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Brodie Mitchell

Aug 23, 2026, 10:44 PM

The Question Nobody Wants To Answer: Why Israel?

Let's get this straight. Every country deserves scrutiny. But why are ordinary Israelis met with hostility and seen as personally responsible for their government's actions when citizens of any other country are not held to the same standard? The...

Silas Anastacio

Aug 22, 2026, 11:19 AM

‘They Will Not Silence Me’: The Voice of Marzieh Hamidi That Crosses Borders

On the night of August 17, the Arthur Rubinstein Theater at Hebraica São Paulo hosted Iranian-Afghan journalist and activist Marzieh Hamidi for the event “They Will Not Silence Me: A Voice That Crosses Borders”, organized by the club in...

Sheldon Kirshner

Aug 18, 2026, 6:13 PM

The Oppressive Taliban Regime Must Be Shunned

A somber anniversary was marked in Afghanistan a few days ago as the Taliban celebrated the fifth anniversary of its return to power. On August 15, 2021, following a costly two-decade war that achieved nothing of lasting value, the United...

Aug 16, 2026, 11:31 AM

The Reluctant Fundamentalist and American Divide

Few novels offer insight not only into how America sees itself, but also into how it may be perceived by parts of the Muslim world. Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist, published in 2007, is one of them. Written in...

Aug 9, 2026, 3:26 PM

Northern Afghanistan Poses Some Challenges for Taliban

Manish Rai-Panjshir, North Afghanistan

Attacks across Badakhshan are puncturing the Taliban’s aura of invincibility, even if the armed resistance remains far from threatening its rule nationwide. Badakhshan, Afghanistan’s vast and mountainous northeastern province, was a center of resistance to Taliban rule during the 1990s....

Aug 2, 2026, 6:24 PM

Balochistan Has Become a Nightmare for the Pakistani Army

Photo Credit- Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), Pakistan Army

Balochistan is currently experiencing one of the most severe violence outbreaks of the year. In the past few months, Pakistani security forces have suffered heavy casualties due to coordinated rebel attacks. The Pakistani army's General Headquarters (GHQ) was compelled...

Jul 27, 2026, 6:20 PM

America has no alternative to decisive victory. Why that is and how to win

Dear readers, The following text builds on the ideas I expressed a few days ago, on July 18, in a text written here, and also on an article I wrote almost two years ago, entitled 'Why America Stopped Wining Wars.'...

Jul 2, 2026, 9:14 AM

Ultimate Jewish Warriors: Jewish-American Recipients of the Medal of Honor

Photo courtesy www.jewishmilitary.org

Bullets from enemy muskets tore through the drum of Union (United States) Army drummer boy Private Benjamin Levy during the bloody Battle of Glendale of the American Civil War on June 30,1862. His drum destroyed, Private Levy (only 17...

Ratnadeep Chakraborty

Jun 24, 2026, 3:51 PM

The Ally That Became Pakistan’s Nightmare

Taliban fighters take positions in a mountainous border region along the Afghanistan–Pakistan frontier, an area that has witnessed repeated clashes and rising tensions since the Taliban’s return to power in 2021. (Wahidullah Kakar/Associated Press)

Volcanoes. You can mistake them for sleeping mountains until the ground begins to tremble. The Taliban-Pakistan frontier today resembles one of those rumbling volcanoes. Since the Afghan Taliban returned to power in August 2021, the border has never truly...

Jun 10, 2026, 7:26 AM

The Victims Nobody Wants to See

Photo Credits: Sabine Sterk (AI)

The Selective Moral Compass: Why Global Tragedies Are Ignored Until They Can Be Blamed on Jews It is a mind blowing reality of modern journalism that the most severe humanitarian crises in the world are routinely dismissed as irrelevant. Day...

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