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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. The president and GOP House speaker wanted a 5-year extension of a despised domestic spying bill. Instead, they got just two weeks. “Now, they will have to fight in daylight tomorrow!” said one Democratic lawmaker Jon Queally for Common Dreams A dramatic series of votes in the US House of Representatives resulted in a dead-of-night extension of what critics describe as…

Coal blasting near Black Mesa, Navajo Reservation. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. A true green transition has to involve a massive project of electrifying transportation and scaling-up renewable energy storage. That undertaking will require a wide array of inputs including copper, cobalt, and, maybe most critically, the lithium needed for the batteries that make both possible. However, much to the consternation of environmental activists, extracting those necessary metals and minerals from the ground almost inevitably results in unsustainable water use and chemical pollution, harming local biodiversity and communities. Thea Riofrancos uses lithium as a test case to work through this tension,…

An ad airing nationwide encourages people to call their senators and tell them to pass the SAVE America Act, a bill that would require photo ID to vote. The ad says the majority of people support that requirement. “As Americans we are fair and logical. 83% of us favor requiring a photo ID to vote. In fact, most of the civilized world requires it but not us,” says the ad by Restoration of America, the umbrella name of several conservative advocacy organizations. “We need to be able to trust that only eligible Americans are casting ballots. Democrats oppose voter ID…

For the first time in a decade, there are no U.S. bases in Syria. The Syrian foreign ministry and U.S. Central Command both announced on Thursday afternoon that U.S. forces had handed over their last base in Syria to the Syrian army. The U.S. military may continue to advise and support the Syrian army without permanent outposts, reports The New York Times. U.S. troops first entered Syria in 2015 to support Kurdish rebels against the Islamic State group, which lost its last Syrian territory in 2019. President Donald Trump flip-flopped several times in his first term about whether U.S. troops…

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. Ashley Ver Beek for Waging Nonviolence As the Israeli occupation targets academic institutions, Palestinian students resist scholasticide. While calling for tangible international solidarity. The scenic campus of Birzeit University sits on a hill near Ramallah, 12 miles northwest of Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank. Vast blue sky is visible from every road and sidewalk. Palestinian flags wave in…

When the Trump administration tore up a trade agreement that allowed fresh tomatoes to be imported from Mexico without tariffs, the White House framed it as a victory for “American farmers, growers, and business owners.” Experts in the produce industry, however, warned that consumers would be paying the price. The end of the Tomato Suspension Agreement between the U.S. and Mexico was a “big concern,” Javier “JJ” Badillo, chair of the Fresh Produce Association of the Americas (FPAA)’s tomato division, told FreshFruitPortal.com, a trade publication, in July. Badillo predicted higher prices and diminished volumes of fresh tomatoes, even though it would…

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. “You cannot faithfully represent the United States with billions of dollars in Saudi and Emirati cash burning a hole in every pocket of every suit you own,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin. Jon Queally for Common Dreams The ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee on Friday morning announced a “sweeping” probe into alleged self-enrichment by Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of…

Photograph by Michael Leonardi On April 10th 2026, the Italian weekly L’Espresso hit newsstands with a cover that has sent the Zionist apparatus into full meltdown. Titled “L’Abuso” (“The Abuse”), the image shows an armed Israeli settler — dressed in military fatigues, kippah on his head, peyot curls dangling — sneering with sadistic delight as he films a visibly distressed Palestinian woman with his phone. She stands among olive trees on what remains of her ancestral land, her face a mask of pain and exhaustion during the annual olive harvest. The photograph, taken by Italian photojournalist Pietro Masturzo near the…

The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, by Catherine Fletcher, Princeton University Press, 352 pages, $35 The introduction of firearms was as important as that of the printing press. Or so argues the author of The Firearm Revolution, a fascinating book on the social impact of guns in Europe. Firearms empowered relatively untrained commoners to challenge aristocrats who’d spent their lives mastering expensive arms and armor. Guns enriched skilled artisans, leveled the playing field between the weak and the strong, and disrupted the established order. In the process, they sparked modern-sounding debates over whether the government could…

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. Backed by Sanders and running on unapologetic progressive politics—including sharp criticism of Israel—Mejía’s decisive victory signals a shifting political terrain ahead of the midterms Joshua Scheer decisive victory in the state’s 11th Congressional District special election—defeating Republican Joe Hathaway and delivering a clear message: the political center is no longer where many voters are looking. Mejía, a former leader…