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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. Attorney and Palestine solidarity activist James Marc Leas tells Margaret Flowers why global flotillas are challenging not only Israel’s blockade, but the collapse of international law itself. Joshua Scheer As governments continue to ignore their obligations under international law and the Genocide Convention, ordinary people are risking everything to confront the siege and starvation of Gaza themselves. From Italy…
Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire In Honduras, ordinary people have spent years watching power pass between men who speak the language of democracy while selling the country piece by piece to foreign patrons and protected elites. Now a new investigation tears open that closed world and names the forces that allegedly worked to free a convicted narco president and clear his path back to power. The investigation published by Canal RED and Hondurasgate deserves to be read as more than a sensational leak. It arrives as a rare piece of journalism that forces into the open the machinery of power that usually stays hidden behind…
New video on our Patreon, in which we discuss the alien abduction phenomenon! The Pentagon just released a bunch of UFO files, but there’s not much to get excited about. The truth is still out there: Why Americans remain convinced that the government is hiding an alien conspiracy. (Archived page link) The first portable eclipse calculator was invented by the Minoans nearly 4,000 years ago. Black holes slamming into scorching stars may be causing mysterious blue flashes in the cosmos. Shark or sea monster? The Canadian marine mystery that still intrigues experts 90 years on. Barron Trump is not a…
The Kremlin has long injected propaganda into the Russian educational system in order to boost the ‘patriotism’ of Russian youth. Putin’s future ‘child soldiers’ not only take part in regular flag raisings, anthem singings, and meetings with ‘heroes’ of the ‘special military operation’ (‘SVO’) in Ukraine. They also participate in drone assembly and other types of military training. Besides patriotic rituals, the authorities also indoctrinate Russian schoolkids by systematically rewriting schoolbooks on history and social studies. The Kremlin is not hiding its plan to adapt all school and university textbooks to the alternative reality in Putin’s mind. The situation with…
Rick Beato examines a podcast featuring New York Times music critics discussing their recent list of the 30 greatest living American songwriters. By analyzing the background and commentary of those involved in the selection process, Beato questions their qualifications and explores their perspectives on song craft, genre definitions, and the omission of notable artists. This commentary is a follow-up to .RICK BEATO: Hey everybody, I’m Rick Beato. Now, I don’t usually make videos back to back on the same topic, but one of my buddies sent me this video of three of the critics and the editor from that New…
Back in January 2023, Aimen Halim bought an order of “boneless wings” at a Buffalo Wild Wings outlet in Mount Prospect, Illinois. At the time, he claims, he assumed the product was composed of deboned chicken wing meat. But to his horror, he discovered that it was in fact made from chicken breast meat. That revelation resulted in a federal lawsuit: Halim sued the restaurant chain two months later, alleging breach of express warranty, common law fraud, and unjust enrichment. When U.S. District Judge John J. Tharp Jr. dismissed that lawsuit in February 2026, he did not question Halim’s claim of confusion…
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. Noorudeen Veetykadan for Global Vocies It was the end of 2023 when images from Gaza began to fill our television screens. I found myself returning to them again and again: the ruins, the sirens, the unbearable stillness of small bodies wrapped in white. The scale of destruction was immense. But what lingered were the faces of children — some…
Photograph Source: John Pavelka – CC BY 2.0 In the summer of 1998, I traveled to the northeast region of China to visit a unique educational institution. The Yanbian University of Science and Technology (YUST), founded six years before, was the first private and the first foreign university to emerge under Chinese communism. Located in a region populated by many Korean-Chinese, YUST trained the children of the elite in computers, engineering, and architecture, among other specialties. It was also the forerunner of an affiliate that opened in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang a few years later. YUST was also…
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. While many proclaim that our species is doomed, the everyday work of mothers and caregivers shows that a better future is possible — one filled with joy and love. Thelma Young Lutunatabua for Waging Nonviolence When Trump won the first time in 2016, I drank shots of tequila in front of my computer and then passed out in anguish. When…
U.S. Navy/PhoM1 Brien Aho – Public Domain The question of why the U.S. government began a war with Iran is unsettled. The ostensible reasons, blocking Iran from developing nuclear weapons and protecting Iranians’ human rights, are not enough. Iran’s agreement not to build a nuclear arms program was in force from 2016 to 2020, when the U.S. rejected it. The U.S. and Israel attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities in June 2025. Immediately prior to the war, Iran reportedly agreed to “zero stockpiling” of enriched nuclear material. Additionally, a U.S. government that so easily tolerates human rights abuses within the United States…