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…
The Hidden Tax: How a Falling Dollar Is Quietly Draining Working Americans While Corporations Cash In
Joshua Scheer A slow bleed is underway—and most Americans are being told not to notice. As the U.S. dollar weakens, prices are creeping higher across everyday life: groceries, travel, fuel,…
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…
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…
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…
$20K Drones vs $4M Missiles — Norton Explains Why the U.S. Is Losing the War It Started
ScheerPost Staff Journalist Ben Norton lays out the brutal logic of Iran’s asymmetric counteroffensive — and the global economic catastrophe it’s already unleashing. As Norton explains, Tehran has closed the…
US officials boast their illegal sanctions ‘collapsed’ Iran’s economy, causing high inflation and protests
By Ben Norton for Geopolitical Economy Report Donald Trump has openly called for “regime change” in Iran. He has surrounded the country with what he calls a “massive armada”, and…
How the Wall Street Journal Blew the Story of the Democrats and Inflation
The firehose of affluent consumption continues to drive inflation, not the stimulus package.
Can the US Federal Reserve Really Control Inflation?
Can the US central bank control inflation? Or does it want to inflate asset bubbles for the rich? Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson discuss Fed monetary policy and its implications…
Trump’s Corporate Tax Cuts Paved the Way for Inflation
The former president made it more profitable for companies to gouge us. When those cuts expire next year, we’ll have an opportunity to get our money back.
Public Pharma for Europe, a Game-Changer for Access to Medicines
A growing number of organizations in Europe is demanding a complete overhaul of regional pharma policies in order to protect people’s health over profits
It’s Not ‘Inflation’ — We’re Just Getting Ripped Off. Here’s Proof.
Corporate profits accounted for more than half of recent price increases. To stamp out inflation once and for all, we need to crack down on price gouging.
55 Years After the Launch of the Poor People’s Campaign, Taking Stock of Interlocking Injustices
New fact sheets by the Poor People’s Campaign and the Institute for Policy Studies reveal disturbing data on systemic racism, poverty and inequality, ecological devastation, and militarism in every U.S.…