What American and Iranian Theocrats Have in Common
From veiling to abortion, Iran’s theocrats seek to control women’s bodies, just as U.S. Republican theocrats do.
Chris Hedges: The Return of Fascism
As in the 1930s, a bankrupt liberalism, grotesque social inequality and declining living standards are empowering fascist movements in Europe and the U.S.
Mark Fiore: Sending Migrants Around the Country: Cruelty Travel
DeSantis' latest stunt sheds light on the treatment of migrants by the country's top politicians.
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.”
Mark Fiore: Dems Funding MAGA: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Democratic PACs and campaigns have been lending their financial support to far-right MAGA candidates. In the unpredictable era of Trumpist politics, this seems like a huge gamble to me.
America’s Forever Wars Go Viral
We can trace the pathways we’ve taken from our disastrous war on terror abroad to wildly disturbed and conspiratorial thinking right here at home through the life of one (murdered)…
Declassify the Documents From Trump’s Basement
By Leonard Goodman / Original to ScheerPost Whatever your feelings about former President Trump, there are reasons to be skeptical when government officials say it was necessary to raid his…
The Chris Hedges Report Podcast: Historian Paul Street on the Bankrupt Liberalism and Gilded Absurdities of the Democratic Party
Click here or the picture below to listen to the podcast: What are we to make of a Democratic Party that has embraces an election strategy that includes demobilizing the…
Chris Hedges: Let’s Stop Pretending America Is a Functioning Democracy
A functioning democracy could easily dispatch Donald Trump and his doppelgängers. A failed democracy and bankrupt liberalism assures their ascendancy.
How the American Dream Became the American Scream
Isn’t it a strange form of science fiction that, in response to a crisis that could someday signal the end of civilization, the focus in this country is on Donald…
CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou on What We Learned From FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Search Affidavit
By Kevin Gosztola / The Dissenter Kevin Gosztola was joined by CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou, who helped him go through the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago search affidavit and break down what was…
John Kiriakou: Don’t Charge Trump with Espionage
Nobody should face the charge unless they are working for a foreign power and mean harm to the United States.
Tom Engelhardt: The Decline and Fall of Everything (Including Me)
Will we find some way to write America's story that won’t end in the fall not just of this imperial power but of humanity itself?
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…
Prosecutor Lauded for Investigating Trump Also Wants To Send Educators To Prison
As Fulton County DA Fani Willis’s profile rises, the glossy coverage has largely ignored her crusade to incarcerate teachers accused of cheating on tests.