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Iran War

US-Iran on dangerous path to blowing up MOU over Hormuz

Ayatollah Khamenei's carefully crafted and choreographed funeral

Gulf State Catch-22: Time to drop US as chief security guarantor?

Critics of lifting Iran sanctions can't offer a viable alternative

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Trump's big idea: Deploy assassination teams to Mexico

Ripping up Trump's 'battle plan' of attack on Mexico's cartels

We became the late 18th Century British. What now?

Congress quietly moves to integrate US and Israeli militaries

Hormuz chokepoint? Turkey wants to be king of the Middle Corridor

Is Lebanon hurtling towards a Libya-style civil war?
Middle East

Is Lebanon hurtling towards a Libya-style civil war?

Forcing a hard wedge against the country's Shia is exactly what Israel wants, but it could imperil a wide range of US interests in the Middle East

China just got one step closer to its own nuclear triad
Asia-Pacific

China just got one step closer to its own nuclear triad

China and Russia and the US icebreaker race
North America

China and Russia and the US icebreaker race

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Military Industrial Complex

Trump acquired at least $10 million in defense stocks last year

Rahm Emanuel
Washington Politics

Eying 2028, Rahm Emanuel test drives tough love message in Israel

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Military Industrial Complex

Five outrageous ways defense contractors have buttered up Trump

QiOSK

Staff quick takes, dispatches, and breaking news

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QiOSK

Trump: giving Ukraine Patriot Missile license is 'cool.' No it's not.

Experts say this is a disaster in the making, chiefly because our intellectual property will be out there and the risk not worth it.

Israel wants to build space attack lasers now

Huckabee: Israel 'the 436th congressional district' of US

Iranians believe Israel will restart war before its October elections

Half of new Pentagon advisory board works for military industry

Asia-Pacific

China just got one step closer to its own nuclear triad

China just got one step closer to its own nuclear triad

Goodbye Indo-Pacific, hello first island chain!

Goodbye Indo-Pacific, hello first island chain!

China Russia navy

Thinking twice about that US-China superwar

New Solomon Islands PM breaks with China, cozies up to the West

New Solomon Islands PM breaks with China, cozies up to the West

Middle east

Is Lebanon hurtling towards a Libya-style civil war?

Is Lebanon hurtling towards a Libya-style civil war?

Forcing a hard wedge against the country's Shia is exactly what Israel wants, but it could imperil a wide range of US interests in the Middle East

Outside the Bubble Watch the latest QI reports

Trita Parsi: Beltway hawks desperate to upend MOU to end warplay icon

Trita Parsi: Beltway hawks desperate to upend MOU to end war

Washington Politics

Rahm Emanuel

Eying 2028, Rahm Emanuel test drives tough love message in Israel

Inside the growing religious revolt against Christian Zionism

Inside the growing religious revolt against Christian Zionism

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Seeing in real time why founders kicked monarchy to the curb

Pete Hegseth William Westmoreland

Forget the Vietnam war 'gap' we have a real credibility chasm today

Africa

US knows UAE fueling war in Sudan but $1.4 trillion is getting in the way

US knows UAE fueling war in Sudan but $1.4 trillion is getting in the way

HIV/AIDS support is latest casualty in Trump's 'white genocide' beef

How a shake-up in Senegal could strengthen Trump's hand in the Sahel

Dying in Diesel protests: Africa slammed by Iran war energy crisis

Latin America

Does the Pentagon even know who its boat strikes are killing?

Does the Pentagon even know who its boat strikes are killing?

Under Team Trump eye, Venezuela makes move toward elections

Hyper-militarized 'war on narco-terror' is not stopping drug flows

No clear winner: Colombia's hard right and left will battle out in runoff

Europe

NATO Summit 2025

NATO Summit: Time to take the transatlantic crisis by the horns

For its own sake, Ukraine must not normalize Nazi collaborators

When did Western statecraft lose its fear of the unknown?

Zelensky threatens Belarus as NATO hovers at edges of war

north america

China and Russia and the US icebreaker race

China and Russia and the US icebreaker race

Is Trump finally burying the zombie US-Mexico-Canada trade pact?

Throwing thousands more soldiers at Haiti will not solve this crisis

CIA deaths in Mexico: Is Trump playing with fire?

Military Industrial Complex

Space attack laser

Israel wants to build space attack lasers now

'We must be the leading country in the world with this capability,' says Israeli Defense Minister Katz

Media

WaPo op-ed backs Section 224, omits author's direct Israeli stake

WaPo op-ed backs Section 224, omits author's direct Israeli stake

war comic books

How comics taught us how to love and hate war for nearly a century

Iran school attack

Why did mainstream media slow-walk coverage of school attack?

Gen Z doesn't have the same hang-ups about Iran as older Americans

Gen Z doesn't have the same hang-ups about Iran as older Americans

Global Crises

Syrian refugees Greece

The forgotten fugitives of US forever wars

It's great when Washington can end the conflicts it starts, but on this World Refugee Day let's recall that the ensuing crises they cause are not so easily controlled