The administration is making it difficult to discern what it perceives to be our interests in Latin America. The post What Does the U.S. Want in Venezuela? appeared first on The American Conservative.| The American Conservative
Greenland has been a coveted location throughout history. The author Elizabeth Buchanan explains why. The post Is Donald Trump a Viking Warlord? appeared first on The American Conservative.| The American Conservative
TAC staffers discuss the week's events. The post TAC Right Now: Venezuela, Russia, and the ‘Enemy from Within’ appeared first on The American Conservative.| The American Conservative
Kiev’s military suffers from a shortage of manpower, not missiles. The post Tomahawks Cannot Save Ukraine appeared first on The American Conservative.| The American Conservative
Israel and the hostages are betrayed anew each day. View Post [Subscription Required]| Commentary Magazine
Keir Starmer's response to anti-Jewish terror is to hallucinate a better UK. View Post [Subscription Required]| Commentary Magazine
The persistence of a myth. View Post [Subscription Required]| Commentary Magazine
How Israel avoids the mistakes of the past. View Post [Subscription Required]| Commentary Magazine
Imagining the end of the Gaza war. View Post [Subscription Required]| Commentary Magazine
Scandal-plagued and unpopular politicians are making liberal use of the latest Western trend in holding onto political power: Palestining. Once upon a time, Palestining was the shared pastime of Arab| Commentary Magazine
Allegations that Venezuela is a narco-state have justified strikes, sanctions, and military buildups. But even US intelligence concedes Maduro is not directing the gangs blamed for "invading" America. The evidence reveals a familiar playbook for war., Cartel de los Soles, CIA drug trade, Marco Rubio, Nicolas Maduro, Regime Change, Tren de Aragua, Trump Administration, U.S. foreign policy, U.S. sanctions, Venezuela,| MintPress News
When Washington announced a “framework deal” with China in June, it marked a silent shifting of gears in the global political economy. This was not the beginning of U.S. President Donald Trump’s imagined epoch of “liberation” under unilateral American greatness or a return to the Biden administration’s dream of managed great-power rivalry. Instead, it was […]| Henry Farrell
How Silicon Valley Got Entangled in Geopolitics—and Lost Technology companies such as Alphabet, Meta, and OpenAI need to wake up to an unpleasant reality. By getting close to U.S. President Donald Trump, they risk losing access to one of their biggest markets: Europe. More at Foreign Affairs| Henry Farrell
Kyiv — The explosions came in waves, thickening the pre-dawn sky over the capital with streaks of light and the dull thud of impacts that people here have learned to count almost by reflex. By Tuesday morning, emergency crews were still pulling glass from storefronts and taping off stairwells, while metro passengers traded clips from […]| The Eastern Herald
Trump hosts Netanyahu as strikes pound Gaza City; hospitals plead for fuel and a fragile US framework faces the test of enforcement.| The Eastern Herald
In a co-ordinated diplomatic move, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and Portugal have formally recognised the State of Palestine, a step aimed at bolstering efforts for a two-state solution amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza. UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced the decision on Sunday, describing it as essential to “revive the hope of […]| Politics UK
2025 has emerged as a decisive year in the long struggle for Palestinian recognition, with a growing number of Western nations shifting their positions towards acknowledging Palestine as a state. The turning point came in the aftermath of the Hamas-led attacks of 7 October 2023, among the deadliest in Israel’s history, which killed nearly 1,200 […]| Politics UK
In a media environment that sees the world exclusively through the lens of “Are they pro-Israel or anti-Israel?” Kirk became an instant hero.| Moment Magazine
Florida Senator Rick Scott (R) and Texas Senator Ted Cruz (R) have joined together to introduce the “Strengthening Entry Visa Enforcement and Restrictions (SEVER) Act,” prohibiting all Iranian officials from entering the U.S. “As President Trump and his administration have taken decisive action to secure our border and protect the American people, the SEVER Act […] The post Rick Scott, Ted Cruz Introduce ‘SEVER Act’ Barring Iranian Officials From Entering the U.S. appeared first o...| The Floridian
Representative Greg Steube (R-FL) praised President Donald Trump's address to the United Nations General Assembly in a recent appearance on Fox Business's Even| The Floridian
25 countries and the EU call to restore the medical corridor as 15,600 patients await evacuation. The US sits out the appeal.| The Eastern Herald
France, Britain, Canada and Australia move on recognition; Israel fumes and Washington faces an awkward rift at the UN General Assembly.| The Eastern Herald
State of the Union: Prime Minister Starmer said ‘Hamas can have no future’ in Gaza.| The American Conservative
Israeli–Egyptian relations are more perilous than at any time in the post-Sadat era.| The American Conservative
Warsaw — A residential building in the small Polish town of Gmina Wyryki, located in the Lublin Voivodeship, was struck by a missile fired from the Polish | The Eastern Herald| The Eastern Herald
