- — Very Close to a Nuclear Strike on Iran: We Can Save Ourselves
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at 11/5/26 5:00pmThe 1984 British movie Threads opens with ordinary scenes in Sheffield, England, where a young couple learns they are expecting a baby. The story of their personal life is intertwined with the news of a growing conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, centered on Iran. We next learn that a nuclear weapon []- — A Billion Dollars and the Men Who Ran Israel’s Wars
- at 11/5/26 5:00pmThe weapons a country fights with, the software that aims them, and the officers who command them were for a century things a state owned and could not put up for sale. That arrangement is coming apart. One by one these assets are being bought by private companies, financed through public stock markets, and traded []
- — Till Death Do Us Part: The Unholy Matrimony Between the US and Israel
- at 11/5/26 5:00pmThe standard narrative of American foreign policy has long rested on the pillar of moral exceptionalism: the assertion that the United States acts as a global guardian of human rights, international law and democratic governance. However, Washington’s support for the ongoing holocaust in the occupied Gaza Strip, West Bank and unlawful war on Iran have []
- — The Greatest Existential Risk of the Early 21st Century
- at 11/4/26 5:00pmAnthropic’s IPO filing on Monday set the stage for the Claude creator to pursue possibly largest initial stock offering in history. According to CNBC, investors are measuring the 5-year-old company’s potential market cap in the trillions, putting it in a category with the world’s most valuable companies, even as the stock market is showing signs []
- — Iran War Drags Republicans Down, Gives Democrats Blowout Victories
- at 11/4/26 5:00pmWhen Republicans put America First, they won. When they put Israel First, they lost. That’s it. That’s the plain and simple of last night’s elections. Tuesday night showed very clearly that the American people do not want forever war. They do not want our military fighting a war, any war, for another country when there []
- — How the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Became a Country
- at 11/4/26 5:00pmThe former Soviet administrative unit that emerged as independent Ukraine in 1991 after the fall of the Soviet Union was bounded by the exact borders of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR). That is, it comprised a wholly unnatural polity whose borders and population had been assembled by successive Soviet leaders for the administrative convenience []
- — Soviet Dictators Used War and Famine To Create Ukraine
- at 11/2/26 5:00pmThe Russian Empire entered the First World War in 1914 as one of Europe’s great powers, yet four years of catastrophic military defeats, economic dislocation, and social upheaval destroyed the foundations of the Romanov autocracy. By early 1917 the army was demoralized, the cities were hungry, and the authority of Nicholas II had evaporated. In []
- — Israel’s Ugly Election Aftermath: Netanyahu’s War Against Israeli Palestinians
- at 11/1/26 5:00pmNetanyahus response to the October 27 election has been extraordinary, even by his increasingly incendiary standards. Having failed to secure a governing majority, he and Likud have moved from contesting political opponents to questioning the legitimacy of the electorate itself. Israeli Palestinian voters turned out in unprecedented numbers, helping the two “Arab-led parties”, as the []
- — Beyond Netanyahu: What Israel’s Election Means for Palestinians
- at 11/1/26 5:00pmIn the past, many Palestinians and Arabs followed Israeli elections closely. They did so not because they entertained illusions that a Zionist leader would deliver peace and justice, dismantle the occupation or remove illegal settlements. Rather, they feared that some Israeli leaders were worse than others. They hoped to avert the worst-case scenario. Over time, []
- — Trump Is Dealing With a Different North Korea
- at 11/1/26 5:00pmWith all of President Donald Trump’s wars – Iran, Yemen, Ukraine, Nigeria, Somalia, Venezuela, and cartels – its easy to lose track of what is happening on the Korean Peninsula. However, since Trump returned to the White House, a series of developments on the Korean Peninsula have increased the risk that a relatively minor border []
- — Empire Without Guardrails: The Global Toll of U.S.-Israel Arrogance
