On 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel launched a joint military offensive against Iran, an operation that has now entered its second month. Iranian casualties have exceeded 1,340, including the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, according to regional reporting. Iran has responded with drone and missile barrages targeting Israeli territory as w...
For many years I have expressed concern that Western Civilization was being destroyed intentionally from within by failing to convey the civilization’s achievements to succeeding generations via education. Instead, education was used to alienate generations from their own civilization by stressing evils such as wars, slavery, oppression of blacks and women,...
Despite ongoing negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, the United States and Israel attacked Iran, violating international rules and norms. Most of Iran’s top-level military and civilian leadership was assassinated in the US and Israeli attack on February 28, 2026. In retaliation, Iran targeted Israeli cities and its nuclear and energy infrastructure, alo...
On March 25-26, 2026, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko paid an official visit to the DPRK at the invitation of Kim Jong-un, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The visit marked the Belarusian leader’s first official visit to North...
The Gulf is asking for a war it cannot win and a peace it cannot survive. Across Western and regional media, Arab Gulf states are no longer merely supporting US strikes on Iran. They are urging Washington to go further: not to stop short, not to settle for deterrence, but to fundamentally degrade - or even eliminate - the Iranian regime as a...
Despite ongoing negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, the United States and Israel attacked Iran, violating international rules and norms. Most of Iran’s top-level military and civilian leadership was assassinated in the US and Israeli attack on February 28, 2026. In retaliation, Iran targeted Israeli cities and its nuclear and energy infrastructure, alo...
Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank has warned that the risks of Iran war are likely to be underestimated. She also warned that ECB is prepared to hike interest rates to manage the inflationary pressures on Europe due to the war. Lagarde may be talking about the impact on Europe, but this is a clear warning of the scale and magnitude of...
Jerusalem became the stage for the last stand of Man. The Jews (the masters of the glorious city since 1967) locked out the Holy Sepulchre, the most venerable church on the place where Christ died on the cross and was resurrected. It was never ever closed, for hundreds of years, since AD 1009 when the church was destroyed by mad Caliph al-Hakim. This sacrile...
Dissent inside a country’s administration occurs during every war. Most of the time, the government manages to suppress these opposing voices, coercing such people to leave quietly. During wartime, only a handful of officials summon the courage to oppose government decisions. The US Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, straightforwardl...
In his campaign, Donald Trump promised to end the cycle of “endless wars.” Yet, paradoxically, he has become the first US president to enter directly into a large-scale confrontation with Iran, precisely the scenario that previous administrations had cautiously avoided. Netanyahu had previously unsuccessfully set various traps to drag Obama, Biden, and Trump...
Trump announced on Monday [Mar 23-ed] that he extended to Friday his deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz under pain of destroying its energy infrastructure, which was supposed to expire that same day, due to supposedly fruitful talks with unnamed members of its leadership. He also declared that the Strait would be jointly controlled by him and t...
In my younger years as an economist the way conservatives, free market economists, and libertarians approached economic policy and whether it would make us more or less free was in terms of business vs. government. Business wore the white hats, and government wore the black hats. What wasn’t realized is that government is captured by business and used for it...
Both armed conflicts directly affect the interests of China. Moreover, there is a well-founded opinion that their instigation is aimed, first and foremost, at undermining the positions of the USA’s main geopolitical opponent in the Greater Middle East and South Asia...
The result is a multi-billion-dollar gamble that has turned Ramadan into a holy war. When the US President’s Special Envoy for Iran, Steve Witkoff, decided to share details of a private conversation with Donald Trump with journalists, he likely didn’t realize he was creating a document for the ages. He described the sincere surprise of the Oval Office...
The US–Israel war against Iran is accelerating the decline of American global dominance, exposing strategic overreach and weakening its alliances. As the conflict reshapes energy flows and security dynamics, Russia and China are capitalising on the chaos to accelerate a shift toward a multipolar world...
At the end of February, Pakistan attacked Afghanistan in retaliation for multiple terrorist attacks inside the country. According to the Pakistani government, different terrorist groups hiding in Afghanistan use Afghan soil to conduct terrorist attacks in the country. Since the return of the Afghan Taliban, Pakistan has seen an unprecedented surge in terrori...
“Fasting in Full Swing: The Middle East Under a Hail of Rockets and Drones,” “Ramadan in Gaza Amidst the Challenges of War.” Many such headlines in Middle Eastern media reflect the atmosphere in which the holy month of fasting for Muslims, Ramadan, is currently taking place. Fasting during this...
Nobody among the 74 nations that participated in the largest edition of the Indian Navy’s multilateral naval Exercise MILAN from February 15 to 25 in Visakhapatnam, India, would have imagined it would usher in the US-Iran war to the Indian Ocean region. That is exactly what happened when one of the three Iranian Navy ships that had taken part in the Internat...
From the 1880s until 1945, Japan pursued a determined imperial policy of military and political supremacy over China, or at least over most of it. What America, Asia, and Africa were to Western European imperial colonizers, China and later Southeast Asia were (or were supposed to be) to Japan. However, in pursuing its imperial endeavours in China and Southea...
Early February 28, Israel and the United States launched an illegal assault on Iran’s territory, in which Ayatollah Khamenei, Iranian leader, and a group of senior Iranian commanders were martyred. In response to this blatant violation, Iran started missile attacks on Israel and its targets and bases in the...