Chris Hedges: They Lied About Afghanistan. They Lied About Iraq. And They Are Lying About Ukraine.
The U.S. public has been conned, once again, into pouring billions into another endless war.
The Era of Nukes and No Diplomacy: ‘Crossing a Rubicon to Armageddon’
Professor Jackson Lears warns the Ukraine war has wrought “the ultimate technocratic fantasy: a winnable nuclear war.”
Patrick Lawrence: We Need to Talk About Nahel
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost What is it about France these days? La republique seems to be ever on the brink of exploding over one or another social…
Patrick Lawrence: Russian (Melo)drama
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost After a few hours of high drama in southwestern Russia last Saturday, featuring a paramilitary leader, 4,000 to 6,000 followers, and a small…
Patrick Lawrence: Ellsberg and ‘The Process of My Awakening’
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Of all the fine things written and said about Daniel Ellsberg since his death June 16, there is a thread running through them…
Missing Links in Textbook History: Civil Rights and Human Rights
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost Human rights invented America. Ours was the first nation in the history of the world to be founded explicitly on such an idea.…
Patrick Lawrence: Why Can’t Blinken and Sullivan Get China Right?
The Biden admin's continuation of Trump-era policies with China have not boded well thus far.
Is Juneteenth, Our New National Holiday, a Delusion?
By Mark Lloyd / Original to ScheerPost On June 16, 2023, the White House announced that President Biden was proud to have signed the 2021 bi-partisan law establishing Juneteenth as…
Juneteenth: Embracing the Power of Awareness and Repair
By Mobolaji Olambiwonnu / Original to ScheerPost When President Biden made Juneteenth a federal holiday in 2021, I initially saw it as a symbolic gesture, unable to replace the concrete…
Chris Hedges: The Imminent Extradition of Julian Assange and the Death of Journalism
Julian Assange’s legal options have nearly run out. He could be extradited to the U.S. this week. Should he be convicted in the U.S., any reporting on the inner workings…
Chris Hedges: Requiem for Our Species
The effects of the climate crisis intrude with increasing regularity into our lives and yet we do not act. We are as paralyzed as past civilizations were when facing catastrophic…
Failure of the US Monetary System and the Solution
By Richard C. Cook / Original to ScheerPost The debt-ceiling crisis that recently played out in Washington between budget-cutting Republicans and the further explosion of debt under the Biden administration…
Patrick Lawrence: The War We’re Finally Allowed to See
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Let us consider the following paragraphs, which appear in the May 29 edition of The New Yorker: While Tynda and his team were…
Ellen Brown: Another Look at the Financial Transactions Tax
By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost A small financial transactions tax could correct a number of maladies in our economic system, from the federal debt crisis to the widening…
Fascists’ Convictions Not a Cause for Celebration
Dan Siegel explains the precedent being set following arrests of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers members.