More than one hundred United States-based international law experts have warned that American strikes on Iran may amount to war crimes. These violations come only a few months after the U.S. committed obvious war crimes when it bombed civilian boats in the Caribbean, accusing them of “narco terrorism.” Experts were citing violations of the United…
China has just taken another decisive step toward the future of money, and once again, the West is pretending this is simply about “payment efficiency.” The People’s Bank of China has now expanded its digital yuan program by adding 12 additional banks, bringing the total number of participating institutions to 22. China launched the digital yuan back…
Guest Post by Mark Keenan There are moments in history when systems of control begin to lose their effectiveness—not because they are dismantled, but because they are no longer believed. We may be entering such a moment now. The signals are contradictory. On the surface, the world appears increasingly unstable—conflicts escalate in the Middle East, economic…
Why are many Latin American countries shutting down nonprofit organizations? Amnesty International claims it has the answer: in every case, it’s part of a drive to restrict human rights and “tear up the social fabric.” Amnesty’s new 95-page report (in Spanish, with an English summary), criticizes governments across the political spectrum for attacking what it calls “civil society…
There is a moment—subtle, almost impossible to locate precisely—when a society begins to feel different. Not dramatically. Not in a way that triggers immediate alarm. But in small, almost negligible shifts: prices that no longer make sense, opportunities that seem harder to reach, institutions that respond slower than they used to. At first, these are…
ScheerPost Staff In a stark and unsettling conversation on The Chris Hedges Report, journalist Chris Hedges sits down with retired Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson to confront a question now hanging over Washington’s war planning: Is the United States preparing to send ground forces into Iran? The interview arrives at a moment when the American-Israeli war on Iran has already burned through massive military…
The Donald plunged into one hell of a hornets nest when he took the bait from Bibi Netanyahu and launched an all out “kinetic” war on Iran (as distinguished from the brutal economic war Washington has been waging for decades). But now that the gasoline pump price has breached $4/gallon and is heading higher, he’s…
Round-the-clock markets promise freedom for investors and pressure for intermediaries who traditionally wielded immense power during off-hours What to know: As major U.S. exchanges move toward 24/7 trading, some claim that the current system allows brokers to exploit thin after-hours liquidity and to use opening auctions to influence prices and trigger client stop-losses. Academic studies…
Physics tells us that the sheer act of witnessing an event plays a role in the outcome. Most people are helpless to change the situations we are witnessing around the world, but we feel compelled to know about their struggle, regardless of whether we can assist or not. The American Empire uses this curiosity to…
U.S. seeks to expand its military presence in Greenland at multiple sites. The aim is to counter growing Russian and Chinese activity in the Arctic. The plan leverages an existing Cold War-era defense pact with Denmark. It focuses on reactivating old bases with existing infrastructure. Local Greenlandic residents express unease about a larger military footprint….
The System Being Built While the World Burns by Greg Reese Read on Substack According to the Brookings Institution’s analysis of carbon tax timing, high fossil fuel prices are the worst time to impose a carbon tax, but are the best time to build the underlying market architecture. And that infrastructure is rapidly being built…
