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For the past six weeks, as this US-Israeli war with Iran has played out, the economic impact of the conflict has gotten a lot of attention. And rightfully so. As anyone who’s consumed any news about this war knows well by now, the Strait of Hormuz is a major energy chokepoint, the Iranian government did exactly what they said they were going to do if Trump and Netanyahu ordered this attack and started blocking ships tied in any way to the government’s attacking them from passing through the Strait, and the US, Israeli, or really any other government have not…
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I previously blogged about a cert petition I helped to prepare regarding the scope of section 230 immunity. Last week, the final briefing was submitted to the Supreme Court. In my view, the briefing makes clear that the Court should grant cert on the important issue of whether section 230 immunizes Twitter’s knowing possession and distribution of child pornography. The issue arises through a provision in the Communications Decency Act, which encourages “Good Samaritan” acts to keep objectionable content off the internet. 47 U.S.C. §230(c). The Act states internet platforms are not liable for “good faith” acts to remove such…
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. Stephen Prager for Common Dreams Iran says it has no plans to negotiate with the US after President Donald Trump said Sunday that “the whole country is going to get blown up” if Iran refuses to make a deal. Trump claimed that Iranian officials were heading to Islamabad for another round of talks Monday with Vice President JD Vance, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, and…
Photos: Rodney Cammauf / NPS and public domain. In February, Douglas Dixon was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and taken to a Florida migrant detention camp. This month, Dixon was deported back to Canada. Dixon, a dad and grandad who ran a Tropical Smoothie Café in Port Charlotte, Florida, was a legal permanent resident of the United States. Covid forced him to shut down the business. He fell behind in his taxes. Before the arrest, which separated him from home and family, he was delivering groceries for DoorDash. Dixon wound up at Florida’s first state-run migrant detention camp,…
California’s proposed “billionaire tax” is keeping the state in the news these days, as are government policies that hike the price of gasoline in the Golden State to ridiculous heights. The propensity for ever-higher taxes and always tighter regulations in California is now a defining characteristic of the place and it has consequences. Those consequences can be measured in terms of lost jobs and a sluggish economy. You are reading The Rattler from J.D. Tuccille and Reason. Get more of J.D.’s commentary on government overreach and threats to everyday liberty. “California’s economic performance has fallen sharply behind the rest of…
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. The bombs may have paused—but the truth is still detonating. In this explosive episode of The Chris Hedges Report, journalist Laith Marouf delivers a firsthand account from southern Lebanon—where entire villages were flattened, hundreds killed in minutes, and yet, in the aftermath, something unexpected emerged: not defeat, but defiance. What unfolded wasn’t just another chapter in a long war.…
The United States and Israel are systematically targeting hospitals in Iran. In one month of bombing, the two countries have hit at least 307 health centers across the country, according to reports from the Iranian Red Crescent. The carefully planned destruction of the Islamic Republic’s medical infrastructure fits into a long history of deliberate U.S. attacks on hospitals. Since the end of World War Two, Washington has targeted medical centers in at least 16 countries, and the 307 Iranian sites hit does not even come close to the record for the number of hospitals in any country destroyed by American bombs and…
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. Edward Curtin “Shameless self-willed infatuationEmboldens men to dare damnation,And starts the wheels of doom which rollRelentless to their piteous goal”– Aeschylus, The Oresteian Trilogy: Agamemnon Many people are saying that Donald Trump is insane. He may be. So too Benjamin Netanyahu. But if so, it is a form of insanity that includes the calm sanity of Adolf Eichmann and Harry…
Image by Ömer Faruk Yıldız. In the Middle East, the perception of ordinary Americans has long followed a familiar script: detached, uninformed, inward-looking, and politically shallow— a society of ‘gas guzzlers’, with little grasp of global realities beyond their immediate geography. This perception did not emerge from thin air. It was cultivated—reinforced, even—by American political and media institutions themselves. Politicians claimed to speak on behalf of ‘the American people’, while mainstream media shaped what those people knew, and, crucially, what they did not know. For decades, Americans overwhelmingly aligned with Israel. This was not merely ideological; it was instructional. The…