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Politics Incentivizes Trump Away From Peace
The early polling on President Donald Trump’s war against Iran presents what might, at first glance, look like a constraint on escalation. Across numerous polls a majority of Americans oppose the conflict with support for military action rarely breaking out of the...
Trump’s American Tragedy
The Israeli-American attack on Iran has been defined more than anything by the nonsensical nature of the messaging, with statements listing any number of potential goals. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump, always eccentric and erratic, has been ranting about an...
Trump Calls on Congress to Pass FISA Extension
President Donald Trump called on Congress to extend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Section 702 for 18 months. While FISA was intended to surveil foreigners to provide security, it was expanded and abused to illegally surveil Americans. “When used...
Iran Threatens to Close Red Sea to Shipping in Response to Invasion
If the US invades Iran, Tehran will act through its allies in Yemen to close the Bab al-Mandab Strait, which connects the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. “If the enemy wants to take action on land in the Iranian islands or anywhere else in our lands or to inflict costs...
Iran Rejects Trump’s Offer to End War
Iranian state media reported speaking with officials who said Tehran has rejected a 15-point peace proposal to end the war in the Middle East. On Monday, President Donald Trump said the US talks with Iran were progressing, and Washington sent Tehran a peace proposal...
Understanding the Nativist new-Right
There is a surge among the liberal democracies towards a nativist conservatism. The United States experienced the lie of Donald Trump’s MAGA and the misplaced promise of an America First, once a dirty word, now a salvation for not only the war wracked planet but the...
The United Arab Emirates Is Creating This Century’s ‘Heart of Darkness’
During the late nineteenth century, under the aegis of a colonial order supervised by the French and British and German Empires, the constitutional monarch of Belgium, a tiny country in Europe, created an imitation empire that became the world’s evilest regime. In...
We Did Win, Didn’t We?
“We've won. Let me tell you, we've won. You know, you never like to say too early you won. We won. We won the – in the first hour it was over. We won," President Donald Trump declared, claiming “we won” five times in just thirteen seconds at a Kentucky rally on March...
US Airstrikes in Iraq Kill 15 PMF Fighters, Including Senior Commander
Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) said on Tuesday that US airstrikes in Anbar, western Iraq, killed 15 of its fighters, including a senior commander. Iraqi media reported that Iraqi Prime Minister “In a blatant and cowardly attack, the commander of the Anbar...
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