The Most Dangerous Country
From 2003 to 2026 and Beyond David Bromwich for Tom Dispatch The joint US-Israeli killing of Iranian leaders on February 28th marked the second time in a year that the…
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…
“The Mask Is Completely Ripped Off”: Abby Martin on War, Collapse, and U.S. Power
ScheerPost Staff In a moment when the United States is waging open war in Iran, backing Israel’s devastation of Gaza, and accelerating a global arms race powered by AI, journalist…
Will Trump Break the Nuclear Taboo?
In addition to the widening of the war on Iran to the whole Middle East and beyond, this conflict risks deliberate use of nuclear weapons, write Peter Kuznick and Ivana…
Conscription and the Politics of Shared Sacrifice
In a recent article published by investigative journalist Dave Lindorff on his substack ThisCantBeHappening! offers a forceful argument that the political detachment many Americans display toward war is rooted in…
The World According to Gaza
Chris Hedges Gaza is only the start. The new world order is one where the weak are obliterated by the strong, the rule of law does not exist, genocide is…
88 MILLION PEOPLE, ONE IMPULSE: AMERICA’S WAR ON IRAN BEGINS WITH A FEELING
ScheerPost Staff America has started bombing Iran again, and the most revealing part is how little ceremony it took. No debate, no vote, no national soul‑searching—just a president who “felt…
Israel’s Descent Into Madness: MJ Rosenberg on Gideon Levy’s Warning
ScheerPost Staff In his latest Substack column, longtime analyst and former Hill staffer MJ Rosenberg turns his attention to a chilling new reality inside Israel—one captured with brutal clarity by…
Israel Planned This War on Iran for 40 years. Everything Else is a Smoke Screen
Jonathan Cook Substack It is near impossible to make sense – at least from the justifications on offer – of what US President Donald Trump really hopes to achieve with…
Iran, Epstein and Human Sacrifice
Dennis Kucinich Substack Today, the Trump administration, at the behest of the decrepit Netanyahu government, was instrumental in the bombing of a girls’ elementary school, killing more than 100 children.…
Marco Rubio’s Cecil Rhodes Moment
The U.S. secretary of state is reviving the language and intent of 19th century colonialism to deter what he sees as “the forces of civilizational erasure that today menace both…
As war in Ukraine enters a 5th year, will the ‘Putin consensus’ among Russians hold?
By Peter Rutland and Elizaveta Gaufman for the Conversation Perceived wisdom has it that the longer a war goes on, the less enthusiastic a public becomes for continuing the conflict.…
Why Trump’s Denunciations of the Iranian Killings Ring Fatally Hollow
Intro by Tom Engelhardt for Tom Dispatch At almost 82, I still walk six miles a day without fail. And sometimes now, when I’m walking in my city, New York,…