- — Why Iran Ruffles the Feathers of the United States
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at 8/25/26 6:00pmStrip away the diplomatic briefings, Congressional hearings and the endless cable news loops about centrifuges, regional proxies and cyber attacks, and you hit a raw unvarnished nerve. What truly disturbs the United States about the Islamic Republic is not its policies, its rhetoric or even its nuclear ambitions. It is Iran’s audacity to exist completely []- — No Coming Back from Genocide: Israel’s Global Counter-Offensive Has Begun
- at 8/24/26 6:00pmColombias decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights marks a dangerous turning point. By becoming only the second country in the world – after the United States – to endorse Israels illegal annexation of Syrian territory, Bogotá has signaled a complete reversal of Gustavo Petros foreign policy under new far-right President []
- — An American Soldier in the Persian Gulf Sent Me a Picture. It Went Viral.
- at 8/24/26 6:00pmReprinted with permission from Trita Parsi’s Substack. One of the important characteristics of Israel and Donald Trump’s war on Iran was that it never had the support of the American people. When George Bush launched his illegal invasion of Iraq, support stood strong at 72%. As the war turned into a debacle, that support waned. []
- — Why So Many Countries Around the World Quietly Root for Iran
- at 8/23/26 6:00pmReprinted with permission from Trita Parsi’s Substack. I have been stunned by the number of officials from a wide variety of countries who, while hardly favoring Iran or feeling much empathy for the Islamic Republic, have privately expressed to me a huge sigh of relief over Tehran’s success in thwarting US-Israeli aggression. Given that many []
- — ICE Wants Our Emails
- at 8/23/26 6:00pmWhen a government agency comes to an internet service provider demanding information about Americans because of what they have said on social media, the provider should discard the demand, close the door or hang up the phone. The government is not entitled to rummage through the political opinions, associations, criticisms and angry rhetoric of anyone []
- — Has Trump Turned the Tables on Iran – or Is Another Round of War Coming?
- at 8/20/26 6:00pmReprinted with permission from Trita Parsi’s Substack. The Trump administration believes it has turned the tables on Iran. Washington assesses that the rerouting of maritime traffic through the Omani corridor, combined with a global shift away from Persian Gulf oil, has reduced the effectiveness of Tehran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz. At the same []
- — Really, O’Reilly? Bill Demands War Crimes In Iran
- at 8/20/26 6:00pmHasn’t Bill O’Reilly done enough harm beating the drums for America’s failed foreign wars? But he’s still around somewhere, trying to top his earlier act with more of his trademark fever-swamp rants, now offering advice to President Donald Trump on the Iran War. His latest advice is the stuff of world historic war crimes. The []
- — Another Trump-Kim Carnival?
- at 8/20/26 6:00pmA Trump-Kim summit would be a spectacle like no other. A carnival extravaganza with the Korean Peninsula holding center stage, and every handshake, expression, seating arrangement, and stray remark dissected by troupes of North Korea pundits across the world’s news networks. But like any great traveling carnival, a few days later ticket holders will be []
- — ‘We’ll Bomb the Sh*t Out of Them’: Trump and the War on Morality
- at 8/19/26 6:00pmConsider this hypothetical: Two apartment buildings share a single parking lot. Management from both Building A and Building B are engaged in negotiations over how the parking lot will be organized, painted, maintained, and paid for. Across the street is a restaurant. The restaurant’s customers primarily come from Building A, and internal studies have shown []
- — How Secretary Bessent Is Going Full-Hegseth Retard to No Avail
- at 8/19/26 6:00pmSix months after Trumpy Bibi launched Operation Epic Fury against Iran on February 28th, the so-called kinetic campaign has settled into a costly stalemate, at best. And a de facto military defeat as a practical matter. In fact, what began as another furious “shock and awe” military offensive designed to quickly and fatally degrade []
- — The GOP’s Fading Economic Advantage
- at 8/18/26 6:00pmAs the 2026 midterms approach, a nationwide poll released in early August delivered a warning that goes to the heart of the Republican Party’s political identity: for the first time in nearly a decade, voters said Democrats were better stewards of the economy than Republicans. For years, Republicans benefited from a broad perception that they []
- — Korean Peninsula: One Small Step in the Right Direction
- at 8/18/26 6:00pm“President Donald Trump’s decision to scale back joint military exercises with South Korea,” Matthew Lee and Ben Finley write for the Associated Press, “does not just slight a longtime ally but raises broader concerns about the security interests of the United States in Asia and elsewhere.” Trump’s reason for supposedly, and in unspecified ways, downsizing []
- — How the US-EU Partnership Is Fracturing
- at 8/17/26 6:00pmThe US increasingly prioritizes technological dominance, supply-chain security, industrial protection and strategic competition with China. Under Trump, this approach has become openly transactional and unilateral: tariffs, market access and security instruments are used to compel partners and competitors alike. The EU, by contrast, seeks regulatory power, industrial resilience, climate leadership and greater strategic autonomy. Brussels []
- — Support the Troops: Bring Them Home!
