Why the Ceasefire is Doomed
Chris Hedges It is highly unlikely, unfortunately, that the ceasefire agreement brokered by Pakistan will endure. This is due to two principal impediments. First, Israel is adamantly opposed to a…
Big Oil Cashed In While War Sent Prices Soaring
ScheerPost Staff It’s All About The Oil As ordinary people paid more at the pump, fossil fuel executives were cashing out. A new analysis reported by The Wall Street Journal…
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…
Hug Your Loved Ones
Nate Bear Do Not Panic I posted the below tweet yesterday. It went viral. Some people got annoyed. Some said it was tedious, panicky, doomy. The author and critic Yasha…
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…
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…
“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…
‘The Situation Is Scary’: Global Economic Chaos as Trump’s Iran War Sends Markets Diving
Brad Reed for Common Dreams President Donald Trump’s unprovoked and unconstitutional war against Iran is sending shockwaves across the global economy in the form of skyrocketing oil prices and diving…
‘Your Tax Dollars Being Used to Raise Your Gas Prices’: US-Israel Bomb Major Iranian Oil Depots
Jon Queally for Common Dreams In what was described as a “major escalation” of an attack already denounced as an illegal war of choice, the US-Israeli military coalition bombed major…
Scott Ritter: Pipelines v. USA
Intent, motive and means: People serving life sentences in U.S. prisons have been convicted on weaker grounds than the circumstantial evidence against Washington for the attack on the Nord Stream…