Patrick Lawrence: Depleted Ukrainium
What Comes After Failure?
Chris Hedges: Why Our Popular Mass Movements Fail
The wave of global popular protests that erupted in 2010 and lasted a decade were extinguished. This means new tactics and new strategies, as Vincent Bevins explains in his book…
William Astore: What Would Real ‘National Defense’ Look Like?
13 Tasks and 3 Maxims for a Very Different Pentagon.
Michael Brenner: Defeat
By Michael Brenner / Original to ScheerPost The United States is being defeated in Ukraine. One could say that it is facing defeat – or, more starkly, that it is…
Ellen Brown: More Banks to Fail? Not in North Dakota
By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost U.S. banks are again in the crosshairs. Standard and Poor’s has downgraded five new middle-tier banks and put three others on negative outlook.…
Patrick Lawrence: Reading the Mess the Democrats Have Made
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost At writing, we are 16 months and five days from the 2024 presidential election. If a week is a long time in politics,…
Chris Hedges: The Forgotten Victims of America’s Class War
By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost MECHANIC FALLS, Maine – I am sitting in Eric Heimel’s barbershop in the center of Mechanic Falls. Russ Day, who was the owner…
Patrick Lawrence: Anything Anything Anything To Avoid Debating R.F.K. Jr.
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Our corporate newspapers and broadcasters went into attack mode as soon as Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced, in mid–April, he would seek the…
Chris Hedges: Cornel West and the Campaign to End Political Apartheid
The two ruling parties have destroyed our democracy. Voting for one or the other will not bring it back.
Patrick Lawrence: The ‘Disinformation Industry’ Lands in Court
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost What kind of a week was last week in the theater of war wherein battles rage over illegal censorship, illegal attacks on freedom…
Bernie Sanders: This Year Is Set to be the Hottest in History. Congress Must Act Now
If there is not bold, immediate action to address the climate crisis, the quality of life that we are leaving our kids is very much in question
Chris Hedges: Journalists Abandoned Julian Assange and Slit Their Own Throats
The failure by journalists to mount a campaign to free Julian Assange, or expose the vicious smear campaign against him, is one more catastrophic and self-defeating blunder by the news…
Patrick Lawrence: We Need to Talk About Nahel
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost What is it about France these days? La republique seems to be ever on the brink of exploding over one or another social…
Patrick Lawrence: Ellsberg and ‘The Process of My Awakening’
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Of all the fine things written and said about Daniel Ellsberg since his death June 16, there is a thread running through them…
Kevin Cooper: Whitewashing Historical Truths: The Story of Sullivan’s Island
While everyone's heard of Ellis Island, the equivalent port of arrival for countless slaves is rarely mentioned in American history, writes Kevin Cooper from death row in San Quentin.