Chilean Mothers’ Long Search for Babies Stolen During Pinochet’s Dictatorship
Fifty years after coup that delivered Pinochet power, thousands still grieve the children stolen during his rule
Patrick Lawrence: Disinformation, Absolutely
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost 1. Everything you will read in this commentary is disinformation. 2. To say that this commentary contains disinformation is disinformation. 3. To say…
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.
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.
Ralph Nader: How Can Dictators Control So Many Millions of People?
By Ralph Nader How do dictators manage for decades to control 1.4 billion (China) or 146 million (Russia) people and on down to other smaller totalitarian regimes? Answer: one power…
Hedges: Jesus, Endless War, and the Rise of American Fascism
The Democratic Party is hoping to thwart an election rout by running against the expected Supreme Court decision on abortion. This is depressingly all that is left of its political…