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…
Ceasefire on the Brink — The Day Genocide Became a Negotiating Tactic
Joshua Scheer In the span of a single day, the United States came terrifyingly close to crossing a line that cannot be uncrossed. A president publicly threatened the destruction of…
They Reject AIPAC—But Not the War Machine
Joshua Scheer In Washington, a quiet rebrand is underway. One by one, prominent Democrats positioning themselves for 2028 are announcing that they will no longer accept money from the American…
Trump and Netanyahu: Two Madmen Playing God
When deranged leaders invoke divine catastrophe as a political instrument, it is not only their enemies who are consumed. Unless they are stopped, we will all be victims of these…
I Support Cuba Because I Am on the Side of Humanity and Life: An Interview With Gabriel Rockhill
By Marxlenin Pérez Valdés, Orinoco Tribune. An Interview With Gabriel Rockhill. I met Gabriel Rockhill by chance, but not by accident. We were introduced by Helen Yaffe, a dear friend…
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…
The U.S. War on Cuba’s Doctors
Nuvpreet Kalra “Cuban eye doctors in Jamaica are the only reason why my grandmother didn’t go fully blind in one eye after she got a botched surgery. The work they’ve…
How Western Media Sanitises And Sells The Crimes of Empire
Nate Bear Do Not Panic Yesterday The Associated Press said it was going to start using words which accurately reflect reality. The news agency announced, after much deliberation and a…
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…
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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,…
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…
Behrooz Ghamari on War, Sovereignty, and the Failure of Imperial Strategy
Joshua Scheer When Washington and Tel Aviv escalated military pressure on Iran, many in the West appeared to assume the same old script would unfold: rapid destabilization, internal collapse, and…