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Amid war build-up, Selective Service System sends the White House its plan to identify and locate potential draftees On March 30th, the Selective Service System (SSS) sent the White House its proposed regulations for “automatic” [sic] draft registration for review and approval before they are made public. This is the first visible step in the transition from trying to get young men to sign themselves up for a military draft, to trying to sign them up “automatically” by aggregating data requisitioned from other Federal agencies. This year-long process began with the enactment of the SSS proposal for “automatic” registration in December 2025. The new scheme is supposed to…
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. These moves were planned years in advance, and would have been rolled out regardless of what impotent meat puppet happened to be wheeled into office in January 2025. Caitlin Johnstone Substack Former senior Biden advisor Amos Hochstein said during an interview on Sunday that the Biden administration had been preparing to bomb Iran if they had won re-election in 2024. Hochstein was…
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Imagine a neighborhood that resulted from a Commune-ity of efforts and, is now, filled with distrust, accusations, monetary hoarding, spying, and boarded-up windows with numerous weapons at every opening, while the inhabitants support themselves by selling off the foundations so that they can escape from their own delusion-filled creation. A reading of Erskine Caldwell’s “God’s Little Acre” would seem possibly beneficial but also would probably be too much to ask. The zealous Capitalists have always relied (definite pun) upon Socialized restraints in order to maintain and expand their dependence upon inequality, injustice, and vanity. They…
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. Israel has used the steady decline in Palestinian Christian numbers to promote a claim that Muslims are hounding them out of the region. But the real blame lies with Israel and the foreign Churches Jonathan Cook Substack The photo of an Israeli soldier striking a statue of Jesus with a sledgehammer in a village in south Lebanon went so…
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. Fariba Amini Informed Comment Interview of Dr. Mehran Mostafavi by Fariba Amini In a resolution against nuclear war initiated by philosopher Bertrand Russell and endorsed by Albert Einstein just a week before his death, they wrote: “We appeal, as human beings, to human beings, remember your humanity and forget the rest. If you do so, the way lies open…
Photo by Joel Rivera-Camacho I’m going back to harping on one of my favorite topics, because it is really necessary right now. The $1.5 trillion that Donald Trump is asking for the military for next year is a crazy amount of money. It should be laughed out of Congress, but due to Trump-cult member Republicans, and a professionally inept Democratic Party leadership, he might get something like this passed. The first thing that we should be clear about is the size of the increase. The budget enacted for the military for fiscal year 2025 was $862 billion, a bit less…
Mike Forbess, a 911 dispatcher in Watauga, Texas, was formally reprimanded after making an inappropriate joke during an emergency call. A mother called for help because her daughters were fighting and one had kicked a hole in a door. “OK,” Forbess replied. “Do you want us to come over to shoot her?” The dispatcher later admitted the comment was wrong and apologized, saying he meant it as a joke. The post Brickbat: Lightening the Mood appeared first on Reason.com. Source link
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair I have sought out the following to show that peace can be mutual across warring sides. The key is not to drift into maudlinness or sentimentality. Across both American and Iranian poetic traditions, anti-war poetry leans towards a few core themes. The dehumanisation of conflict. The grief of survivors. The illusion of glory. And the long and often inescapable shadow of memory. I could go further—comparing stylistic differences between American and Persian anti-war poetry, or offering longer excerpts and analyses—but I do not have the authority. I should leave that to academics. For now, these…
Locations struck by: United States and Israel Iran, Hezbollah, Houthis, and PMF. Image Source: Wikimedia maps | Map data © OpenStreetMap – CC BY-SA 2.0 Events in the Middle East following the February 28, 2026, US-Israeli bombing attack on Iran recall for us the prophecy recounted by Herodotus of the oracles of Delphi to Croesus the king of the Lydians: if he attacked the Persians, he would destroy a mighty empire. The doomed empire turned out to be his own. The political, economic, military, environmental, and moral catastrophe of the current war unleashed by President Trump has raised questions around…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp’s book, The Technological Republic, is a clarion call for Silicon Valley to abandon its consumer trinkets and rush headlong into the arms of the military-industrial complex. According to Karp, America’s future depends on wielding hard power through technology—arming soldiers, AI-weaponry, and mass surveillance systems—rather than on the “soft” influence demonstrated by free markets and liberty-first principles. The book claims that “the survival of the American experiment depends on the technological revitalization of the military-industrial complex” and urges the country’s engineering talent to focus on national defense. Karp and his co-author, Nicholas Zamiska, argue that tech bros…