President Donald Trump said that he was an hour away from giving the military the order to restart the war before he was convinced to call off the attack. “We were all set to go ... It would have been happening right now,” Trump told reporters at the White House on...
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said that the International Criminal Court has declared war on Israel by issuing arrest warrants for top officials. On Tuesday, the Israeli minister said, “Last night I was informed that a request for a secret international arrest...
John and I continue commentary and reading Rules for Radicals
Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) tweeted on May 4, 2026: For nearly six decades the U.S. has voluntarily remained in the dark on Israel's nuclear capabilities. The ambiguity ends now. There is too much at stake to accept ignorance. We are at war alongside Israel against...
Advances in what is often depicted as AI (artifical inteligence) have been immense, from the clumsy animation of Will Smith gorging on spaghetti, to the photo realistic images of unreal personalities, to the short clips promising to change cinema. Social media has...
A president calling reporters “treasonous” isn’t just a hot take, it’s a warning sign. Harrison Berger joins me to break down how that rhetoric is being used to police debate around the Iran war, and why it echoes years of reckless “traitor” accusations aimed at...
A prosecutor at the International Criminal Court is seeking an arrest warrant for Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. Middle East Eye reported speaking with officials on Monday who confirmed that the office of the prosecutor at the ICC is seeking a warrant for...
A senior US official said that the latest offer received from Iran was unacceptable, and President Donald Trump was considering breaking the ceasefire with Iran. According to a senior official and a second source speaking with Axios, the White House views the Iranian...
President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that he had planned to restart the war against Iran on Tuesday, but called off the strikes after requests from Washington’s Gulf Arab allies. “I have been asked by the Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the Crown...
Trump comes back from Beijing claiming he got a major concession from Xi on Iran, but what happens when the key details are private, unverifiable, and packaged for headlines? We walk through the public messaging, the contradictions, and the incentives on both sides,...
