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…
Kucinich: “Iran Could Be the Graveyard of the American Empire”
ScheerPost Staff Former congressman and longtime peace advocate Dennis Kucinich joins Robert Scheer for a stark assessment of what he calls the most perilous moment in modern U.S. foreign policy.…
‘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…
The Assassination That Lit the Fuse: Trump’s Iran War Is Already a Catastrophe
Posted by Joshua Scheer The second day of the U.S.–Israeli assault on Iran has made one reality impossible to ignore: Washington has ignited a regional firestorm it cannot control. Less…
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…
Rubio Declared a Return to Brutal Western Colonialism – and Europe applauded
In Munich, the US announced its intent to crush all opposition to its permanent status as imperial top dog, even if that means destroying everything, and all of us, in…
Kidnapping a President: Leonardo Flores on Trump’s War Against Venezuela
Posted by Joshua Scheer In this episode of Informed Rant, host Joshua Scheer speaks with Venezuelan‑American analyst and CodePink organizer Leonardo Flores about one of the most explosive geopolitical stories…
TRUMP’S WARS: THE POPULIST CRITIQUE
By Charles Derber Trump’s foreign policy is coming into clearer focus, as his attacks on Venezuela and his threats against Colombia, Mexico, Cuba and Greenland, as well as Iran, have…
“We Have a Thug as President”: Jeffrey Sachs Says Trump’s Venezuela Operation Pushes World Closer to WWIII
Posted by Joshua Scheer In a wide‑ranging interview, economist and author Jeffrey Sachs with Danny Haiphong offers a stark assessment of the U.S. military operation in Venezuela — including the…
‘Get the Oil Flowing’: Trump’s Own Words Make His War Aims in Venezuela Clear
By Jake Johnson for Common Dreams US President Donald Trump left no doubt on Saturday that a—or perhaps the—primary driver of his decision to illegally attack Venezuela, abduct its president,…
From Panama to Caracas: The Empire Never Sleeps
By Joshua Scheer As we wind down from a day in which the United States appears to have sunk to a new low and assumed a colonial-style role, I found…
Nuclear Standoff: Ray McGovern and Robert Scheer on the Most Dangerous New Year in Decades
As the world stumbles into a new year, journalist Robert Scheer sits down with former CIA analyst Ray McGovern for a conversation that feels less like a holiday reflection and…
Trump’s Peace? More Like Bombs, Blockades, and Bullying
By Joshua Scheer President Donald Trump’s aggressive foreign policy has now extended to Nigeria, marking the ninth country he has bombed during his tenure. Once trying to portray himself as…
US Launches Christmas Strikes on Nigeria—the 9th Country Bombed by Trump
By Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams President Donald Trump—the self-described “most anti-war president in history”—has now ordered the bombing of more countries than any president in history as US forces…
How the US empire creates chaos to disrupt multipolarity
By Daniela A. Rodríguez for the Geopolitical Economy Report With the return of Donald Trump for his second term, diplomacy increasingly resembles a battlefield, rather than a paved road to…