As Falls Russia, So Falls the World
North Korea has been driven ever closer to fellow nuclear powers Russia and China, and is poised to become a leading member of a possible future “Eurasian Union of autocracies.”
Patrick Lawrence: The British “Bubble of Unreality”
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost I am following British politics during these, Boris Johnson’s final days as prime minister, with interest. It seems that the front-runner to replace…
Boris Johnson’s (Far From Final) Bill for Damages
While the elderly white men who run Britain’s Conservative Party chose between two deeply depressing choices for new leader, let’s take a minute to reckon just how much ruin the…
The Age of Weird Men: Gonzo Politicians From Berlusconi to BoJo
By Patrick Cockburn / CounterPunch Students 50 years from now may be asked by their teachers to write an essay on the importance of the fall of Boris Johnson in…
The Dangerous US Opposition to Eurasia Integration
Washington and its allies seek either to remain hegemonic and weaken China and Russia or to erect a new Iron Curtain around these two countries, writes Vijay Prashad. Both approaches…
Boris Johnson’s Downfall Also Marks Brexit’s Final Act
A potent combination of sex, booze, and lies finally turned the British prime minister’s narcissism, contempt for truth, and blatant disregard for convention from personality traits into political liabilities.
ScheerPost Contributors Earn 4 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Nominations
The Los Angeles Press Club announced the finalists for the 14th National A&E Journalism Awards on Wednesday, and ScheerPost’s staff are thrilled to announce they are in the running for…
ScheerPost Contributors Honored Eight Times Over at L.A. Press Club Awards
By ScheerPost Staff Los Angeles-area journalists gathered together once again on Oct. 16 for the Los Angeles Press Club’s annual SoCal Journalism Awards, the LAPC’s first in-person awards event since…
Post-Afghanistan, Can We Finally Give Peace A Chance?
William Astore, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and historian who runs the Bracing Views blog, takes a dim view (or is it a nuclear-bright view) of where this country…
ScheerPost Staff Nab 9 Nominations for 2021 SoCal Journalism Awards
The Los Angeles Press Club announced the finalists for the 63rd annual Southern California Journalism Awards on Wednesday, and ScheerPost’s staff are thrilled to announce they are in the running…
The U.K.’s New COVID-19 Strain and Boris Johnson’s Bloody Blunders
The British prime minister’s pre-Christmas announcement that a new, highly contagious strain of the coronavirus is ripping through England is as shocking as it is maddening.