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Finalization of the much-heralded Pandemic Agreement, the flagship of the World Health Organization’s pandemic agenda, has just been postponed again after another failure to resolve disagreements. Despite heavy pressure from the WHO and European Union in yet another meeting, in Geneva, Switzerland, a large bloc of African states are refusing to sign on to what they consider a clear colonialist agenda. Which of course it is, aimed at putting Covid-era wealth transfers on a more permanent footing. The WHO, for reasons explained below, is doing what it is paid to do. Major financial sponsors of the WHO have much to gain from getting…

Greek immigrant Pasqua Rosée opened the first coffeehouse in London outside the Royal Exchange in 1652. In his advertising handbill on “The Vertue of the COFFEE Drink,” Rosée claimed that coffee was “a most excellent Remedy against” all manner of ills, including consumption, dropsy, gout, scurvy, “the Kings Evil” (scrofula), and miscarriages. Although Rosée may have been exaggerating, modern medicine strongly suggests he had a point. Drinking coffee is associated with a wide range of health benefits. Caffeine is the most widely used legal psychoactive drug in the world. Nearly two-thirds of American adults get their daily doses from coffee, according to a 2025 National Coffee…

News Flash Mr. Fish 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 “One country is sanctioned, threatened, bombed, and demonized over the fear of nuclear weapons. The other already has them — and the world is expected to look away.” Mr. Fish’s cartoon stuck in my head because it cuts straight through the insanity of the entire conversation. One country already has nuclear weapons and…

Colorized scanning electron micrograph of Ebola virus particles (green) both budding and attached to the surface of infected VERO E6 cells (orange). Image captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Credit: NIAID.  As I write, news is breaking of at least six Americans exposed to Ebola. I’m no doctor, epidemiologist, or public-health expert, but I have been following closely this latest Ebola outbreak through reports from the WHO, Africa CDC, international news outlets, and disease specialists. What concentrates the mind is how outbreaks spread, how governments respond, and how political and humanitarian conditions can…

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 “They called her dangerous because she carried no weapon at all — only a medical vest, courage, and the belief that Palestinian lives mattered.” In a world drowning in propaganda, war crimes, and the routine dehumanization of Palestinians, the story of Rozan al-Najjar cuts through the noise with devastating clarity. She wasn’t armed. She wasn’t a politician.…

Black bear, Portland Zoo. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. In recent decades, scientists and public health experts have increasingly examined how human interactions with wildlife and ecosystems can contribute to the emergence of infectious diseases. Two human activities that directly contributed to climate change are extensive deforestation and increased livestock farming, which have had devastating effects on the health of both humans and nonhuman animals. Deforestation deprives many animals of their native habitats, and the few who can adapt are driven into proximity with human-made environments, which also increases the likelihood that a disease will adapt to a new population (from…

The British government is considering a law that could include internet curfews for younger users and restrictions across services ranging from games and VPNs to websites. Critics say this will require everyone—not just children—to prove their age to use the internet. Privacy groups, tech companies, and civil liberties organizations warned that the proposal could damage online privacy, weaken anonymity, and turn the web into a “patchwork” of age-restricted spaces. They add that mandatory age checks could create major security risks if personal information is leaked or hacked. Supporters believe stronger protections are needed to keep children safe online. The post…

Trump and Xi in China. (Screengrab from video posted to X.) Ali Alizadeh: The American readout of the Trump–Xi meeting claims that Xi explicitly agreed that the Strait of Hormuz must remain open, that there must be no tolls, that China opposes the militarisation of the Strait, that China will buy more American oil to reduce its dependence on Hormuz, and that Iran must never have a nuclear weapon. The Chinese readout said almost none of this. It said only that the two leaders exchanged views on the Middle East. Meanwhile, Xi Jinping spent his political capital on Taiwan. So…

Advances in what is often depicted as AI (artifical inteligence) have been immense, from the clumsy animation of Will Smith gorging on spaghetti, to the photo realistic images of unreal personalities, to the short clips promising to change cinema. Social media has become saturated with obvious and deceptive slop which confuses factual news reporting along with engagement farming. However, it’s LLM’s (Large Language Models) which human users have been “chatting” with and giving the impression of a “real” entity. Various forms of Agentic AI and other LLM’s have become a staple for individuals to converse with and ask for life…

United States President Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., Clarence Mitchell Jr., Patricia Roberts Harris, and other guests at the signing of the Voting Rights Act on August 6, 1965 – Public Domain The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Louisiana v. Callais, invalidating a congressional map that included a second majority-Black district in the state, severely weakened a key provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The case introduces a legal Catch-22 that will make it much more difficult to protect the constitutional rights of minority voters, Black Americans in particular. The story of this case begins after…