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The U.S. Treasury has now frozen $344 million in cryptocurrency tied to Iran, according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who announced sanctions targeting multiple digital wallets allegedly connected to Tehran. Most people will view this story narrowly through the lens of sanctions on Iran or Middle East politics. The larger issue is far more important. Governments are proving in real time that cryptocurrency is not outside the system and never truly was once governments decide to intervene aggressively enough. Crypto enthusiasts promote the fantasy that digital assets exist beyond government reach. Blockchain transactions themselves are permanently recorded publicly. The moment…

Jane Doe has sued Amazon.com Services LLC for employment discrimination and seeks to proceed under a pseudonym in all public filings…. In short, Doe is concerned that naming herself publicly in this suit will somehow impair her ability to acquire documents necessary for her pending permanent residency application…. According to her motion, she is present in the United States on an employer-sponsored work authorization, and her lawful status “is dependent on maintaining continuous, non-disrupted employment.” She “is engaged in an active employment-based permanent residency process,” and her “permanent residency application is currently pending before the United States Department of Labor.”…

Countdown clock on Paseo de la Reforma, Mexico City. Photograph Source: Cocu15 – CC BY-SA 4.0 When dealing with the disorganised criminal outfit that is FIFA (the mafia comparison only goes so far), the titan governing body of world football, subpar service and offerings promise to feature.  As gulled fans, corporate clients, media hacks and political worthies seek their place at the Men’s FIFA World Cup being held in the US, Mexico and Canada this June, the feeling of being burgled should not be far from their minds.  A great tournament of fleecing is in the offing. Take, firstly, the risks for…

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How many of today’s news briefs do you think are demon-related? Demonic attacks in dreams follow a chilling multi-night pattern. A sophisticated plaster-making technique long credited to the Romans was also used by Neolithic people about 8,000 years earlier. Jury dismisses all claims in Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The satellite industry boom is driving an ‘untested geoengineering experiment‘, scientists warn. Spaceships over Doncaster: The truth about UFOs – and how believers may be wired differently. (Archived page link) Your brain can learn things when you’re unconscious. (Archived page link) Scientists detect weird anomalies in the clouds…

When Reason magazine celebrated its 50th anniversary back in 2018, I helped mark the occasion with a column about “the 5 worst Supreme Court rulings of the past 50 years,” a list that featured destructive and far-reaching decisions on issues ranging from qualified immunity to eminent domain. I got to thinking about that list when I noticed that yesterday was the 130th anniversary of one of the worst Supreme Court rulings of all time, the Court’s notorious decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which upheld a Louisiana law that forbade railroad companies from selling first-class tickets to black passengers. The…

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. Tom Engelhardt TomDispatch Hey, I always suspected that Donald Trump and I, having both grown up in New York City in the 1950s and early 1960s, had something in common. Now, I know just what it is — his boyhood love for the 1950s TV program Victory at Sea. (“Did you ever see ‘Victory at Sea?’ ” he asked reporters in January…

Image courtesy IWL-FI. The conviction of veteran labor organizer Zé Maria signals a new phase in the legal weaponization of antisemitism — aimed at disciplining militant currents in the labor movement. The conviction of Brazilian worker of union and political leader José Maria de Almeida is not simply a case of judicial overreach or a dispute over the boundaries of political speech. It marks a new phase in the use of antisemitism law as a weapon against militant currents in the labor movement — particularly those that link working-class struggle to international solidarity with Palestine. On April 28, a federal…

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. Joshua Scheer I posted an article from Truthout about Trump and healthcare, but nowhere in the piece did it mention Obama and the failure of his administration — and the Democrats here in California under Gavin Newsom — to create a real single-payer system. Thankfully, voices like Margaret Flowers, Dr. Ana Malinow, and many others continue working to set…