Patrick Lawrence: The Nihilism of Antony Blinken
Antony Blinken is utterly indifferent to “what the public thinks” by his own profession. He doesn’t do politics, you see.
China Is Not Our Enemy
“Something don't talk about enough, in my opinion, is how China managed to eradicate extreme poverty. And that's not just a minimum income level, it also means access to food,…
Chris Hedges: Genocide: The New Normal
Israel and the U.S. government will continue the genocide in Gaza for many months until the Palestinians are annihilated or driven from their homeland and Greater Israel is consolidated.
Chris Hedges: Don’t Deify Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter may have done good works out of office, but in power he fomented a series of domestic and foreign policy disasters.
Chris Hedges: How Fascism Came
America’s democracy was destroyed by the two ruling parties who sold us out to corporations, militarists and billionaires. Now we pay the price.
Only Two Days Left! Help the IRS Help ScheerPost
To Our Readers and Supporters: Last year this time, we launched our Network for Good campaign with our fiscal sponsor, Community Partners (CP) and now reached $66,600 in donations, just…
Some Will Rob You With a Six-Gun, and Some With a Fountain Pen
The criminal justice system fails ordinary people by bypassing the criminal activity occurring in corporate boardrooms.
Patrick Lawrence: The Centrists Cannot Hold
What is unfolding now in France is unfolding one or another way across those Western powers that form the walls of the neoliberal fortress.
Lena Herzog: You Cannot Win a Nuclear War
“The word ‘war’ is disorienting, because in war, you can have a battle, you can lose a battle, you can win a war. You cannot win a nuclear exchange. It's…
President of Refugees International Condemns Biden Admin for Role in Gaza
Jeremy Konyndyk details how Biden and his cabinet ignored their own standards set years ago and facilitated the suffering of millions of Gazans.
Thanksgiving: A Time To Think About Settler Colonialism
Check through the ScheerPost archive on the history of settler colonialism and how it continues in Gaza today.
John Kiriakou: Iraqi Abu Ghraib Torture Victims Win $42 Million in Lawsuit Against US Contractor
They were tortured by CACI employees over a period of several weeks using techniques including electric shock, stress positions, starvation, attack dogs, and humiliation through forced nudity.
Juan Cole: The Antidote to Israeli Propaganda
"What's been done to the Palestinians is considered extremely unfair by almost everybody in the world, outside of Western Europe and the United States."
Chris Hedges: Organized Oblivion
Gaza is destroyed. It will not, at least for the Palestinians, be rebuilt. Those who lived there will spend their lives, like survivors of the Armenian genocide, desperately trying to…