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Iran War

Trump wages war, his sons get payoff through savvy investments

The Iran War cheerleaders and the weapons industry that funds them

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

Trump's ill-fated attempt to copy Israel's 'mowing the grass' strategy

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Did Caine just announce the Morgenthau option for Iran?

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

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

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

Are we on the precipice of World War III?

Powell
Middle East

Like Iraq, key intelligence before Iran strikes was ignored

This fits a familiar pattern: information is welcomed when it licenses action, sidelined when it constrains it

Ali Larijani Iran
Middle East

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

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A Euro leader cursed for calling for peace — with Russia

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

Trump bombing US-Arab relations back to the 70s
Middle East

Trump bombing US-Arab relations back to the 70s

QiOSK

Staff quick takes, dispatches, and breaking news

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

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

Israel’s strike on key figure might close doors to de-escalation

Senior US official resigns in protest of Iran war

Hegseth lauds Iran campaign but ignores shrinking US stockpiles

Israel’s push for Somaliland base raises fears of wider war

Most Iranian Americans want diplomacy with Iran: poll

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

Ali Larijani Iran

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

The killing of Ali Larijani paves the way for more hardliners to fill the void, and conveniently for some, less chance to end the war peacefully

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

Vatican quietly steps up role in US-Cuba talks

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

Chile, meet Donroe: Rubio yanks visas over proposed China deal

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