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Robert Scheer has built a reputation for strong social and political writing over his nearly 60 years as a journalist. His columns appear in newspapers across the country, and his in-depth interviews have made headlines. He conducted the famous Playboy magazine interview in which Jimmy Carter confessed to the lust in his heart and went on to do many interviews for the Los Angeles Times with Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and many other prominent political and cultural figures.
Between 1964 and 1969 he was Vietnam correspondent, managing editor and editor in chief of Ramparts magazine. From 1976 to 1993 Scheer served as a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, writing on diverse topics such as the Soviet Union, arms control, national politics and the military. In 1993 he launched a nationally syndicated column based at the Los Angeles Times, where he was named a contributing editor. Source
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Search ArticlesIsrael Builds Massive Barrier Inside Gaza To Partition Beyond ‘Yellow Line’
News Desk, The Cradle. According to satellite imagery released on 21 July, the Israeli army is constructing a ground barrier extending hundreds of meters beyond the so-called “Yellow Line” in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip, effectively partitioning the enclave and deepening its military presence there.
UK’s New Defence Minister Called Israel ‘Rogue State’
Dania Akkad Declassified UK Late last July, as a famine unfolded in Gaza and Israeli settler attacks intensified in the West Bank, Wes Streeting texted a friend shortly before midnight. “Israel is committing war crimes before our eyes,” the then health secretary told Peter Mandelson over WhatsApp.
China’s Oil Strategy And What The West Leaves Out
Arnie Saiki, Decolonize Accounting. There has been an abundance of information around China’s oil strategy of recent, some of it sensible, most of it unremarkably a part of the western led China-bashing package, and as a whole, the glut of analysis has all been quite confusing. That confusion should not be surprising considering our political climate. China is responding to an international economic system experiencing the United State’s own existential instability.
The Generation That Refuses To Crawl: Gen Z Is A Class Struggle
Vijay Prashad, BreakThrough News. They want to live, to work, to use what they have learned, and to contribute to society with dignity. On July 20, thousands of young people attempted to march from Jantar Mantar to Parliament.
Marco Rubio Represents A Clear And Present Threat To Global Climate Liberation
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. The climate crisis is first and foremost a crisis caused by the U.S. denying other nations their sovereignty through imperialist violence, but the U.S. climate movement is more comfortable talking only about emissions. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin has been an absolute menace and major impediment to advancing climate and environmental liberation in the United States.
An Appeal To The Consciences Of Those Who Are Bombing Iran
Colonel (Ret) Ann Wright, Popular Resistance Stop the bombings! Nineteen years ago in February 2007 during the Bush administration’s Axis of Evil regime and calls for attacks on Iran from members of Congress including “Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran (to the tune of Beachboys song Barbara Ann)” recitation by Senator John McCain, I wrote an article entitled “An Appeal to Conscience to Those Who WOULD Bomb Iran.” Now almost two decades and four presidential administrations later (Obama, Trump, Biden,...
Hormuz, Mandeb, Black Sea: Wars and Diesel Chokepoints Spike World Inflation
Juan Cole Informed Comment The Iran War will erode the purchasing power of American consumers this summer, according to CNBC, especially because of high diesel prices. That projection helps explain Trump’s cratering numbers on his mind-bogglingly stupid Iran War. Even in his MAGA base, support for the war was only about 50% last May. It is now only a third. And that’s Trump’s base. In the rest of the country people want it to be over with yesterday every time they fill up the tank.
Iran: As Missiles Fall, Art and Memes Build Community
Hamideh Khaleghi Mohammadi, University of Sydney and Ali Abbasi, University of Sydney The Conversation Coverage of the conflict between Iran, Israel and the United States has largely focused on battlefield developments, political statements and international diplomacy. However, another story has been unfolding on the streets of Iran. Despite fears of further military escalation dominating daily life, residents continue take up space, both in person and online.
Trump Was the Symptom. Corporate Impunity Was the Disease
Joshua Scheer For decades, Americans have been told that rising crime, political polarization, and Donald Trump’s ascent are separate crises requiring separate solutions. Political scientist Marie Gottschalk argues they are all symptoms of the same deeper disease: an economic and political system that has steadily expanded punishment for ordinary people while shielding corporations and the wealthy from meaningful accountability.
Cuba: President Díaz-Canel Rejects Rubio’s Report
Resumen-English. Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel rejected the report released by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The president described the document as part of a “transnational neo-McCarthyism” driven by a “clearly fascist movement” that “resorts to lies to create pretexts for sustaining aggression against Cuba and curtailing civil liberties in the United States”. Díaz-Canel highlighted the “millions” allocated annually to programs aimed at regime change, subversion, and terrorism.