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Military Industrial Complex

This creepy Israeli spy tech is likely operating in a city near you

Police departments across the US are buying phone tracking equipment from Cognyte Solutions

President Donald Trump welcomes Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud at the South Portico of the White House
Middle East

Did Trump put a poison pill in his own Saudi nuclear deal?

The administration seems to want it both ways but neither Riyadh or Israel will likely get on board with conditions to make this happen

Miriam Adelson looks on as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House
Media

Israel's Lobby 2.0: What Walt & Mearsheimer didn't anticipate

In their new book, Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick chart the evolution of this powerful special interest and its unmatched influence in the US

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Middle East

After 6 months of war, why aren't oil prices even higher?

Markets analyst Rory Johnston spoke with RS about why worst case predictions about crude markets have yet to materialize

Trump nukes
Middle East

Turns out having nukes provided the US very little leverage

The weapon Washington insists Iran must never possess proved largely incapable forcing Tehran to capitulate or prevent it from retaliating in this war

south lebanon israeli airstrikes
Middle East

Forest fires just the beginning of Israel's destruction of Lebanon

US aid is allowing IDF to systematically blow up villages, spray herbicide, shoot white phosphorus — making the land uninhabitable in the south