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Jun 10, 2026, 10:56 PM

The Iran Talks: Progress or Illusion?

Credit: Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Anyone trying to understand the current negotiations between the United States and Iran can be forgiven for feeling confused. One day Donald Trump threatens devastating military action. The next, he suggests a deal may be close. Iran insists it...

Jun 10, 2026, 9:24 PM

Trump Just Cried Wolf Again. Will the Wolf Come This Time?

On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump declared that the United States would be attacking Iran again that same day, complaining that Tehran keeps playing America for suckers, even as he insisted the deal was “fully negotiated.” Hours earlier he...

Jun 9, 2026, 11:09 PM

Chilling Echoes

J.D. Vance, speaking on behalf of President Donald Trump, is beginning to sound more like Barack Obama than Barack Obama himself. Obama wanted more daylight between the United States and Israel. Trump now wants more "space." Obama pursued a long-term...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jun 9, 2026, 6:14 AM

America’s New Anti-Israel Left-Right Consensus

Fifteen years ago, both major American political parties treated Israel as a strategic asset in the Middle East. Gallup’s 2011 surveys showed clear majorities sympathizing more with Israelis than with Palestinians across Democratic and Republican ranks. By February 2026,...

Jun 8, 2026, 5:38 AM

Iran Should Remember That Samson’s Hair Grew Back

"Let me die with the Philistines." Judges 16:30 On June 7, 2026, Iran fired ten ballistic missiles at northern Israel, hours after Israeli aircraft struck a Hezbollah headquarters in the Dahiyeh district of Beirut. Israel's defenses intercepted them all, and...

Jun 6, 2026, 9:42 PM

The Strategy Is to Provoke Iran’s Implosion

Implosion: the violent collapse of a body inward upon itself, occurring when external pressure exceeds the pressure within. The opposite of an explosion, which bursts outward. On June 4, 2026, President Trump told reporters that the United States could seize...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jun 1, 2026, 8:03 AM

Macron’s Beaufort Blunder Reveals European Decline

French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech next to the submarine 'Le Temeraire' (The Temerarious) at the Nuclear submarines Navy base of Ile Longue in Crozon, France, Monday March 2, 2026. (Yoan Valat/Pool Photo via AP)

French President Emmanuel Macron declared on May 29, 2026, that “nothing justifies the Israeli strikes conducted in southern Lebanon.” He called Israel’s operations unacceptable under international law. Forty-eight hours later, the Israel Defense Forces seized Beaufort Castle and the...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

May 31, 2026, 11:27 AM

Sánchez: The Head of Spain’s Corruption Snake

On May 27, 2026, agents from the Central Operative Unit of the Civil Guard stormed the national headquarters of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party in Madrid. They were searching for records tied to illegal financing, bribery, and an alleged...

May 30, 2026, 9:03 AM

Iran Can Keep Its 440 kg of 60% Uranium, but Only Diluted to 3.6%

On May 28, 2026, United States and Iranian negotiators reached a tentative agreement to extend the ceasefire in the three-month war by sixty days and to open a new round of talks on Iran's nuclear program. According to a...

May 29, 2026, 6:09 PM

An Enfeebled Iran Must Be Taken Advantage Of

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/).

America and Israel have demonstrated unrivalled military supremacy. The challenge now is ensuring Tehran’s rulers do not convert defeat on the battlefield into survival at the negotiating table. For years, Western policymakers have wrestled with a persistent dilemma: how does...

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