The most egregious lie underlying the UniParty’s proxy war in Ukraine is the claim that the latter is just another innocent sovereign nation suffering unprovoked invasion and despoilment at the hands of the world latest land-grabbing tyrant. In fact, however, no...
Reprinted with permission from Trita Parsi‘s Substack: Much of the Middle East was on edge this past weekend, fearing that President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would restart the Iran war. Thankfully, hostilities didn’t resume, but it’s...
“It’s not tariffs… it’s the war, it’s gas prices, it’s diesel.” In leaked audio obtained by Axios, Ken Paxton, the Republican nominee for senate in Texas, spoke candidly about what he believes are the biggest issues hurting his campaign. The Iran war, which has...
At a campaign rally over the weekend, President Trump dismissed Americans’ concerns over high oil and gas prices, claiming that it’s a small price to pay for the hundreds of billions of dollars “we” are making from these higher prices. “We’re making a fortune,” he...
As if the world did not have enough geopolitical flashpoints, the dormant 150-year-old territorial dispute between Russia and Japan over the Kuril Islands has resurfaced. The latest phase of the bilateral spat began in mid-August 2026 when Russian president Vladimir...
When you boil down the essence of the alleged Russian military threat to America’s homeland security it amounts to just plain barking idiocy; it’s so out to lunch as to be offensive to even a modicum of human intelligence. As we have seen in Parts 1 & 2, any...
Reprinted from Andy Worthington’s website. It’s worse than we thought. In research that I have undertaken over the last few weeks based on information compiled by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) about Palestinian journalists killed by Israel since October...
"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground." ~ Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) The U.S. Constitution was ratified to create and to restrain the government. It established boundaries beyond which the government may not venture,...
On New Year’s Eve in 2023, on the Danish side of the border with Germany, two children stood near their father’s house watching fireworks. The boy was ten, his sister thirteen. A team of masked men in black stormed the house, beat the father to the ground, and took...
The recent death in my family underscored for me the devastating impact of personal grief, illuminating the deep loss and constant state of mortality that Palestinian families endure every day. To be Palestinian is to carry an inherited archive of loss. After nearly a...
