A blog by Josh Scheer
Joshua Scheer If you think the future of global capitalism looks like more deregulation, more privatization, and more billionaire capture of public life, you’re only seeing the surface. As Margaret…
Joshua Scheer When Donald Trump told a radio audience that there is “something wrong” with the “genetics” of Muslim immigrants, it did not land as an accidental slip, nor as…
Joshua Scheer The $93 Billion Pentagon Shopping Spree Washington is once again demonstrating one of its oldest and most reliable traditions: screaming about government waste while spending taxpayer money like…
Joshua Scheer The war that Washington and Tel Aviv unleashed on Iran has already produced its first defining image: the shattered remains of a girls’ elementary school in the southern…
Joshua Scheer Waking up to this and the other tweets and images, they should be front and center. Whether war is carried out through coercive efforts and brutal sanctions, such…
Joshua Scheer The shift comes amid growing criticism of the pro-Israel lobby. Senator Chris Van Hollen recently telling a Jewish audience at a J Street conference that the actions of…
Posted by Joshua Scheer A new bill from Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna would impose a 5% annual tax on billionaire wealth—raising trillions to fund healthcare, housing, childcare, and direct…
This interview was done before the Bernie Sanders Make Billionaires Pay Their Fair Share Act which was announced Monday. There is more at the bottom of the page. As California…
Posted by Joshua Scheer A few weeks ago we had a chance to speak with Hannah Epstein. Sadly, as the American empire descends into its last gasps, we have fallen…
Posted by Joshua Scheer Secretary of State Marco Rubio acknowledged this week that the United States anticipated Israeli military action against Iran and believed it would trigger retaliatory strikes on…
Posted by Joshua Scheer As thick plumes of smoke rose over residential neighborhoods in Tehran as U.S.–Israeli airstrikes shook the Iranian capital. Within hours, another reality was coming into focus—not…
Posted by Joshua Scheer Al Jazeera anchor asks, “Is there an off-ramp for Iran?” — and Dr. Foad Izadi responds with one of the most unfiltered, brutal critiques of the…
Posted by Joshua Scheer Do Hakeem Jeffries and other leading Democrats truly oppose the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran — or are they quietly aligned with it, preferring that Donald Trump…
Posted by Joshua Scheer In the latest escalation of the U.S.–Israel assault on Iran, at least 51 young girls were reportedly killed when an airstrike struck a primary school in…
Posted by Joshua Scheer I was about to share this Common Dreams piece on the astounding fact that the Pentagon doesn’t even know what to do with the extra money…
