Missing Links in Textbook History: The Roots of the American War in Vietnam
Jim Mamer continues his series deconstructing the flaws in American history taught in high school classrooms, this time tackling the Vietnam War.
Ray McGovern: The Last Chance to Avoid World War III?
The CIA expert and Russia specialist who served seven presidents under risks of nuclear war is alarmed that the war in Ukraine has brought us to the most dangerous moment…
Missing Links in Textbook History: Cold War Origins
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost Paranoia strikes deep Into your life it will creep It starts when you’re always afraid You step out of line, the man come…
Nostalgia for the Cuban Missile Crisis
By Roger Harris / CounterPunch Sixty years ago, a crowd of us young people anxiously massed around a black-and-white TV in my college student union building. The US and the…
The Cuban Missile Crisis Cover-Up
How JFK and Robert Kennedy hid the quid pro quo that saved the world from nuclear war.
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.”
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…