Government’s ‘Orwellian’ Unit To Be Disbanded After openDemocracy Revelations
‘Clearing House’ axed two years after we revealed controversial unit was vetting Freedom of Information requests.
How One Spook-Run London College Department is Training the World’s Social Media Managers
By Alan MacLeod / MintPress News Staffed by NATO military officers and former government ministers and notorious for training the West’s top spies, the Department of War Studies at King’s…
WSJ Sells Lithium Neocolonialism as Climate Necessity
By Teddy Ostrow / FAIR True to its name, the Wall Street Journal never fails to lay bare its corporate sympathies. In a recent feature headlined “The Place With the…
Don’t Wait: Get Into the Encryption Habit Now
By Thomas Knapp / CounterPunch In early August, a Nebraska prosecutor charged a mother and daughter with violating the state’s ban on abortion after 20 weeks. That ban was passed…
US To Send Ukraine $3 Billion in New Military Aid as Part of Long-Term Support
The new weapons package is expected to be announced on Wednesday.
The West’s Dangerously Simple-Minded Narrative About Russia and China
The overwrought fear of China and Russia is sold to a Western public through manipulation of the facts.
Whose Rules? Our Rules! in the Rules-Based International Order
How the US leads by helping other people kill each other.
China Forgives 23 Loans for 17 African Countries, Expands ‘Win-Win’ Trade and Infrastructure Projects
China is forgiving 23 interest-free loans for 17 African countries, after already cancelling $3.4 billion and restructuring $15 billion of debt from 2000-2019. Beijing pledged more infrastructure projects and offered…
The Instinctive Distrust of Big Media
Anyone in journalism who wants to regain that trust would do well to read American Dispatches and internalize the lessons that Robert Parry offers, writes Nat Parry.
Should We Let Scam-Artists ‘Educate’ Our Young People?
By Sam Pizzigati / CounterPunch Just over 200,000 young American men and women — all students defrauded by a now defunct for-profit trade school — received some welcome news earlier…
Daughter of Putin Ally Killed in Car Blast Outside of Moscow
Daria Dugina was the daughter of Alexander Dugin, the Russian nationalist and philosopher. She was driving his car when an explosive device detonated underneath the vehicle, she was burned beyond…
The Chris Hedges Report: Psychology of a Klansman
In a new book about the Ku Klux Klan’s 1966 murder of Black civil rights activist Vernon Dahmer, author Curtis Wilkie offers insights into the psychology of white supremacists relevant…
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…
The Deadly Business of Reporting Truth
Two grim anniversaries demonstrate how journalists around the world increasingly face violence, but leaders—including President Biden—have been slow to act.
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…