Glenn Greenwald: SCOTUS Rejects Colorado’s Trump Ballot Ban
SCOTUS ruled that the 14th Amendment does not allow states to bar former president Donald Trump from the ballot.
Chris Hedges: America’s Theater of the Absurd
The 15 rounds of voting it took to install Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House is part of the carnival of folly that passes for politics.
Jan. 6 Committee Recommends Charges That Could Prevent Trump From Running Again
For the first time in history, a committee of Congress recommended to the DOJ that it prosecute a former U.S. president.
Inequality and Dishonesty Will Kill Democracy
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost On November 2, 2022, less than a week before the recent national election, President Biden delivered a speech warning against voter intimidation, political…
Our Democracy Was Stolen A Long Time Ago w/ Chris Hedges and Jimmy Dore
"American democracy has been steadily eroding since the Reagan administration, Hedges says, and if you think Donald Trump’s arrival on the political scene is what killed democracy you have not…
America’s Second Civil War is Underway
Gun violence is only one symptom of American democracy's terminal illness.
A January 6th Spectacle Won’t Save Democracy
On the surface, the hearing is a powerful example of democracy in action, but what happened on January 6th and what it means for democracy is hindered by the establishment…
Hedges: Society of Spectacle
The televised spectacle of the January 6th hearings will not restore democracy or halt the rise of the far right. The hearings are a desperate ploy by a doomed political…
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Juan Cole: The FBI’s Islamophobia Enabled the January 6th Insurrection
The FBI has given a pass to violent white supremacists--allowing them to freely organize the attack on the Capitol--while spying 24/7 on Muslim Americans.
Greenwald: Congress’s 1/6 Committee Claims Absolute Power as it Investigates Citizens With No Judicial Limits
The Committee plotted with JPMorgan and its lawyer, former Obama AG Loretta Lynch, to obtain a citizen's financial records with no possibility of judicial review.
Selling Out Democracy for Political Influence
One year after January 6, corporations are once again filling the campaign coffers of politicians who tried to overthrow the last election.
The Fascist Plot that Presaged the Assault on the Capitol
The 1934 “Business Plot” offers key lessons for a contemporary audience.
Holding Trump and His Rioters Accountable Can — and Must — Be Done Constitutionally
Reconciliation that is an echo of the appeasement that doomed Reconstruction is unacceptable, but so is allowing social media corporations to determine what speech is allowed in the what amounts…
The Electoral College Must Go
It's long since time to end this legacy of slavery and racism which insures some votes are worth far more than others.