Here it is -- the 2nd installment of CJ's already-epic mini-series, 'The Mad Dream of Conquest,' set in the Peloponnesian War in 5th-century BC Greece. Join CJ as he shares an overview of some of the events of the first half of the Peloponnesian War, including:...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its May 2026 Consumer Price Index (CPI) report on June 10, confirming what many Americans already feel at the pump and in their wallets. Headline CPI rose 0.5% month-over-month and climbed to 4.2% year-over-year, the highest...
The Iraq War didn’t just “happen” it was sold with a storyline, staffed by specific operators, and justified by a strategy that had been circulating for years. I’m joined by Scott Horton of the Libertarian Institute to unpack the Clean Break doctrine, what it tried to...
According to US officials, the latest proposal President Donald Trump sent to Tehran included allowing Iran to downblend its stockpile of 60% enriched uranium. Axios reported speaking with US officials who said that Trump asked for two amendments to a proposal that...
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth traveled to the US military base at Guantanamo Bay and threatened to attack the Cuban government if it acquired weapons that could strike the American military facility or homeland. “It would be unwise of the government of Cuba to try to...
President Donald Trump claimed that Iran has been militarily defeated and will not pay the price for refusing to negotiate. “Iran’s Military is a complete and total mess. Much of it, like their Navy and Air Force, doesn’t even exist anymore - They have been...
The Old Right journalist Garet Garrett, writing in 1952, understood that empires do not arrive with heralds. They come instead through "quiet aggrandizements of power," accretions so gradual and so dressed in the language of necessity that the citizen scarcely notices...
Trump says he wants a deal with Iran. Netanyahu hints the real goal is regime change anyway. That contradiction is where diplomacy goes to die, and it is also where Americans get dragged into a war they did not vote for. We roll solo and ask the blunt question a lot...
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir called for Tel Aviv to “think outside the box” to conquer Lebanon. He suggested that the IDF could round up Lebanese women and children and throw them in “terrorist prisons.” "Let's start thinking outside the box...
Vice President JD Vance said that US and Israeli interests diverge, suggesting that Tel Aviv was acting in Lebanon without Washington's approval. The US and Israel “have a lot of shared interests, but we also have some situations where our interests diverge,” Vance...
