War Is Driving A Food Crisis—And No One Is Ready
Joshua Scheer The global economy is already reeling from the cascading effects of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran—fuel shortages, disrupted supply chains, and a deepening energy crisis. But beneath the…
Escalating To Catastrophe
Nate Bear Don Not Panic In his televised address last night Trump said the US was going to continuing attacking Iran for another two or three weeks and would bomb…
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…
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…
Rania Khalek: Resistance, Recolonization, and the Fight for the Global South
Rania Khalek Breaks It Down: Resistance, Empire, and the Global Stakes From the frontlines of media to the heart of geopolitical analysis, Rania Khalek brings clarity to the crises shaping…
“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…
China Is ‘World’s Sole Manufacturing Superpower’, With 35% of Global Output
China’s state-led economic development model and robust industrial policy has transformed it into what an influential European think tank calls “the world’s sole manufacturing superpower”, making up 35% of global…
After Expelling Palestinian Workers, Israel Turns to the Global South for Labor
Israel has thus far signed agreements with Kenya and Malawi to bring in workers to its agricultural sector, which has otherwise relied on Palestinian and Thai migrant labor.
Human Existence Is in Danger. The UN at the Crossroads
By Partido Humanista de Chile / Pressenza In 2015 the UN (United Nations), whose main functions are to maintain international peace and security, protect human rights and support sustainable development…
The Flight From the US Dollar
From Africa to Southeast Asia and Latin America, from Russia and China to India, Iran and Saudi Arabia, countries are mapping their course for a flight from the US dollar.
Richest 1% Took 2/3rds of Global Wealth Since 2020 – Twice as Much as 99% of Population Earned
In 2020 and 2021, the wealthiest 1% of the world’s population took nearly two-thirds of all new wealth – six times greater than the wealth made by the poorest 90%…