The Most Dangerous Country
From 2003 to 2026 and Beyond David Bromwich for Tom Dispatch The joint US-Israeli killing of Iranian leaders on February 28th marked the second time in a year that the…
End Warness, Not Wokeness
Ten Thoughts on Curbing the Worst Excesses of U.S. Militarism
Blinken, Assange, And The 20th Anniversary Of The Palestine Hotel Bombing
By Chip Gibbons / The Dissenter When Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Australia in August, he was, as expected, asked about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Blinken confirmed that he…
Patrick Lawrence: American Exceptionalism and Its Consequences
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Mut zur Ethik is a forum associated with a publishing cooperative that holds conferences twice a year in the environs of Zurich. On…
Oppenheimer’s Deadly Legacy of Nuclear Terror
For every second you sit in the air conditioned theater with a warm buttery popcorn bucket in your lap, 18 people dead in the blink of an eye. Thanks to…
Why America Might Want to Lower Its Expectations
Rebecca Gordon, author of American Nuremberg, reminds us, lest you think otherwise, this country remains all too exceptional, even if in ways that couldn’t be more unnerving.
Patrick Lawrence: Between Myth and History
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Patrick Lawrence delivered the following remarks, based on his book Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century, before the Committee for the…
The President Gets an “F” in American History
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost For 35 years I taught high school classes in politics, economics and American history. And for 35 years I struggled against a mythological…
Why Washington Has Learned Nothing From Vietnam to Afghanistan
Why did the United States fail so ignominiously in Vietnam? Why did it fail again in Afghanistan? The answers to these two questions turn out to be similar.
Lowering the Throne of America’s Delusion
The U.S. will not face reality about its foreign policy disasters but rather retreats to fantasy worlds that exist only in its own imagination, writes Michael Brenner.
Maj. Danny Sjursen on Genocide, Slavery, Imperialism and Hyper Capitalism
On “Going Underground, ” the host speaks to Retired US Army Major Danny Sjursen, author of ‘A True History of the United States: Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism…
Victor Pickard: The Only Meaningful Way to Save American Journalism
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…
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…