Patrick Lawrence: Objectivity and Its Discontents
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Look, it is one thing for reporters and line editors to abandon the fundamental principle of objectivity as they hurl their hatchets at…
Chris Hedges: There Are No Permanent Allies, Only Permanent Power
If we do not build left-right coalitions on issues such as militarism, health care, a living wage and union organizing, we will be impotent in the face of corporate power…
Chris Hedges: Woke Imperialism
Woke culture, devoid of class consciousness and a commitment to stand with the oppressed, is another tool in the arsenal of the imperial state.
Chris Hedges: Ukraine: The War That Went Wrong
NATO support for the war in Ukraine, designed to degrade the Russian military and drive Vladimir Putin from power, is not going according to plan. The new sophisticated military hardware…
Missing Links: The Legacy of Textbook History
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost It took almost 10 years of teaching before I finally grasped the extent to which secondary American history textbooks fostered misunderstanding and confusion.…
Patrick Lawrence: Investigate This, Jim Jordan
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Somewhere between the first and second times I heard someone say “weaponize,” this term and its derivatives—“weaponizing,” “weaponization,” and so on—began to repel…
Chris Hedges: The Plague of Social Isolation
The rupture of social bonds and loss of community, caused by the decades-long assault on the poor and working class and the ravages of the pandemic, have resulted in a…
Ellen Brown: Solving the Debt Crisis the American Way
Our forefathers turned their debts into currency. That Constitutional approach could work today.
Patrick Lawrence: ‘Pessimism of the Mind, Optimism of the Will’
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Some years ago now, while researching a book that eventually came out as Somebody Else’s Century, I spent time in Ahmedabad, a city…
US Child Care Deficit Impacts Multiple Sectors of the Country
With funds from the American Rescue Plan drying up, there are fewer workers in the child care industry, higher tuition for child care providers and fewer Americans participating in the…
Patrick Lawrence: The Sino-Russian Summit You Didn’t Read About
The New York Times coverage of the recent summit between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping misses some of its most important details, writes Patrick Lawrence.
Patrick Lawrence: The Souls of Ukrainian Folk
As Kyiv prepares to persecute the souls of its own people, it seems we are about to witness just how inhumane this project has been from the outset.
Patrick Lawrence: Between Myth and History
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Patrick Lawrence delivered the following remarks, based on his book Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century, before the Committee for the…
An Xmas Gift from Hedges and Fish
Every year, Bob sends Chris Hedges and Mr. Fish into the blistering cold of the New Jersey woods to chop down a tree for the annual ScheerPost Christmas party. Please…
Chris Hedges: Teaching Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago in Prison
There are many disturbing similarities between the brutality imposed on Stalin’s victims and the injustices endured by the incarcerated in federal and state prisons.