Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Yep. Just hanging around, killing time, waiting to find out whether the US is going to start World War 3 now or a little later on. ❖ Washington: Russia’s gonna invade Ukraine. Moscow: We’re not gonna invade Ukraine. Kyiv: Yeah Russia’s not gonna in...

The British High Court of England and Wales on Monday said it would allow the imprisoned publisher of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, to, in essence, appeal a ruling that would have seen him extradited to the United States where he faces a possible 175 years in prison for the publication of cl...

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ People don’t generally leave abusive relationships in egoically satisfying, Hollywood-friendly ways. I point this out because those of us who are watching the people’s abusive relationship with predatory power structures and hoping for revolutionary c...

I travelled with my dad – ‘H’, as we called him – in the back seat of the car. It was the same way we’d driven a million times: to Tesco, to drop me off at the station, to drop me off at the airport, to drive up the M25 to my sister’s at Christmas. It was a suitably cold, drizzly afternoon, our des...

Former Bush White House speechwriter David Frum speaks to MSNBC's Joe Scarborough about Russia, Nov. 30, 2021 One of the most bizarre but important dynamics of Trump-era U.S. politics is that the most fanatical war-hungry neocons, who shaped Bush/Cheney militarism, have become the most po...

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ How many journalists are capable of doing what Julian Assange did to expose the criminality of the powerful? Not many. How many are both capable and willing? Fewer still. How many of those are now willing after seeing what’s being done to Assange? Even...

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Journalist Jonathan Cook has a new blog post out on his experience with being throttled into invisibility by Silicon Valley algorithmic suppression that will ring all too familiar for any online content creators who’ve been sufficiently critical of o...

The Committee plotted with JPMorgan and its lawyer, former Obama AG Loretta Lynch, to obtain a citizen's financial records with no possibility of judicial review. Listen above. Read more

Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries's announcement of a coming end to the BBC licence fee is an obviously cynical effort to distract attention from her now completely disgraced leader and a government in mounting crisis.   But those rushing to defend the BBC as a bastion of 'balanc...

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Major western news publications are running a story about a sinister plot by the Russian government, and — you may want to sit down for this — the sources of the report are anonymous, and the evidence for it is secret. The New York Times reports tha...

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The Ukrainian-born MSNBC favorite Alexander Vindman , best known for his role in the Trump impeachment, has informed the network’s viewership that we are almost certainly on the cusp of a war with Russia comparable to World War II. “I think we’re bas...

The Los Angeles Press Club announced the finalists for the 14th National A&E Journalism Awards on Wednesday, and ScheerPost’s staff are thrilled to announce they are in the running for 4 prizes. The list includes work by ScheerPost’s editor in chief Robert Scheer , columnist Chris Hedg...

You need to search out and maintain those connections before they are gone entirely. Because those alternative voices you prize now will wither and decay like autumn leaves if they have no audience.

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Consider the possibility that the Orwellian dystopia you fear is already here and has been in place for many years, you just haven’t noticed because you’re still allowed to watch Netflix or buy a gun or say whatever you want to say within a small impot...

The media’s watchdog role is an illusion. The current scandal over Boris Johnson’s lockdown parties reveals just how dependent journalists are on government.

US Representatives Elaine Luria, Adam Schiff, Liz Cheney, Jamie Raskin, Adam Kinzinger and Chairman Bennie Thompson, speak to the media following testimony during the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the US Capitol (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images) I...

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Most Americans now understand that it was wrong to spend centuries enslaving millions of people. Not many Americans yet understand how equally wrong it is that their government has spent the 21st century killing millions and displacing tens of milli...

There has been much gnashing of ‘liberal’ teeth and pulling out of ‘centrist’ hair following the Tory government’s announcement that the BBC licence fee will be abolished in 2027. Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries declared via Twitter, with a dash of right-wing relish: ‘This licence fee...

In leaked audio, UN staffers accuse World Health Organization Secretary-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of violating UN code to further the objectives of his sect in Ethiopia’s conflict Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, World Health Organization (WHO) Secretary-General and overseer of the UN’s global ...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has 55 Senators in support of his bill to sanction a Russian pipeline company. Why are the pro-democracy Democrats blocking its enactment? Listen above. Read more