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…
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…
Europe in Panic: Trump’s Power Play Shakes the World Order
Posted by Joshua Scheer For decades, the Western Alliance has been treated as a permanent fixture of global politics — a transatlantic bond forged in the ashes of World War…
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…
Jeffrey D. Sachs: What Ails America – and How to Fix It
By Jeffrey D. Sachs / Common Dreams America is a country of undoubted vast strengths—technological, economic, and cultural—yet its government is profoundly failing its own citizens and the world. Trump’s…
Empire Bombs Yemen to Protect Israel’s Genocide
After years of backing Saudi Arabia’s atrocities in Yemen, the U.S and U.K. bombed the poorest country in the Middle East for trying to stop a genocide. This is the…
Zelensky Cracks Down on Draft Dodgers, Forces Men to Fight & Die in This War
By Glenn Greenwald / Rumble At the start of the latest stage in the war in Ukraine, in February 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged supporters of his cause and…
America Has Just Destroyed a Great Empire
By Michael Hudson / CounterPunch Herodotus (History, Book 1.53) tells the story of Croesus, king of Lydia c. 585-546 BC in what is now Western Turkey and the Ionian shore…
US Navy Wants to Turn Australia Into a Full-Service Submarine Hub
By David DeCamp / Antiwar.com The US Navy wants a full-service submarine hub in Australia that can oversee all underwater activity in the Asia Pacific, including production and repairs, Defense…
The American War from Hell, 20 Years Later
Juan Cole on how Washington lost Its moral compass in Iraq.
Caitlin Johnstone: Unprovoked!
In the mass media you’re not allowed to talk about the U.S.-NATO actions that diplomats, politicians, academics — even the head of the C.I.A. — have long warned would lead…
US Youth Observe Cuba’s Elections—and Learn About ‘Real Democracy’
A delegation of youth from the United States observed Cuba’s November 2022 municipal elections and offer an inside look into a true people’s democracy, where workers decide who will govern…
[rewind] Robert Scheer: Three Antidotes to America’s Toxic Thanksgiving Myth
This Thanksgiving, we're reposting three critical "Scheer Intelligence" episodes that highlight the country's original sins of white settler colonialism and Native American genocide.
Poland WWIII Scare Shows Why Top US General Wants Peace (w/ Doug Macgregor)
By Aaron Maté / The Grayzone
Chris Hedges: The Greatest Evil is War
Chris Hedges returned to The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy NY on October 21, 2022 to speak on the subject of his latest book, titled “The Greatest Evil is…