“Maybe I had a brain tumor.” That was NBC News anchorman Brian Williams in 2015 desperately fishing for an explanation when his ever-evolving fantasy claims on national television about his combat experience in the Iraq War were finally exposed. But it wasn’t a brain...
As outrageous as the comportment of the current U.S. president may be to many people throughout the world, there is a silver lining to Donald Trump’s endless series of threats, whether overt or implied, against the citizens of Canada, Venezuela, Greenland, Iran,...
When American and Israeli warplanes struck Iran on February 28, 2026, launching what Washington dubbed Operation Epic Fury, most NATO allies fell into line. Spain did not. In the days that followed, the government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez barred American forces...
The “war that isn’t” with Iran has been raging now for two weeks and its effects have been felt across the pond. Anecdotally, petrol prices in an area close to this writer have risen by six pence per litre in the time since it began. But the biggest effects are...
The Trump administration has enlisted the support of Kurdish activists in Syria, Iraq, and Iran to join the U.S.-led war to unseat Iran’s clerical regime. CNN reports that the Central Intelligence Agency is already arming Iranian Kurds. CNN and other outlets also...
Why do so many Americans distrust The Washington Post? “Pro-Iran propaganda network gains traction with posts about Epstein” offers a tankerload of clues. Social media is overflowing with bogus claims and A.I. videos related to the Iran War. Prudent folks are already...
Though the dust from the devastating Tigray War of 2020–2022 has barely settled, the Horn of Africa once again appears to be drifting toward catastrophe. Recent developments suggest a growing risk of renewed conflict involving Ethiopia’s federal government, the Tigray...
Dinosaur GenXers like me recall that after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the foreign policy set was busy asking how the United States would cash its forthcoming "peace dividend," whether NATO would fold up shop having achieved its ostensible purpose, and maybe whether...
