- — The Rulers of the Nuclear Powers Are Slow Learners
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at 8/6/26 6:00pmAlthough 81 years have passed since the atomic bombing of Japan in August 1945, the rulers of major nations continue their reckless march toward a nuclear holocaust. The nine nuclear powers (the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France, Israel, India, Pakistan, and North Korea), possessing some 12,100 nuclear warheads, are all busily upgrading and expanding []- — Baltic Republics Foment Crises With Russia
- at 8/6/26 6:00pmHistorically, one of the greatest dangers to a major power in the international system is letting smaller allies and clients drag that power into an unwise war. Both the United States and leading European powers seem inclined to make that blunder with respect to the Baltic republics. Too many U.S. policymakers have not only tolerated []
- — The Normalcy of American Wars
- at 8/6/26 6:00pmThe war in Iran is unlawful and unconstitutional, but in post-World War II America, it is normal. Here is the backstory. When President Donald Trump decided to begin bombing Iran last June, he did not state a coherent or lawful reason for doing so. His director of national intelligence and his own CIA had publicly []
- — Iran Is a Wake-Up Call for the Defense Establishment
- at 8/5/26 6:00pmAs the war in Iran has reached its fifth month, progress fails to be made and opposition continues to mount. And while President Donald Trump certainly deserves his fair share of the blame, the playbook he’s using is in no way his own. Since the Cold War, the United States has become the preeminent world []
- — Before Hormuz, There Was Suez: What Trump Can Learn From Eisenhower
- at 8/5/26 6:00pmReprinted with permission from Trita Parsi’s Substack. Oman and Iran appear close to a temporary arrangement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, potentially providing both an exit from the current round of fighting and the foundation for a more durable maritime order. Washington should welcome such an agreement – even if it acknowledges a degree []
- — The New Big Three
- at 8/4/26 6:00pmReprinted from The Realist Review. “The enemy at last was plain in view, huge and hateful, all disguise cast off. It was the Modern Age in arms…” Such was the view of the English novelist Evelyn Waugh’s finest fictional creation, Guy Crouchback, in the days following the announcement of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. The parallels []
- — Antiwar.com’s Fight To Challenge the Iran War Propaganda
- at 8/4/26 6:00pmThe U.S. government continues to demonstrate its knack for pursuing remarkably foolish foreign policies that have terrible consequences. Many thought that President Trump was going to rectify this problem, at least somewhat. After all, he promised to shut down the Ukraine War as soon as he moved into the White House, if not before he []
- — America’s Middle East Bases: An Imperial Burden
- at 8/4/26 6:00pmBy all conventional measures, America is losing the war with Iran. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has survived the U.S.-Israeli regime change effort, and it seems as though the hardline factions in Iran have been empowered. They also maintain their stockpiles of drones and missiles, while the U.S. is running dangerously low on crucial []
- — Call Off the Iran War. Just Walk Away!
