Private Equity Is Using Prison Phone, Food and Health Systems to Rack Up Profits
Private equity firms are capturing systems people in prison use and making them even more brutal and unaccountable.
Protesters Arrested Disrupting Macy’s Parade Over Genocide in Gaza
"What we are witnessing right now in Palestine is one of the greatest human rights issues of our time," said Seven Circles Alliance.
Doctors Gabor Maté and Tarek Loubani Discuss Israel’s Medical Siege of Gaza (Part 2)
Watch Part 1 of this discussion Special thanks to Dr. Clare O’Conner for organizing this event at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism. Dr. Gabor…
Brics Leaders Condemn Israeli War Crimes in Gaza, Call For End of Hostilities
A delegation of Arab-Islamic countries also met Chinese and Russian foreign ministers earlier this week in order to push for an end of of Israeli violence against Palestinians and lasting…
LA Sheriff Promised Reform and Accountability. Critics See Neither a Year Later.
After decades of broken promises and empty rhetoric, reform advocates have reason to be skeptical.
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 48: Ahead of Temporary Ceasefire, Israeli Forces Continue to Terrorize Hospitals
Israel is taking the opportunity to heavily bomb the Gaza Strip before the temporary ceasefire takes effect, forcibly evacuating the Indonesian hospital, arresting hospital staff, and obstructing ambulances.
How Incarcerated People are Helping At-Risk Youth Avoid Prison
By sharing our lived experiences, I have seen how incarcerated people can stop the pipeline funneling troubled teens to prison.
Ellen Brown: Three Presidents Who Made Thanksgiving a National Holiday—And What They Were Celebrating
By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost Three U.S. presidents were instrumental in establishing Thanksgiving as a regular national event. On October 3, 1789, George Washington declared the first federal…
50 Israeli Hostages To Be Exchanged for 150 Palestinian ‘Prisoners’ — Why the Prisoners Are Also Hostages
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al Jazeera reports that Qatar successfully brokered the exchange of 50 Israeli hostages held by Hamas for 150 Palestinians…
Before Viral Islamophobic Rant, Ex-Obama Official Harassed Women, Russian Diplomat’s Dog
Prior to going viral after footage emerged showing ex-State Department official Stuart Seldowitz spewing Islamophobic slurs at a Halal food cart operator, he spent his spare time harassing female Russian…
Israel’s Genocidal Antisemitism Against the Arab Civilians of Gaza
By Ralph Nader / Nader.org “It should never have happened,” an elderly Holocaust survivor of a Nazi death camp told the New York Times. He was referring to the colossal…
Settler Colonialism, Thanksgiving and Gaza
Click to subscribe on: Apple / Spotify / Google Play/ Amazon / YouTube / Rumble American historian, writer, professor and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz uses her studies on indigenous peoples’ history…
How a Maine Businessman Made the AR-15 Into America’s Best-Selling Rifle
Neither a gun enthusiast nor a right-wing ideologue, Richard Dyke used political connections and lobster giveaways to build Bushmaster, the company that popularized assault-style rifles.
‘Jarring Wake-Up Call’: Hunger Surges in US After Food Aid Cuts
"Effective federal public policies over the previous few years were spectacularly successful in stemming U.S. hunger, but as many of those policies have been reversed, hunger has again soared," said…
Larry’s List: Academics on the Misuse of Holocaust Memory, History of ‘From the River to the Sea’, and More
By SP Staff ScheerPost is bringing back Larry’s List, a weekly news curation from USC communications professor Larry Gross, to keep you up to date with the most cutting edge…