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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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        Starmer's exit exposes dirty secret: UK can't afford Ukraine War
    
Ian Proud
June 24, 2026

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

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

        Trump’s $88 billion Iran war request is stuffed with pork
    
Stavroula Pabst
June 25, 2026

        Trump's big idea: Deploy assassination teams to Mexico
    
Christopher Fettweis
May 15, 2024
Washington Politics
        We became the late 18th Century British. What now?
    The US has a lot of vassals — partners and allies who depend on our protection. It's the kind of empire that can diminish when we are no longer useful.
David C. Hendrickson
July 01, 2026
Latin America
        Does the Pentagon even know who its boat strikes are killing?
    
Adam Isacson
July 01, 2026
Military Industrial Complex
        Washington is subsidizing Israel's booming global arms trade
    
Stavroula Pabst
July 01, 2026
Washington Politics
        The dark-money operation behind China-baiting in the homeland
    
Nick Cleveland-Stout
June 30, 2026
Washington Politics
        By the sword: America was born intervening
    
Monica Duffy Toft
June 30, 2026
Europe
        For its own sake, Ukraine must not normalize Nazi collaborators
    
Zachary Paikin
June 29, 2026
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QiOSK
        Huckabee: Israel 'the 436th congressional district' of US
    The ambassador also says Washington will build a permanent embassy in Jerusalem
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

        Trita Parsi: Beltway hawks desperate to upend MOU to end war
    
Courtney Rawlings
Alex Jordan
June 26, 2026

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

        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

        Trump's intensified airstrikes in Nigeria are strategically pointless
    
Alex Thurston
May 26, 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
    

        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

        Starmer's exit exposes dirty secret: UK can't afford Ukraine War
    
Ian Proud
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

The US has a lot of vassals — partners and allies who depend on our protection. It's the kind of empire that can diminish when we are no longer useful.

QiOSK

The ambassador also says Washington will build a permanent embassy in Jerusalem

Asia-Pacific

Middle east

Opposing the steps needed to make negotiations succeed is an argument for returning to the very strategy that produced war.

Outside the Bubble Watch the latest QI reports

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Washington Politics

Africa

Latin America

Europe

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Military Industrial Complex

Right-to-repair rules would put an end to a defense contractor ‘racket’ that hurts combat readiness and gouges taxpayers

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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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