Twenty-five years since the September 11 attacks, it is trite to say that if Americans as a whole learned anything, they learned none of the right things. I was in eighth grade at the time, attending a rural school over 2,000 miles from New York City, but nevertheless...
September 11, 2001 was the day the United States stood still and Americans looked at each other in utter shock. Ask anyone where they were the morning of 9/11, and the majority of Americans will get a look of sadness or anger. That morning I woke up on McCord Air...
The loudest voices keep insisting the U.S. is “winning” against Iran, but winning should be measurable and explainable, not just repeated until it feels true. We sit down with Matt Hoh to test the claims against what’s happening in the Persian Gulf, where the Strait...
President Donald Trump said Americans should expect the war against Iran to continue through November’s midterm elections, predicting the conflict will end shortly afterward. Meanwhile, the Department of War is preparing to maintain a major US military presence in the...
Yemen’s ruling Ansar Allah movement captured a key Red Sea port city. Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis, has made gains since the war with Saudi Arabia reignited in July. On Thursday, Ansar Allah’s forces captured Mokha, a strategic port city about 50 miles from...
An official with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said ending the war requires the US to halt its attacks and threats, unfreeze Iranian assets, force Israel to withdraw from Lebanon, end the blockade of Yemen, and refrain from interfering with Iran’s...
Kay opened the door after a series of heavy knocks. It was getting late, her husband was away for work and she just assumed it was the next door neighbours. Two police men stood outside her door, behind them flashing lights and several other police officers carrying...
For years, an odd meeting between three men notorious in the Oklahoma City bombing literature has been reported to have taken place at a Tulsa strip club, with one or two Ryder trucks in the parking lot, bragging about an incident that would occur eleven days later,...
In Washington DC, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant buffs his nail on his shirt as he intervenes in support of the Japanese yen. Well, Japan is the leading foreign creditor of Washington’s borrowing. It holds $1.2 trillion in U.S. Treasury securities, and a country...
Netanyahu doesn’t just hint at confrontation with Iran, he says the quiet part out loud: the aim is to bring the regime down. We play the clip, then pull apart what that means in practice, especially when U.S. leaders keep selling the war as a narrower fight about...
