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Mansoor H. Laghari

Sep 8, 2026, 8:52 AM

Israel is losing information war, Badly.

Israel Is Winning Battles and Losing the Information War A friend of Israel should be willing to say what Israel’s enemies already understand: military superiority is not enough if you surrender the battlefield of perception. By Mansoor Hussain Laghari I write this...

Bernard P. Markowicz

Sep 8, 2026, 4:05 AM

When Settler Violence Tests Bartov’s Argument

AI Composite Image (Bernard Markowicz)

Mike Huckabee’s intervention provides a concrete test of Omer Bartov’s argument about occupation, unequal protection and Israeli institutions. This is the first of three posts. It tests Omer Bartov’s diagnosis against settler violence in the West Bank; the second asks...

Sep 7, 2026, 6:52 PM

When Military Power Becomes a Substitute for Strategy.

Russia’s war in Ukraine and America’s confrontation with Iran are fundamentally different. Yet, both expose the same strategic danger: overwhelming force can destroy capabilities, but only political strategy can determine what follows. The enduring temptation of military power is the...

Sep 7, 2026, 1:35 PM

Tehran’s Biggest Enemy May Be Inside Iran

Close-up view of Middle East map highlighting countries and borders, as from Pexels website (URL is https://www.pexels.com/photo/middle-eastern-countries-in-a-world-map-8828624/).

For decades, Iran sought security by pushing conflict beyond its borders, using missiles, militias, and proxies to impose costs on its adversaries while insulating the Islamic Republic from direct pressure. That logic is now under strain. Protests, growing armed...

Sep 6, 2026, 5:30 PM

Project 2025: When a Moral Vision Becomes an Administrative Program

White Theology and White Power XII Project 2025 can no longer be analyzed only as a proposal for what a future conservative administration might do. Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025, and by 2026 a substantial number of...

Sep 6, 2026, 2:37 PM

The Illusion of Permanence

Power, Inequality, and the Cycle of Empires

Purna Lal Chakma

Sep 6, 2026, 9:38 AM

Was 2024 India’s Third Strategic Loss in Bangladesh?

India-Bangladesh relations through three strategic setbacks in 1975, 1997 and 2024, with the unfinished Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord, growing Bangladesh-Pakistan relations and wider implications for Israel symbolized on a geopolitical chessboard. Created by author using AI.

India may have suffered three major strategic setbacks in Bangladesh since helping the country win independence in 1971. The first came in 1975, when Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated and the political order closest to New Delhi collapsed. The...

Whimsy Anderson

Sep 6, 2026, 7:10 AM

You Do Not Speak for Israel

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There is a growing foreign political right that has begun to talk as if it owns the State of Israel. As if they have adopted a lost orphan and are taking it home to raise as one of their...

Kerry Landon-Lane

Sep 6, 2026, 12:27 AM

Iran’s Hold on Hormuz Is the Solution and Not the Problem

"Donald's Strait" -- PORTRAITS, by Kerry Landon-Lane

America can’t remove Iran from the Strait by force, and it's unlikely to do so through negotiation. But this is unnecessary and hinders achieving some initial objectives, while opening the Strait If the Trump administration can scramble to a new...

Sep 5, 2026, 12:49 PM

Iran Has Every Condition for an Uprising. No Guarantees Yet.

In November 1944, Ancel Keys, a physiologist at the University of Minnesota advising the War Department, began the Minnesota Starvation Experiment. He needed to understand how prolonged hunger affects the human body and how to safely treat severe malnutrition. Thirty-six...

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