There appears to be a good chance that Trump and his people have concluded that there is a fine line between attacking the Deep State and going along with it.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Epstein Follies
Category: Column
JOHN KIRIAKOU: An Unpardonable Process
It’s an insurmountable conflict of interest to have the U.S. pardon attorney reporting directly to the Justice Department’s person in charge of prosecutions.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Chihuahuas, Not Dobermans
Trump’s determination to end the Ukraine war has forced the Europeans, at last, to go their own way. And they charge in precisely the wrong direction.
AS`AD AbuKHALIL: Trump’s Vision for Gaza
The U.S. president’s ethnic-cleansing plan is the latest installment in the Zionist project, for over a century, to eradicate Palestinians’ national aspirations.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trump 2.0 Crosses the Atlantic
Whatever the future may hold — and seldom does it present such promise and peril as now — Trump and his national-security team set a lot of wheels in motion last week.
SCOTT RITTER: Trump’s Munich Strategy
At the security conference in Germany we just saw Trump make a classic adaptation of John Boyd’s OODA-loop to destroy his NATO and EU enemies.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Musk & the Myth of USAID
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Where Have All the Liberals Gone?
The new liberal consensus, born of a shared “exhaustion,” is that it is time to “tune out,” or “take a break,” or simply close one’s eyes and ears.
SCOTT RITTER: Trump’s Doomed Plan for Ukraine
“The Hard Way” — Special Envoy Keith Kellogg’s proposed oil-price manipulations targeting Russia would actually devastate U.S. oil production and the U.S. economy.
Vijay Prashad: Promethean Aspirations
The U.S. sees the economic advancements of China and other Asian countries as a “fierce competition.” For the Global South, however, this represents immense opportunity.