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        Israel's Wars
    

        Four major dynamics in Gaza War that will impact 2026
    
Khaled Elgindy
Annelle Sheline
December 29, 2025

        Think a $35B gas deal will thaw Egypt toward Israel? Not so fast.
    
Elfadil Ibrahim
December 23, 2025

        Does Israel really still need a 'qualitative military edge' ?
    
Josh Paul
December 23, 2025

        Israel's all-seeing eye is the stealthiest cruelty of all in Gaza
    
Connor Echols
December 16, 2025

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        When Trump's big Venezuela oil grab runs smack into reality
    
Karthik Sankaran
January 04, 2026

        Despite the blob's teeth gnashing, realists got Ukraine right
    
Mark Episkopos
January 06, 2026

        Congress quietly moves US closer to military draft
    
Edward Hasbrouck
December 16, 2025

        Why Russians haven't risen up to stop the Ukraine war
    
Anna Matveeva
December 25, 2025

        Tracking congressional criticism of Trump's attack on Venezuela
    
Connor Echols
January 03, 2026
Latin America
        Nostalgia isn't strategy: Stop the Monroe revisionism and listen
    Offering a sober assessment of 19th and 20th Century US foreign policy and lessons learned the hard way
Brandan P. Buck
January 09, 2026
Middle East
        By suspending 37 aid orgs is Israel pushing toward a final expulsion?
    
Eve Ottenberg
January 09, 2026
Latin America
        Trump's sphere of influence gambit is sloppy, self-sabotage
    
Anatol Lieven
January 08, 2026
Military Industrial Complex
        The reality of Trump’s cartoonish $1.5 trillion DOD budget proposal
    
Ben Freeman
William Hartung
January 08, 2026
Washington Politics
        JFK oversaw Vietnam decapitation. He didn't live to witness the rest.
    
Jack  Cheevers
January 08, 2026
Washington Politics
        Has my party become 'eunuchs in the thrall' of the president?
    
Senator Rand Paul
January 07, 2026
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        Congress subpoenas journalist for sharing name of Venezuela op commander
    The highly unusual move sparked outrage among press freedom advocates
Connor Echols
January 09, 2026

        Finally: Senators vote to block military action in Venezuela
    
Stavroula Pabst
January 08, 2026

        US capture of Russian-flagged ship could derail Ukraine War talks
    
Stavroula Pabst
January 07, 2026

        US weapons stocks booming, CEOs gloating after Maduro toppled
    
Stavroula Pabst
January 05, 2026

        After ousting Maduro, Trump and Rubio put Cuba on notice
    
Stavroula Pabst
January 04, 2026

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        QI honors Reps. Khanna, Massie for reining in militarism
    
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        Africa
    

        Is Somaliland recognition worth a new Israeli outpost on the Red Sea?
    
Connor Echols
January 07, 2026

        6 stories that defined Trump’s approach to Africa in 2025
    
Dan M. Ford
December 31, 2025

        Trump's Christmas Day strikes on Nigeria beg question: Why Sokoto?
    
Taiwo Hassan
December 28, 2025

        Guinea-Bissau: The ‘narco-state’ the US virtually ignores
    
Taiwo Hassan
December 19, 2025
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        Latin America
    

        Nostalgia isn't strategy: Stop the Monroe revisionism and listen
    
Brandan P. Buck
January 09, 2026

        Trump's sphere of influence gambit is sloppy, self-sabotage
    
Anatol Lieven
January 08, 2026

        The US military is feeling invincible, and that's dangerous
    
Dan Grazier
Benjamin Gedan
January 07, 2026

        What risk? Big investors jockeying for potential Venezuela oil rush
    
Nick Cleveland-Stout
January 06, 2026
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        Europe
    

        Europe whistles past the Venezuelan graveyard
    
Eldar Mamedov
January 06, 2026

        Despite the blob's teeth gnashing, realists got Ukraine right
    
Mark Episkopos
January 06, 2026

        Listening to what regular Ukrainians are saying about the war
    
Jackie  Abramian
Artin Dersimonian
January 01, 2026

        Why Russians haven't risen up to stop the Ukraine war
    
Anna Matveeva
December 25, 2025
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        north america
    

        Is Greenland next? Denmark says, not so fast.
    
Pavel Devyatkin
January 05, 2026

        Trade review process could rock the calm in US-Mexico relations
    
Karthik Sankaran
September 15, 2025

        The rising US-NATO-Russia security dilemma in the Arctic
    
Pavel Devyatkin
September 11, 2025

        Trump takes US military one step closer to bombing drug cartels
    
Dan DePetris
August 11, 2025
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Israel's Wars

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Offering a sober assessment of 19th and 20th Century US foreign policy and lessons learned the hard way

QiOSK

The highly unusual move sparked outrage among press freedom advocates

Asia-Pacific

Middle east

At the very least, the decision to cut loose every major Gaza humanitarian group could lead to the utter collapse of Trump's peace plan

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Military Industrial Complex

Battle-tested technology and weapons systems are finding their way into US law enforcement and border patrol

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Ukraine’s attempted suspension of its obligation threatens not just one convention, but the foundations of humanitarian law

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