On Contact: Taibbi and Hedges on the Media Landscape
On Chris Hedges' show, On Contact, the host speaks with journalist and author Matt Taibbi about the rapidly disintegrating media landscape and its consequences.
David Vine: Tracing America’s Brutal Imperialist History Through Its Military Bases
A political anthropologist puts a much needed pin to the balloon of American exceptionalism with an invaluable guide to a country that, long before Orwell came along, said war was…
Greenwald: My Resignation from The Intercept
The same trends of repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity plaguing the national press generally have engulfed the media outlet I co-founded, culminating in censorship of my own articles.
Glenn Greenwald on His Resignation from the Intercept
The Pulitzer winner founded The Intercept to challenge official narratives and protect editorial freedom. When editors spiked a controversial story he wrote, he concluded they had abandoned those principals and…
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?