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After a Lebanon truce was declared, Iran said Friday the Strait of Hormuz is “completely open.” Trump said Iran peace talks could resume. None of the U.S. and Israeli war aims have been achieved, writes Joe Lauria. The Strait of Hormuz, late March 2026. (Dimitri Lascaris) By Joe LauriaSpecial to Consortium News Iran announced Friday that the Strait of Hormuz was open to commercial shipping after a ceasefire was declared in Lebanon. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on X: “In line with the ceasefire in Lebanon, the passage for all commercial vessels through Strait of Hormuz is declared completely open…
The US-Israeli assault on Iran is being sold by the US as a defensive manoeuvre. However, it functions as something far more revealing: a maintenance operation for a global system that can no longer sustain itself and is increasingly reliant on violence. The Strait of Hormuz can be regarded as a pressure valve for the world economy. Any threat to close it disrupts the predictability that global markets depend on for pricing, investment and trade flows. Since 1973, the petrodollar has served as the backbone of US power—an unwritten pact ensuring that global energy is traded in a single currency.…
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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. The president and GOP House speaker wanted a 5-year extension of a despised domestic spying bill. Instead, they got just two weeks. “Now, they will have to fight in daylight tomorrow!” said one Democratic lawmaker Jon Queally for Common Dreams A dramatic series of votes in the US House of Representatives resulted in a dead-of-night extension of what critics describe as…
Coal blasting near Black Mesa, Navajo Reservation. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. A true green transition has to involve a massive project of electrifying transportation and scaling-up renewable energy storage. That undertaking will require a wide array of inputs including copper, cobalt, and, maybe most critically, the lithium needed for the batteries that make both possible. However, much to the consternation of environmental activists, extracting those necessary metals and minerals from the ground almost inevitably results in unsustainable water use and chemical pollution, harming local biodiversity and communities. Thea Riofrancos uses lithium as a test case to work through this tension,…
An ad airing nationwide encourages people to call their senators and tell them to pass the SAVE America Act, a bill that would require photo ID to vote. The ad says the majority of people support that requirement. “As Americans we are fair and logical. 83% of us favor requiring a photo ID to vote. In fact, most of the civilized world requires it but not us,” says the ad by Restoration of America, the umbrella name of several conservative advocacy organizations. “We need to be able to trust that only eligible Americans are casting ballots. Democrats oppose voter ID…
For the first time in a decade, there are no U.S. bases in Syria. The Syrian foreign ministry and U.S. Central Command both announced on Thursday afternoon that U.S. forces had handed over their last base in Syria to the Syrian army. The U.S. military may continue to advise and support the Syrian army without permanent outposts, reports The New York Times. U.S. troops first entered Syria in 2015 to support Kurdish rebels against the Islamic State group, which lost its last Syrian territory in 2019. President Donald Trump flip-flopped several times in his first term about whether U.S. troops…
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. Ashley Ver Beek for Waging Nonviolence As the Israeli occupation targets academic institutions, Palestinian students resist scholasticide. While calling for tangible international solidarity. The scenic campus of Birzeit University sits on a hill near Ramallah, 12 miles northwest of Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank. Vast blue sky is visible from every road and sidewalk. Palestinian flags wave in…
When the Trump administration tore up a trade agreement that allowed fresh tomatoes to be imported from Mexico without tariffs, the White House framed it as a victory for “American farmers, growers, and business owners.” Experts in the produce industry, however, warned that consumers would be paying the price. The end of the Tomato Suspension Agreement between the U.S. and Mexico was a “big concern,” Javier “JJ” Badillo, chair of the Fresh Produce Association of the Americas (FPAA)’s tomato division, told FreshFruitPortal.com, a trade publication, in July. Badillo predicted higher prices and diminished volumes of fresh tomatoes, even though it would…