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        Iran War
    

        Critics of lifting Iran sanctions can't offer a viable alternative
    
Sina Toossi
June 29, 2026

        The Iran war is the most unpopular major conflict in US history
    
Stephen Semler
June 26, 2026

        'Deconfliction cell' is the first test of whether Israel can thwart Iran deal
    
Elfadil Ibrahim
June 23, 2026

        Team Trump squares up to rip Red and Blue critics of Iran peace deal
    
Jack Hunter
June 22, 2026

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        We became the late 18th Century British. What now?
    
David C. Hendrickson
July 01, 2026

        Congress blocks Massie-Khanna effort to kill US-Israel integration
    
Ben Freeman
June 29, 2026

        Trump's big idea: Deploy assassination teams to Mexico
    
Christopher Fettweis
May 15, 2024

        Ripping up Trump's 'battle plan' of attack on Mexico's cartels
    
Christopher Fettweis
April 03, 2023

        Congress quietly moves to integrate US and Israeli militaries
    
Ben Freeman
May 29, 2026
Middle East
        Gulf State Catch-22: Time to drop US as chief security guarantor?
    To do so would rebuff Washington at a time when rebuilding and recalibrating in the wake of a shocking Iran War outcome is of the essence
Emma Ashford
Will Smith
July 06, 2026
Asia-Pacific 
        Thinking twice about that US-China superwar
    
Doug Bandow
July 06, 2026
Europe
        NATO Summit: Time to take the transatlantic crisis by the horns
    
Mark Episkopos
July 06, 2026
Asia-Pacific 
        New Solomon Islands PM breaks with China, cozies up to the West
    
Catherine Wilson
July 02, 2026
Africa
        US knows UAE fueling war in Sudan but $1.4 trillion is getting in the way
    
Elfadil Ibrahim
July 02, 2026
Military Industrial Complex
        Washington is subsidizing Israel's booming global arms trade
    
Stavroula Pabst
July 01, 2026
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Military Industrial Complex
        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
Stavroula Pabst
July 06, 2026

        Huckabee: Israel 'the 436th congressional district' of US
    
Stavroula Pabst
July 01, 2026

        Iranians believe Israel will restart war before its October elections
    
Trita Parsi
July 01, 2026

        Half of new Pentagon advisory board works for military industry
    
Nick Cleveland-Stout
June 30, 2026

        Congress blocks Massie-Khanna effort to kill US-Israel integration
    
Ben Freeman
June 29, 2026

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

        US knows UAE fueling war in Sudan but $1.4 trillion is getting in the way
    
Elfadil Ibrahim
July 02, 2026

        HIV/AIDS support is latest casualty in Trump's 'white genocide' beef
    
Dan M. Ford
June 30, 2026

        How a shake-up in Senegal could strengthen Trump's hand in the Sahel
    
Taiwo Hassan
June 05, 2026

        Dying in Diesel protests: Africa slammed by Iran war energy crisis
    
Dan M. Ford
May 27, 2026
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        Latin America
    

        Does the Pentagon even know who its boat strikes are killing?
    
Adam Isacson
July 01, 2026

        Under Team Trump eye, Venezuela makes move toward elections
    
David Smilde
June 25, 2026

        Hyper-militarized 'war on narco-terror' is not stopping drug flows
    
Lee Schlenker
June 19, 2026

        No clear winner: Colombia's hard right and left will battle out in runoff
    
Lee Schlenker
June 01, 2026
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        Europe
    

        NATO Summit: Time to take the transatlantic crisis by the horns
    
Mark Episkopos
July 06, 2026

        For its own sake, Ukraine must not normalize Nazi collaborators
    
Zachary Paikin
June 29, 2026

        When did Western statecraft lose its fear of the unknown?
    
Matthew Blackburn
June 25, 2026

        Zelensky threatens Belarus as NATO hovers at edges of war
    
Ted Snider
June 24, 2026
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        north america
    

        Is Trump finally burying the zombie US-Mexico-Canada trade pact?
    
Karthik Sankaran
June 11, 2026

        Throwing thousands more soldiers at Haiti will not solve this crisis
    
Dan M. Ford
Joseph  Brennan
April 30, 2026

        CIA deaths in Mexico: Is Trump playing with fire?
    
Juan Rojas
April 24, 2026

        Trump's Greenland, Canada threats reflect angst over Russia shipping
    
Ian Proud
February 02, 2026
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Iran War

Most Read

To do so would rebuff Washington at a time when rebuilding and recalibrating in the wake of a shocking Iran War outcome is of the essence

QiOSK

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

Asia-Pacific

Middle east

To do so would rebuff Washington at a time when rebuilding and recalibrating in the wake of a shocking Iran War outcome is of the essence

Outside the Bubble Watch the latest QI reports

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Military Industrial Complex

We cannot outsource components of our national security to nations that do not share our interests and that is exactly what this proposed scheme would do

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Global Crises

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

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