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[ad_1] 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. ScheerPost Staff The Complicit Lens: How Media Helped Normalize the Destruction of Gaza On the latest episode of Scheer Intelligence, host Robert Scheer sat down with media scholar Robin Andersen for a blistering examination of how major American media institutions covered — and often concealed — the realities unfolding in Gaza. At the center of the discussion is…

[ad_1] Too busy to check in to the Grail every day? Remember that you can subscribe to our ‘Weekly Grail’ newsletter to receive a list of the ten biggest stories of the week! Pentagon releases second batch of UFO videos and first-hand testimony. 5,000 years ago, two ancient megalithic societies shared an unknown connection – now genetic science has revealed their long-hidden secrets. Alien abductions: A look inside the phenomenon and the research of Dr John Mack. China launches ‘human artificial embryos’ to space in bid to see whether reproduction is possible off-world. Inside the CIA’s ‘Wild West’ era of…

[ad_1] Walk into three different bars in Tokyo, and you may have three completely different experiences: one bar thick with cigarette smoke, one with a sealed glass smoking room humming in the corner, and one entirely smoke-free. Within regulatory boundaries, the choice often lies with both the owner and the customer: Proprietors decide what kind of space they want to run, and patrons decide which environment they prefer. Compare that to much of the United States, where indoor smoking is broadly prohibited by state or local law. Roughly 82.4 percent of Americans are covered by 100 percent smoke-free rules in workplaces, restaurants,…

[ad_1] Photograph Source: Fotografía oficial de la Presidencia de Colombia – Public Domain In a disturbing escalation, a U.S. Court of Appeals has allowed the reinstatement of sanctions against Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories. After a federal district court suspended the Trump administration’s punitive measures on free speech grounds in mid-May 2026, the administration formally lifted them. On May 22, however, the appeals court issued an administrative stay, clearing the path for the government to formally reinstate the sanctions during its emergency appeal. The campaign to silence one of the UN’s most principled voices…

[ad_1] Photograph Source: DHSgov – Public Domain Governance in Honduras shifted sharply to the extreme right within months of the National Party’s Nasry Asfura taking office on January 27, succeeding the Libre party’s progressive Xiomara Castro. In the November 30 elections, the National Party was trailing a poor third before Trump threatened to end all aid to Honduras unless Asfura won. Even then, Asfura had only a wafer-thin plurality, which might well have disappeared had the electoral council not broken its mandate by halting the count before all the votes had been tallied. Compounding this blatant interference, Trump announced just…

[ad_1] A Texas teaching aide was arrested after investigators said she exposed a 7-year-old girl’s chest in front of classmates and compared to child to a “porn star.” Police said T’Nae Harrell, a special education aide at Legacy Elementary School near Lubbock, made inappropriate comments about the girl’s body to another staff member before pulling up the child’s shirt. Investigators said several students and school employees witnessed the incident, which classroom security cameras reportedly captured as well. Harrell was fired and charged with with voyeurism involving a child on school property, a felony that carries a prison sentence between six…

[ad_1] Image by René DeAnda. A skeptical friend reading the New York Times asked me why columnist Nicholas Kristof keeps writing columns about recurring poverty in less developed countries. My answer is simple. Because he keeps going to these remote areas populated by brutalized human beings living in dire impoverishment and sickness. At no small risk to himself (Kristof caught malaria in the Congo), he goes to where the most deprived people on Earth live for his stories. He does what few columnists are willing or able to do by exposing how children, the elderly, and entire families are dying under the…

[ad_1] Two pronounced — and inverse — trends in Western societies have long been observable, and yet they are rarely noticed or discussed. There is a reason for that. These trends tell us something deeply revealing about how our societies are shaped by structural forces — forces that individual office holders can do little to shape through their own values or personalities. These forces operate rather like laws of nature — though there is nothing natural about them. They are the very opposite of how most Westerners imagine power works — that is, that it derives from the will of…

[ad_1] Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain The New York Times is apparently worried that President Trump will mistake China for a friend, and it has been engaging in a blitz to stop him from establishing a partnership with China.  On the first day of Trump’s visit to China,  the editorial board opined: When Mr. Trump first won the presidency a decade ago, he correctly labeled China a threat to American interests and criticized past U.S. presidents for their naïveté. In both of his terms in office, however, Mr. Trump has weakened the United States relative to China.…

[ad_1] CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten unpacks some polling data on how young people feel about the economy, specifically the incredible drop in economic confidence and support for President Trump and Republicans in general among young men: HARRY ENTEN, CNN: Young people in this country are feeling a tremendous amount of frustration when it comes to what they view as the basic necessities of life, and young men in particular — those who powered Donald Trump to victory back in 2024 — are feeling a lot of regret over their vote choice.So what are we talking about here? In…