Why Power Analysis Is Key To Fighting ICE
Deep research is key to identifying ICE’s pillars of support and building the power necessary to topple them. James L. VanHise for Waging Nonviolence The ICE campaign to round up…
China Surpasses US in Research Spending – The Consequences Extend Far Beyond Scientific Ranking and Clout
In a span of a few years, China has outstripped the U.S. in scientific publications, spending and patents. AP Photo/Andy Wong Caroline Wagner, The Ohio State University China’s rapid rise…
Is Another Financial Crisis Brewing In The US Economy?
By Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. Economist Michael Hudson explains the dangers. Reports suggest the US economy may be on the verge of another financial crisis, with major problems in the…
How Organizers Are Addressing Sexual Volence in Movement Spaces
The revelations about Cesar Chavez underscore the need to reckon with sexual abuse by changing organizing cultures and following workers’ lead. Victoria Valenzuela for Waging Nonviolence When Dolores Huerta came…
“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…
Spies, Signals, and the Shadow War Between Iran and Israel
ScheerPost Staff For years, Washington and Tel Aviv sold the world a simple story: Iran is the master of covert destabilization, the shadowy hand behind infiltration, sabotage, and political manipulation…
From Tehran to Beirut: A War Spreading Faster Than Diplomacy
ScheerPost Staff Live updates from the Middle East Monitor among others “UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday said attacks launched by the US and Israel against Iran have affected several…
Trump Slashes US Humanitarian Aid Pledge as His Cuts Kill Hundreds of Thousands Globally
By Jake Johnson for Common Dreams The Trump administration on Monday announced a commitment of $2 billion to United Nations humanitarian assistance efforts, a fraction of what the US has…
America, the Unhappy: Lonely, Suspicious, Gun-ridden, and Stingy, the US Ranks Low for Well-Being
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The 2025 “World Happiness Report,” produced by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, powered by Gallup…
BRICS Grows, Adding Indonesia as Member: World’s 4th Most Populous Country, 7th Biggest Economy
BRICS keeps expanding. As a new full member, it added Indonesia, the 4th most populous country with the 7th largest economy on Earth. BRICS now has 10 members and 8…
A Radical Way to Change the UN Security Council, Including Its Name
The proposal advocates UN Security Council reform for planetary sustainability. It suggests permanent members giving up veto power and a Sustainability Council. Likelihood of acceptance varies among members.
Prisoner Swap with Russia “Offers a Possible Pathway” to Peace in Ukraine, Says Katrina vanden Heuvel
By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now! We speak with The Nation‘s Katrina vanden Heuvel about the prisoner swap between Russia, the United States and several other countries on Thursday that…
The Country of the Rust Belt and the Broken Road
From The 1941 ‘American Century’ To Trump’s ‘American Carnage’, The US Has Shifted From A Post-WW2 Boom To Decline.
Patrick Lawrence: Gaza, We Cannot Remain Silent Any Longer
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost I do not know how it is in your household, but in mine we have developed the practice over the past nine months…
One Night for Biden, Four Bad Years for Us?
By Les Leopold / Substack The spinmeisters are twirling away trying to convince us that President Biden only had a bad night. It happens to all of us, doesn’t it?…