Is Harvard Denying Cornel West Tenure Over His Palestine Views?
"I would bear any burden or pay any cost in order to stay in contact with the precious humanity of any oppressed people," says the eminent Black philosopher.
Chris Hedges: The Age of Social Murder
The ruling elites, despite the accelerating and tangible ecological collapse, mollify us, either by meaningless gestures or denial.
This Country Constantly Fails Its Most Vulnerable
The economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic has tested the nation’s threadbare social safety net as never before.
All Risk, No Reward: The Perils and Absurdity of Iraq War 4.0
The muddled US military mission and ongoing troop presence creates nearly all the conditions for the latest crisis.
Lee Camp: It’s Time for Major Wealth Redistribution — Yes, I Mean It.
No need to be all apologetic about it, either, since we would just be reclaiming the trillions taken by the billionaires.
In Memory of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the Immortal Beat
A page in honor of legendary poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who died today in San Francisco at the age of 101.
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Ferlinghetti: From Normandy and Nagasaki to Ginsberg and City Lights
The poet and co-founder of famed City Lights Bookstore talks about his life and work publishing writers of the Beat Generation on "Scheer Intelligence."
It’s Time to End This Relic of Slavery
This Black History Month, we have a chance to end the subminimum tipped wage—and raise wages for workers of every color.
Juan Cole on the Clearest Example of Israeli Apartheid Yet
The Middle East scholar joins Robert Scheer on "Scheer Intelligence" to discuss what the COVID-19 pandemic revealed about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The American Century Ends Early
How the USS Enterprise was transformed into the USS Roach: Let’s face it, whether we fully grasp the fact or not, we now live in a system, as well as…
The False and Exaggerated Claims Still Being Spread About the Capitol Riot
Insisting on factual accuracy does not make one an apologist for the protesters. False reporting is never justified, especially to inflate threat and fear levels.
Music and Black America’s Continuous Struggle for Freedom
Kevin Cooper explores the music that was created seemingly for the purpose of helping Black America's historic struggle find a language of its own and shares some of his all-time…
The Basic Right 140 Million Americans Are Denied Daily
Whose rights matter in pandemic America? Not those of poor Americans, that's for sure.
Chris Hedges: Cancel Culture, Where Liberalism Goes to Die
Elites and their courtiers who trumpet their moral superiority by damning and silencing those who do not linguistically conform to politically correct speech are the new Jacobins.