UK Judge Denies Julian Assange Bail, Keeping Him in Prison
The latest decision in the WikiLeaks founder's case has caused widespread outrage among his supporters.
With Democrats Poised to Seize Senate, Progressives Say It’s Time to Go Big
As results from the U.S. Senate races trickled in from Georgia, Rep. Mondaire Jones proclaimed, "The era of small ideas is over."
Chris Hedges: The Empire is Not Done with Julian Assange
As is clear from the memoir of one of his attorneys, Michael Ratner, the ends have always justified the means for those demanding his global persecution.
Threat to Journalism Remains Despite Rejection of Assange Extradition
Although the British judge who denied the U.S. government's request to extradite the WikiLeaks founder seemed to understand the dangerous abomination that is the U.S. prison system, she failed to…
Medical Alliance Urges Officials to OK Ivermectin to Fight Virus
NIH treatment guidelines established six months ago should be reexamined in light of compelling new research, says group of physicians and researchers — and our author agrees.
Dreamers Like Me Deserve More Than DACA
DACA changed my life. But after four years of fear, it’s clear that undocumented young people need more protection.
Will Biden Channel Franklin Roosevelt?
The incoming president would do well to study and emulate FDR's bold leadership on the same issues of spiraling inequity the country faces again.
Julian Assange’s Imprisonment Exposes U.S. Myths About Freedom
The real measure of how free is a society is not how its mainstream, well-behaved ruling class servants are treated, but the fate of its actual dissidents.
Best of ‘Scheer Intelligence’ 2020: Chomsky, Abdullah, Prins, and More
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, Black Lives Matter protests, and the 2020 general election, Robert Scheer and the “Scheer Intelligence” team made sure to bring you progressive perspectives from a wide…
Clay Tweel: Death by UFO at Heaven’s Gate
What do we mean by religion? Who gets the authority? Who defines it? Isn't all religion, in some sense, kooky, cultish, and so forth?
The ‘Moderate’ Rot at the Top of the Democratic Party
Joe Biden’s choices to run the Office of Management and Budget and the State Department personify everything that's wrong with the party.
Joe Biden Must Learn from America’s Failed Wars
Have any of our leaders really come to grips with the striking American ability in the last 60 years to get into but not out of wars?
‘Out of Mesopotamia’ Is a Great War Novel
Iranian-American author captures how combat has a Peter Pan quality, allowing fighters, as well as war correspondents, to escape from the drudgery of daily life and never grow up.
Neoliberal Champion Larry Summers Opens Mouth, Inserts Both Feet
Ex-treasury secretary under Clinton offers important thoughts on the negative consequences of aid to the less fortunate.
America’s Christmas Gift to Africa? War Crimes
Considering a US AFRICOM Angle to Tigray, Ethiopia, and Uncle Sam’s role on Africa’s Horn.