What We Can Still Learn From J. Robert Oppenheimer
“We believe,” he wrote in 1945, “that the safety of this nation—as opposed to its ability to inflict damage on an enemy power—cannot lie wholly or even primarily in its…
War for Profit: A Very Short History
As they did over a century ago ahead of World War I, the Merchants of Death thrive behind a veil of duplicity and slick media campaigns.
Russian & Soviet Flags Banned at Berlin Victory Day
A court in Berlin has outlawed the display of the Russian and Soviet flags on May 8 and 9 celebrations of victory over Nazi Germany because they can “convey a…
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.
William Astore: Enough is Enough
Bill Astore's Speech for the Rage Against the War Machine Rally.
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…
The Chris Hedges Report: Andrew Bacevich on His Book ‘After the Apocalypse’ and the Folly of Endless War
By Chris Hedges Listen to the podcast here. In the months of July and September 1940 the French historian and future resistance fighter Marc Bloch, who fought in World War…
The United States is Exceptional, Just Not in the Ways Any of Us Should Want
The United States have already used up far more than their “fair share” of this planet’s carbon budget.