Juan Cole Here is my column this month for Tom Engelhardt’s indispensable Tomdispatch.com . Check out his perceptive remarks on Trumpian neocolonialism. Under President Donald J. Trump, the United States…
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…
Intro by Tom Engelhardt, Article by Juan Cole Once again, the “President of Peace” Donald Trump who, while running for office in 2016, announced that “regime change is a proven,…
ScheerPost Staff America has started bombing Iran again, and the most revealing part is how little ceremony it took. No debate, no vote, no national soul‑searching—just a president who “felt…
Joshua Scheer Israel gets the war it wanted — and doesn’t have to foot the bill. The bombs fall on Iran, the region slides closer to catastrophe, and the invoice…
Joshua Scheer As the U.S.–Israeli assault on Iran enters its second week, economist Jeffrey Sachs is offering the kind of sober, historically literate warning that has been almost entirely erased…
Pablo Meriguet for Peoples Dispatch This past weekend, the Trump administration secured an alliance with its partners in Latin America and the Caribbean. The so-called “Shield of the Americas” is…
Max Blumenthal·The Grayzone The FBI manufactured plots to convince Trump that Iran sought to kill him, while Israel and its administration allies exploited the president’s deepest fears to keep him…
Juan Cole for Informed Comment Oil prices hit $120 early Monday morning in Asia, for the first time since the initial shock of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.…
Stephen Prager for Common Dreams President Donald Trump said the US Navy chose to sink an Iranian frigate, killing more than 100 sailors last week, because it was “more fun”…
ScheerPost Staff The Trump administration rushed to deny responsibility when reports emerged that a girls’ elementary school in Iran had been obliterated during U.S. and Israeli strikes. Officials suggested the…
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…
ScheerPost Staff For years Americans have been told that tariffs, trade wars, and geopolitical brinkmanship would finally slow China’s economic rise. The promise was simple: punish Beijing, rebuild American industry,…
Jake Johnson for Common Dreams. US President Donald Trump baselessly claimed over the weekend that Iran was behind the strike on an Iranian elementary school that killed more than 160…
Yakov M. Rabkin for Informed Comment Much of the discussion surrounding the current war on Iran focuses on its potential outcome for the United States. One of the most frequently…
