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The U.S. war on Iran is leading the world to a global depression. Professor Richard Wolff places the current crisis in the context of the capitalist system and the decline of U.S. hegemonic power. By Chris HedgesThe Chris Hedges Report The global economic impacts of the American-Israeli war on Iran are already being felt, particularly in Asia, through shortages of fuel and other necessities, the closure of factories and the loss of jobs. We are now on a path heading for a global recession, or even worse, a global depression. To sort out what potentially lies ahead and the likelihood of…

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Morning in the Beartooth-Absaroka Range, Montana. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Alliance for the Wild Rockies,  Dr. Jesse Logan, Native Ecosystems Council, and the Gallatin Wildlife Association secured another significant win for the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem after the Forest Service withdrew a deforestation project that would have affected one of the healthiest whitebark pine forests in the nation and thousands of acres of Inventoried Roadless Areas on the northeast border of Yellowstone National Park. Plaintiffs sued to stop this project in March, alleging, in part, that the project ignored legally-mandated protections for whitebark pine, grizzly bears, and lynx under both the…

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President Donald Trump vowed revenge when the Republican supermajority in the Indiana state Senate embarrassed him in December, voting down Trump’s demands to redraw the state’s congressional maps to help the party win two more seats. Read Full Article ⟶ Source link

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Ultra low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines shut down May 2, citing rising jet fuel prices. The Trump administration, which had floated bailing out the airline, blamed the previous administration, saying Democrats blocked a deal that could have saved the company. “This is just more of the mess we inherited from the Biden administration,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a Fox News interview the following day. He pointed to a letter Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., sent to the Transportation Department in 2022, calling on the agency to oppose a proposed merger between JetBlue and Spirit Airlines. Bessent said former Transportation Secretary…

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Men are spiking women’s drinks with abortion pills and it’s the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s fault. At least that’s Louisiana’s contention in a case the Supreme Court is now eyeing. But there’s scant evidence to support Louisiana’s fantastical claim. Nor does the state’s argument that in-person prescribing requirements could stop abortion-pill coercion really hold up under scrutiny. Women like Rosalie Markezich, the plaintiff at the center of this case, may certainly feel pressured by partners to take abortion pills. But fear of abuse doesn’t stop at a doctor’s door, and women with controlling or violent partners could still face…

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Australia’s “antisemitism envoy” Jillian Segal has published a handbook which unequivocally clarifies that her office exists not to protect Australian Jews from discrimination, but to stomp out criticism of the state of Israel. Reading by Tim Foley: Australia’s “antisemitism envoy” Jillian Segal has published a handbook which unequivocally clarifies that her office exists not to protect Australian Jews from discrimination, but to stomp out criticism of the state of Israel. However bad you’re imagining it is, it’s worse. The handbook, set to be formally launched later this week under the title “Understanding Antisemitism in Australia,” explicitly conflates antisemitism and antizionism with statements like “Antisemitism and…

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Candidates vying to succeed California’s term-limited Gov. Gavin Newsom squared off Tuesday in a CNN-hosted debate, with former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra drawing the most pointed jabs from rivals on both sides of the aisle. In the most dynamic debate yet, five Democrats and two Republicans jockeyed for airtime while taking shots at each other constantly as they tried to gain traction on the issues of affordability, health care, immigration, and housing in the final weeks of a messy and still wide-open primary. Becerra, who has recently climbed in polls following the exit of former Rep. Eric…

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I was 22 when my grandmother forgot me. It took her 12 years to die from Alzheimer’s. It started with little things, like where her glasses were or what day it was. Soon she didn’t know who I was. For a while, she addressed me as her son, but then, as the disease ate away more of her mind, she forgot him too. Then I was the young, handsome version of her husband, until he too faded away. After a while, I was just a nice young man who came to visit her. The rest of the time, she was…

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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. Robin Andersen Informed Comment As Israel destroys villages in Southern Lebanon committing crimes of war, US media use the same Gaza genocide playbook. Hezbollah is simply being substituted for Hamas. Israel has become a master at twisting international law to its own purposes. It continues to successfully sell its distortions justifying ethnically cleansing in Southern Lebanon, as the US…

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