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  •  | US Export  by Mr Fish | MR Online

    American concentration camps

    Originally published: ScheerPost on April 17, 2025 (more by ScheerPost) (Posted Apr 19, 2025)

    Our offshore concentration camps, for now, are in El Salvador and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. But don’t expect them to remain there. Once they are normalized, not only for U.S.-deported immigrants and residents, but U.S. citizens, they will migrate to the homeland.

  •  | A clean shaven Zelensky and Trump meeting for the first at the UN in 2019 They have come a long way since President of UkraineWikimedia Commons | MR Online

    Yes, Ukraine started the war

    Originally published: ScheerPost on February 25, 2025 by Joe Lauria (more by ScheerPost) (Posted Feb 26, 2025)

    The outcry spread quickly across the Western world: Donald Trump dared say Ukraine started the war.

  •  | Amr Abdallah | MR Online

    The death of Amr

    Originally published: ScheerPost on April 3, 2024 (more by ScheerPost)

    Over 13,000 children have been killed in Gaza. Amr Abdallah was one of them.

  •  | Gretchen Morgenson | MR Online

    How private equity conquered America

    Originally published: ScheerPost on March 2, 2024 (more by ScheerPost)

    Blackstone, Apollo, and a handful of other firms are demolishing the US economy for short-term gain, and leaving workers and communities in the wreckage.

  •  | Tom Torlino a Navajo student at the Carlisle Indian School Before 1882 and After 1885 Image from Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 40 International License | MR Online

    Missing links in textbook history: Colonialism

    Originally published: ScheerPost on January 17, 2024 by Jim Mamer (more by ScheerPost) (Posted Jan 22, 2024)

    Providing a useful understanding of our past has never been more difficult. Schools at all levels have been attacked for teaching (or discussing) almost anything that disturbs the status quo or makes students think.

  •  | Miko Peled | MR Online

    The IDF’s war crimes are a perfect reflection of Israeli society

    Originally published: ScheerPost on January 15, 2024 (more by ScheerPost)

    Miko Peled, author and former member of IDF Special Forces, explains how Israel indoctrinates its citizens in anti-Palestinian racism from the cradle to the grave.

  •  | Guantanamo Bay by Walt Jabsco is licensed under CC BY NC ND 20 | MR Online

    An ex-CIA agent looks back at 22 years of torture at Guantánamo Bay

    Originally published: ScheerPost on January 10, 2024 by John Kiriakou (more by ScheerPost) (Posted Jan 12, 2024)

    “Guantánamo has been universally condemned by every human rights, civil liberties, and civil rights group in the world that has expressed an opinion, as well as by the United Nations, and most countries in the world,” writes John Kiriakou.

  •  | Damage in Gaza Strip during the October 2023 | MR Online

    Genocide in Gaza

    Originally published: ScheerPost on January 5, 2024 by John Mearsheimer (more by ScheerPost) (Posted Jan 08, 2024)

    For the record, I believed Israel was guilty of serious war crimes–but not genocide—during the first two months of the war, even though there was growing evidence of what Bartov has called “genocidal intent” on the part of Israeli leaders.

  •  | Palestinians transport the injured to the Indonesian Hospital in Jabalia north of the Gaza Strip on October 9 2023 | MR Online

    Lies surrounding Al-Shifa hospital recall those preceding the Iraq invasion

    Originally published: ScheerPost on November 19, 2023 by Max Jones (more by ScheerPost) (Posted Nov 21, 2023)

    The evidence-free claims that have flooded media regarding Hamas using Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital as a military headquarters recall similarly devastating intelligence lies preceding the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

  •  | Made in Israel  by Mr Fish | MR Online

    Let them eat cement

    Originally published: ScheerPost on October 22, 2023 (more by ScheerPost)

    Israel is not only decimating Gaza with airstrikes but employing the oldest and cruelest weapon of war—starvation. Israel’s message, on the eve of a ground invasion, is clear. Leave Gaza or Die.

  •  | Out of Sight Out of Mind  by Mr Fish | MR Online

    Palestinians speak the language of violence Israel taught them

    Originally published: ScheerPost on October 8, 2023 (more by ScheerPost)

    The indiscriminate shootings of Israelis by Hamas and other Palestinian resistance organizations, the kidnapping of civilians, the barrage of rockets into Israel, drone attacks on a variety of targets from tanks to automated machine gun nests, are the familiar language of the Israeli occupier.