- at 10/29/26 6:00pmImperial systems historically fall by the weight of their insatiable greed, reckless wastefulness and institutional hubris. Today, the United States stands as the sole imperial power, with Israel – the last remaining colonizing state – serving as its vanguard in West Asia. Both are showing the first signs of fundamental decline. A single miscalculation can []
- — America’s Deadly Addiction to War
- at 10/29/26 6:00pmAmerica has a deadly addiction to war. Since 1950, presidents of both political parties have sent American troops into conflicts across the globe, killed countless people, sacrificed the lives and limbs of American servicemen and women, and wasted trillions of dollars. Yet these wars have consistently failed to achieve the objectives proclaimed when the killing []
- — How Ukraine Was Pieced Together
- at 10/29/26 6:00pmAs we indicated in Part 1, even by the end of the 18th century, the nation of “Ukraine” was nowhere to be seen on the maps of the era. And shortly thereafter the greatest map-making assemblage of nations that the world had ever seen only confirmed its non-existence within the maws of an expanding Russian []
- — The Two Faces of Gadi Eisenkot, Who Could Be Israel’s PM
- at 10/28/26 6:00pmAs expected, the early Israeli exit polls indicate that Prime Minister Netanyahu and his prime adversary former chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot face deadlock. In the past 10-15 years, the country’s political center of gravity has shifted sharply toward security and military power, documented in my The Fall of Israel (2024). Unsurprisingly, the election aftermath []
- — Why We Must Stand with Major Jason Watson
- at 10/28/26 6:00pmFor almost two months, an Air Force officer has been sitting alone in a cell, twenty-four hours a day. When they let him out to eat or exercise, he’s still alone, according to his attorney. His name is Major Jason Watson. He hasn’t been convicted of anything. Under military law he is presumed innocent, yet []
- — Colombia Threatens its Caribbean Neighbor: Nicaragua
- at 10/28/26 6:30amWhen Abelardo de la Espriella was declared the winner of Colombia’s presidential elections, he announced his plan to sever diplomatic relations with Nicaragua, saying, “In my government there will be no ties whatsoever with tyrannies.” In October, he followed this by reviving a longstanding maritime dispute with Nicaragua relating to the San Andrés archipelago in []
- — Ukrainian Geography: A Short History of Czars, Commissars, and Crooks
- at 10/27/26 6:00pmThe most egregious lie underlying the UniParty’s proxy war in Ukraine is the claim that the latter is just another innocent sovereign nation suffering unprovoked invasion and despoilment at the hands of the world latest land-grabbing tyrant. In fact, however, no nation or state by the name of “Ukraine” ever existed on the maps of []
- — Israel Breached Iranian Airspace This Weekend but Iran Chose Not To Respond. Why?
- at 10/27/26 6:00pmReprinted with permission from Trita Parsi‘s Substack: Much of the Middle East was on edge this past weekend, fearing that President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would restart the Iran war. Thankfully, hostilities didn’t resume, but it’s not because of a lack of effort. According to Iranian sources, Israeli fighter jets did []
- — The War in Iran Comes Home to ‘Trump Country’
- at 10/27/26 6:00pm“It’s not tariffs… it’s the war, it’s gas prices, it’s diesel.” In leaked audio obtained by Axios, Ken Paxton, the Republican nominee for senate in Texas, spoke candidly about what he believes are the biggest issues hurting his campaign. The Iran war, which has dragged on for almost eight months now, has put Texans – []
- — Who Is Making Billions From the Iran War?
- at 10/26/26 6:00pmAt a campaign rally over the weekend, President Trump dismissed Americans’ concerns over high oil and gas prices, claiming that it’s a small price to pay for the hundreds of billions of dollars “we” are making from these higher prices. “We’re making a fortune,” he said. “Hundreds of billions of dollars. Trillions of dollars.” People []
- — Japan’s Disputed Islands May Cause a Headache for Washington
- at 10/26/26 6:00pmAs if the world did not have enough geopolitical flashpoints, the dormant 150-year-old territorial dispute between Russia and Japan over the Kuril Islands has resurfaced. The latest phase of the bilateral spat began in mid-August 2026 when Russian president Vladimir Putin visited four islands that the Kremlin had seized during the closing days of World []
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