Detained “Cop City” Journalist Sues Atlanta Police, Alleges Intimidation
The lawsuit alleges that the arrest is part of a pattern of retaliation against journalists by Atlanta police.
Digital Privacy Legislation is Civil Rights Legislation
By Paige Collings and Adam Schwartz / Electronic Frontier Foundation Our personal data and the ways private companies harvest and monetize it plays an increasingly powerful role in modern life.…
The Flight From the US Dollar
From Africa to Southeast Asia and Latin America, from Russia and China to India, Iran and Saudi Arabia, countries are mapping their course for a flight from the US dollar.
Amnesty International Global Report: Recorded Executions Highest in Five Years Reflects Increases in the Middle East and North Africa
By Death Penalty Information Center According to an annual death penalty report by Amnesty International, 2022 saw the highest number of recorded executions since 2017, primarily due to increases in…
Montana Becomes First State to Ban TikTok Amid Concerns of First Amendment Violations
Gov. Greg Gianforte signed a law that will make Montana the first state to ban TikTok in the US, following a series of escalations against the video-sharing app.
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.