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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 trauma of war coupled with genocidal and demeaning rhetoric from U.S. leadership could lead to lasting mental health and social concerns for Iranians, experts say Kourosh Ziabari Prism A shaky ceasefire after 39 days of U.S.-Israeli war on Iran appears to be on the verge of collapse with Tel Aviv refusing to halt its heavy bombardment of Lebanon, while there…

A month after the U.S. and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran, President Donald Trump addressed the nation in a prime-time speech on April 1, saying the military operation was “getting very close” to completing its mission. Trump repeated some false and questionable claims we’ve written about before. Trump said the U.S. “totally obliterated” three nuclear facility sites in Iran last June. Experts and a classified U.S. intelligence report said the sites were damaged and Iran’s uranium enrichment program was set back, but the sites and the country’s nuclear capabilities weren’t completely destroyed. The president said that Iran was “right at…

Ali, A., & Qazi, I. A. (2022). Digital literacy and vulnerability to misinformation: Evidence from Facebook users in Pakistan. Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 2. https://doi.org/10.51685/jqd.2022.025 Ali, A., & Qazi, I. A. (2023). Countering misinformation on social media through educational interventions: Evidence from a randomized experiment in Pakistan. Journal of Development Economics, 163, Article 103108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103108 Arechar, A. A., Allen, J., Berinsky, A. J., Cole, R., Epstein, Z., Garimella, K., Gully, A., Lu, J. G., Ross, R. M., Stagnaro, M. N., Zhang, Y., Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. G. (2023). Understanding and combating misinformation across 16 countries on six…

Of the 21 demographic groups the RCM/TIPP Economic Optimism Index tracks each month, 20 declined in April. The one that didn’t barely moved. As Middle East tensions mount, the data captures something rare: a nation united. In anxiety.Read Full Article ⟶ Source link

Legal intern Raj Gambhir was the principal author of this post. The Trump administration has restricted the First Amendment right to record law enforcement by issuing an unprecedented nationwide flight restriction preventing private drone operators, including professional and citizen journalists, from flying drones within half a mile of any ICE or CBP vehicle. In January, EFF and media organizations including The New York Times and The Washington Post responded to this blatant infringement of the First Amendment by demanding that the FAA lift this flight restriction. Over two months later, we’re still waiting for the FAA to respond to our letter. The First Amendment guarantees the right to…

As the doors to the digital gulag silently lock behind us, most people are unaware that they have been assisting in the construction of their own prison. The reliance on technology in the 21st century has created an unnatural dependency on the digital world that most people just can’t shake. Patrick Wood has been writing about the impending technocracy for two decades with Technocracy News, and Courtenay Turner brings a deep understanding of the direction the medical devices are heading. Their new book, The Final Betrayal: How Technocracy Destroyed America, is a cautionary tale about what happens when the wrong…

Ultimately what separates the anti-imperialist left from mainstream liberal “humanitarians” is whether you’re in it for humanity or for yourself. Reading by Tim Foley: Ultimately what separates the anti-imperialist left from mainstream liberal “humanitarians” is whether you’re in it for humanity or for yourself. For the liberal, wanting peace and justice is more of an abstraction than a desire to fight the concrete power structures responsible for the lack of peace and justice in our world. If you’re a liberal you oppose the idea of children being killed and starved in the abstract, because thinking of yourself as a moral…

CryptoQuant data shows overall bitcoin demand is contracting at -63,000 BTC per month even as institutional buyers accelerate purchases, with large holders distributing nearly 188,000 BTC over the past year. What to know: Institutional buyers, including ETFs and Strategy, are accumulating bitcoin near record levels, but broader market selling from whales, miners and other holders is overwhelming that demand. Multiple on-chain and sentiment indicators show a thinning demand structure, with large holders aggressively distributing, U.S. institutional appetite muted and bitcoin trading only about 21 percent above its realized price. Analysts say bitcoin’s smaller, roughly 50 percent drawdown from its 2025…

Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire A Gulf monarchy hired an Israeli‑Hungarian mercenary and a team of American special forces veterans to run a black‑budget assassination program against a civilian political party in Yemen. It did this while posing in Washington and Brussels as a “stability partner” under Iranian threat, while hosting U.S. bases being used to attack neighbouring Iran. This article follows that “kill program” from a bombed party office in Aden, through to a Belgrade weapons arrest and a murdered lawyer, and all the way to a world where even Western influencers can credibly fear being targeted by ‘deniable’ squads trained by…

In this chilling incident, Ontario Provincial Police arrived at a family farm in Tillsonburg on Good Friday with a court order to extract a sharp-minded 102-year-old grandfather from the only home he’s known for nearly 70 years, all because he refuses to go into a care home. The father is clear: “He wants to stay here… He wants to live here and he wants to die here.” This case raises massive red flags about dementia allegations, family inheritance disputes, and the erosion of end-of-life autonomy in Canada. At what point does “protection” cross the line into outright coercion? In this…