Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Best wishes to Americans this July 4th as you celebrate your great nation’s revolutionary transition from being ruled by a king to being ruled by corporations. ❖ The US government views the American people as an annoying distraction from its real job...

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Our civilization is built upon lies and obfuscation to such an extent that advocating for transparency and the democratization of information can be a complete political ideology, all by itself. Rather than claiming to know what’s best for society (wh...

Chris Hedges Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for  The New York Times,  where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for  The Dallas Morning N...

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Fox News’s fabulously popular right wing pundit Tucker Carlson has ratcheted up his show’s anti-China propaganda yet again, introducing his interview with Brazil’s rightist president Jair Bolsonaro with a psychotic rant against Beijing that, were it ...

By Chris Hedges / Special to ScheerPost There is a national epidemic of missing girls and women. This is the story of a friend who has become one of these grim statistics. A few days before Meghan Marohn, a 42-year-old English teacher at Shaker High School in Latham, New York, ...

There’s a lot going on in America and the people are very stressed out and frightened, but don’t worry, there’s nothing the US government won’t do to make sure more High Mobility Artillery Rocket systems get to Ukraine. Rest assured Americans: no matter how dark things may seem right now, no matte...

The conservative writer and activist Christopher Rufo (r.) appears on System Update, June 29, 2022, to discuss his work and worldview. Since the time I began writing about politics back in 2005, my posture toward the Culture War has been steadfast and consistent: avoid whenever pos...

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Former CIA director and secretary of state Mike Pompeo gave a speech at the Hudson Institute last week that’s probably worth taking a look at just because of how much it reveals about the nature of the US empire and the corrupt institutions which inf...

The fact that a UK diplomat tried to recruit me – a freelance journalist far from the center of power – as an informant hints at how common it is for mainstream journalists to be approached by the intelligence agencies.

The Grayzone interviews leaders of Ecuador’s indigenous-led revolt against the neoliberal policies of billionaire banker and President Guillermo Lasso, documenting how his security forces have escalated violent repression against demonstrators, and treated them as enemy combatants while protest ran...

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Turkey’s President Erdoğan has officially withdrawn Ankara’s objection to the addition of Finland and Sweden to NATO membership, with the three countries signing a trilateral memorandum at a NATO summit in Madrid. The removal of Erdoğan’s objectio...

Leaked emails expose Tory intelligence cabal scheming for Priti Patel’s authorization of MI6-style “counter-intelligence” operation against UK environmentalists. The cabal has turned on Boris Johnson and believes Patel is set to replace him. On May 18th, The Grayzone exclusively revealed that a sha...

Listen to a reading of this poem: ❖ From our perch here on the edge of armageddon we are safe to gush out our love over everything, because we’ve got nothing left to save it for and nothing left to lose. I place slippery wet YES kisses on the black crows in your stomach and on the glow...

By ScheerPost Staff / Original to ScheerPost ScheerPost staff members won six awards, including two first place honors at the 64th annual Southern California Journalism Awards gala on Saturday honoring journalists from print, television, radio, digital and student media platforms. M...

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ One It sure is mighty convenient timing for all political and electoral energy in the United States to suddenly get sucked up into a single issue which affects the powerful in no way, shape or form. I wouldn’t have thought it would be possible for eve...

Original illustration by Mr. Fish — “Elephants in the Womb” By Chris Hedges / Special to ScheerPost The Supreme Court is relentlessly funding and empowering Christian fascism. It not only overturned Roe v. Wade, ending a constitutional right to an abortion, but  ruled  on June 21 t...

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The New York Times reports that Ukraine is crawling with special forces and spies from the US and its allies, which would seem to contradict earlier reports that the US intelligence cartel is having trouble getting intel about what’s happening on t...

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ “China is a strange, backwards nation ruled by tyrants,” said the nation founded by Puritans who used to execute women for witchcraft and just killed reproductive rights protections because they think Jesus told them to. The world is dominated cultu...

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ All of our world’s worst problems are created by the powerful. The powerful will keep creating those problems until ordinary people use their superior numbers to make them stop. Ordinary people don’t use their superior numbers to stop the powerful beca...