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Image by Getty and Unsplash+. The CBS Sunday Morning program, “Next: Cuba?” which aired on April 26th, presented a discussion of the recent intensification of sanctions on and threats against Cuba. I am disappointed that this program, and several other shorter recent segments on CBS News, did not cover some essential points that must be stated about what is happening in Cuba now. My own experience in Cuba, including the recent delivery of humanitarian aid directly to Cubans, contradicts some perspectives presented by CBS. Fidel is dead. And, he has been dead for a while. He was a fascinating character…

Kentucky voters can replace Thomas Massie with a true patriot in the 2026 GOP primary. Source link

Let’s face it, the debate show on the SAVE America Act was the plan all along. And Thune was the star of the ‘deliberative’ farce. Source link

The media ignore the evidence as they regurgitate the official narrative that manufactures consent for U.S.-led wars, writes Alison Broinowski. Parts of Tehran under Israeli attack at dawn on Friday, June 13, 2025. (Mehr News Agency/Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY 4.0) By Alison BroinowskiDeclassified Australia Most of the Western media refuse to join the dots and explain Israel’s decades-long obsession with defanging Tehran. The war in Iran is what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has planned for four decades. He’s always wanted Israel to extend from Egypt to the Euphrates and in the process have the United States overthrow seven neighbouring countries, 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. Jim Mamer ScheerPost The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions, to say to himself this is black or this is white, to decide for himself, whether there is a God in heaven, or not. James Baldwin A Talk to Teachers 1963…

Image by Chris Orcutt. Tearing down old, affordable housing in the name of progress is an old story. Oregon Public Broadcasting details a slice of mid-20th-century Portland history in which new construction ruined low-cost shelter and triggered widespread homelessness in the city. At one time, single-room occupancy hotels housed low-income workers for the equivalent of $12 a night in 2023 rates. Outside the city, counties managed “poor farms” that, despite sometimes awful conditions, provided an additional low-cost resource. Then came a shift: “… in the 1950s and ‘60s, Portland began tearing down these hotels as part of a national shift toward urban…

Source: Gallup Here’s a fact about partisanship and public opinion that may surprise you: According to Gallup, Democrats have been warming toward foreign trade since 2008, and they have been more positive about it than Republicans have been since 2012. With all the talk of political realignment in recent years, data points like these have led some to wonder whether Democrats are becoming the major party that better aligns with libertarian commitments to free markets and limited government. That case could certainly be made. Another recent Gallup poll found that, for the first time in almost 20 years, Democrats are more concerned than…

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. Professor Ramzy Baroud discusses a people’s history of Palestine in his new book, that chronicles the powerful resistance to Zionism and its manifestations in the current national liberation movement. Chris Hedges Dr. Ramzy Baroud, a Palestinian historian and author, in his new book, “Before the Flood: A Gaza Family Memoir Across Three Generations of Colonial Invasion, Occupation, and War…

Trump’s war on Pope Leo includes cloak and dagger When Trump declared Pope Leo “terrible for foreign policy,” the U.S. intelligence community took the president’s remarks as a directive to prioritize spying on the Vatican. It has for years, sources tell me. The CIA has human spies working inside the Holy See bureaucracy. The NSA and CIA seek to intercept telecommunications, emails, and texts. The FBI investigates crimes committed against and by the Vatican. The State Department closely follows the ins and outs of Papal diplomacy and politics. All of these agencies liaise with the Vatican’s own foreign policy, intelligence…

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. Nate Bear Do Not Panic I used to follow an anarchist guy. Subscribed to his substack. He declared publicly that my writings inspired his own. Then a few months ago he came out against ‘doomers’. He began embracing AI. He cheered for the kidnap of Maduro and the transformation of Venezuela into a client state of empire. He said…