Chomsky and Ellsberg on the Death of Gorbachev (video)
By Paul Jay / theAnalysis.news Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg discuss the significance of the life of Mikhail Gorbachev and what the deconstruction of the Soviet Union means for today’s…
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…
Chris Hedges & Robert Scheer on Gorbachev, Russia & Ukraine
Journalists Chris Hedges and Robert Scheer discuss Mikhail Gorbachev, his life, his role in the end of the Cold War and his legacy today. How does he relate to Vladimir…
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Gorbachev’s Legacy
A great reformer in his country’s tormented history.
Factchecking the Factchecker on Chomsky, Russia and Media Access
Millions of people in the Soviet Union, including virtually all intellectuals, had access to and tuned into Western media in the 1970s.
Robert Scheer: Remembering Mikhail Gorbachev, the Greatest Modern Champion of World Peace
ScheerPost revisits Robert Scheer’s 1987 Los Angeles Times review: “From Moscow, First Report of an Unprecedented Call for Change: The Gorbachev Manifesto.”
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.
Putin’s Russia: People Increasingly Identify With the Soviet Union—Here’s What That Means
By Stephen Whitefield and Paul Chaisty, University of Oxford / The Conversation The view that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, wants to restore territories of the Soviet Union has been…
NATO and a War Foretold
Instead of exploiting this crisis to expand even further, NATO should suspend all new or pending membership applications until the current crisis has been resolved.
Hedges: The Greatest Evil Is War
Russia was baited into war but that does not absolve its criminal act of aggression.
Hedges: Chronicle of a War Foretold
After the fall of the Soviet Union, there was a near universal understanding among political leaders that NATO expansion would be a foolish provocation against Russia. How naive we were…
Why Washington Has Learned Nothing From Vietnam to Afghanistan
Why did the United States fail so ignominiously in Vietnam? Why did it fail again in Afghanistan? The answers to these two questions turn out to be similar.
Welcome to the American Century
By Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch On February 17, 1941, less than 10 months before the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor and the U.S. found itself in a global war, Henry Luce,…
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Joseph Weisberg: Is America’s View of ‘Evil’ Russia Merely Projection?
On this week's "Scheer Intelligence," the former CIA officer and creator of the TV show “The Americans” joins Robert Scheer to examine common misconceptions about the Cold War.
The Seeds of the Next Nagorno-Karabakh War
Why did Turkey and Israel encourage Azerbaijan’s strongman to forcefully seize the disputed mountainous patch of Armenian-inhabited Caucasus-earth of Nagorno-Karabakh?