Grassroots Activists Tackle Public Safety in Minneapolis
In the city where George Floyd was murdered, violence is up and morale is down. Neighborhood leaders did not want to wait for something to turn the tide, so they…
America’s Imperial Expenditures and Escapades Are Stranger Than Fiction
Who needs dystopian novelists or absurd satirists when otherwise banal bureaucrats of the U.S. national security state do the job for them? It’s an old story with a new tech-savvy…
10 Ways to Call Something Russian Disinformation Without Evidence
How do you call something 'Russian disinformation' when you don’t have evidence it is? Let’s count the ways.
So Trump Loses. What Happens Then?
Joe Biden’s arrival in the Oval Office won’t alter one mega-fact: Donald Trump will hand him a monstrous economic mess.
[rewind] Chomsky Makes Case for Lesser Evil Voting
In the second part of this 2020 interview with Robert Scheer, the renowned thinker shares his criticisms of Israel and his views on electoralism.
America Is Complicit in Yemen’s Spiral Toward Mass Starvation
The war in Yemen is an American war, and Americans have Yemeni blood on their hands.
What Canvassing in Nevada Amid a Pandemic Has Taught Me
For canvassers and voters in Reno, where the climate emergency and the Covid-19 pandemic are literally in our faces, the stakes in the upcoming election are clear
Ronald Goldfarb: America’s Prized Legal System Only Works for the Rich
On this week's "Scheer Intelligence," the attorney offers a scathing indictment of American law and lawyers in his new book, "The Price of Justice."
It’s No Surprise Corporate Media Abhors Wealth Taxes
Why are media outlets throwing cold water on the idea? The answer is pretty simple.
Reframing America’s Role in the World
Why do so many aspects of American policy abroad remain ill-considered and undiscussed even in the midst of the most embattled presidential campaign of our lifetimes?
Bolivia Resoundingly Chooses Socialism in Wake of Military Coup
In the first election since last year's military coup ousted Evo Morales and installed a vicious right-wing regime, the Bolivian people reelected Morales' party in a landslide.
Chris Hedges: The Politics of Cultural Despair
It is despair that is killing us, eating into the social fabric, rupturing social bonds, and manifesting in self-destructive pathologies.
Steve Donziger: How Big Oil Weaponized Our Judicial System Against Him and the Indigenous People He Represented
The epic battle by Steve Donziger to get Chevron to pay a $9.5 billion judgment he won in 2011 for its “mass industrial poisoning” of Indigenous Amazonian tribes in Ecuador…
Unraveling the U.S. Army’s Hot Take on the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict
The beauty of the dream Armenia-Azerbaijan battleground is it near perfectly fulfills the macabre fantasies of Cold War-nostalgic conventional army officers.