Ralph Nader: The Sadistic GOP’s Debt Limit Ploy vs. the People
Congressional history has rarely witnessed such a corrupt, cruel and explicit drive to turn the delegated sovereignty of the people against the citizenry.
DeSantis’ Anti-Press Bills Seem Dead, but Don’t Celebrate Yet
The right’s broad agenda still includes a decimation of media outlets that spotlight corporate and governmental misdeeds.
Chris Hedges: The United States of Paralysis
The longer the corporate state erodes the social bonds that knit us to society and give us a sense of purpose and meaning the more inevitable an authoritarian state and…
Texas Republicans Pass Bill to Require Ten Commandments in Every Classroom
The bill is blatantly unconstitutional, violating First Amendment restrictions on governmental endorsement of religion.
As Congress Considers Prolonging Cuba’s Designation as a Terrorism Supporter, Biden Dithers
By W.T. Whitney / CounterPunch Although Cuba’s Revolution survived military invasion, guerrilla actions, terrorist attacks, and bacteriologic warfare, enough was not enough. Now there are pay-offs to dissidents, manipulation of…
Tinpot Legislators
Their One-Party Rule Will Be Ruinous for the Earth.
‘People Are Going to Die’: Florida Senate Republicans Pass Abortion Ban
"This is a devastating day for our state and freedoms," said one Democratic Florida state lawmaker. "This six-week abortion ban is deeply unpopular, dangerous, and un-American."
Some Congress Members Need To Sit Down and Shut Up
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch Not too long ago, senator Marco “Bring Back Aerial Dogfights” Rubio took to the airwaves to inform the American people that their military must send…
Just 2 Days After Shooting, Republicans Vote to Loosen Gun Law in North Carolina
Republicans announced the veto override effort just hours after the elementary school shooting in nearby Nashville.
Chris Hedges: The Donald Trump Problem
Donald Trump is not being targeted for the misdemeanors and serious felonies he appears to have committed but for discrediting and undermining the entrenched power of the ruling duopoly.
Journalistic Malpractice on Trial
What the Dominion Voting System Tells Us About How the Media Sacrificed their Credibility to Partisan Falsehoods
A Dangerous Fishing Expedition: The Select Committee on China
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch Riled up against China, GOP congressmembers have long felt that Washington’s new cold war needed a special venue. So as soon as the baton passed…
Beware the Time Thieves
By Jenny Brown / Labor Notes French workers have shut the country down with general strikes three times in the last month to defend their time. They’re protesting a proposal…
Mark Fiore: Freedom Liberry
By Mark Fiore / Original to ScheerPost The movement to ban certain books is gaining traction in Florida and around the country. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is riding the book…
It’s Not All Balloon Buffoonery: Weaponizing Anti-China Paranoia
By Blake Fleetwood / Original to ScheerPost The U.S. suffered worldwide embarrassment in the last two weeks while the American media and Republican and Democratic politicians hyperventilated over four UFO…