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Jon-Erik G. Storm

Sep 19, 2026, 1:45 AM

The Jew You Can Reach

"Wer großer Herren Gunst missbraucht [He who abuses great lords]" (after 1738); Posthumer Kupferstich Joseph Süß Oppenheimers; WLB, Graphische Sammlung (Public Domain)

On March 12, 1737, the Duke of Württemberg died of a stroke. By nightfall his Jew was under arrest. Joseph Süß Oppenheimer had run Duke Karl Alexander's money for four years: the monopolies, the sale of offices, the loans. The...

Silas Anastacio

Sep 18, 2026, 12:14 AM

Rachel Safdie discusses fake news and Israel at Fisesp HQ

The Jewish Federation of the State of São Paulo (Fisesp), in partnership with the World Zionist Organization and the Scholarship Fund, hosted Brazilian-Israeli journalist and activist Rachel Safdie at an event in August. Titled “Feed, Fake News and Israel,”...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Sep 15, 2026, 10:27 AM

Tough Love for Elected Leaders – USPI Index.

Tough Love for World Leaders Your job is to serve us, not lord over us Dear presidents, prime ministers, kings, generals, ministers, central bankers, consultants, judges and mandarins: Who made you Pharaoh? Who gave you the right to decide which neighbourhood gets bombed,...

Sep 14, 2026, 6:30 PM

Iran’s Two-Strait Strategy

A civil war that has dragged on for more than a decade is suddenly threatening to become a global problem. The reason is geography. If the Houthis consolidate their advance towards Bab al-Mandab while Iran keeps pressure on the...

Sep 10, 2026, 6:33 AM

Iran’s Endgame: Destroy the State of Israel and Conquer Jerusalem

Ruhollah Khomeini did not call Israel a state. He called it the regime occupying Jerusalem, and said it had to vanish from the page of time. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, four months into his presidency, repeated the line at the "World...

Sep 9, 2026, 4:18 AM

Israel Owns the Factory. It Still Does Not Own the Next Interceptor.

Israel can own the factory and still wait for the next interceptor. Shay Gal, former IAI Vice President and Chief of Staff to its Chairman, sets the industrial sovereignty test exposed by the second Iran war: inventory, production capacity...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Sep 3, 2026, 10:58 PM

Iran Tightens the Noose: Kuwait Must Choose Israel

Kuwait stands on the precipice of an avoidable catastrophe that Western weapons cannot avert. For decades, bloated defense procurement has yielded an armed force optimized for twentieth-century desert tank warfare, leaving the nation blind to twenty-first-century gray-zone coercion. Squandering...

Sep 2, 2026, 12:57 PM

The Limits of Managing Iran

Washington must demonstrate that economic pressure is intended to produce a political outcome rather than become an end in itself. (ChatGPT AI generated image of Donald Trump looking back at the flag of Iran amidst rubble in Tehran. Trump is moving beyond degrading Iran's nuclear ambitions or targeting the IRGC. The emerging objective is to weaken the regime's capacity to govern.)

Washington has treated the Iranian threat as a problem to contain and postpone. Trump’s wager is that the greater danger now lies in allowing that strategy to continue. For nearly half a century, the United States has pursued a policy...

Sep 2, 2026, 4:59 AM

The CIA’s Covert Action for Regime Change in Iran

The Iranian regime is now at the weakest point in its vicious history. It no longer survives because it commands genuine legitimacy, inspires ideological loyalty, or offers Iranians a credible vision of their future. It survives primarily through its...

Sep 2, 2026, 4:57 AM

Ayatollah, We Are Tired: Dating and News Fatigue

I sat at a bar, sipping on margaritas with two friends I had gotten close to this year. The friendships were new but already dear to me. We gossiped about boys, how dating was going, and how hard it...

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