Category: World
Trump’s war and tariffs are having a nasty effect on interest rates
Over the last month, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has engaged in two controversial and rare interventions in financial markets. The first came in…
How Citizens United supercharged ‘Israel’s lobby’
In March 2006, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) denounced the essay by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,”…
Trump wants to stabilize Libya. Militants have other plans.
A series of crises have roiled Libya over the last month, undermining a U.S.-led initiative to resolve the country’s profound political predicament and…
Lindsey Graham’s sister wins. The War Party wins. We lose, again.
Darline Graham won the Republican primary Tuesday and will likely win a full-term to fill her late brother Lindsey Graham’s U.S. Senate seat…
After 6 months of war, why aren’t oil prices even higher?
For decades, the potential closure of the Strait of Hormuz has been considered the ultimate doomsday scenario for global oil markets. So, when…
Turns out having nukes provided the US very little leverage
For decades, the United States treated the prospect of an Iranian nuclear weapon as an intolerable threat. Yet when Washington and Tehran went…
Forest fires just the beginning of Israel’s destruction of Lebanon
For two years, Israel’s war in Lebanon has been measured largely in a human toll: the dead, the wounded, the displaced. What has…
A trillion budget but military can’t ‘afford’ to attack mold on bases?
A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report finds that the maintenance backlog for military installations has ballooned to more than $285 billion —…
Israel’s Lobby: More powerful and more unpopular than ever
The pro-Israel lobby is dominating American headlines during the current election because of its outsized role in competitive House and Senate races —…
US can huff & puff, but without a political fix Iran won’t come down
The latest U.S. strategy in the Middle East is defined as one of “maximum pressure,” combining military containment and economic sanctions in an…
