The Gospel According to Trump
Kenneth A. Carlson ScheerPost I was raised in Ohio, where scarlet red means two things. It means loyalty to the Ohio State Buckeyes, whose fans wear scarlet and gray with…
Iran Says It Won’t Negotiate With ‘Erratic’ Trump After Genocidal Threat to ‘Blow Up’ Whole Country
Stephen Prager for Common Dreams Iran says it has no plans to negotiate with the US after President Donald Trump said Sunday that “the whole country is going to get…
After 21 Hours, Nothing: U.S.-Iran Talks Collapse and the Empire Shows Its Cracks
Joshua Scheer What did I say this morning? So much for the “college try.” It didn’t even last a day. I never expected anything real to come from this —…
‘Disgusting’: Trump’s Top Economic Adviser Brags About Killing 300,000 ‘High-Paying’ American Jobs
Stephen Prager for Common Dreams President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser boasted on Fox Business Thursday that the government had slashed more than 300,000 “high-paying” jobs from the federal payroll…
Iran Does Not Seek War but Will Never Abandon Its Rightful Demands, Claims Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei
The fate of the two-week ceasefire between Iran and the US hangs in the balance after Israel continues to attack Lebanon in complete violation of the terms of negotiations. Abdul…
Historic Talks, Hollow Power: The Illusion of Peace as Empire Slips
Joshua Scheer Whatever this is, it has to be reported as historic. That’s what they’ll call it—high-level talks, breakthroughs, diplomacy in motion. A U.S. delegation led by Vice President JD…
“Locked and Loaded”: Hegseth Says Trump’s War‑Crime Warnings Were Dead Serious
Joshua Scheer THE SICKNESS IS REAL — AND THE EMPIRE IS SHOWING ITS END: Pete Hegseth openly acknowledged that the threat to obliterate Iran’s civilian infrastructure—its power plants, bridges, and…
Israeli Peace Activist: Gaza, Iran & Lebanon Are All Part Of “One Forever War” That Must End
At least 17 people were arrested Saturday as Israeli police violently cracked down on an antiwar protest in Tel Aviv, where hundreds had gathered condemning the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.…
Surging Gas Prices & Oil Wars of US-Israel, Iran, Kuwait
Juan Cole Informed Comment On Saturday morning the US and/ or Israel attacked the Khuzestan Petrochemical Special Economic Zone at Mahshahr and several other petrochemical sites around Ahvaz, a city…
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…
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…