Patrick Lawrence: Atrocity Porn
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost The Russian army shelled its own detention center in the east of Ukraine. The Russian army shelled a nuclear power plant it has…
Chris Hedges: Monarchs Belong in the Dustbin of History
No institution helps obscure the crimes of empire and buttress class rule and white supremacy as effectively as the British monarchy.
The President Gets an “F” in American History
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost For 35 years I taught high school classes in politics, economics and American history. And for 35 years I struggled against a mythological…
Patrick Lawrence: “The Narrative Is Coming Apart”
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost “In total, more than a thousand square kilometers of the territory of Ukraine have been liberated since the beginning of September,” Volodymyr Zelensky…
Declassify the Documents From Trump’s Basement
By Leonard Goodman / Original to ScheerPost Whatever your feelings about former President Trump, there are reasons to be skeptical when government officials say it was necessary to raid his…
Putin Sees Future With Asia and Claims Western Economic Decline in New Speech
Speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum, Putin addressed Western sanctions, Russia’s growing relationship with Asia and an update on Ukraine.
Patrick Lawrence: Unmaking History
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Every young journalist knows, and probably most newspaper readers know, too, the old thought: Journalists write the first draft of history. I like…
Mark Lloyd: A Letter From Washington on Communication Policy
Choose Your Elected Representatives in Congress Wisely: They Will Determine the Future of Our Democratic Deliberation.
Chris Hedges: Let’s Stop Pretending America Is a Functioning Democracy
A functioning democracy could easily dispatch Donald Trump and his doppelgängers. A failed democracy and bankrupt liberalism assures their ascendancy.
Patrick Lawrence: When Correspondents Came Home, Part 2
September 11 was a paradigm shifting moment in American journalism.
Chris Hedges: Ukraine and the Politics of Permanent War
Permanent war requires permanent censorship.
Patrick Lawrence: When Correspondents Came Home, Part 1
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost This is the first of a two-part series examining the collapse of foreign coverage in mainstream media. I have never gotten over a…
Patrick Lawrence: The British “Bubble of Unreality”
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost I am following British politics during these, Boris Johnson’s final days as prime minister, with interest. It seems that the front-runner to replace…
Patrick Lawrence: A Hall of Mirrors
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost I have long wondered whether our mainstream journalists, correspondents and commentators get dressed each morning in the same locker room, so similarly do…
Patrick Lawrence: All Disquiet on the Eastern Front
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost This article has been updated since the time of its publishing. Have you noticed the latest coming out of Eastern Europe—the Estonians, the…