Aide to Muqtada al-Sadr Assassinated; 28 Killed in Iraq
Trump’s Investment in North Korea
Donald Trump loves to tell the following story. You go to a bank and borrow $3 million. If you can’t pay it back, you have a problem. But say you go to a bank and borrow $300 million. Then, if you can’t pay it back, both you and the bank have a problem. In other...
Sovereignty, Singapore, and the Road to Peace
A lot of the confusion and anger exhibited by the political class – still in shock over Hillary Clinton’s defeat – is due to their inability to accept the pace and character of change. Our Korea “experts” are universally naysaying the Singapore summit not only because...
‘Deal of the Century’ Is Not New and the PA Leadership Is Not a Victim
Donald Trump's "deal of the century" will fail. Palestinians will not exchange their 70-year long struggle for freedom for Jared Kushner's cash; nor will Israel accept even if there is a demilitarized Palestinian state in the West Bank. The order of that...
High-ranking Militia Commander Killed near Kirkuk; 20 Killed in Iraq
Security Forces Redeployed to Fight ISIS Cells; 26 Killed in Iraq
America First, Helsinki and Trump’s Existential Threat to the Empire
The major – perhaps only – redeeming virtue of the Donald's ersatz campaign platform was his clear intent to seek a rapprochement with Russia, revamp America's commitments to NATO and other cold war relics and to discard "Regime Change" as the...
Lessons From Singapore and the Need for a ‘Road Map’
The summit conference of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump achieved what few expected: Leaders of two former adversaries have built trust that can serve as the basis for a lasting peace and normalization of relations. At least ten lessons have been...
The Forgotten and Peculiar War of 1812
This article originally appeared at TruthDig. “Strange indeed did it appear to me to find so many names, familiar household words, as enemies—the very names of officers in our own army. … How uncomfortably like a civil war.” —British Lt. John Le Couteur...