- at 8/17/26 6:00pmLast week we heard that US sailors and Marines aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln and other ships in the Middle East were being fed food that, from photos that surfaced in the media, looked worse than what you would feed a dog. Parents and spouses of service members risked disciplinary action against their loved ones []
- — Solidarity Is Not Enough: Why the World Must Force Accountability on Gaza Now
- at 8/16/26 6:00pmIt is now official: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has flatly rejected the core conditions of the Board of Peace framework, explicitly stating that Israel will neither adhere to a ceasefire nor withdraw its forces from Gaza. During a cabinet meeting on Sunday, Netanyahu stated with unambiguous language: Israel rejects the 15-point document published by []
- — The Right To Be Left Alone
- at 8/13/26 6:00pmThe makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness They conferred against the Government the right to be let alone — most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men. ~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941) The rapid spread of public surveillance cameras represents something far more consequential than a new []
- — The Two Terrorists: Britain Jails Tweets While the West Crowns al-Qaeda’s Man in Damascus
- at 8/13/26 6:00pmTwo men, one word. Next Monday, at Kingston Crown Court in London, a 72-year-old grandfather goes on trial for terrorism; the evidence is a tweet of seven words, and the maximum sentence is 14 years. Nine months ago, a man who founded al-Qaedas Syrian branch and carried a $10 million American bounty on his head []
- — Paper Tiger: The Failure of America’s Trillion-Dollar War Machine
- at 8/12/26 6:00pmAccording to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the United States spent $21 trillion on its military between 2001 and 2024 (in constant 2024 dollars), equal to the combined military spending of the next eighteen countries. Iran barely made that list at all, spending only 2% of what the US did, and SIPRI estimated []
- — The Secret Marriage: How Arab States Betrayed Palestine While Denouncing Gaza
- at 8/12/26 6:00pmSomeone had to organize the catering; thats the detail that got me. From the start of Israels assault on Gaza, Arab states have issued a steady stream of condemnation – labeling it genocide, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing – even as theyve been secretly deepening their military ties with the very state carrying it out. The []
- — When ‘Victory’ No Longer Justifies the Iran War
- at 8/12/26 6:00pmCNN reported this weekend that Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has privately urged senior Trump administration officials to look for an “off-ramp” from the war with Iran. According to three sources familiar with the discussions, Caine has warned that further escalation could backfire and that airpower alone is unlikely to []
- — The Bomb in Monaco and a Torture Room Near Kyiv
- at 8/11/26 6:00pmThey took her trainers. That is the detail that survives, once the rest is stripped away – the belongings removed from the corpse, the shoes pulled from her feet, the shallow hole in woods sixty kilometers west of Kyiv. Anastasiia Berezovska had been shot in the back of the head, then shot again as she []
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