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The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has turned the Strait of Hormuz into a choke point for the world economy, with the gravest consequences falling not on the powerful but on the poorer nations of the Global South. Lateefa bint Maktoum, U.A.E., The Last Look, 2009. (Via Tricontinental Institute) By Vijay PrashadTricontinental: Institute for Social Research Note: On 7 April, after his ghastly genocidal threat that “a whole civilization will die tonight,” U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to a provisional two-week ceasefire reportedly based on a set of proposals from Iran. As of April 8, transit through the Strait of Hormuz is…
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. By Fight Back! News Say NO to Trump’s war on Iran! The Anti War Action Network (AWAN) called for a national day of action on Tax Day, April 15, to protest Trump’s costly war on Iran. President Trump has asked Congress to authorize an additional $200 billion for his war on Iran while at the same time cutting funding to…
Tehran has every right under international law to close the Strait of Hormuz to nations with which it is in armed conflict. In 2012, the guided-missile destroyer USS Porter, deployed to the U.S. Fifth Fleet. transiting Strait of Hormuz. (U.S. Navy/Alex R. Forster) By Craig MurrayCraigMurray.org.uk In international law, Tehran has every right to close the Strait of Hormuz to nations with which it is in armed conflict. Two vital points: 1) States that permit attacks on Iran to be launched from their territory can be blocked and 2) Iran can block neutral ships from trading with states with which it…
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. CounterSpin interview with Shannon Minter on ‘conversion therapy’ ruling Janine Jackson FAIR This week on CounterSpin: In Chiles vs. Salazar, the Supreme Court ruled that Colorado’s law prohibiting health practitioners from employing the widely discredited practice of trying to “convert” young people from their sexual orientation or gender identity violates healthcare workers’ First Amendment rights. We’ll hear about what the ruling…
Israel is a genocidal apartheid state whose entire existence is premised upon a strategy of unceasing violence and abuse in the middle east. As long as that state continues to exist in its present iteration, peace will never be attainable. President Donald Trump hosts a bilateral dinner for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Monday, July 7, 2025, in the Blue Room. (Official White House Photo/Daniel Torok) By Caitlin JohnstoneCaitlin’s NewsletterListen to Tim Foley reading this article Israel is already aggressively sabotaging the Trump administration’s two-week ceasefire with Iran by slaughtering huge numbers of civilians in Lebanon, a nation which is explicitly off-limits for any attack…
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 As Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum moves forward with a plan to enact universal healthcare for her country’s more than 130 million people, a longtime advocate for Medicare for All in the US called the development “both inspiring and frustrating.” “Inspiring because it shows what is possible,” Wendell Potter, a former insurance company communications director who has become a…
Andrew P. Napolitano has questions about the violations of the U.S. Constitution and established jurisprudence and the conduct of Congress and the Trump administration. Marine One, the presidential helicopter, above the South Lawn of the White House on March 23. (White House /Patrick B. Ruddy) By Andrew P. Napolitano Is personal freedom a reality or a myth? Does the government execute the will of the governed or the will of those who finance its officials? Does the Bill of Rights restrain the government? Are the levers of government power pulled by those the governed have elected or those we don’t…
Like most of you, I have been watching in shocked bewilderment the breathtaking stupidity of the Trump administration’s war on Iran, brought to us by the same kind of liars who sold us the same kind of lies about “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq. United States intelligence agencies have repeatedly concluded that Iran has no nuclear weapons program, and it is obvious that Iran poses no military threat to the United States itself. The U.S. launched an unprovoked war of aggression, and the president announced his genocidal intent to destroy Iran entirely if his demands were not met. There…
From today’s opinion in Commonwealth v. Meta Platforms, Inc., written by Justice Dalila Argaez Wendlandt, for a unanimous court: The Commonwealth alleges that Meta Platforms, Inc., and Instagram, LLC (collectively, Meta), engaged in unfair business practices by designing the Instagram platform to induce compulsive use by children, engaged in deceptive business practices by deliberately misleading the public about the safety of the platform, and created a public nuisance by engaging in these unfair and deceptive practices. The court concluded that § 230 doesn’t bar Massachusetts’ claims (note that no First Amendment claims were discussed in the opinion). It began by…
It might be the perfect parable to summarize the Trump administration’s trade policies: The new ballroom under construction at the White House will be built with imported steel. “ArcelorMittal, a Luxembourg-based firm that is the world’s second-largest steel maker, is providing steel for the structure of the ballroom project,” The New York Times reported this week. The steel has been “donated” to the project, and the exact value of that contribution remains uncertain—but Trump boasted last year about having secured a $37 million donation of steel for the project. Yes, it is obviously hilarious that an administration fixated on promoting…