Ground War With Iran? Chris Hedges and Larry Wilkerson Warn of a Catastrophe Washington May Already Be Sliding Toward
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…
A View From Tehran: War Caused A New Kind Of Stability
Peiman Salehi Informed Comment In Tehran, the expected signs of wartime breakdown are largely absent. The conventional logic of war tends to follow a simple assumption: sustained external pressure leads…
Academic Freedom May Be Flourishing at America’s Best Liberal Arts Colleges, But They Are Still in Danger of Losing Their Distinctiveness
Austin Sarat ScheerPost In late January, Professor Ian Bogost published a very flattering account of four premier liberal arts colleges: Amherst (where I teach), Davidson, Smith, and Vassar. As he…
Sanders Declares AI ‘A Threat to Everything the American People Hold Dear’ in WSJ Op-Ed
Brad Reed for Common Dreams Sen. Bernie Sanders has declared artificial intelligence “a threat to everything the American people hold dear” in a Thursday editorial published by the Wall Street…
Trump’s Budget: A Moral Obscenity Wrapped in Patriotism
ScheerPost Staff In a move that is both reckless and morally indefensible, the Trump administration unveiled a fiscal year 2027 budget proposal this past Friday that dramatically increases military spending…
Trump’s Divine War: How Christian Nationalists Are Running U.S. Policy in Iran and at Home
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…
Escalating To Catastrophe
Nate Bear Don Not Panic In his televised address last night Trump said the US was going to continuing attacking Iran for another two or three weeks and would bomb…
From ISIS to Iran: Joe Kent Says Washington Keeps Repeating the Same Catastrophic Playbook
ScheerPost Staff In a wide‑ranging and unusually candid conversation, former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent explains why he resigned over the Trump administration’s war on Iran—and why he believes…
U.S. Claims Iran Leads Global Terror—Whistleblower Challenges the Narrative
ScheerPost Staff In a recent episode of The Chris Hedges Report, CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou joins Chris Hedges to critically examine the Trump administration’s effort to brand Iran as the…
US Imperialism And The Hubris Of White ‘Supremacy’ Ideology
The Empire Has No Clothes. Completely stripped of its democratic veneer, U.S. imperialism has been exposed as a system of monopoly capitalism driven by white supremacist psychopathology. Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright,…
Caitlin Johnstone: The More Murderous Israel Gets, the More We Hear About ‘Anti-Semitism’
In real life, people are being mercilessly butchered in Iran, Lebanon and Palestine by Israel and its allies. The uglier this gets, the more aggressive the trolling about “anti-semitism” becomes.…
Collapsing Empire: The Resistance Disarms Israel
Kit Klarenberg Substack As the criminal Zionist-American war on Iran enters its second month, the conflict has proven so ruinous for the aggressors that dire alarm is being widely sounded.…
Trans People Behind Bars Share How They Are Navigating the Dangers of Visibility
Gabriel Arkles for Truthout/TheAppeal oday is International Trans Day of Visibility, a day to celebrate the resilience and accomplishments of transgender people worldwide. The extraordinary accomplishments — in law, art,…
Analyzing the Global Economic Fallout of the War on Iran: Insights from Professor Michael Hudson
ScheerPost Staff The ongoing war against Iran is not just a regional confrontation; it is, according to economist and historian Professor Michael Hudson, a crisis with profound global economic and…
The U.S. War on Cuba’s Doctors
Nuvpreet Kalra “Cuban eye doctors in Jamaica are the only reason why my grandmother didn’t go fully blind in one eye after she got a botched surgery. The work they’ve…