The Strait of Hormuz is the kind of choke point people talk about in theory, right up until it closes and the whole global economy starts to feel it. We’re joined by Ambassador Chas Freeman, a veteran American diplomat, to make sense of the US-Iran ceasefire drama and...
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One Aircraft Carrier Strike Group to Leave the Middle East
The USS Gerald R. Ford will return to the US after nearly a year at war. The Ford is one of three aircraft carrier strike groups in the Middle East. The Washington Post reported speaking with US officials who said USS Ford will be leaving the region in the coming...
Pentagon Develops Plan to Resume Strikes on Iran
US Central Command (CENTCOM) has prepared battle plans for a round of strikes against Iran. Axios spoke with three people familiar with the Department of War’s planning to resume strikes against Iran. According to the sources CENTCOM, the US military command...
Trump’s Idolatry of Israel Is Too Clever By Half
Some called it "Operation Grim Beeper." That may seem clever to adolescents, but there is nothing funny about the promiscuous mutilation of human beings. On the afternoon of September 17, 2024, thousands of handheld pagers exploded simultaneously across Lebanon. Their...
‘Two-Tier Keir’ Starmer and the Double Standard of Politics
The happenings of the political elite have an incredible habit of morphing into pieces of fiction. From the comedy of Yes Minister to the dark, sordid tales of one George R. R. Martin, this monstrous fiction morphs into one gargantuan sketch that repeatedly defies...
Vance Questions Pentagon’s Assessment of Iran War
Vice President JD Vance has been questioning the assessments coming out of the Department of War about the success of the US military in Iran. According to two senior White House officials speaking with The Atlantic, Vance has expressed skepticism about the...
White House Tasks Intel Community With Assessing How Iran Would Respond to US Ending War Without a Deal
The White House has asked the intelligence community to assess how Iran would respond to the US declaring victory and ending the conflict. According to multiple sources speaking with Reuters, senior Trump administration officials requested the intelligence community...
The Kyle Anzalone Show [Guest] Larry Johnson: Trump vs. Iran: Is the Ceasefire DOOMED?!
A single image can crack a political storyline wide open. We start with the viral clip of an Israeli soldier smashing a Jesus statue and follow the uncomfortable question it forces for many American Christians: what does “shared values” mean when Christians in...
Socialism and Christianity by the New Hieromartyr Hilarion
We dive into the refutations by Saint Hilarion of socialism
How Cognitive Science Explains Our Looming Nuclear Crisis
Bombs have been falling on Iran for fifty-nine days. As of now a ceasefire is holding, just barely, brokered under pressure from Pakistan. But before it came, a girls' primary school in the southern city of Minab was hit on the first day of the war, at least 170 dead,...
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