Ralph Nader: What Are Torts? They’re Everywhere!
Many abuses--from the Tobacco industry’s carcinogenic cover-up to the Catholic Church’s pedophile scandal--were exposed by lawsuits using the venerable American law of torts. So what exactly is it?
Biden’s Four Biggest Mideast Challenges in 2022
From Iran to Israel, the U.S. president faces a number of challenges this year, but corporate media is focusing on the wrong ones.
The War on Terror Is a Success — for Terror
Terrorist groups have doubled since the passage of the 2001 AUMF. Even back in 2001, it should have been painfully predictable that this country’s war on terror would turn into…
NBC News Uses Ex-FBI Official Frank Figliuzzi to Urge Assange’s Extradition, Hiding His Key Role
The most dangerous, and under-discussed, development in corporate media is the spate of ex-security state agents now employed to deliver the "news."
Best of Chris Hedges’ 2021 Columns
Ring in the new year with ScheerPost columnist Chris Hedges’ best work from the last twelve months. Whether it’s condemning America’s Forever Wars or advocating for persecuted heroes like WikiLeaks…
Steve Wasserman: Remembering Joan Didion, a ‘Singular’ California Writer and a ‘Helluva Lot of Fun’
Heyday editor Steve Wasserman and “Scheer Intelligence” host Robert Scheer fondly reminisce over their friend, and what made her, her fiction, and her journalism transcendent.
Best of ‘Scheer Intelligence’ 2021: Assange, Kucinich, Abdullah and More
Throughout another turbulent year of pandemic, protests, and economic troubles, Robert Scheer and the award-winning “Scheer Intelligence” team made sure to bring you left-wing perspectives from a wide range of…
Hedges: PEN America and the Betrayal of Julian Assange
Careerists and Democratic Party apparatchiks successfully leverage corporate money and backing to seize and deform historic rights organizations into appendages of the ruling class.
A Come-to-Jesus Sermon From the Rev. Chris Hedges
During another pandemic holiday season when everyone could use a little faith, the Pulitzer prize-winning journalist talks to Robert Scheer about putting Christ back into Christmas.
Goodbye to All That and a Whole Lot More
The context has shifted for all of us, not because the context has truly shifted but because this particular administration means that we have no choice but to look at…
Ellen Brown: The Real Antidote to Inflation
The Fed has options for countering the record inflation the U.S. is facing that are far more productive and less risky than raising interest rates.
Prisoners Sue California Prison System Following Targeted Raid Against Black People
Talib Williams, an incarcerated person at Correctional Training Facility in California, is filing a lawsuit against the state prison system for a raid that targeted Black people last summer.
Joseph Carson: A Whistleblower and Constant Thorn in the U.S. Government’s Side
The nuclear safety engineer has spent most of his career at the Energy Department challenging everything from the country’s nuclear weapons program to its whistleblower adjudication infrastructure.
Hedges: The Execution of Julian Assange
He committed empire’s greatest sin. He exposed it as a criminal enterprise. He documented its lies, callous disregard for human life, rampant corruption and innumerable war crimes. And empires always…
Obed Silva’s Memoir Is a Transborder Story as Universal as Love and Loss
The Mexican-American author opens the wounds his father inflicted in a eulogistic debut that is as much about the U.S.-Mexico border as it is about healing.