Taking ‘Peace’ Out of the Nobel Peace Prize
Despite the occasional polite nod to Alfred Nobel, the committee — which will name this year’s award on Saturday — has never made known his vision of peace through global…
Patrick Lawrence: Why Do Nations Erase the Past?
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost A recent report by the German news agency DPA has had me thinking ever since about various small, inconsequential matters: war, nationalism, identity,…
My Thanksgiving: How Testifying for Native Americans Made Me a Witness to History
I'm a scholar of Native American history. But my real education came from working with Native people in the present.
World At Dangerous Crossroads, Only Two Paths Forward: Anti-Imperialist Socialism or Fascist Barbarism
The US-led imperialist world system is in deep crisis, so it wages a new cold war to prevent multipolarity, while lurching toward fascism. The left must offer a true alternative…
The Chris Hedges Report: Andrew Bacevich on His Book ‘After the Apocalypse’ and the Folly of Endless War
By Chris Hedges Listen to the podcast here. In the months of July and September 1940 the French historian and future resistance fighter Marc Bloch, who fought in World War…
The Cuban Missile Crisis Cover-Up
How JFK and Robert Kennedy hid the quid pro quo that saved the world from nuclear war.
Kevin Cooper: The Truth
Kevin Cooper reflects on American history, Christopher Columbus' real legacy, and Indigenous Peoples Day.
Jim Mamer: Fake Journalism Is Only the First Draft of Fake History
35 year teaching veteran Jim Mamer explores the areas of history many schools fail to teach and what it means about the state of the world today, on this week's…
VIDEO: The Late Stephen F. Cohen Provides Clarity on NATO Expansion and Russia, More Than 10 Years Ago
NATO's broken promise to Russia provides context to the current state of affairs.
Ron DeSantis’ Strategic Delusions
American history continues to be rewritten as the conversation around education heats up.
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.
How a Clean Energy Future is Colliding With Mining’s Dark Past
“No one wants a mine in their backyard.”
Chris Hedges: Monarchs Belong in the Dustbin of History
No institution helps obscure the crimes of empire and buttress class rule and white supremacy as effectively as the British monarchy.
The President Gets an “F” in American History
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost For 35 years I taught high school classes in politics, economics and American history. And for 35 years I struggled against a mythological…
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.