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Jun 7, 2026, 1:56 PM

Zionist’s Guide to the World Cup: Group A preview

A dancer performs along Reforma Avenue in Mexico City, Saturday, June 6, 2026 ahead of the FIFA World Cup. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Mexico and South Africa can count us out – there's only one Group A team we're pulling for — and it's not just because it comes from the land of the Golem

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

May 16, 2026, 5:14 PM

How Britain Is Quietly Bankrolling North Korea

In a recent interview on GB News, the United Kingdom’s Business and Trade Secretary, Peter Kyle, outlined efforts to strike trade deals to boost economic growth. In a brief slip, he included the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea before...

Ambrogino Awesta

Apr 14, 2026, 1:19 AM

The Strait of Hormuz and the Legal Threshold of War

A Turning Point: From Diplomacy to Confrontation Following the failure of the Islamic Republic of Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz – set as a precondition for negotiations in Islamabad – the President of the United States announced that...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Apr 9, 2026, 3:57 AM

The Upcoming Script Flip on Israel’s Lebanon War

Iranian state television declared today that the Iranian-mined Strait of Hormuz was closed once again. Minutes later, maritime tracking data from MarineTraffic showed the Panama-flagged, United States Treasury-sanctioned oil tanker AUROURA executed a sharp 180-degree turn while approaching the...

Ambrogino Awesta

Apr 4, 2026, 11:46 PM

France’s Hidden Ambitions in a Multipolar World Order

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France’s posture in the current Iran crisis is widely described as principled restraint – an insistence on the primacy of the UN Charter and a rejection of expansive authorizations of force absent clear Security Council consensus. That description is...

Mar 15, 2026, 6:07 AM

When Washington Blinked in Korea, Tehran Noticed

The first of two Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors is launched during a successful intercept test. The test, conducted by Missile Defense Agency (MDA), Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) Operational Test Agency, Joint Functional Component Command for Integrated Missile Defense, and U.S. Pacific Command, in conjunction with U.S. Army soldiers from the Alpha Battery, 2nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment, U.S. Navy sailors aboard the guided missile destroyer USS Decatur (DDG-73), and U.S. Air Force airmen from the 613th Air and Operations Center resulted in the intercept of one medium-range ballistic missile target by THAAD, and one medium-range ballistic missile target by Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD). The test, designated Flight Test Operational-01 (FTO-01), stressed the ability of the Aegis BMD and THAAD weapon systems to function in a layered defense architecture and defeat a raid of two near-simultaneous ballistic missile targets

In the literature on extended deterrence, there is a concept known as the cascade problem: the phenomenon by which a concession made in one theater, to one adversary, for ostensibly local reasons, propagates outward through the deterrence architecture in...

Mar 12, 2026, 1:24 PM

Queues of Gold: Crisis and the Practice of Belonging

Still from a government film depicting citizens donating gold during the 1998 IMF crisis. The Korean caption reads: “A gold‑collecting campaign showing the people’s resolve to overcome the IMF crisis.” (By IM Film - https://vimeo.com/134916511, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70230849)

Earlier this week, I spoke with someone I had known in another lifetime, back when I lived in South Korea. We have not met for two decades, yet across years and continents, we have remained in touch, and as...

Jan 22, 2026, 2:30 AM

Recognizing Somaliland would be in South Korea’s Interest

I respectfully urge the Government of South Korea to formally recognize the Republic of Somaliland as an independent and sovereign state within its 1960 borders. The Republic of Somaliland is in the Horn of Africa, along the southern coast of...

Dec 9, 2025, 3:21 PM

South Korea is arming the Mideast. Will it mitigate risks for Israel?

South Korean medium-range surface to air missile, of the kind recently purchased by Iraq (Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of Korea)

With countries from Egypt to Iraq and Saudi Arabia buying its weapons, Seoul needs clear safeguards to ensure it does not put its allies at risk

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Dec 8, 2025, 3:02 AM

Maduro’s “Win” Is Really a U.S. Trap

Forget the recycled headlines. Anyone claiming China and Russia “won” because Maduro might cling to power is either clueless or betting you won’t read the actual signals coming out of Washington. A week ago, Trump dropped an ultimatum on international airlines,...

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