SCHEERPOST - 17 MARCH 2026

By Scheerpost - Human Synthesis- 17 March 2026

Children of War

Fariba Amini for Informed Comment “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.” — Ernest Hemingway…

Ending the Trump-Netanyahu War in the Middle East

Jeffrey D. Sachs & Sybil Fares for Common Dreams The Israel-US war on Iran is engulfing the entire Middle East and could escalate to global war. The economic consequences are…

The Age of Generative Warfare:

Why the 2026 Middle East Crisis Demands Critical AI Literacy Nolan Higdon Substack “Tel Aviv, stripped of illusion, as you have never witnessed it,” read the caption above a viral…

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…

How the War With Iran Will Trigger a Global Financial Crisis (w/ Yanis Varoufakis) | The Chris Hedges Report

Chris Hedges Yanis Varoufakis says that even if the war in Iran ends soon — which it likely will not — the economic consequences will be devastating and prolonged. Alongside…