New Data Tool Details Thousands of Corporations Profiting From US Prison Industry
"Despite earning tens of billions of dollars each year, the public knows little about the prison industry and those that profit from it."
Scott Ritter: Pipelines v. USA
Intent, motive and means: People serving life sentences in U.S. prisons have been convicted on weaker grounds than the circumstantial evidence against Washington for the attack on the Nord Stream…
Mark Fiore: Diplomacy Dismembered
By Mark Fiore / Original to ScheerPost President Joe Biden was caught off guard when Saudi Arabia and Russia joined together to lead OPEC to cut oil production by 2…
‘We Are Not Done Yet’: Railroad Track Workers Reject New Deal
With 56 percent of BMWE's members voting against the new deal, leaders hope they can return to bargaining table.
Hopes of Peace in Yemen Are Fading
Congress has the power to end the war in Yemen, but how likely is that?
Big Tech: Not Only Market but Also Knowledge and Information Gatekeepers
How do we regulate an information utility?
Patrick Lawrence: Our Shared Addiction to Empire
"If the Columbus myth has been thoroughly discounted, what is it that causes us to continue closing the banks, stopping the mail, and marching in parades on a Monday around…
Why the Chair of the Lancet’s COVID-19 Commission Thinks the US Government Is Preventing a Real Investigation Into the Pandemic
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs sheds light on the "alternative hypothesis" that COVID could be a biotech blunder.
Kevin Cooper: My Experience with the Death Penalty
On February 9, 2004, Kevin Cooper came within 3 hours and 45 minutes of being murdered by the state of California. In this essay, Cooper recounts his experience with the…
[rewind] Kevin Sharp: It’s Time to Free Leonard Peltier, America’s Longest Serving Political Prisoner
The Native American activist’s attorney tells Robert Scheer why Peltier’s imprisonment is one of the worst miscarriages of justice this country has ever seen.
Chris Hedges: The Puppets and the Puppet Masters
The judicial proceedings against Julian Assange give a faux legality to the state persecution of the most important and courageous journalist of our generation.
Patrick Lawrence: Sins of Silence
The media's treatment of the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage is reminiscent of a time in the 60s when disaster could have been avoided with responsible reporting.
Nobel Committee Gets Peace Prize Wrong Yet Again
The Nobel Peace Prize selection ignores a side of the war that saw even Amnesty International denounced for observing.
Jim Mamer: Fake Journalism Is Only the First Draft of Fake History
35 year teaching veteran Jim Mamer explores the areas of history many schools fail to teach and what it means about the state of the world today, on this week's…
Report: US Special Operations Forces Are on the Ground in Ukraine
The presence is part of a broad clandestine operation that includes the CIA.