Burning Oil, Narrow Waters: The Tanker Strike That Brings Gulf War Danger to the Surface
ScheerPost Staff The fire on the Kuwaiti supertanker Al-Salmi off Dubai is more than another war headline—it is the kind of event that turns elite military brinkmanship into immediate global…
Surveilling Swine
By Edward Curtin “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which…
War, Oil, and Blowback: Why Critics Say Trump’s Iran Offensive Is Reshaping the Global Economy
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…
Lawrence Wilkerson Warns Israel Faces Collapse as War With Iran Nears Nuclear Edge
ScheerPost Staff Retired Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson is not known for understatement, but his latest warning may be among his starkest yet: if the current war trajectory continues, Israel could face…
Does The Tail Wag The Dog? How Both Sides Are Missing The Bigger Picture
Binary thinking in the argument over whether the US or Israel is driving the illegal war on Iran obscures far more than it illuminates. The truth is the dog and…
How the US Became an International Serial Killer
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies For decades, the United States moved from covert assassination plots to openly embracing assassination or “targeted killing” as policy. Now, in its war…
Chris Hedges and Gideon Levy on Israel’s Expanding War and the Future of the Middle East
Gideon Levy believes Israel’s rampant militarism has infected the minds of its entire population. Without an impossible reversal, the Jewish state’s destructive warpath will rage on. ScheerPost Staff For decades,…
The Consequences of the U.S.-Israel Attack on Iran
Hugh J. Curran for Informed Comment Is there a long-term strategic goal to be achieved in the incessant bombing of Iranian cities by Israel?. In the 24 plus days of…
‘A Media System Built on Profit Is Incredibly Fragile’
CounterSpin interview with Jim Naureckas on MAGA vs. the First Amendment Janine Jackson Janine Jackson: When FAIR started in 1986, US news media were harming people through nightly stories blaring…
Strait Of Hormuz Closure Brings Empire To Brink
Kit Klarenberg Substack Since the criminal Zionist-American war on Iran erupted, the Strait of Hormuz has remained stubbornly closed. Despite Donald Trump’s dire threats, Tehran has brought maritime traffic to…
Trump’s War on Iran Is Ending Where U.S. Empire Usually Ends: Negotiating With the Enemy It Failed to Break
ScheerPost Staff If current negotiations hold, the most revealing outcome of Donald Trump’s confrontation with Iran will be painfully familiar: after threats, bombardment, brinkmanship, and the usual promises of strategic…
Levy: Israel’s Long Sought Iran War Is Now America’s Burden
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…
“His Morality Is Bestiality”: Iran War Pushes Russia and China Toward Strategic Reckoning
ScheerPost Staff As the war around Iran widens, its consequences are no longer confined to the Middle East. In a wide-ranging discussion, Gilbert Doctorow and Glenn Diesen argue that the…