NATO’s Ukraine proxy war seeks to weaken Russia and topple Putin. To launch an economic, information and ground war, NATO needed Russia to invade. Now it needs Russia to attack a NATO nation to justify direct war. Watch the replay.
The DNC’s decision to scrap the autopsy on the 2024 defeat to Donald Trump is a political gift to the former vice president as she gears up for 2028, writes Norman Solomon.
Professor Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, a former political prisoner from Iran, explains that Western decision-makers miscalculate when they bet on Iran’s cultural relationship with rebellion.
The United States – the cynosure of Western society — has committed moral suicide in Gaza; and the death certificate was issued in Iran, writes Michael Brenner.
Israel’s zero-click spyware is profoundly unconstitutional as it is an AI version of computer hacking, which is a felony, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. But don’t expect the feds to prosecute their own.
Alastair Crooke on the Trump administration’s most recent National Security Strategy, which critiques U.S. pursuit of global primacy as a failure.
The festival of pardons that now features prominently in America’s political life offers a measure of how the republic, in its late-imperial phase, is crumbing.
Alfred W. McCoy on the role of energy over the past five centuries in fueling imperial supremacy and the current politics of American decline amid China’s green-energy ride to global power.
U.S. civil rights laws are being exploited to suppress pro-Palestine speech in an authoritarian assault on academic freedom, finds a report by two academic groups.
The role last year of a U.S. Navy helicopter when Israeli forces killed hundreds of Palestinians during a hostage rescue operation is questioned by Abdullah Farooq and Griffin Mahon.