Papering over the rot
Art by Mr. Fish/Scheerpost The death spiral of the American Empire will not be halted with civility. It will not be halted with the 42 executive orders signed by Joe…
Chris Hedges
Battling white supremacy in the ring
Open air Heavyweight World Championship fight between the reigning world champion Tommy Burns of Canada, left, and challenger Jack Johnson at Rushcutters Bay near Sydney, 1908. Photo by Philipp Kester.…
The great delusion
Art by Mr. Fish/Scheerpost Joe Biden and the systems managers of the deep state and empire are returning to power. Trump and his coterie of buffoons, racists, con artists and…
American requiem
Art by Mr. Fish/Scheerpost Well, it’s over. Not the election. The capitalist democracy. However biased it was towards the interests of the rich and however hostile it was to the…
The politics of cultural despair
Art by Mr. Fish/Scheerpost The physical and moral decay of the United States and the malaise it has spawned have predictable results. We have seen in varying forms the consequences…
The cost of resistance
Julian Assange and Roger Hallam. Illustration by Mr. Fish for Scheerpost. Two of the rebels I admire most, Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks publisher, and Roger Hallam, the co-founder of Extinction…
America’s Death March
Chris Hedges: The terminal decline of the United States will not be solved by elections. Photo from Flickr. The terminal decline of the United States will not be solved by…
The One-Choice Election
Vice President Joe Biden holds an event with voters in the gymnasium at McKinley Elementary School in Des Moines, where he addressed a number of issues including the recent escalation…
The New Rules of the Game
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders speaking with supporters at a campaign rally at Desert Pines High School in Las Vegas, Nevada. Photo by Gage Skidmore (Flickr). The quadrennial political game of…
War With Iran
The streets of Tehran and other cities across the country were flooded with protesters early Friday morning, January 3, as mourners grieved the death of Qassem Soleimani. Photo by Tauseef…
Hope Lies in the Streets
Protesters at an Extinction Rebellion rally in London. Photo bu Julian Meehan (Flickr). Global finance capital has seized control of the economies of most nation-states. The citizens watch, helplessly, as…
Hope Lies In The Streets
The decay and rupture of the social bonds that once held our societies together have unleashed the dark pathologies of opioid, alcohol and gambling addictions and led to an explosion…
The Problem With Impeachment
Photo by Michael Vadon (Flickr) Impeaching Donald Trump would do nothing to halt the deep decay that has beset the American republic. It would not magically restore democratic institutions. It…
Chris Hedges-What Does Julian Assange Face In the USA?
We are heading into a power struggle following the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The chill factor for other journalists, reporters and bloggers are clear enough. Assange revealed US…
Israel’s Stranglehold on American Politics
The Israel lobby’s buying off of nearly every senior politician in the United States, facilitated by our system of legalized bribery, is not an anti-Semitic trope. It is a fact.…
Extinction Rebellion
There is one desperate chance left to thwart the impending ecocide and extinction of the human species. We must, in wave after wave, carry out nonviolent acts of civil disobedience…
Goodbye to the Dollar
The inept and corrupt presidency of Donald Trump has unwittingly triggered the fatal blow to the American empire—the abandonment of the dollar as the world’s principal reserve currency. Nations around…
Resistance Is the Supreme Act of Faith
Illustration by Gord Hill (The Anti-Capitalist Resistance Comic Book) The struggle against the monstrous radical evil that dominates our lives—an evil that is swiftly despoiling the earth and driving the…
Trump, the Quintessential American
Illustration by Nevit Dilmen Donald Trump is part of the peculiar breed Herman Melville described in his novel “The Confidence-Man,” in which the main character uses protean personas, flattery and…
Neoliberalism’s Dark Path to Fascism
Neoliberalism as economic theory was always an absurdity. It had as much validity as past ruling ideologies such as the divine right of kings and fascism’s belief in the Übermensch.…