War, Silence, and a Resignation Washington Can’t Easily Dismiss
ScheerPost Staff As Washington sinks deeper into confrontation with Iran, one of the most consequential signs of internal rupture yet has emerged: a senior national security official leaving his post…
Washington’s Public Swagger Meets Private Panic Over Iran
ScheerPost Staff The White House is denying that special envoy Steve Witkoff sent back-channel messages to Iranian officials during the current war—but the denial itself is beginning to look like…
The Most Obvious Question Liberal Media Refuses to Ask About the Iran War
Ramzy Baroud for Common Dreams Doubtless, the war launched by US President Donald Trump is not popular among ordinary Americans. According to the latest public opinion poll, only a minority…
‘Iran Posed No Imminent Threat’: Trump’s Counterterrorism Director Resigns in Protest
Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent announced his resignation Tuesday, accusing President Donald Trump of being manipulated by Israel into launching a war on Iran.…
Children of War
Fariba Amini for Informed Comment “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.” — Ernest Hemingway…
Ending the Trump-Netanyahu War in the Middle East
Jeffrey D. Sachs & Sybil Fares for Common Dreams The Israel-US war on Iran is engulfing the entire Middle East and could escalate to global war. The economic consequences are…
The Age of Generative Warfare:
Why the 2026 Middle East Crisis Demands Critical AI Literacy Nolan Higdon Substack “Tel Aviv, stripped of illusion, as you have never witnessed it,” read the caption above a viral…
Imperial Decline in the Straits of Hormuz
The Iran War as America’s Very Own Suez Crisis By Alfred McCoy for TomDispatch In the first chapter of his 1874 novel The Gilded Age, Mark Twain offered a telling…
How the War With Iran Will Trigger a Global Financial Crisis (w/ Yanis Varoufakis) | The Chris Hedges Report
Chris Hedges Yanis Varoufakis says that even if the war in Iran ends soon — which it likely will not — the economic consequences will be devastating and prolonged. Alongside…
The World According to Gaza
Chris Hedges Gaza is only the start. The new world order is one where the weak are obliterated by the strong, the rule of law does not exist, genocide is…
WATCH: CN Live! — ‘The View From Tehran’
Sayed Mohammad Marandi speaks to CN Live! from the Iranian capital under fire from a barbaric U.S. and Israeli aggression rooted in profound ignorance of the country they seek to…
This DHS Official Oversees the Security of Federal Elections. He Wants to Ban Voting Machines.
Doug Bock Clark for ProPublica David Harvilicz, who co-founded a firm with a 2020 election denier, oversees voting machine security for the Department of Homeland Security while the Trump administration…
CIA Assessment: The Resistance Cannot Be Crushed
Kit Klarenberg Substack The Judaeo-American war on Iran was intended to be a lightning strike routing, fought exclusively from the air, lasting only a few days. Instead, Washington and its…
‘Serious Threat to the First Amendment’ as Trump Admin Wins First Antifa Terror Charge
Olivia Rosane for Common Dreams The government has largely won its first case bringing material-support-for-terrorism charges against protesters alleged to belong to “antifa,” which President Donald Trump designated as a…
“Cuba is where the broader aspirations of the US elite as a whole intersect”: Why the US wants to destroy Cuba
Pablo Meriguet Peoples Dispatch The administration of US President Donald Trump has launched a series of military and political offensives in the last several months in different corners of the…