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[ad_1] Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain During Donald Trump’s embarrassing trip to China, China’s Secretary General Xi Jinping made a speech, in which he said, “We must not be caught in the Thucydides Trap”. It’s notable in that it places the US and China on the same level, and as facing the same danger (the Chinese expression that was translated as “we”, translated literally, becomes “America and China”, which makes it slightly clearer just who is in danger of this entrapment). And it’s a useful, if obvious, statement that, in order to avoid this trap, these two…
[ad_1] Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao said Thursday that the United States is pausing a $14 billion arms sale to Taiwan to preserve munitions for the Trump administration’s war with Iran. Subscribe Today Get daily emails in your inbox Testifying before the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, Cao told Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) that Washington still has “plenty” of missiles and interceptors but is reviewing supplies for the Persian Gulf theater before foreign military sales continue. The U.S. has expended a significant portion of its munitions stockpiles, notably interceptor missiles, during the war. Previously, President Donald Trump suggested that…
[ad_1] The Trump administration’s announcement that it had established a large, taxpayer-financed “Anti-Weaponization Fund” was an odd addition to an already-odd news cycle. The pool of $1,776,000,000—1776, get it?—was born out of a settlement between President Donald Trump and the IRS; the chief executive had, in some sense, sued himself after a contractor leaked his tax returns to The New York Times in 2019. Those funds will be used, the Justice Department said, “to hear and redress claims of others who suffered weaponization and lawfare.” The development has drawn widespread criticism for reasons one might assume: allegations of corruption and…
[ad_1] Origin stories are immensely important. When a dangerous and destructive force is let loose upon the earth people want to know where it came from and, most particularly, whether it was unleashed by nature or by man. During the Covid-19 pandemic it was therefore a matter of great interest and concern whether the virus that causes the Covid flu had sprung spontaneously from nature or had been leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China where scientists were doing gain-of-function research. By now for all intents and purposes that question has been settled—given the unique features of the virus and…
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[ad_1] Cow on grazing allotment in Central Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. We now have the Administration giving 1.4 million acres of our National Forest in Alaska to facilitate the destruction of the Arctic environment for oil. We have the Iran war and blockade. Public land and National Forest protections are being eliminated with laws enabling fake wildfire projects to further expand clearcuts and eliminate old growth in our National Forests. Public input is being done away with, and now we propose a giveaway of our public lands to the livestock industry. Then, I read that Golden Eagles are being…
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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. Invoking the words of Jewish prophets, Ahad Ha’am, Martin Buber, Albert Einstein, and Hannah Arendt, Jeffrey Wernick delivers a blistering moral indictment of the Israeli state’s transformation from refuge to domination — and warns that silence in the face of injustice is complicity. In one of the most emotionally charged and morally uncompromising statements yet from a Jewish…