Patrick Lawrence: The Shadows Descend in Ukraine
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Two of my favorite New York Times words are “shadowy” and “murky.” They are brilliantly suited to the Manichean version of our world…
Jane Olson: Storytelling Exposes Humanity
Numbers and facts only tell half the story of some of the world’s most horrendous circumstances.
Patrick Lawrence: Biden’s Secret Stash
If this president didn’t know he was in possession of classified documents, in some cases for more than a decade, he simply is not qualified to hold any public office…
Missing Links: The Legacy of Textbook History
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost It took almost 10 years of teaching before I finally grasped the extent to which secondary American history textbooks fostered misunderstanding and confusion.…
Patrick Lawrence: Investigate This, Jim Jordan
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Somewhere between the first and second times I heard someone say “weaponize,” this term and its derivatives—“weaponizing,” “weaponization,” and so on—began to repel…
Chris Hedges: The Plague of Social Isolation
The rupture of social bonds and loss of community, caused by the decades-long assault on the poor and working class and the ravages of the pandemic, have resulted in a…
Patrick Lawrence: Japan Reenlists as Washington’s Spear-Carrier
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost It is always the same when Japanese premiers travel to Washington to summit at the White House. Nothing seems to happen and nobody…
Ex-CIA Agent John Kiriakou: The Deep State’s Attack on Dissent Beginning With MLK
The FBI, CIA, NSA and other agencies have historically exploited their power but their limits appear boundless in the modern age.
The Chris Hedges Report: Julian Assange and the US Government’s War on Whistleblowers
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is expected to stand trial this year. His case is emblematic of how far the US government will go to hide the truth.
Ellen Brown: Solving the Debt Crisis the American Way
Our forefathers turned their debts into currency. That Constitutional approach could work today.
What Price Is ‘Defense?’: America’s Costly, Dysfunctional Approach to Security Is Making Us Ever Less Safe
A look at the madness of funding the Pentagon, going down the military drain.
Chris Hedges: Russell Banks, John Brown and the American Soul
There are few contemporary novelists who have explored the dark undercurrents of American society with more insight and pathos than Russell Banks, who died earlier this month.
[Repost] The Liberal Contempt for Martin Luther King’s Final Year
The MLK tributes are sure to pour on the anniversary of the civil rights hero's death, but don't expect them to acknowledge his anti-militarist ideals.
Patrick Lawrence: ‘Pessimism of the Mind, Optimism of the Will’
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Some years ago now, while researching a book that eventually came out as Somebody Else’s Century, I spent time in Ahmedabad, a city…
Israel Fascist?
Israel’s sharp turn to the extreme right has startled American Jews.