Opinion

Created
Fri, 31/03/2023 - 06:37

By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost You might be Brazilian or Malian or Singaporean, it is remarkable the world over to watch the French explode into the streets of dozens of cities and towns to protest the imperial president residing in Élysée Palace. It is altogether singular to follow the demonstrations against Emmanuel Macron […]

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Created
Mon, 27/03/2023 - 03:05

By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Now that Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping have concluded their summit in Moscow– an unusually long series of meetings over three days–are those purporting to lead the United States prepared to drop their wishful thinking, their miscalculations, and their illusions as to the significance and durability of the […]

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Created
Wed, 22/03/2023 - 23:08

By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost There are many things to say about the International Criminal Court’s decision to issue an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin on charges that the Russian president directed the abduction and deportation of thousands of  children from eastern Ukraine in the early months of the intervention that began a […]

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Created
Mon, 20/03/2023 - 14:58

By Dan Siegel / Original to ScheerPost Millions of people hit the streets around the world when George Floyd was murdered by the Minneapolis police in May 2020. We demanded criminal prosecution of the white cop who choked Mr. Floyd and called for dramatic changes to U.S. police departments to prevent the killings of innocent […]

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