Strategic Incompetence in the Age of Trump
Trump Is Bad at Running the Country.
Was The 20th Century A Catastrophe, Or A Miracle? | Aaron Bastani Meets Yanis Varoufakis
Our guest on Downstream this week is the economist, and former finance minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis. He joins Aaron in the Novara studio to discuss his most recent book…
Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The more genetic history that is done, the more it is clear that ancient ethnonyms, the names given supposed…
I Covered the Intifada. It’s Wrong to Say It Means Violence Against Jews
I can say unequivocally: Intifada was used by Palestinian activists to describe a civil resistance movement rooted in dignity and national self-determination.
Ron Kovic: A Dangerous Country: An American Elegy
For my country and its people, happy birthday.
Is Juneteenth, Our New National Holiday, a Delusion?
By Mark Lloyd / Original to ScheerPost This article was originally posted on June 19, 2023. We are reposting it in honor of Juneteenth. On June 16, 2023, the White…
The Shared Mythological History of Israel and the US (w/ Joan Scott) | The Chris Hedges Report
Chris Hedges talks to Professor Joan Scott about the late Amy Kaplan's cultural analysis of the US and Israel's mythological shared history and how it has manufactured consent for Israel's…
Vietnamese Agent Orange Victims Remain Uncompensated. Tlaib Aims to Change That
Vietnamese and US descendants of those exposed to Agent Orange continue to face diseases and congenital anomalies.
Patrick Lawrence: Germany in Crisis Part 2: A Short History of Exploding Gas Pipelines
In the postwar era this ambiguity, this state of “in between,” is best understood not as Germany’s burden but its great gift, and it is with this gift it could…
Vijay Prashad: The Historical Revision of Buchenwald
On April 11, 1945, the U.S. took over the Buchenwald concentration camp. But it was communist prisoners who organised and liberated the Nazi camp. Today, such heroic victories of anti-fascist…
Backlash to Transgender Health Care Isn’t New − but the Faulty Science Used to Justify It Has Changed to Meet the Times
Editors Note: Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility. Presently, transgender rights are under political attack throughout the United States with hundreds of anti-trans bills in the legislative process. We…
Black Prisoners Organize for Dignity in Angola, Louisiana’s Modern-Day Plantation
Louisiana State Penitentiary is nicknamed after the former plantation site that it sits on. Those incarcerated at the prison say the practice of slavery is still alive and well.
Modern Times and Ancient Truths
Today, the Little Tramp, has been replaced by big Trump and his sidekick, Elon Musk, owners and operators of the new AI Digital factory Internet system, posing as saviors of…
Jonathan Cook: Thirty Years of Middle East Lies Just Keep Coming Back to Haunt Us
The West’s ‘war on terror’ was built on a series of deceptions to persuade us that our leaders were crushing Islamist extremism. In truth, they were nourishing it.