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…
Norman Solomon: Biden Is the Latest President To Tout the Vietnam War as Proud History
By Norman Solomon / Original to ScheerPost When Joe Biden flew out of Hanoi last week, he was leaving a country where U.S. warfare caused roughly 3.8 million Vietnamese deaths.…
Patrick Lawrence: Psychosis and Its Consequences
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Remember that startling remark Karl Rove made while serving as an adviser to George W. Bush? It was October 2004, the so-called war…
Chris Hedges: Humanitarian Imperialism Created the Libyan Nightmare
NATO’s military intervention in Libya in 2011, which overthrew the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, resulted in a chaotic and murderous failed state. Libyans pay a horrific price for this catastrophe.
Financial Criminal Carrie Tolstedt Avoids Prison Time for Her Role in Account Fraud
By Max Jones / Original to ScheerPost Former head of the Wells Fargo community banking division, Carrie Tolstedt, “agreed to plead guilty to the criminal charge of obstructing regulators’ investigation”…
Chris Hedges: Craig Murray on the ‘Slow Motion Execution’ of Assange
By Chris Hedges / The Real News Network As Julian Assange continues to fight extradition to the United States to face prosecution under the Espionage Act, a growing chorus of…
Ukraine’s Reconstruction in BlackRock’s Hands & Gabor Maté on Explosion of Antidepressants
After Ukraine's infrastructure is destroyed by NATO's proxy war against Russia, corporations like BlackRock and J.P. Morgan plan to work with corrupt Ukrainian officials under martial law to seize the…
State Department Refuses to Address How Much USAID Money Went to Wuhan Institute of Virology
U.S. State Dept refuses to answer questions about USAID funding to the Wuhan IV "to make Coronaviruses that are weaponized" in Wuhan.
Chris Hedges: Stella Assange Speaks Out on the Conditions of Julian Assange’s Imprisonment
Julian Assange has languished in Belmarsh Prison in the UK since 2019 as he fights extradition to the US to face prosecution under the Espionage Act.
Chris Hedges: The Pedagogy of Power
The ruling classes always work to keep the powerless from understanding how power functions. This assault has been aided by a cultural left determined to banish "dead white male" philosophers.
The Four Billionaires Who Want to Control the Universe
The gang-of-four powerful oligarchs: Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg and Marc Andreesen, are after increasing profits and world domination — and no one is trying to stop them.
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…
Patrick Lawrence: Bad Faith and Blank Checks
All mainstream journalism is “embedded journalism” now, for the battlefield is everywhere, writes Patrick Lawrence in this excerpt from his new book, Journalists and Their Shadows.
Chris Hedges: Our Collective Trauma is the Road to Tyranny
American society spawns trauma and this trauma expresses itself in a variety of self-destructive pathologies, including the erosion of democracy and rise of neo-fascism.