectionism: US Foreign Policy for the Middle Class
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch What does a “foreign policy for the middle class” of the United States entail? President Joe Biden’s national security adviser is rather vague about this.…
The Two Decades That Created Our World’s First Mass Middle Class
If we take on our rich, we can recreate that success.
US Labor Agency Rejects Starbucks’ Effort To Obtain Records of Worker Communications With Media
By Kevin Gosztola / The Dissenter A judge for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) determined it was unlawful for Starbucks to request records of communications between unionized workers and…
Missing Links in Textbook History: Ethnic Studies
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost This is the sixth in a series of columns exposing “Missing Links” in high school history textbooks. Previous columns have focused on Indigenous…
EPA Press Conference Addresses Climate Impacts to Children’s Health
As climate changes in the United States, so does the health of the country’s children.
Censorship at the American Psychological Association
By Roy Eidelson / CounterPunch The publishing process in academic psychology journals isn’t typically known for its drama or intrigue. It’s true that there can be frustrations and challenges for…
From Beyond the Death of Beyond Vietnam
By David Swanson / World BEYOND War Remarks in New York City, May 21, 2023 About a year-and-a-half before I was born down in midtown, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.…
Ralph Nader: Unstable Trump Double Down as the Odds Against Him Increase
By Ralph Nader / Nader.org I have co-authored, with Mark Green, two books on Donald J. Trump, and I’ve thought a lot about the toll his presidency has taken on…
Can the Global South Build a New World Information Communication Order?
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research It is remarkable how the media in a select few countries is able to set the record on matters around the…
Israeli Extremists Storm al-Aqsa Mosque Complex
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that dozens of Israeli squatters, with Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir at…
Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis
Two Peas in a (White Nationalist) Pod
Chris Hedges: Why the Conspiracy Theory About Trump and Russia Won’t Go Away
The latest investigation into the charges that Donald Trump’s campaign worked in concert with the Russian government exposes a cynical collaboration between Trump opponents and the FBI.
Journalists for Sale: Tucker, Teixeira and Taibbi (w/ Patrick Lawrence)
By Diego Ramos and Max Jones / Original to ScheerPost ScheerPost’s own Max Jones and Diego Ramos are back with another video interview except this time it is under the…