“Iran Will Decide When this Ends:” Juan Cole on Sam Seder’s “Majority Report”
Juan Cole for Informed Comment On Tuesday I was a guest on Sam Seder’s “Majority Report.” Sam and I have been having conversations about world affairs for a couple of…
A “Sheer and Utter Lie” that Iran Posed an Imminent Threat before US Attacks on February 28, says Tehran
Abdul Rahman Peoples Dispatch Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi rejected claims by US President Donald Trump’s that the US-Israeli attacks were “preemptive” and said it was just an attempt to…
Solidarity With Iran And Palestine: All Out On March 13
United National Antiwar Coalition, Popular Resistance. AL QUDS DAY All out on March 13 Solidarity with Iran and Palestine Stop the War on Iran! Stop Attacks on Venezuela & Cuba!…
$20K Drones vs $4M Missiles — Norton Explains Why the U.S. Is Losing the War It Started
ScheerPost Staff Journalist Ben Norton lays out the brutal logic of Iran’s asymmetric counteroffensive — and the global economic catastrophe it’s already unleashing. As Norton explains, Tehran has closed the…
US military Aid to Israel is a National Security Risk
Branko Marcetic for Jacobin Over the weekend, the Washington Post was the latest to publish a claim that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu used the threat of launching a war…
“It’s a Lawless World Led by Idiots”
Joshua Scheer As the U.S.–Israeli war on Iran enters its second week, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Chris Hedges delivers one of the most blistering indictments yet of the political class steering…
Greenwald: CNN Is Running Iraq‑War‑Level Propaganda for the Iran War
ScheerPost Staff In a blistering breakdown of U.S. media complicity, Glenn Greenwald dissects what he calls one of the most brazen propaganda stunts of the new Iran war: CNN’s Jake…
The Algorithm’s Massacre: How AI Put an Iranian Elementary School on America’s Kill List
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…
Mearsheimer: The U.S. Has Already Lost the Iran War — And Trump Has No Way Out
ScheerPost Staff In a sweeping, unsparing interview, political scientist John Mearsheimer delivers the blunt assessment almost no one in Washington will say aloud: the United States has already lost the…
88 MILLION PEOPLE, ONE IMPULSE: AMERICA’S WAR ON IRAN BEGINS WITH A FEELING
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…
US-Israeli Strikes Hit Civilian Targets Across Iran
Iran’s Red Crescent said more than 19,000 civilian units have been damaged across the country by Dave DeCamp US and Israeli airstrikes have pounded civilian targets across Iran since the…
$11 Billion in Six Days: The Price of Trump’s War on Iran Is Already Exploding
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…
While Spending Billions on Iran War, Trump Quietly Moves to Boot Millions More Off Food Aid
Jake Johnson for Common Dreams The Trump administration is quietly pursuing a regulatory change that would strip federal nutrition assistance from an estimated 6 million low-income Americans—including nearly two million…
Jeffrey Sachs: WE ARE NOW IN WORLD WAR III & Trump Won’t Survive Iran Fallout
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…
Are We Sure Iran Didn’t Bomb Themselves?”: NBC Host Echoes a War Narrative Already Debunked by Her Own Network
Joshua Scheer NBC’s Sunday‑show machinery hit a new low this week when Meet the Press host Kristen Welker asked Iran’s foreign minister whether Iran might have bombed its own elementary…