Hegseth Compares D-Day Troops to Europe’s Migrants
Juan Cole Informed Comment Whiskey Pete Hegseth, speaking 82 years after the Allied storming of the beaches of Nazi-occupied France, appears to have sided with . . . the Nazis.…
Trump blasts Netanyahu as Iran Talks Stall over Beirut
Juan Cole Informed Comment Monday began with a statement issued by the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs cautioning that the United States and Israel, by their egregious violations of the…
Hormuz Crisis hits Asia and Africa Hard, Spurs EV Buying
Juan Cole Informed Comment The release of massive strategic petroleum reserves in the US, China and Europe, along with austerity measures around the world, have kept the Hormuz crisis from…
Ray McGovern Warns: A U.S. Attack on Cuba Could Ignite a Global Crisis
Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern says Washington may be replaying the same dangerous logic that led to the Bay of Pigs — only this time with Russia, China, and nuclear…
Lawrence Wilkerson: America Is Failing to Adjust to a Multipolar World
ScheerPost Staff Retired Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson delivers a stark warning about a world he believes is rapidly slipping beyond Washington’s control. In a sweeping conversation with Glenn Diesen, Wilkerson argues…
Even American War Hawks Now Admit Iran Is Defeating The US
Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. And It Will Change The World. It is so widely accepted that the USA is losing the war that now even neoconservative hawks admit it. They…
Did Trump Just Create a Political Slush Fund With Taxpayer Money?
ScheerPost Staff What began as a lawsuit over leaked tax returns is now morphing into something far bigger — and far more dangerous. In this chilling breakdown, the so-called $1.776…
The Nuclear Lie at the Center of U.S. Foreign Policy
Joshua Scheer “One country is sanctioned, threatened, bombed, and demonized over the fear of nuclear weapons. The other already has them — and the world is expected to look away.”…
Lawrence Wilkerson: Trump-Xi Meeting After U.S. Defeat in Iran
ScheerPost Staff Drawing on Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson’s stark assessment of Donald Trump’s Beijing summit with Xi Jinping — and the broader collapse of U.S. geopolitical dominance after the disastrous Iran…
This Is The REAL Reason For Trump’s Visit To China
Joshua Scheer Donald Trump didn’t arrive in Beijing as the leader of a confident superpower. He arrived like a salesman carrying a collapsing empire on his back — flanked not…
DAYS 53-65: World on the Brink in the Hands of a Madman
One crazed man holds the fate of the world in his hands and his name is Donald Trump. Can his administration, the U.S. system, the War Powers Act, Russia or…
Putin to Iran: You Are Fighting Courageously for Independence and Sovereignty
Juan Cole for Informed Comment Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met on Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg for 90 minutes as part of his attempt to…
A Quicksand Feeling: How Iraq Has Been Roiled By The Israel-US War on Iran
Alex Poppe for Informed Comment I taught at an international school in Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq from 2011 to 2013. I returned to the Kurdish region to teach at a university…
American “Micro-Militarism: Or How Defeat in the Iran War Will Accelerate American Global Decline
Alfred McCoy Writing more than 2,000 years ago, the Greek historian Plutarch gave us an eloquent description of what modern historians now call “micro-militarism.” When an imperial power like Athens…