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Iran War

Israel's assassination game: Take all pragmatists off the board

Like Iraq, key intelligence before Iran strikes was ignored

Trump bombing US-Arab relations back to the 70s

Trump wages war, his sons get payoff through savvy investments

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‘Water War’ rages as India-Pakistan tensions reach boiling point

Not so diplomatic: Witkoff, Kushner, and Trump’s march to war in Iran

Are we on the precipice of World War III?

Congress quietly moves US closer to military draft

Even if team Trump wanted it, a military draft would be a fiasco

Kharg island Iran
Middle East

Seizing Iran’s ‘crown jewel’ would be a suicide mission

An operation to hold Tehran's oil hostage by taking over Kharg Island could end up delivering the regime hostages of its own


Argentina Buenos Aires
Latin America

Hezbollah in Latin America: A political bugaboo rolling out on cue

President Donald Trump
Middle East

Vast number of Trump voters want him to declare victory and get out

Iran war shows perils of America's Mideast bases
Middle East

Iran war shows perils of America's Mideast bases

Lebanon Beirut
Middle East

US policy toward Lebanon is badly broken

Prime Minister Bart de Wever
Latest

A Euro leader cursed for calling for peace — with Russia

QiOSK

Staff quick takes, dispatches, and breaking news

Donald Trump
QiOSK

Trump's window for face-saving exit may be closing now

Escalation is only putting him in a lose-lose situation, so negotiating is the only option. However, Iran's growing leverage could prevent an easy off-ramp.

Tulsi Gabbard: US and Israeli war goals are not identical

Dems: We will not approve one more cent for this war

Larijani's killing will destroy Iran war off-ramps for Trump

Senior US official resigns in protest of Iran war

Asia-Pacific

Trump ASEAN

The Supreme Court did Trump a favor in Southeast Asia

nuclear weapons

Is China really testing nuclear weapons?

US military Palau

US working to expand control over Compact states in the Pacific

G7 Summit

Middle Powers are setting the table so they won't be 'on the menu'

Middle east

Kharg island Iran

Seizing Iran’s ‘crown jewel’ would be a suicide mission

An operation to hold Tehran's oil hostage by taking over Kharg Island could end up delivering the regime hostages of its own


Outside the Bubble Watch the latest QI reports

QI honors Reps. Khanna, Massie for reining in militarismplay icon

QI honors Reps. Khanna, Massie for reining in militarism

Washington Politics

Ignorance about war powers plays right into Trump's hands

Ignorance about war powers plays right into Trump's hands

Will Democrats pop Trump's $50 billion trial balloon for war?

Will Democrats pop Trump's $50 billion trial balloon for war?

Hegseth Caine Pentagon

‘Un-American’ critics of war represent the majority of Americans

Israel launches Bible study program targeting US evangelicals

Israel launches Bible study program targeting US evangelicals

Africa

Trump's 'commercial diplomacy' runs into violent reality

Trump's 'commercial diplomacy' runs into violent reality

South Africa: Between Iran and a hard place (Donald Trump)

US trashed Somalia, can we really scold its people for coming here?

Is Somaliland recognition worth a new Israeli outpost on the Red Sea?

Latin America

Argentina Buenos Aires

Hezbollah in Latin America: A political bugaboo rolling out on cue

Vatican quietly steps up role in US-Cuba talks

As Iran war rages, Washington opens a new front in Ecuador

How Maduro overthrow was key node in US-Israeli war on Iran

Europe

As Trump squeezes, can de Villepin give new backbone to France?

As Trump squeezes, can de Villepin give new backbone to France?

Russia shouldn't get too excited about oil sanctions relief

Is Ukraine peace toast now that the Middle East is on fire?

On Iran, Spain's Sanchez rises above the bowed heads of Europe

north america

Russian icebreakers

Trump's Greenland, Canada threats reflect angst over Russia shipping

Canada is not interested in White House boot licking. So what?

Tech billionaires behind Greenland bid want to build 'freedom cities'

Is Greenland next? Denmark says, not so fast.

Military Industrial Complex

POGO The Bunker

The Iran war's early lessons

This week in The Bunker: Every war is instructive in its own way, and the U.S. war on Iran is already offering up 'lessons learned' for future conflicts; and more.

Media

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

Ngo Dinh Diem vietnam coup assassination

'Kennedy's Coup' signaled regime change doom loop for US

Hegseth to take control of Stars & Stripes for 'warfighter' makeover

Hegseth to take control of Stars & Stripes for 'warfighter' makeover

Global Crises

Tom Cotton Mike Johnson Pete Hegseth

‘Axis of cope’: What happens when they learn all the wrong lessons?

Now that things haven't gone quite as planned, watch Washington hawks dial it up more, this time against China