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Why would the Pentagon want to hide weapons testing results?
The Pentagon says it removed 25 years worth of annual weapons testing reports from public view late last month, a move that critics…
Rolling Stone hits hysterical note suggesting Putin NATO attack nigh
The Ukraine war has become fertile ground for a dangerously misguided way of thinking about the dynamics between Russia and the West —…
The Mecca Pact could be an opportunity for Iran
The Mecca Pact ranks among the most momentous developments to have reshaped the Middle East since the upheavals that followed the Hamas attacks…
An independent Europe means no more US rooster in the henhouse
NATO continues to prepare for life without the United States, at least as the dominant alliance member. “Europeans are already backfilling what the…
Officials say ‘America-hating’ media to blame for USS Lincoln outrage
Over the past week, Pentagon officials launched a broadside against reports of dire conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, which has…
US cries foul as Israel bombs Turkey-linked airbase in Syria
On Tuesday, Israel bombed a Syrian airbase that Turkish officials have been helping to renovate, marking the latest escalation in the Israeli government’s…
How Iran has staved off economic collapse despite the US-Israeli war
Nearly six months after the U.S. and Israel launched an operation to overthrow the Iranian government, it’s fair to say their assault hasn’t…
The never-ending myth of a looming Ukrainian ‘breakthrough’
For those casually observing the war in Ukraine, the failure of Kyiv’s recent strikes on Russian territory to impact the battlefield might be…
Did Fidel Castro’s decades-long defiance doom Cuba
When Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, Cuba was legally sovereign but in an extraordinarily asymmetric relationship with the United States. As…
The Iran war flushed $1.3 billion of Reaper drones down the drain
The U.S. has lost 45 MQ-9 Reaper drones, worth at least $1.3 billion, since the start of its war on Iran, the Washington…
