Accuracy no longer matters. Witnessing no longer matters. Conformity matters, writes Patrick Lawrence.
By Patrick Lawrence
ScheerPost
I have never gotten over a story The New York Times ran in its Sunday magazine back in May 2016. Maybe you will remember the occasion. It was a lengthy profi
Governmental bodies in the U.S. aren't meant to be owned by those who lead them. They aren't possessions to be disposed of according to the will and inclination of the governors, writes Michael Brenner.
By Michael Brenner
The abuse of executive powers has become so commonplace as to be
There are no institutions, including the press, an electoral system, the imperial presidency, the courts or the penal system, that can be defined as democratic. Only the fiction of democracy remains.
By Chris Hedges
ScheerPost.com
There is a fatal disconnect between a political system t
Westerners should forget about liberating Ukraine, writes Jonathan Cook. First we need to liberate our own minds so we can acknowledge our threatening presence in the world.
By Jonathan Cook
Jonathan-Cook.net
Nothing should better qualify me to write about world affairs at the moment – and
Michael Brenner sizes up the scale of the West's blunder in trying to use a crisis in Ukraine as the lever to bring down Putin and Russia along with him.
By Michael Brenner
Reality has a way of catching up to us. Sometimes it comes via a sudden shock Sputnik or Tet. Sometimes it creeps