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Murdoch has his best suit at the dry cleaners for yet another walk up the aisle next week… to the Witness Box. Dan Evans reports on his long history of brushes with the law
The Air National Guardsman as Pentagon leaker story is comig apart. But like "six guys in a boat", no one in polite company will say so.
The experimental mRNA COVID-19 vaccines that were developed and launched to market in record time, generating record profits for their manufacturers as well as injuries for untold thousands, will be put to the test before the German courts.
Europe has helped to create the conditions for ecological breakdown but is accepting fewer and fewer victims of it through migration says Thomas Perrett
The government rescued Silicon Valley Bank’s wealthy depositors, but neighborhoods counting on the collapsed bank are out of luck.
In a bonus podcast segment for supporting subscribers, David talks with Marxist economist Richard Wolff about Biden’s pledge to “reshore” U.S. jobs.
The transaction is the first known instance of money flowing from Crow to the Supreme Court justice. The sale netted the GOP megadonor two vacant lots and the house where Thomas’ mother was living.
The post Billionaire Harlan Crow Bought Property From Clarence Thomas. The Justice Didn’t Disclose the Deal. appeared first on scheerpost.com.
Leaks for me, not for thee.
The post Matt Taibbi: The Crackdown Cometh appeared first on scheerpost.com.
We Cannot Reverse the Damage Done By Poor Pandemic Reporting, But The Fourth Estate Must Do Better.
The post No Turning Back appeared first on scheerpost.com.
- by Ben Platts-Mills
John Wilkes, Adam Clayton Powell, and Julian Bond were elected, excluded and returned to the legislature.
The post Tennessee Lawmakers Aren’t the First Progressives Expelled for Their Activism appeared first on scheerpost.com.
Finland's membership in NATO marks the end of the nation’s admirable tradition as a global peacemaker.
The post Finland’s NATO Move Leaves Others to Carry On the ‘Helsinki Spirit’ appeared first on scheerpost.com.
Banning TikTok would be a messy business....and probably not technologically enforceable.
A thorough dissection of America’s capitalist mythology reveals the sham to which lots of people continue to subscribe, despite growing nationwide suffering.
The post It’s Called the American Dream Because You Have To Be Asleep to Believe It appeared first on scheerpost.com.
This guy's whole thing is making me angry!
A truly free and independent press is becoming a pipe dream as the mainstream media is increasingly used as a political weapon. read now...By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Sometime in the mid–Russiagate years, when it became clear that America was on a swoon back into the collective neuroses of the 1950s, I began to think we would have to wait for future historians to retrieve the truth buried alive in the cesspit of lies and cynical […]
The post Patrick Lawrence: The Disinformation Complex: An Anatomy appeared first on scheerpost.com.
Cleanaway garbage collectors, members of the Transport Worker Union, staged a 24-hour strike on 11 April at four Sydney depots and in Canberra against the company’s EBA offer which would cut wages and conditions.
The post Garbage workers reject rubbish EBA offer appeared first on Solidarity Online.
If he’d shared the same classified materials with reporters, he would be tirelessly defended as a source.
The post Why Did Journalists Help the Justice Department Identify a Leaker? appeared first on The Intercept.
Briahna Joy Gray, who is one of my favorite podcasters and interviewers, and I went deep into the Clarence Thomas scandal. I trace his actions back to an obscure speech he delivered to a libertarian outfit in San Francisco in 1987, where he set out his basic agenda and philosophy: “The real culture war between the left and the right is about money.” You can watch it here on YouTube.
There’s been yet another big leak of US secret intelligence. As usual, the main result was embarrassment for the US state, from the (re)confirmation that it routinely spies on its allies, and from the publication of some unflattering comments on those allies. The substantive content was uninteresting, revealing no greater insight (and sometimes) than that […]
There’s been yet another big leak of US secret intelligence. As usual, the main result was embarrassment for the US state, from the (re)confirmation that it routinely spies on its allies, and from the publication of some unflattering comments on those allies. The substantive content was uninteresting, revealing no greater insight (and sometimes) than that […]