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Photo by Kanchanara With the war on Iran partially paused, this might be a good time to turn to the war on crypto. Everyone knows crypto, that giant cesspool masquerading as an alternative currency or a great investment opportunity. As many of us have pointed out, the idea that Bitcoin would ever be an alternative currency was close to crazy. Given its wild fluctuations, we would constantly be seeing massive inflation or deflation if it were the standard currency rather than the dollar. For example, Bitcoin has fallen by more than 40% against its peak last fall, which implies we…
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. Stephen Prager for Common Dreams Iran’s foreign ministry is accusing YouTube of trying to “suppress the truth” by banning the account responsible for a series of viral Lego-style animations mocking the US-Israeli war. The small team known as Explosive Media has racked up tens of millions of views across several platforms, with slickly produced music videos mercilessly lampooning the Trump administration and glorifying…
The Russian government caused a major disruption to the country’s online financial services while attempting to tighten internet censorship. In an effort to stop citizens from using VPNs to access blocked platforms like Telegram, the government’s filtering systems accidentally interfered with encrypted data used by financial institutions, leading to widespread glitches in banking apps and online payment services. According to Telegram founder Pavel Durov and other industry sources, these technical failures were so severe that cash became the only reliable way to pay for goods in many areas, including the Moscow Metro. Source link
With its April 20 deadline for congressional renewal looming, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is back in the spotlight. The provision, first adopted in 2008 as a part of the FISA Amendments Act as an update to the original 1978 Act, allows U.S. intelligence agencies to target “non-US persons located outside the United States to acquire foreign intelligence information” as a response to perceived technology gaps exposed in the years after 9/11. It achieves this by compelling American telecom companies to collect intelligence on foreign targets and turning over data to federal officials. Many aspects of…
Image by Library of Congress. I was born in the American South in 1942 “in the land of the free and the home of the brave” (as the final stanza of the national anthem puts it). Francis Scott Key wrote those words in 1814. However, they were not true then, or in 1942, or today in Donald Trump’s all too reactionary America. My Blackness consigned obstacles to me (as it would have in 1814 and 1942) that White people simply don’t have. Let me explain. Life Under Racism Throughout the 1950s, living in a segregated project in Kinston, North Carolina, there…
Why does the U.S. mainstream media continue to mock America’s war efforts? Why does coverage of the Iran war appear to favor Iranian narratives? Michelle Goldberg at the New York Times pulled no punches on where it thinks things stood just before the ceasefire: A slurring Trump rehashed a bunch of his Truth Social posts, alternately boasting about America’s military progress while threatening war crimes… He showed us that he has no plan to get out of the mess he created. One way to judge how the war is going is to look at which side is trying to wrap…
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Iran: A Longer View on Shifting Balance of Power Source link
Peace With Iran Hinges on Nuclear Compromise Source link
On or around March 14, 2026, Laura Loomer, a Jewish Zionist journalist whose screeds against Islam, tabloid approach to reporting, Air Force One conversations with President Donald Trump, and purge lists for the White House’s National Security Council have fairly earned her the label “notorious,” sat down for a public interview at the India Today summit in New Delhi and apologized for past “hurtful tweets,” for example referring to Indians as “third world invaders.” She went on to say that “I am an advocate for Hindu people and continue to speak against brutalities on them.” This was a seemingly staged…