Joshua Scheer As tensions with Iran escalate, Pope Leo XIV used this year’s Palm Sunday mass to deliver a pointed moral rebuke—one that lands directly on the political stage. Speaking…
Joshua Scheer Here is Bernie Sanders discussing cutting off arms to Israel. “In the last year, I must confess, I’ve been thinking a lot about American history—about the men and…
Ramzy Baroud for Common Dreams US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appears to have little patience for questions that do not conform to his preferred style of declaring unsubstantiated victories, whether…
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…
Ramzy Baroud for Common Dreams Doubtless, the war launched by US President Donald Trump is not popular among ordinary Americans. According to the latest public opinion poll, only a minority…
ScheerPost Staff War planners in Washington once spent months gaming out how a U.S. strike on Iran would ignite the region. This time, it took a whim, a whisper campaign,…
ScheerPost Staff In a sweeping, unsparing interview, political scientist John Mearsheimer delivers the blunt assessment almost no one in Washington will say aloud: the United States has already lost the…
ScheerPost Staff The Trump administration rushed to deny responsibility when reports emerged that a girls’ elementary school in Iran had been obliterated during U.S. and Israeli strikes. Officials suggested the…
Joshua Scheer Waking up to this and the other tweets and images, they should be front and center. Whether war is carried out through coercive efforts and brutal sanctions, such…
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…
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…
Jon Queally for Common Dreams In the wake of infernos unleashed across portions of Tehran the night before, the people of Iran’s capital woke up Sunday to the hideous sight…
By Jake Johnson for Common Dreams The Pentagon is reportedly planning to ask Congress to approve a supplemental funding package of around $50 billion to help finance the Trump administration’s…
Posted by Joshua Scheer Secretary of State Marco Rubio acknowledged this week that the United States anticipated Israeli military action against Iran and believed it would trigger retaliatory strikes on…
Posted by Joshua Scheer In the latest escalation of the U.S.–Israel assault on Iran, at least 51 young girls were reportedly killed when an airstrike struck a primary school in…
Pope Leo XIV Delivers Anti-War Rebuke as Trump Marches Toward Armageddon
Joshua Scheer As tensions with Iran escalate, Pope Leo XIV used this year’s Palm Sunday mass to deliver a pointed moral rebuke—one that lands directly on the political stage. Speaking…
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Here Is Bernie Sanders on Cutting Off Arms to Israel
Joshua Scheer Here is Bernie Sanders discussing cutting off arms to Israel. “In the last year, I must confess, I’ve been thinking a lot about American history—about the men and…
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We Need Honest Journalism About the US-Israel War on Iran
Ramzy Baroud for Common Dreams US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appears to have little patience for questions that do not conform to his preferred style of declaring unsubstantiated victories, whether…
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“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…
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The Most Obvious Question Liberal Media Refuses to Ask About the Iran War
Ramzy Baroud for Common Dreams Doubtless, the war launched by US President Donald Trump is not popular among ordinary Americans. According to the latest public opinion poll, only a minority…
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Kiriakou: The Iran War Was Launched on a Whim — and the White House Ignored Its Own Intelligence
ScheerPost Staff War planners in Washington once spent months gaming out how a U.S. strike on Iran would ignite the region. This time, it took a whim, a whisper campaign,…
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Mearsheimer: The U.S. Has Already Lost the Iran War — And Trump Has No Way Out
ScheerPost Staff In a sweeping, unsparing interview, political scientist John Mearsheimer delivers the blunt assessment almost no one in Washington will say aloud: the United States has already lost the…
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“This is Another Instance of Trump Lying and Just Talking Out of His Ass,”
ScheerPost Staff The Trump administration rushed to deny responsibility when reports emerged that a girls’ elementary school in Iran had been obliterated during U.S. and Israeli strikes. Officials suggested the…
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Trump’s War Didn’t Miss: It Hit a Classroom Full of Kids
Joshua Scheer Waking up to this and the other tweets and images, they should be front and center. Whether war is carried out through coercive efforts and brutal sanctions, such…
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‘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…
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‘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…
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‘Intentional Chemical Warfare’: Toxic Black Rain in Tehran After US-Israel Bomb Oil Facilities
Jon Queally for Common Dreams In the wake of infernos unleashed across portions of Tehran the night before, the people of Iran’s capital woke up Sunday to the hideous sight…
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‘Not One Damn Penny’: Pentagon Expected to Ask Congress for Billions to Fund Iran War
By Jake Johnson for Common Dreams The Pentagon is reportedly planning to ask Congress to approve a supplemental funding package of around $50 billion to help finance the Trump administration’s…
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America’s Thelma & Louise Moment: Rubio Shows How Israel and Trump Drove Off the Cliff Together
Posted by Joshua Scheer Secretary of State Marco Rubio acknowledged this week that the United States anticipated Israeli military action against Iran and believed it would trigger retaliatory strikes on…
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US and Israeli attack on Iran: At least 51 girls reported killed in strike on school
Posted by Joshua Scheer In the latest escalation of the U.S.–Israel assault on Iran, at least 51 young girls were reportedly killed when an airstrike struck a primary school in…
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