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The Summit Washington Couldn’t Stop
A photograph moved across the Western wires with a caption in capital letters. "COUNTER US POWER," it read, above an image of the Kyrgyzstan president walking China's Xi Jinping past an honor guard in Bishkek, when they met at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization...
Washington Is Losing the Global Battle of Public Opinion
For decades, one of the keys to Washington’s power has been its ability to use favorably inclined allies as force multipliers. Now, facing its first peer competitor in generations, Washington has been busily alienating pretty much everyone it can. This alienation can...
9/1/26 Nolan Denaro on JD Vance, Pete Hegseth and the Failures of MAGA War Hawks
Download Audio. Scott interviews writer and podcast host Nolan Denaro about several columns he’s written recently for Antiwar.com. They dig into the shortcomings, failures and overall depravity of the war hawks in the current MAGA movement. Discussed on the show:...
Energy Secretary: Nuclear Deal With Iran May Not Happen Under Trump
Energy Secretary Chris Wright said President Donald Trump may not reach a new nuclear agreement with Tehran during his presidency, suggesting the US could instead focus on destroying Iran’s nuclear capabilities. “There may not be a nuclear agreement. It may be simply...
Dozens of Joint Staff Members Given Polygraphs in Hunt for Leakers
Investigators forced dozens of civilian employees and military officials assigned to the Joint Chiefs of Staff to take polygraphs. The Pentagon is looking for leakers amid a flurry of reports about the state of US weapons stockpiles. The New York Times reported on...
Witkoff, Kushner Meet Putin in Moscow, Zelensky in Kiev
President Donald Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, traveled to Moscow and Kiev for meetings on ending the war in Ukraine. On Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin held three hours of talks with Kushner and Witkoff. Yuri Ushakov, an...
Lindsay Clancy Mistrial
Timeline, Buck's article, my thoughts.
From Clancy, to Benoit, to Fisher and Gaza…children are innocent
One of the current trending intrigues asks how a mother, Lindsay Clancy, should be handled. She has admitted to the murder of her three children. Despite the usual cavalcade of conspiracy theorists and online detectives insisting she may be a patsy, or set up. The...
Iceland Defeats Great Britain, Again and Again
Iceland successfully defended its territorial waters and defeated the British Royal Navy through non-military tactics across three (some say four) major conflicts known as the Cod Wars between 1958 and 1976. If Iceland were to do this today, the wreck of the Royal...
