The Strait, the Dollar and the Limits of Empire
Joshua Scheer What is unfolding around Iran is not simply another regional war—it is the latest violent convulsion of an empire trying to preserve a crumbling order through force. Washington’s…
Washington’s Public Swagger Meets Private Panic Over Iran
ScheerPost Staff The White House is denying that special envoy Steve Witkoff sent back-channel messages to Iranian officials during the current war—but the denial itself is beginning to look like…
Imperial Decline in the Straits of Hormuz
The Iran War as America’s Very Own Suez Crisis By Alfred McCoy for TomDispatch In the first chapter of his 1874 novel The Gilded Age, Mark Twain offered a telling…
$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…
“It’s a Lawless World Led by Idiots”
Joshua Scheer As the U.S.–Israeli war on Iran enters its second week, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Chris Hedges delivers one of the most blistering indictments yet of the political class steering…
Jeffrey Sachs: WE ARE NOW IN WORLD WAR III & Trump Won’t Survive Iran Fallout
Joshua Scheer As the U.S.–Israeli assault on Iran enters its second week, economist Jeffrey Sachs is offering the kind of sober, historically literate warning that has been almost entirely erased…
Trump Says He Hasn’t ‘Won Enough’ in Iran While IRGC Says It’s Ready To Fight for 10 Years
Dave DeCamp for AntiWar President Trump said on Monday that he believes his war with Iran could end soon, while Iranian officials are vowing that they’re ready for a long…
The United States Is On The Path To Fascism; How To Change Course
Posted by Joshua Scheer As the United States hurtles deeper into political, economic, and imperial crisis, the word “fascism” is no longer rhetorical—it’s descriptive. On this week’s Clearing the FOG,…
“We’re Gonna Make a Ton of Money”: The Ugly Truth Behind the Iran War
Posted by Joshua Scheer As the war surrounding Iran widens and global energy markets jitter, the narrow waters of the Strait of Hormuz have once again become the world’s most…
‘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…
‘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…
As Another Oil-Fueled War Erupts, Study Reveals Planet Heating at Unprecedented Rate
Olivia Rosane for Common Dreams Nearly a week into President Donald Trump’s illegal war on Iran that is likely to increase climate-warming emissions, new research has found that the pace…
Ray McGovern: Strait of Hormuz Closure Signals Global Shock — “This Is the Ultimate Escalation”
ScheerPost Staff In a moment of cascading escalation — with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announcing the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and retaliatory strikes reported against U.S. military…
The Week That Will Decide Years
By Nate Bear for Do Not Panic Lenin’s refrain that “there are decades when nothing happens, and weeks when decades happen” is overused because it’s true. And I have a…
The PayPal Mafia vs. Beijing: How U.S. Oligarchs Sparked a New Cold War
Posted by Joshua Scheer In this powerful analysis from Geopolitical Economy Report, editor-in-chief Ben Norton examines what many in Washington now openly call a “Second Cold War” — a sweeping…