  •  | John Kiriakou Never Forget Americas Torture Legacy | MR Online

    John Kiriakou: Never forget America’s torture legacy

    Originally published: ScheerPost on September 22, 2023 by Robert Scheer (more by ScheerPost) (Posted Sep 25, 2023)

    CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou joins Robert Scheer to discuss the dark history of America’s torture program, and the normalization of the Espionage Act to attack those that expose the secrets of the state.

  •  | Harold Pinter photograph by Beaton Cecil is licensed under CC BY NC ND 40 | MR Online

    Seymour Hersh: Harold Pinter had it right

    Originally published: ScheerPost on August 13, 2023 (more by ScheerPost)

    Lessons in Western self-sabotage from the Ukraine War.

  •  | Soldier of the special regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine Azov March in honor of the Day of the Defender of Ukraine Kyiv 2020 spoiltexile CC BY SA 20 httpscreativecommonsorglicensesby sa20 via Wikimedia Commons | MR Online

    First there were Neo-Nazis, then there were no Nazis, then there were

    Originally published: ScheerPost on June 6, 2023 (more by ScheerPost)

    A New York Times’ reporter’s job this week is to persuade us that all those Ukrainian soldiers wearing Nazi insignia and marching through Kiev in Klan-like torch parades are not what you think.

  •  | The Storting or parliament building in Oslo Norway Magnus Fröderbergnordenorg CC BY 25 Wikimedia Commons | MR Online

    Taking ‘peace’ out of the Nobel Peace Prize

    Originally published: ScheerPost on December 10, 2022 by Fredrik S. Heffermehl (more by ScheerPost) (Posted Dec 12, 2022)

    Despite the occasional polite nod to Alfred Nobel, the committee — which will name this year’s award on Saturday — has never made known his vision of peace through global demilitarization, writes Fredrik S. Heffermehl.

  •  | Killer Robot | MR Online

    Cops are asking to kill people with robots. What could go wrong?

    Originally published: ScheerPost on December 1, 2022 by Jerry Iannelli / The Appeal (more by ScheerPost) (Posted Dec 03, 2022)

    The U.S. military has been killing people with robots for decades now, and the nation’s local police now seem eager to get in on the action.

  •  | Former Congressman Dennis Kucinich speaking at the 2013 International Students for Liberty Conference in Washington DC Gage Skidmore from Surprise AZ United States of America CC BY SA 20 httpscreativecommonsorglicensesby sa20 via Wikimedia Commons | MR Online

    Is Dennis Kucinich the last Democrat for peace?

    Originally published: ScheerPost on October 28, 2022 by Scheer Intelligence (more by ScheerPost) (Posted Oct 30, 2022)

    Former Congressman and Cleveland mayor Dennis Kucinich joins Scheer Intelligence to discuss the Dems’ infamously rescinded peace letter and the future with China.

  •  | Ceremony of opening of gasoline Nord Stream Among others Angela Merkel and Dmitry Medvedev 2011 Kremlinru CC BY 30 httpscreativecommonsorglicensesby30 via Wikimedia Commons | MR Online

    Europe’s self destruction

    Originally published: ScheerPost on October 22, 2022 (more by ScheerPost)

    Despite the economically disastrous impact the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage will have on Europe, Western media still holds its tongue about it.

  •  | Ceremony marking the start of construction of the Nord Stream gas pipelines underwater section 2010 Kremlinru CC BY 30 httpscreativecommonsorglicensesby30 via Wikimedia Commons | MR Online

    Sins of silence

    Originally published: ScheerPost on October 8, 2022 (more by ScheerPost)

    The media’s treatment of the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage is reminiscent of a time in the 60s when disaster could have been avoided with responsible reporting.

  •  | NATO Summit 2021 Влада на Република Северна Македонија CC BY SA 40 httpscreativecommonsorglicensesby sa40 via Wikimedia Commons | MR Online

    The late Stephen F. Cohen provides clarity on NATO expansion and Russia, more than 10 years ago

    Originally published: ScheerPost on October 5, 2022 by ScheerPost (more by ScheerPost) (Posted Oct 07, 2022)

    NATO’s broken promise to Russia provides context to the current state of affairs.

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