“Love and politics.”
‘Something radical is required.’ A great nation is like a great man: When he makes a mistake, he realizes it. Having realized it, he admits it. Having admitted it, he corrects it. He considers those who point out his faults…
“‘Time has come today.'”
Let us all learn to speak up again. We are pleased to welcome the estimable John Pilger into our pages once again. When the following piece arrived in our Inbox the other day we were immediately struck not only by…
“Disinformation x 13.”
‘You cannot be trusted with your own mind.’ Sometime in the mid–Russiagate years, when it became clear that America was on a swoon back into the collective neuroses of the 1950s, I began to think we would have to wait…
“‘Self-transcendence.'”
The earthquakes and America’s lapsed humanity. You saw this coming and posed the question as soon as news broke of the earthquakes in Syria and Turkey on 6 February. Will the Biden regime find it within itself to set aside…
“Anatomy of the imperium.”
The Scrum is pleased to have published several extracts, in two successive postings, from Aaron Good’s excellent American Exception: Empire and the Deep State, an outstanding achievement for its history of the national security state from its formative years onward and for the…
“An imperial colossus is born.”
Aaron Good on the deep state’s ‘legacy of ashes.’ When we asked Aaron Good if The Scrum could publish extracts from his American Exception: Empire and the Deep State, we also asked him to choose those sections of his recently published book (Skyhorse…
“‘Covert lawlessness.'”
Aaron Good on American exception, empire, and ‘the deep state.’ The Scrum is very pleased indeed to welcome Aaron Good into its pages as we publish these extracts from American Exception: Empire and the Deep State, the book Skyhorse brought out earlier…
“‘A C.I.A. theme park.'”
Ukraine as John Pilger saw it eight years ago. John Pilger, the noted Australian-British journalist and filmmaker, published the following piece in The Guardian on 13 May 2014, three months after the U.S.-cultivated coup in Kiev set Ukraine on the path to…
“Revanchism in Germany.”
Russophobia, revenge, and the corruption of memory. The Scrum is pleased to bring Diana Johnstone back into its pages. In this exceptionally insightful piece the distinguished Europeanist leads us into those nether regions wherein we find the deep roots of the…
“‘Stable as mountains.'”
Putin and Xi in Samarkand. The Scrum is delighted to welcome Ray McGovern into its pages with the following comment on the true state of Sino-Russian relations. Ray will be known to many readers: After a long and distinguished career as…
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