The accusation of “collective punishment” has long been a favorite of the anti-Israel crowd. Even in the age of the “genocide” libel, “collective punishment” retains its purchase among British, French,| Commentary Magazine
Zionism is not just an ideology — it is a system of infiltration designed to embed Israel’s interests into every corner of Western life. The post Infiltration: A Cardinal Function of the Zionist Movement appeared first on MintPress News.| MintPress News
The press amplifies outrage over Charlie Kirk’s killing but erases Israel’s campaign of assassinations in Yemen, where a blockade has devastated Israel’s economy and united millions behind Palestine. The post Why The Media Obsesses Over Kirk While Israel Assassinates a Prime Minister appeared first on MintPress News.| MintPress News
Trump inflated Venezuela’s “Cartel of the Suns” into a narco-state menace to justify regime change and war. Experts expose the U.S. pretext.| MintPress News
Representative Abe Hamadeh (| Cactus Politics
Washington — The Trump administration escalated its campaign to choke off Russian oil revenues, calling on NATO allies and G7 partners to adopt sweeping | The Eastern Herald| The Eastern Herald
Brussels — The European Commission is preparing a package of measures that would, for the first time since the Gaza war began, pair public censure of | The Eastern Herald| The Eastern Herald
Brussels — NATO’s uneasy coalition is again confronting hard questions about collective defense as the war in Ukraine grinds on and spills across borders, | The Eastern Herald| The Eastern Herald
Moscow — An Indian armed forces contingent of 65 personnel left for Russia on Tuesday to take part in the multilateral exercise 'Zapad 2025,' underscoring | The Eastern Herald| The Eastern Herald
Warsaw — Poland said Tuesday it has formally asked NATO to invoke Article 4 of the alliance’s treaty after drones crossed into its airspace, escalating | The Eastern Herald| The Eastern Herald
September 1, 2025. Original article: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/beijings-dangerous-game-tibet In early July, thousands of Tibetans, Buddhists, and other well-wishers gathered in the northern Indian hill town of Dharamsala, the seat of the Tibetan government in exile, to mark the 90th bi| Tibet Action Institute
The former "revolutionary" now blesses GOP rallies, praises J.D. Vance, and defends Israel while his past allies recoil. The post From Revolution to Revival: Russell Brand Embraces Trump and Israel appeared first on MintPress News.| MintPress News
Just as the ghosts of the Iraq war continue to haunt Tony Blair, so too will the genocide in Gaza come to define Keir Starmer| Politics UK - The Home of UK Political News
Chris Hedges: Israel is razing Gaza City with bombs, bulldozers, and famine. Palestinians face genocide, while centuries of Gaza’s history are wiped out| MintPress News
African Stream founder Ahmed Kaballo joins MintCast to expose the U.S.-led takedown of his platform, the grassroots revolution in Burkina Faso under Ibrahim Traoré, and the growing pan-African resistance in the Sahel.| MintPress News
Greg Stoker, Ahmad, and Robert Inlakesh expose how Israel and the U.S. are fueling Syria’s collapse with bombs, debt, and propaganda.| MintPress News
The dominos have begun to fall regarding the recognition of Palestinian statehood. It’s time for the U.S. and Israel to make sure they have a strategy for dealing with the| Commentary Magazine
Biden's job approval rating is 40%, while ratings of his handling of the economy, foreign affairs and the Middle East situation are below his overall approval.| Gallup.com
Cyberterrorism and U.S. adversaries developing nuclear weapons continue to rank as the most worrisome global issues to Americans, but fewer than in recent years find China's economic power highly concerning.| Gallup.com
In an episode of the drama House M.D., the patient at the center of the medical mystery is a brilliant physicist who has intentionally made himself dumber. He takes a| Commentary Magazine
China’s foreign ministry has reportedly confirmed that a visiting Atlanta-based banker who works for the financial service behemoth Wells Fargo has been prohibited from leaving the country.| The Daily Hodl
Despite high hopes and media hype, Netanyahu’s trip to the White House yielded few results—while Israeli journalists were left out in the cold. The post B’Ivrit│From Hope to Headlines: How Israeli Media Oversold Netanyahu’s Washington Trip appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
The Trump Administration’s reliance on ICE underscores a transformation toward a domestic politics of domination that mirrors its lawlessness abroad. Just as Trump felt no obligation toward any kind of established diplomatic processes before invading Iran, he has positioned himself entirely against the courts, attacking the bedrock concepts of judicial review and due process as interfering with the project of mass deportation.| n+1
By Susan Wright, leader of the Together Women Rise CA, Oakland chapter and member of the Together Women Rise Advocacy Group with RESULTS. Susan is also a former Peace Corps volunteer and staff member with USAID. International assistance accounts for less than 1% of the US federal budget, but it still represents an important […] The post Advocate for US funds! first appeared on Together Women Rise. The post Advocate for US funds! appeared first on Together Women Rise.| Together Women Rise
