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.
The Unlimited Campaign Spending by Corporations and Billionaires Has Destroyed Democracy
When corporations use their vast wealth to distort or seize control of the political process, they have ceased to operate within the constraints established at their creation. They are in…
Chris Hedges: The Democratic Party’s Crucifixion of Matt Taibbi
Extensive government blacklists, revealed by the Twitter Files, are used to censor left-wing and right-wing critics. This censorship apparatus has been turned on the reporter who exposed them.
Patrick Lawrence: The Origin of the Specious
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost “Why is our collective mood so sour? We are awash with material wealth, and technology provides us with unprecedented powers. But this veneer…
Ralph Nader: The Sadistic GOP’s Debt Limit Ploy vs. the People
Congressional history has rarely witnessed such a corrupt, cruel and explicit drive to turn the delegated sovereignty of the people against the citizenry.
Media Crime Hype Helps Roll Back Reforms
Actual data about life and death in jails is not enough to move New York’s governor, but the sensationalism about crime is enough.
Chris Hedges: The United States of Paralysis
The longer the corporate state erodes the social bonds that knit us to society and give us a sense of purpose and meaning the more inevitable an authoritarian state and…
Matt Taibbi: House Democrats Have Lost Their Minds
Representative Stacey Plaskett, who called Michael Shellenberger and me "direct threats to people who oppose them," is now threatening me with prison - over Mehdi Hasan's uncorrected error
Why the Republi-Fascists Can’t Stop Calling the Capitalist Democrats ‘Marxists’
By Paul Street / CounterPunch The Capitalist Democrats… The Democratic Party is a militantly capitalist entity and always has been – and not just in the neoliberal era. The much…
Chris Hedges: The Donald Trump Problem
Donald Trump is not being targeted for the misdemeanors and serious felonies he appears to have committed but for discrediting and undermining the entrenched power of the ruling duopoly.
Journalistic Malpractice on Trial
What the Dominion Voting System Tells Us About How the Media Sacrificed their Credibility to Partisan Falsehoods
Beware the Time Thieves
By Jenny Brown / Labor Notes French workers have shut the country down with general strikes three times in the last month to defend their time. They’re protesting a proposal…
It’s Not All Balloon Buffoonery: Weaponizing Anti-China Paranoia
By Blake Fleetwood / Original to ScheerPost The U.S. suffered worldwide embarrassment in the last two weeks while the American media and Republican and Democratic politicians hyperventilated over four UFO…
Poverty Amid Plenty
A World Fragmented by Inequality.
109 Democrats Join GOP’s Ridiculous ‘Horrors Of Socialism’ Vote
Emma Vigeland and Sam Seder look at the recent House vote to denounce socialism and what that means for the future of socialist policies like M4A, with 109 Democrats joining…