Israel’s failed aerial assault on Iran on October 26 augurs a major shift in the regional balance of power. Iran's technologically advanced air defense system coupled with its state-of-the-art, long-range hypersonic ballistic missile stockpile make it the most powerful state in the Middle East portending a peaceful era of cooperation and economic integration ahead. In... Read More

The Biden administration has settled on a plan to expand the war beyond Ukraine by deploying combat troops and lethal weaponry to 15 military bases in Finland. Whether the deployment will include nuclear-armed ballistic missiles is not yet known, but the threat to Russia's security is serious all the same. One can imagine what Washington... Read More

The screenshot captured from a video released by Yemen's Houthi group on June 26, 2024 shows that a hypersonic missile is launched from an undisclosed desert area in Yemen. Xinhua Is this Iran's revenge? Is this how Iran pays-back Israel for bombing its consulate in Damascus in late March; by providing the Houthis with hypersonic... Read More

In June, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) released a report highlighting the impact of Houthi attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea. The report is a devastating account of Washington's failure to protect critical transit corridors in one of the world's most important waterways. The Biden administration's makeshift naval coalition, dubbed Operation Prosperity Guardian,... Read More

Remember that time Joe Brandon said that you would need nuclear weapons to win a fight against the US government? It’s not a statement that was true at the time, and it has not aged well. The US government offered an unconditional surrender to the Taliban, men in flip-flops with AK-47s riding around in Toyota... Read More

The good news is the United States is calling for diplomacy in the Middle East. The bad news it is because it was bested by Yemen’s rebel Houthis. U.S. Special Envoy to Yemen, Tim Lenderking, bowed to the obvious and admitted, “We favor a diplomatic solution, we know there is no military solution.� Lenderking was... Read More

Previously: ZOG Admits Anti-Houthi Strikes are a Total Waste of Time, Failing Completely, No Solutions This has always been the Houthi position: “stop the slaughter and we’ll open the Red Sea.� Of course, due to media reporting, most Americans think they’re bombing these ships randomly because they’re “Islamic terrorists.� I’ve been over this repeatedly, but... Read More

Biden may see himself needing some ‘grand victory’, as much as does Netanyahu. The U.S. is edging closer to war with Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces, a state security agency composed of armed groups, some of which are close to Iran, but which for the main are Iraqi nationalists. The U.S. carried out a drone strike... Read More

In your opinion, is the ICJ's 'genocide' ruling convincing or overstated? Ron Unz---From the beginning I've been extremely reluctant to characterize the Israeli attack on Gaza as being a "genocide" because use of that term has become so wildly inflated and distorted in recent years, converted by dishonest Western governments and their mainstream media lackeys... Read More

Here's the question that every American should be asking himself: Is Israel's war in Gaza strengthening or weakening America's position in the world? If there is some material benefit for the United States, then there might be a reasonable argument for continuing to support the policy. But if there is no benefit whatsoever, then the... Read More