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We often hear U.S. and NATO spokesmen claim that they believe in a rules-based international order. They don’t. The United States and its NATO allies have stressed repeatedly that Russia’s use of force to seize portions of Ukraine is reprehensible. They were emphatic on that point in 2014 when the Kremlin responded to the West’s … Continue reading “Turkey: A Rogue US Ally’s Territorial Conquests”

“We were so close,” Cassandra Dixon wrote, from Malta -where she had hoped to board Conscience, the aptly named Freedom Flotilla ship which two weaponized drones bombed on May 2, 2025, almost certainly launched by Israel. Cassandra had traveled to Malta after spending six weeks in Masafer Yatta, the West Bank region where, for two … Continue reading “We Were So Close: Life After Conscience and the Abraham Accords”

The Trump administration warned recently that, if progress is not made in negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, they could walk away from the talks. On April 18, U.S. President Donald Trump said, “If for some reason one of the two parties makes it very difficult, we’re just going to say, ‘you’re foolish, you’re … Continue reading “US Change in Tone May Not be to Ukraine’s Benefit”

In his recent piece for The Free Press, Michael Ames accuses others – journalists, NGOs, international aid agencies – of engaging in rhetorical manipulation. Yet the irony is almost unbearable: his own article is a masterclass in precisely that. Ames purports to clarify, to cut through the noise and deliver a sobering verdict on what … Continue reading “A Masterclass in Sanitized Cruelty”

Donald Trump’s unexpected answer on Sunday to an interviewer’s question has thrown his administration’s nuclear negotiations with Iran into confusion. U.S. President Donald Trump has consistently said that negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program are limited to preventing Iran from developing a nuclear weapon: “You know, it’s not a complicated formula. Iran cannot have … Continue reading “Trump Interview Puts Iran Negotiations in Jeopardy”

Reprinted with permission from The Realist Review. May 8th marks eighty years since the end of the Second Word War in Europe. While the British, Soviet and American alliance emerged victorious in the war against Hitler’s Germany, we soon found ourselves in the midst of a new and dangerous Cold War with our erstwhile allies … Continue reading “How Truman Lost The Postwar Peace”

Earlier this week, North Korea officially confirmed what had long been rumored: its troops fought and died alongside Russian forces in Kursk to help repel the Ukrainian invasion. Kim Jong Un announced the construction of a memorial in Pyongyang, saying, “Before the tombstones of the fallen soldiers, flowers will be laid as a token of … Continue reading “How Kursk Changed Everything and Opened a Window for Peace in Korea”

Reprinted with permission from EricMargolis.com. One of the world’s, oldest and most dangerous conflicts went critical this past week as nuclear armed India and Pakistan traded threats of war. The Kashmir conflict is the oldest one before the UN. In my book `War at the Top of the World’ I warned that the confrontation over … Continue reading “Will We See Mushroom Clouds Over Kashmir?”

On April 17, the U.S. presented Ukrainian and European officials with a framework for peace that declared itself “the final offer.” On April 23, Ukrainian and European officials, denying the “final offer” statement, presented the U.S. with an alternative peace plan of their own. Western officials and media have complained that the U.S. plan is … Continue reading “Can Diplomacy Stop the War in Ukraine? Dueling Peace Plans.”

A seemingly strange choice was made by a correspondent for Israel’s Channel 12 this month, when he decided to publish a humiliating video of a relatively large number of Israeli soldiers coming under attack by a single Palestinian fighter. In the incident that was filmed last year, soldiers are seen stumbling down the stairs of … Continue reading “How Gaza War Has Exposed Fault Lines Among Israeli Elites”