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The Truth About the ‘War of 1812’
A survey of one of only 5 "declared" wars in U.S. history, the "war of 1812," concentrating on why it was significant especially to American political party history, and relations…
High Stakes Gambling on Biden’s Foreign Policy
In the midst of what’s become a sort of progressive civil war over “lesser evil” voting in November, here’s a different look at Uncle Joe: Biden on war.
Robert Scheer
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Dr. Margaret Flowers: Does Medicare for All Await Us at the End of This Viral Massacre?
The Popular Resistance co-founder predicts how the coronavirus pandemic will impact the ongoing struggle for universal health care in the U.S.
Ellen Brown: Coronavirus Proves Capitalism Has Always Been a Lie
Economist Ellen Brown sheds light on the intricacies of an economic system that is being unmasked by the government’s pandemic response.
In the Classroom that Zoom Built
Consider the deep 'missingness' that teacher Belle Chesler has found in a public-school world that has collapsed into a Zoom heap amid the deep inequality and unfairness of a system…
Celebrated to Death: Reflections on the War in Afghanistan
Former infantry officer and Army Ranger Erik Edstrom, author of a new book on the U.S. war in Afghanistan, has had time to reconsider his own combat experience there. He…
Foreign Correspondent: Biden vs. Trump on Foreign Policy
We all know that Trump’s foreign policy has been a disaster. But is Joe Biden’s any better?
The White Lobby: When the U.S. Was the Sanctions-Buster Extraordinaire
Those defending sanctions on Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, et. al. have - in particular - peddled in acute hypocrisy. This piece complicates and challenges arguments on both sides (to some degree)…
Plague Journal #8: Medicare Mills and Nursing Home Nightmares
This week Cuomo, in an aside during his daily, nationally televised press briefing , made a memorable understatement. “Now is not the best time to put your mother in a…
Life on Lockdown
The coronavirus pandemic that has spread across this world has made the experience of having to live on lockdown against one's will a reality for all people who certainly never…
Coronavirus: Scientific Realities vs. Economic Fallacies
Why do we live in a social and economic system that can only exist in a state of frantic movement forward and up, and for which it is impossible to…
Ann Jones: Getting Trumped by Covid-19
As the coronavirus runs wild in Donald Trump’s America, veteran journalist and humanitarian Ann Jones offered a vivid analysis of how two countries, Norway and the U.S., dealt with it…
Chris Hedges on acTVism Munich: Biden vs. Trump, Bernie Sanders, Corporate Media, Assange & the State of the Left
In conversation with host Zain Raza of acTVism Munich, Hedges discusses his past work as a foreign correspondent with the New York Times and why he chose to quit. In…
These Untied States: Robert Scheer on ‘Fortress on the Hill’ Podcast (pt. 2)
In this portion of the pod we talk the Sanders-Biden endorsement, the future of Bernie’s movement, third parties, surveillance/social control, Eugene Debs, the future of journalism, and much much more.
[rewind] Will Evans: Elon Musk Is Gaslighting America
The award-winning journalist who exposed Tesla's flagrant labor violations reflects on having his work dismissed as "disinformation."