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[ad_1] Photo by Mikael Seegen Imagine you are sick with a serious medical condition. How would you feel if someone constantly told you to buy their product because it would cure you, but this ‘cure’ is actually worse than other treatments and the price tag is enormous? This is the reality of prescription drug advertising. Whether it be on television or online, drug companies spend billions to tell Americans to buy their products. In 2024, giant pharmaceutical companies spent over $6 billion on television alone, and nearly $50 billion in the decade prior. Yet, these advertisements don’t actually include relevant…

[ad_1] In February, the Interior Department, which manages 20 percent of America’s land, unveiled a streamlined process for environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The new rule moves the department’s NEPA procedures from the Code of Federal Regulations to an internal handbook, giving the department broader discretion in how it implements NEPA review. It also incorporates the page limits and statutory deadlines for NEPA review enacted by Congress in 2023. NEPA has been an impediment to most energy and infrastructure projects in the United States. While many organizations have invoked the law to delay fossil fuel production, NEPA has…

[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. Kit Klarenberg Substack On April 15th, Declassified UK published a bombshell investigation exposing how in the mid-1990s, senior British political and military officials were well-aware NATO expansion into Central and Eastern Europe “would provoke [the] Russians,” and likely trigger all-out war. Hitherto unreported Ministry of Defence files reveal London knew Moscow’s “sensitivities” over a “hostile military alliance” enlarging up to its…

[ad_1] A new Gallup poll shows that 55% of Americans now believe their financial situation is getting worse, the highest level recorded since Gallup began tracking the data in 2001. Even during the 2008 financial crisis and the COVID lockdown collapse, Americans were not this pessimistic about their personal finances. That alone tells you the mainstream narrative claiming the economy is “booming” is completely disconnected from reality. The most important detail is why people feel this way. Roughly 31% of Americans now cite the cost of living as their biggest financial problem, while concerns over energy prices surged 10 percentage points in…

[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. The GOP is heading into the midterms as the party that made health coverage out of reach for millions of Americans. Sasha Abramsky for Truthout This article was originally published by Truthout The GOP is heading into the midterms as the party that made health coverage out of reach for millions of Americans. In 2025, the Trump administration…

[ad_1] May 18, 2026 Laura Flanders Louisiana Survived Katrina, Will It Survive the Petrochemical Industry? 21 years after Katrina, one of the deadliest hurricanes ever to strike the United States, Louisianans are facing a whole new kind of storm. Liquefied natural gas facilities are disrupting the ecosystem and displacing residents, and now that the Trump administration has okayed new LNG plants, things could get much worse. Louisianans are calling their neighborhoods “cancer alley”. LNG terminals receive, process and cool gas to liquid form before large tanker ships take their products to market overseas. Travis Dardar, an Indigenous shrimp fisherman and…

[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. By News Desk, The Cradle. The Hague-based court previously issued warrants for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former War Minister Yoav Gallant. The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued secret arrest warrants for three Israeli politicians and two military officials, Haaretz reported on 17 May, citing diplomatic sources. The timing of their issuance is unknown. The ICC has…

[ad_1] Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain I will be the first to admit that comparing GDP growth across countries is generally a silly exercise. We care about how people are living: can they afford the necessities of life, do they have time to be with family and friends, are they healthy? These are the issues that matter, and they are only loosely related to GDP. But hey, that’s the game for the big boys and girls in Washington, so let’s play ball! Here’s what real GDP growth looks like in the United States and China since Donald…

[ad_1] Dash camera video released by Orlando’s News 6 appears to show an Orange County, Florida, sheriff’s deputy forcing a driver off the road near Walt Disney World while merging. The driver, Ivan Schiffino, said the deputy cut across a painted divider without using a turn signal, causing both vehicles to go into the grassy median to avoid a collision. The video shows the patrol car made a U-turn, and the deputy turned on his lights and drove away without checking on him or stopping to discuss the incident. Schiffino said his car suffered minor damage, but no one was hurt.…

[ad_1] Image Miko Guziuk. One of the great evasions in American immigration politics is that the story begins at the border. The uncomfortable truth is that it begins decades earlier, in countries where the United States undermined democracy, protected corporate interests of influential Americans, funded violent regimes producing the instability that now sends desperate people north. Only by erasing that history can we turn migrants into criminals and ourselves into victims. That history matters because it changes the moral meaning of the border because if we believe migrants are simply arriving from failed countries, then enforcement can look like national…