Chris Hedges: Decline and Fall
The British Empire, in steep decline on the eve of World War I, is a cautionary tale for a decayed U.S. Empire a century later.
The Zohran Mamdani Count: Lina Khan, Familiar Progressive Faces and Key Allies Populate Transition Team
Mamdani’s 400+ person transition team signals — for the most part — an encouraging representation of the movement.
The Zohran Mamdani Count: Keeping NYPD Boss Tisch Looks Like Strike One
Before his January 1 inauguration, Mamdani is already making contentious decisions as mayor-elect.
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In an era when billionaire owners of mass media dominate the media landscape, the need for independent media could not be more obvious.
Great Was Its Fall
By Edward Curtin / Original to ScheerPost When it comes, it comes on slowlyThe day feels holy, a hush falls downWhispered names, remembered facesFrom desperate places, all gather ‘round– Tom…
Patrick Lawrence: Trump’s ‘End of History’ Moment
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost The Trumpster is not yet finished his first year back in the White House, and I cannot imagine how our crumbling republic will…
Mechanical Mikey and the Theater of War
What are they still marching for?
Patrick Lawrence: The Knesset and the ‘Post–9/11 Method’
The Zionist-nationalists who now determine Israel’s direction are on the way to passing a law that makes legal what is illegal according to the U.N. Charter, international law, and whatever…
Chris Hedges: America Is a Banana Republic
El Presidente Donald Trump is the gringo version of brutal and corrupt dictators foisted on Latin American countries by their oligarchs and Yankee imperialists.
Chris Hedges: Trump’s Greatest Ally is The Democratic Party
The Democratic Party and its liberal allies refuse to call for mass mobilization and strikes — the only tools that can thwart Trump’s emergent authoritarianism — fearing they too will…
Patrick Lawrence: Zohran Mamdani and His (Our) Enemies
What makes this election especially interesting to me, my years in Manhattan long over, are the still-larger questions a runaway victory for Mamdani would raise.
Martyrs to the Unspeakable: A Luminous Tapestry of Truth
It is a book that could only be written by a man sustained by a spiritual faith that inspired his four subjects to face their own deaths without flinching, so…
Ellen Brown: How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part II: Curbing Fed Independence
History shows that sovereign money creation can be a tool for public good when wielded wisely. It is time to reclaim that tool, not to serve the banks and speculative…
Patrick Lawrence: Against Chutzpah
“They’re like five-year-olds!” Thunberg exclaimed to Röstlund as she recounted all this. No, that’s not it, Greta. They’re like Zionists.