Why Donald Trump Just Can’t Stop Going to War
When Imperial America Offers Help, It Just Might Get You Killed Patrick Strickland for Tom Dispatch After protests across Iran turned deadly in January, President Donald Trump promised Iranians that…
MAGA Goons Smear The Grayzone to Get Back at Joe Kent
ScheerPost Staff Max Blumenthal responds to wildly mendacious smears by Glenn Beck and Laura Loomer seeking to link him to Joe Kent’s dramatic resignation, and explains why Kent’s courageous stand…
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…
“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…
Shield of the Americas: Trump’s New Tool for Hemispheric Military Coordination
Pablo Meriguet for Peoples Dispatch This past weekend, the Trump administration secured an alliance with its partners in Latin America and the Caribbean. The so-called “Shield of the Americas” is…
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,…