Gunmen shot and critically wounded Colombian Sen. Miguel Uribe Turbay, a future presidential candidate last week during a campaign rally in Bogotá, Colombia.| The Floridian
Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) highlighted suppressed news of protests in China in a post to X (formerly Twitter), as President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi| The Floridian
To be free is to be a subject instead of an object, to be able to act decisively in the world rather than only to be acted upon. For Du Bois, as for young people in Gaza and on college campuses around the world, by attempting to create a new freedom in the world, they came to know the world as it was; with some courage, they could imagine it as it could be.| n+1Articles – n+1
Today anti-China policies are a rare point of bipartisan consensus. Popular opinion on China has steadily soured since the 2000s, first among business owners, then the public. Pew polling shows that some 80 percent of Americans view the country unfavorably, a historic low. Enrollments in Mandarin courses at US universities, which climbed steadily after 1978, have been falling since 2013.| n+1Articles – n+1
“Don’t write about me. Write about Korea, about the issues,” Mom has told me multiple times. Dad: “You seem to write about our family when you run out of topics.” I am embarrassed by memoir and simultaneously drawn to the form. I am always reading books by sons and daughters.| n+1Articles – n+1
The fog that drifts over Oslo’s fjords and “comes down like a low ceiling” is “gray,” dawn is “gray,” hair is “gray,” Trondheim is “gray,” birds are “gray,” mice are “gray,” trees are “gray,” clouds are “gray,” suits are “gray,” sweaters are “gray,” scarves are “gray,” underwear is “gray,” old people are “gray,” faces are “gray,” Saturday morning is “gray,” November is “gray,” December is “gray,” spring is also “gray,...| n+1Articles – n+1
CSIS Beyond Parallel created a timeline documenting major developments in the growing North Korea-Russia relationship since 2022.| Beyond Parallel
Much-anticipated Istanbul talks fall flat as Russian leader refuses to attend.| POLITICO
By Meriem Hamioui ’25 Last summer, I had the privilege of interning at the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Task Force on Lebanon, where I acquired valuable experience in the fields of policy and diplomacy. In these roles, I developed a deeper understanding of U.S. foreign policy and refined my professional skills as … Continue reading "Reflections on a Summer in Washington: Insights in U.S. Foreign Policy and Diplomacy"| Ike’s Anvil
It may not seem important, but the dueling Palestinian reactions to the opening of a mall in Ramallah are telling. “Icon Mall marked its opening on Saturday with live music,| Commentary Magazine
President Donald Trump (R) released a message to American farmers as the tariff war between the United States and China continues. According| Cactus Politics
It hardly matters for this purpose whether the new spy writers, late of their intelligence agencies, can produce basically competent thrillers; they all can. The question is what else they can do, what new spin they can put on the established library of espionage tropes. What value can their past intelligence careers confer? And if that value is bound up, in whatever way, with authenticity, then what is authenticity doing that makes it valuable?| n+1Articles – n+1
Canada’s premiers travelled to Washington, D.C. to negotiate with Republican senators, lawmakers and business groups in the hopes of persuading U.S. President Donald Trump to rescind his pledge to impose crippling tariffs on Canadian imports.| True North
“When did we beat Japan at anything?” Trump railed in 2015. “They send their cars over by the millions, and what do we do? When was the last time you saw a Chevrolet in Tokyo? It doesn’t exist, folks. They beat us all the time.” Commentators at the time laughed at Trump’s Japan fixation. They called it “anachronistic,” “out-of-date,” and “odd.” But Japan has in fact been foundational to Trump’s worldview, as historian Jennifer M. Miller has argued, dating back to his...| n+1Articles – n+1
The Roman historian Tacitus once chronicled the last speech of Calgacus, a Caledonian chieftain rousing his troops to resist the foreign invaders of their land. “To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire,” Calgacus said of the Romans; “they make a wasteland and call it peace (ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant).” Much the same might be said of the contemporary invaders of the former Roman province of Palaestina Prima. The Israelis spent 470 days feverish...| n+1
Yoon Suk Yeol, the lionized prosecutor-turned-politician who led the impeachment […]| Beyond Parallel
Sanctions, privatization, and reconstruction: Washington’s approach to post-Assad Syria offers a glimpse into the true nature of America’s foreign policy agenda., Hayat Tahrir al-Sham economy, IMF and Syria, Post-Assad Syria, reconstruction of Syria, Syria neoliberal reforms, Syrian free-market economy, Syrian infrastructure collapse, Syrian Transitional Government, U.S. sanctions on Syria, Western exploitation in Syria,| MintPress News
This graphic shows two metrics by which Donald Trump may measure his support for NATO and Indo-Pacific allies and partners based on his first term in office and his campaign statements.| Beyond Parallel