- at 8/3/26 6:00pmAfter several days of increasing threats against Iran, including social media posts like “FINISH THE JOB!” and “Take the oil. No mercy!,” President Trump has over the weekend called off a planned major escalation in the Middle East. For now. “The U.S.A. is locked and loaded and ready to go against the Islamic Republic of []
- — War With Iran: A Double-Edged Sword for the US Economy and Agriculture
- at 8/3/26 6:00pmThe sharp swings in oil prices following the latest round of attacks and negotiations over safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz demonstrate that wars do not always reveal themselves first on the battlefield. Sometimes, their earliest signs appear on gas-station price boards, in transportation bills, and on the balance sheets of farmers standing thousands []
- — The Ceuta Operation: Washington Wrote the Script in March, Morocco Ran It in July
- at 8/3/26 6:00pmSeventy-two bodies came out of the water at Tarajal, and the sea kept giving some of them back through the weekend. They drowned in sight of Europe, in the fourteen-kilometer channel where the Mediterranean meets the Atlantic, reaching for a seven-square-mile scrap of Spain on the African shore. Most were young men. Some were children. []
- — Laura Loomer: Everyone Is a Nazi, Except the Real Nazis in Ukraine
- at 8/2/26 6:00pmA decade ago, it would have been unthinkable that arresting the President of Israel would be a mainstream position. However, after starting multiple wars and committing genocide, a recent poll from The Economist/YouGov found that 49 percent of respondents agreed that the U.S. should enforce an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu. []
- — The Machine That Hunted Palestinians in the 1970s Is Hunting Their Allies Today
- at 8/2/26 6:00pmLocked up in a cell in Madrid since his arrest on July 10, 2026, the well-known left-wing philanthropist Fergie Chambers is waiting to learn whether Spain will hand him to Washington. According to a US indictment, his crime was moving $7.5 million – money he raised, his family says, after selling his stake in Cox []
- — The Death Count Trap: Why Tallying Victims Won’t Stop Israel’s Genocide
- at 7/30/26 6:00pmThe words killed, injured, maimed, and the like often lose a great part of their meaning when they are repeated so relentlessly. Take, for example, a headline like: 13 Palestinians Killed in Gaza, Others Wounded. Though many of us can still feel a deep sense of sadness over such a tragedy, the news itself becomes []
- — Section 219: More Than a Defense Provision – The Battle Over the Future of US-Israel Relations
- at 7/30/26 6:00pmSomewhere in the thousand-plus pages of America’s annual National Defense Authorization Act sits a provision that started out as Section 224 and later became Section 219 in the House version. On paper it looks straightforward: expand technological and defense cooperation between the United States and Israel. In practice it has turned into one of the []
- — Bedouins With A-Bombs
- at 7/29/26 6:00pmWashington has opened talks with Saudi Arabia to consider nuclear capability for the desert kingdom. The Americans and Saudis insist they are only discussing peaceful nuclear weapons. Don’t believe it. The Saudis argue they must have nuclear capability to generate energy when their oil begins to wear out. Every oil-producing nation can rightly make the []
- — The Money That Bought the War Is on the Blockchain
- at 7/29/26 6:00pmFour days before Donald Trump took the oath a second time, a company controlled by the intelligence chief of a foreign monarchy wired the president-elects family its first installment. The date was January 16, 2025. The buyer was Aryam Investment 1, a vehicle backed by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, national security adviser of []
- — Israel’s Ghoulish Settlers Eye Up Gaza, As Netanyahu Kills Trump’s Board of Peace
- at 7/28/26 6:00pmReprinted from Andy Worthington’s website. On Sunday evening (July 19), a group of some of the most repulsive, ghoulish people on the face of the earth marched towards the perimeter fence separating the Gaza Strip from the rest of the world to declare their intention to re-colonize Gaza, to re-establish three Israeli settlements that were []
- — Is It Just About AIPAC’s Money, or Does the US-Israel Rot Run Far Deeper?
- at 7/28/26 6:00pmTwo major stories regarding the United States and Israel in recent days represent profound watershed moments in the history of the relationship between both countries. The first incident occurred on July 8 when US Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA) and his delegation were detained by armed, illegal Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank. These hoodlums []
- — Why Washington Won’t Let Go of the Strait of Hormuz
- at 7/27/26 6:00pmSince the early days of the U.S. war against Iran, the global economy has been reeling from the impact of the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz. The waterway, which serves as the path used to export roughly 20% of the world’s energy supply from countries along the Persian Gulf, has become incredibly risky []
- — The US-Saudi Nuclear Deal Makes No Sense
- at 7/27/26 6:00pmReprinted with permission from Trita Parsi’s Substack. A few points on the shocking U.S.–Saudi nuclear deal announced. 1. This reflects a weaker American bargaining position, not a stronger one. The broader context is China. The Biden administration pursued a nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia, as part of a broader expansion of Trump’s Abraham Accords, in []
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