Joshua Scheer In the span of a single day, the United States came terrifyingly close to crossing a line that cannot be uncrossed. A president publicly threatened the destruction of “a whole civilization,” only to pivot hours later to a fragile, last-minute cease-fire brokered through frantic diplomacy. That whiplash is not strategy. It is the…
Josh Scheer Ten years after the world first glimpsed the Panama Papers, the shadow empire of the super-rich is no less formidable. New analysis from Oxfam reveals a staggering truth: the untaxed wealth hidden offshore by the richest 0.1 percent now exceeds the combined wealth of the poorest 4.1 billion people on Earth. That’s not…
ScheerPost Staff As the Trump administration deepens U.S. military involvement in Iran alongside Israel, a new The Intercept briefing examines a dimension of the conflict often overlooked in mainstream war coverage: the growing influence of Christian nationalist ideology inside American foreign policy. In this episode, investigative journalist Sarah Posner joins host Jessica Washington to unpack…
ScheerPost Staff When the world hears “peace,” it rarely imagines schools leveled, civilians at risk, and covert armies deployed across continents. Yet, reporting from The Intercept reveals that under President Donald Trump, the promise of a “peace presidency” has coexisted with a sprawling network of global conflicts. Nick Turse’s investigation exposes the U.S.’s secretive military…
ScheerPost Staff Palestine 36 Resurrects the Revolt Britain Tried to Bury Nearly a century before the present devastation in Gaza, before checkpoints carved through Palestinian cities and military towers defined daily movement, the essential architecture of domination had already been built. It was not first designed in Tel Aviv or by the modern Israeli security…
In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. ScheerPost Staff By now, the script is painfully familiar: warn loudly about authoritarianism, then quietly…
Joshua Scheer As tensions with Iran escalate, Pope Leo XIV used this year’s Palm Sunday mass to deliver a pointed moral rebuke—one that lands directly on the political stage. Speaking at San Pancrazio Cathedral in Albano Laziale, Italy, the Pope made clear that Jesus is not a figure to be co-opted to justify war. Writing…
ScheerPost Staff What began as another military escalation in the Middle East is now being framed by some economists and geopolitical analysts as something much larger: a potential turning point in the global economic order. In a recent interview on Geopolitical Economy Report, journalist Ben Norton spoke with economist Michael Hudson about the expanding consequences…
ScheerPost Staff War on Iran and the Return of Imperial Language As war expands around Iran, one of the clearest arguments emerging from independent geopolitical analysis is that this conflict cannot be understood as an isolated military confrontation. In a recent video by Ben Norton on Geopolitical Economy Report, the war is framed as part…
ScheerPost Staff Daniel Levy: Netanyahu Drew Trump Into a War Long Sought by Israel Former Israeli negotiator Daniel Levy argued on Democracy Now! that the expanding war on Iran reflects a long-standing strategic objective in Israel: drawing the United States into a military confrontation that previous administrations, despite broad support for Israeli regional dominance, had…
In recent interviews on Clearing the FOG, Margaret Flowers highlights a sharp rise in military personnel seeking conscientious objector status, speaking with Mike Prysner of the Center on Conscience and War and revisiting an earlier conversation with James Branum of the Military Law Task Force on legal alternatives available to active-duty troops. The interviews point…
Les Leopold Substack A new study by Jared Abbott and Joan C. Williams, of nearly 2 million 2024 Trump voters, shows that more than one in five are not planning to vote for the Republicans in 2028. That group, which they call the “waverers,” is disproportionately poor, non-white, and working class. But neither are these waverers planning…
ScheerPost Staff At a moment when American institutions are sprinting away from dissent as if truth were radioactive, The Independent Ink remains one of the rare spaces where artists and writers still speak without permission slips. Mr. Fish’s latest update on his forthcoming book, Which Genocide Are You On? — Artists Critical of Israel Speak…
ScheerPost Staff In an era when truth is buried under talking points and foreign entanglements are sold as inevitabilities, few officials ever dare to break ranks. But in this interview, former head of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center Joe Kent does exactly that — stepping forward to expose how, in his view, the United States…
I wrote this preview note, not sure if I’m even allowed to, but in today’s modern Wild West, it feels like we can do whatever we want. Briefly, though, this story is important—it affects the American economy, and I wanted to share it. Yet Americans—all of us included—don’t suffer in the ways others around the…
Joshua Scheer Wanted to share this for those who may not be on social media, because some words deserve to travel farther than algorithms allow. We are told we live in an age of connection — a globalized world, linked by technology, trade, and endless talk of shared humanity — yet every day that promise…
Joshua Scheer As inequality hardens into a defining feature of American political life, efforts to challenge the tax privileges of concentrated wealth remain rare—and fiercely resisted. Senator Ed Markey’s new Equal Tax Act targets one of the clearest fault lines in the U.S. tax code: the lower rates applied to investment income that overwhelmingly benefit…
Joshua Scheer What is unfolding around Iran is not simply another regional war—it is the latest violent convulsion of an empire trying to preserve a crumbling order through force. Washington’s assault, backed by Israel and justified through the familiar language of “security,” has once again revealed the central logic of U.S. foreign policy: when political…
Joshua Scheer Before bed I saw this and can’t help but think how great it is to at least topple the United States at something while that empire gears up and continues to wreak havoc around the world. In an incredibly trying year globally — and especially for Venezuela — this felt like a bright…
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 Flowers lays out in this week’s Clearing the FOG, a new class of ultra‑wealthy libertarian visionaries is carving out private city‑states — zones where democratic…
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