From CNN interviews to glowing profiles, Western outlets are working overtime to frame Al-Qaeda’s Abu Mohammad al-Jolani as Syria’s new, diversity-friendly leader., Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, Al Qaeda in Syria, al-Julani Israel policy, Bashar al-Assad ousted, CNN Jolani interview, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, Jolani Washington Post profile, media portrayal of al-Julani, Syria leadership change, U.S. al-Qaeda relations,| MintPress News
The long-running regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria has fallen in recent days, leaving Iran without its key ally in the Levant. Representative Mike Waltz (R-FL)| The Floridian
Americans' trust in various aspects of the U.S. government is low, including 39% who trust the federal government to handle international problems.| Gallup.com
This first appeared as a CSIS Critical Questions here. Today, […]| Beyond Parallel
This first appeared as a CSIS Commentary here. The Non-Surprising […]| Beyond Parallel
Israel’s pager plot in Lebanon has rekindled the debate over “booby-traps” and with it a popular blood libel—that the Jewish state not only rigs Hezbollah beepers but toys for tots| Commentary Magazine
Joe Biden's approval rating remains at its record low, with worse ratings for his handling of foreign affairs, the economy and the Middle East situation.| Gallup.com
Biden's overall job rating has slipped to 38%, and his ratings on immigration, the Israel-Hamas situation, foreign affairs and the economy are even lower.| Gallup.com
Lowkey is joined by John McEvoy to discuss his work uncovering Israel’s surprisingly firm grip over the British political system. John McEvoy is an investigative journalist for Declassified UK, a media outlet covering British foreign policy and intelligence agencies’ true role around the world.| MintPress News
A map of North Korea's garbage-filled balloons sent into South Korea in 2024.| Beyond Parallel
It sounded like the best word to describe yesterday’s talks between Chinese Premier Li Qiang and his heavyweight delegation of Ministers and officials and Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and New Zealand Ministers and officials was “frank.” But it was the kind of frankness that friends can indulg| Politik
by Jason Beardsley The Biden Administration is putting the lives of American service members at risk. If you value the safety of our troops and understand the complexities of international conflict, read on. The Biden administration’s plan to construct a military pier for humanitarian aid delivery into Gaza is a dangerous shift in U.S.... Read more »| Concerned Veterans for America
As Israel’s ground operation in Gaza nears its close, the next major struggle is coming into view. The battle over the provision of essential humanitarian aid, already so brutal over the past few months, will become increasingly central to the conflict.| n+1
I’m not arguing that because other people have made the same comparison I have, I am right. What I am trying to do is add a time dimension to this conversation. What struck me about this comparison is that King made it three years before Israel imposed the siege regime on Gaza. And it was the time dimension that was also absent from the challenges that the reporter offered yesterday, when she talked about population density and the smuggling of weapons. The population of the ghettos changed...| n+1
It is the responsibility of Western activists to know who and what they support, and to separate themselves—openly and decisively—from programs and regimes that are predicated on violence and repression.| Quillette
The powerful demonstrations in Tel Aviv and elsewhere can teach us a lot about how to build a truly unifying opposition.| The New Republic
At a time when the United States is backing Israel’s wanton destruction of the besieged Gaza Strip, in what some scholars have called a “textbook case of genocide,” principled dissent is of paramount importance.| n+1
Since the end of the Cold War, one of the main goals of the foreign policy establishment in the United […]| Concerned Veterans for America Foundation
In a new video series, Concerned Veterans of America Foundation lays out the case for examining how much the U.S. spends on defense compared to its NATO allies, how alliances affect U.S. interests, and how we should be viewing alliances moving forward.| Concerned Veterans for America Foundation
As the Russia-Ukraine War continues and Finland officially joins NATO, the alliance’s role supplying aid to Ukraine and the U.S.’ relationship with the alliance have been subjects of intense discussion. Here are four questions our leaders and the American people should be asking.| Concerned Veterans for America Foundation
U.S. foreign policy approaches have not changed in 20-30 years. Here’s why a foreign policy of realism and restraint is a better approach.| Concerned Veterans for America Foundation
How should the U.S. think about alliances in 2023 and beyond? Learn more about what the U.S. should consider before joining an alliance| Concerned Veterans for America Foundation
One way of reading the AKP’s progress is as a two-step process of privatization. In its first two terms, the AKP government privatized a large portion of Turkey’s state assets; since then, it has moved to make the state itself the private property of one man and his friends. The first phase — standard neoliberalism — won the AKP applause from the Western establishment, which is now aghast at the second phase, which looks more like Putin than Thatcher.| n+1