Missing Links in Textbook History: Colonialism
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost Editor’s Note: This marks the 12th installment in Jim Mamer’s “Missing Links” series. A former high school teacher and recipient of the National…
Four Deaths That Shaped Modern American History
Click to subscribe on: Apple / Spotify / Google Play/ Amazon / YouTube / Rumble The 1960s represented a pivotal time in American history, one that embodied vast change and…
An Evening With Henry
The former U.S. Ambassador to Finland shared his first time meeting with Kissinger in The Nation magazine in 1971.
Ellen Brown: Three Presidents Who Made Thanksgiving a National Holiday—And What They Were Celebrating
By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost Three U.S. presidents were instrumental in establishing Thanksgiving as a regular national event. On October 3, 1789, George Washington declared the first federal…
Missing Links in Textbook History: Labor Before World War I
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” – Frederick Douglass Canandaigua, New York 1857 When I was…
Max Blumenthal: Where Did It All Go Wrong for the Internet?
The rise in Clinton liberalism and Trump derangement has led to the highly censored and heavily surveilled Internet of today.
Norman Solomon: Biden Is the Latest President To Tout the Vietnam War as Proud History
By Norman Solomon / Original to ScheerPost When Joe Biden flew out of Hanoi last week, he was leaving a country where U.S. warfare caused roughly 3.8 million Vietnamese deaths.…
The Importance of Shining a Light on Hidden Toxic Histories
By Elizabeth Kryder-Reid / The Conversation Indianapolis proudly claims Elvis’ last concert, Robert Kennedy’s speech in response to Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, and the Indianapolis 500. There’s a 9/11…
60 Years Since MLK Jr.’s Historic ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech
Today marks the 60th anniversary of the iconic speech delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Our Fight Against Censorship Must Go Beyond Resisting Book Bans
In the chaotic fight against historical and cultural erasure, we must remember that we, ourselves, have stories to tell.
5 Other Modern Presidents Who Should Have Been Indicted for Their Crimes
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Seeing Trump arraigned in New York on Tuesday was satisfying even if the outcome of the trial cannot be…
John Kiriakou: An Ex-CIA Agent’s Trip to Cuba
By John Kiriakou / Original to ScheerPost I was very fortunate to have been able to travel to Cuba a week ago as part of a delegation of American authors,…
China Report Excoriates ‘US Hegemony’, War Crimes, CIA Coups 400 Foreign Interventions
China’s Foreign Ministry published a lengthy report condemning “US hegemony” and its crimes around the world, including wars with millions of victims, coups and “regime change” against elected leaders, and…
NYT Book Review in Denial on Japanese Persecution in World War II
The insistence that not all Japanese people were banned from California severely damages the credibility of the New York Times.