People’s Summit for Democracy in Los Angeles Ends With a Bold Plan for the Future
On the final day of the People’s Summit, organizers, volunteers, and attendees marched by the hundreds to the Summit of the Americas
Ralph Nader: Is There Any Hope Left for Democracy?
The legendary consumer advocate and former presidential candidate speaks to “Scheer Intelligence” host Robert Scheer about the shreds of democracy left in America.
‘Arbitrary, Racist, and Unfair’: Judge Blocks Biden From Ending Title 42
More Title 42 removals have occurred during Biden's tenure than Trump's.
Biden Redeploys Troops to Somalia While Humanitarian Crisis Looms
Military Options By Washington Are Primary In The Horn Of Africa And Eastern Europe.
Peace Advocates Sound Warnings as Progressive Lawmakers Go All-In for $40 Billion Ukraine War Packages
"Russia's invasion of Ukraine must be condemned," says one activist. "But the administration has been telegraphing for weeks that its war aims now go well beyond defending Ukraine."
The Future of Press Freedom Depends on Assange Case
The United States’ record of lies and broken promises makes Assange’s case particularly important not only to Americans, but to the entire world.
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CIA Vets McGovern & Kiriakou: It’s Scoundrel Time Back in the USA
Critics of the West’s role in the Ukraine war, such as CIA veterans Ray McGovern and John Kiriakou, are being ostracized from the American media landscape.
Obama and Liberals Killed Abortion Rights
The revelation that the Supreme Court is poised to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision has not motivated left-wing democrats to effectively mobilize on an issue they claim to care…
Patrick Cockburn: Will the Ukraine War End Without Destroying All Life on the Planet?
Veteran award-winning journalists Patrick Cockburn and Robert Scheer, who met in Moscow in 1987 when Mikhail Gorbachev optimistically promised peace, now fear a descent into nuclear war hell.
Greenwald: Biden Wanted $33B More For Ukraine. Congress Quickly Raised it to $40B. Who Benefits?
Tens of billions, soon to be much more, are flying out of U.S. coffers to Ukraine as Americans suffer, showing who runs the U.S. Government, and for whose benefit.
Hedges: Jesus, Endless War, and the Rise of American Fascism
The Democratic Party is hoping to thwart an election rout by running against the expected Supreme Court decision on abortion. This is depressingly all that is left of its political…
Amazon Gets Huge Contract Despite Biden’s Union Pledge
The president promised to halt federal contracts to union busters — but the deal was just re-awarded to Amazon while the company was crushing a union drive.
Without Trump, the Border Is Still a Profitable Battlefield
By the end of its term in office the Biden administration will probably have — hold your hats! — pumped more money into border security than Donald Trump did.
How Obama-Biden Team Empowered Terrorists in Syria
Ukraine is the Obama-Biden team's second major proxy war against Russia. The first was Syria, where US support for the insurgency helped create an Al Qaeda safe haven.
The First and Worst Hit by Pandemics of Every Sort
You could say metaphorically that the poor in America have long lived under pandemic conditions. In the last two-plus years, however, that metaphorical reality became all too literal.