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[ad_1] In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. By Lauren Hepler and Marisa Kendall, CalMatters The Quality Inn & Suites building along Conejo Boulevard stands vacant in Thousand Oaks on Feb. 26, 2026. Photo by Julie Leopo-Bermudez for CalMatters This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. As COVID-19 tore through California, Jennifer Hark Dietz had a decision to make. The state…
[ad_1] Map of Cuba from 1639 – Public Domain He has blockaded Cuba, and now he’s expanded the sanctions. Donald “Uber-Capitalist” Trump is relentless in his war on this tiny nation of 11 million people, whose courage, solidarity and grit has inspired all ends of the global political spectrum, from Claudia Scheinbaum’s left-leaning Mexico to Vladimir Putin’s traditional-values-championing Russia. Fortunately, some of these onlookers have even been inspired to act. Moscow already broke the blockade by dispatching one enormous oil tanker to Havana and is sending another, while other nations have donated various necessities. Beijing has been especially generous with…
[ad_1] When Ronald Reagan sat across from Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjavik in 1986, the stakes could not have been higher. The future of nuclear arms control – and with it, the safety of the American people – hung in the balance. Reagan negotiated from a position of strength, refused to blink, and ultimately helped bring the Cold War to a close on America’s terms. As President Trump prepares to travel to Beijing, he faces a moment with similar historical weight. The technology in question is not nuclear warheads. It is artificial intelligence – and the risks are just as real.…
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[ad_1] Jonathan Cook Substack [First published by Middle East Eye] There are two conclusions to be drawn from last week’s momentous local elections in Britain. The first, and most obvious, is that two-party politics in the UK is now finished. After a century of being at the centre of British political life, Labour’s time is over. It is a spent force, whoever leads it. Voters now understand that the party is too utterly captured by Big Business to ever again serve as a meaningful counterweight to the right – or as a vehicle for progressive, anti-austerity politics. In this election,…
[ad_1] In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. By Joseph Mogul This article was originally published by Truthout Hillel has come under fire for coordinating programs that send students to Israel to volunteer with the military. Ryder Glickman’s first day as chair of The New School University Student Senate (USS) was an eventful one. His inaugural act was to call a vote on a first-of-its-kind resolution…
[ad_1] Image by Nathan Kuczmarski. Last week, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth urged Congress to pass a 2027 Pentagon budget of 1.5 trillion dollars. He justified the increase by saying we need a modernized, high-tech military to counter China. U.S. lawmakers have been using China as a military budget increaser and ultimate policy-generator for years. Competition with Beijing is invoked to justify military expansion, new regional alliances, AI weapons development, semiconductor restrictions, and rising nuclear expenditures. In Washington, framing a policy as necessary to “counter China” has become one of the quickest ways to secure bipartisan support. As a result,…
[ad_1] In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. Austin Sarat ScheerPost As the school year winds down on college campuses across the country, it seems clear that 2025-26 was not a great time for free speech in the academy, witness last month’s disruption of a speech by a member of the Trump Administration at the University of California, Los Angeles. This incident was just the latest…
[ad_1] Israel’s defense minister, Israel Katz, said that West Jerusalem needs to be prepared to resume attacks on Iran. This announcement comes as media reports claiming that the head of US Central Command, Brad Cooper, has briefed US President Donald Trump on a plan for the potential renewal of military action against Iran in a bid to pressure it to consent to a more favorable peace deal. According to The Jerusalem Post, what Cooper described as the “final blow” against Tehran could include a “short and powerful wave of strikes” targeting Iran’s “remaining military assets, leadership and infrastructure.” Pentagon Prepares “Final Blow” In…
[ad_1] Things are getting bad out there, but the Wednesday Grail news briefs are here to soothe your frazzled nerves… Was Bigfoot just spotted in Ohio? Reported sightings stoke a long-running hunt for answers. Just show us the spaceships already: Until the U.S. government has data or samples of alien material that can be shared, the story of extraterrestrial visitors is just a story. (Archived page link) Buried in Sudan’s desert, 280 vast ancient stone circles reveal a vanished cattle-herding culture. Free energy from the vacuum? Warp drive pioneer unveils battery-free ‘Microsparc’ that allegedly draws power from the quantum vacuum.…