When Russian forces expanded their military presence in Ukraine in February 2022, U.S. officials and most of the Western news media portrayed the development as a brazen act of aggression by a dictatorship against a peaceful democracy. The reality was much more...
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The Stories You’re Not Hearing About the Russo-Ukrainian War…
by Ted Snider | Mar 4, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Several, seemingly small events in the Russo-Ukrainian War went largely unnoticed in western media recently. But each of them, in their own way, may be significant. The Fall of Avdiivka On February 25, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that 31,000 Ukrainian...
Our Bloody Cultural Psychosis
by Laurie Calhoun | Feb 29, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Imagine someone who did not know the difference between right and wrong and felt that he could, and should, take anything he wanted from anyone he wanted because, as far as he could see, there was no reason not to. If he wanted to buy something but was low on funds,...
Biden’s Yemen Policy Isn’t Working
by Trenton Hale | Feb 29, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
For the last several weeks, the country of Yemen and their Houthi government have been in the news far more than they were during their war with Saudi Arabia. This is because the Houthis began to attack ships in the Red Sea, a frustrated reaction to the United States’...
Iran’s Jewish Population Belies Claims Of Tehran’s Genocidal Intent
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Feb 28, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
For decades, Israeli government officials—chief among them, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—have accused Iran of plotting a new Holocaust against the millions of Jews who call the Zionist state home. Netanyahu has said Iran is “planning another genocide against our...
From Bouazizi to Bushnell
by Ashraf W. Nubani | Feb 27, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Twenty-five-year-old Aaron Bushnell, an active-duty member of the United States Air Force, died on Sunday after setting himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC as an act of protest against the slaughter in Gaza. Unfortunately, the act is...
Selecting Syrsky: The Untold Half of the Zaluzhny Story
by Ted Snider | Feb 23, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
There were probably many reasons why Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky fired Ukraine’s popular commander in chief of the armed forces, Valerii Zaluzhny, on February 8, but one of the biggest seems to have been a disagreement over how to go forward in a war that...
The Israeli State’s Assault on Gaza Must Stop
by Scott Horton and Jeremy R. Hammond | Feb 22, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Since the horrific atrocities perpetrated by Hamas against Israeli civilians on October 7, 2023, Israel has been engaged in a devastating military operation in the Gaza Strip. Over 25,000 Palestinians have been killed, 70% of whom have been women and children, and...