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Proxy wars devour the countries they purport to defend. There will come a time when the Ukrainians will become expendable to the U.S. They will disappear, as many others before them, from U.S. national discourse and popular consciousness. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost.com There are many ways for a

Jeff Gerth's exhaustive look at the systemic press failure in covering allegations of pro-Trump Russian interference in the 2016 election has been followed by an ominous silence. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost.com Reporters make mistakes. It is the nature of the trade. There are always a few

From the author's address at the anti-war demonstration on Feb. 19 in Washington: "A society that prohibits the capacity to speak in truth extinguishes the capacity to live in justice." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpCBkOUjAEc By Chris Hedges ScheerPost.com Idolatry is the primal si

To those who suffer directly from U.S. and NATO aggression, the demands of the Feb. 19 Rage Against the War Machine rally in Washington are not theoretical issues.  For them, it is a matter of life or death. They welcome any ally. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost.com On Sunday, Feb. 19, I will

Diversity is important. But when it is devoid of a political agenda it recruits a tiny segment of those marginalized by society into unjust structures to help perpetuate them.  By Chris Hedges ScheerPost.com The brutal murder of Tyre Nichols by five Black Memphis, Tennessee,  police officer

NATO support for a war designed to degrade the Russian military and drive Vladimir Putin from power is not going according to plan. The new sophisticated military hardware won't help. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost.com Empires in terminal decline leap from one military fiasco to the nex

The Democratic Party has become the party of permanent war, fueling massive military spending which is hollowing out the country from the inside and flirting with nuclear war.The Democrats position themselves as the party of virtue, cloaking their support for the war industry in moral language stretching back to Korea and Vietnam, when President&nb

There are many disturbing similarities between the brutality imposed on Stalin’s victims and the injustices endured by the incarcerated in U.S. federal and state prisons. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost.com Two nights a week for the last four months, I plowed my way through the three volumes of 

This week’s Scheer Intelligence podcast brings together host Robert Scheer and author and renowned physician Dr. Gabor Maté to talk about Mate’s recent New York Times best-selling book, “The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture,” written with his son, Daniel Maté.

The expedited legislation passed by Congress to avert a strike by railroad unions dealt one more blow in the decades long war waged by the two ruling parties against the working class. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost.com The congressional decision to prohibit railroad workers from going on str