PEN America Joins Suit Against Florida School District Over ‘Unconstitutional’ Book Bans
"Children in a democracy must not be taught that books are dangerous," asserted PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel. "The freedom to read is guaranteed by the Constitution."
China and the Axis of the Sanctioned
How America's divide-and-rule strategy in the middle east backfired.
Ellen Brown: Squeezed by the Shorts: Time to Ban Short Selling?
By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost Short sellers have made a killing in the recent banking crisis, scalping $14.3 billion from bank stock owners just in March of this…
Patrick Lawrence: Farewell to the Welfare State? Not Just Yet.
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Maybe you recall all the post–Cold War talk of a “peace dividend” and maybe you don’t: It depends on when you took up…
Border Industry Peddles Robot Dogs and AI Surveillance Amid End of Title 42
Blocks from a migrant camp in El Paso, execs at the Border Security Expo hawked dystopian tech designed to repress them.
Patrick Lawrence: The USA’s Soviet-Style President
We are in for 19 months of relentless, insultingly transparent spin by way of which a patently incompetent man will be purveyed as commander in chief for another four years.
Eight Takeaways From the Durham Report
Susan Schmidt examines the highlights and lowlights of the new Special Counsel report on Trump-Russia.
Geoffrey Hinton, AI, and Google’s Ethics Problem
By Binoy Kampmark / Countercurrents.org Talk about the dangers of artificial intelligence, actual or imagined, has become feverish, much of it induced by the growing world of generative chat bots.…
Neighborhood Watch Out: Cops Are Incorporating Private Cameras Into Their Real-Time Surveillance Networks
Police surveillance threatens constitutionally protected activities
Reflections on the 75th Anniversary of a Nakba That Never Ended
In the decades since the event Palestinians know as “the Catastrophe,” dispossession has become a timeless theme of the Palestinian experience.
‘Death Outlives War’: Analysis Estimates Post-9/11 US Conflicts Killed Over 4.5 Million
"The United States government, while not solely responsible for the damage, has a significant obligation to invest in humanitarian assistance and reconstruction in post-9/11 war zones," said the author of…
Ukraine Aid Funding Expected to Run Out by Mid-Summer
By Dave DeCamp / Antiwar.com The last massive aid package Congress authorized for Ukraine has about $6 billion left, which is expected to be used up by mid-summer, POLITICOreported Monday.…
Hollywood Writers Have a Word for It: Inequality
From Cocaine Bear to Panda Express, the fight for a living wage is the same.
Title 42 Was Inhumane and Illegal. So Are Biden’s New Border Policies.
Biden’s decision to utilize and repackage rather than reject Trump’s amped-up deportation apparatus is no surprise.
Whose Planet Are We On?
What happens when LTAI (Less Than Artificial Intelligence) gives way to AI?