5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (583+ words) As the US prepares to mark 25 years since Sept. 11, 2001, Donald Trump has removed top Al Qaeda figures from the US list of designated terrorists. Among those he delisted was Abdullah Muhaysini, a Saudi cleric who recruited child fighters and teen…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (935+ words) On June 24 the (acting) president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, announced a 40-day campaign: “I approved a 40-day ​operation by the ​Service to influence the aggressor ‌state ⁠in order to press for an end to the war,” ​Zelenskiy wrote ​on ⁠Telegram....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (112+ words) Writes Paul Craig Roberts: The lives and billions of dollars are not the only cost. Interest rates are rising in a global bond selloff renewed by Trump’s attacks on Iran, which pushed oil above $91 per barrel. Oil’s climb also pressured…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (244+ words) Diverging interests between the US and Europe are becoming increasingly apparent. One sign of these tensions is Europe’s loss of priority status within US strategic affairs. European partners now appear to be far down Washington’s list of major concerns, prompting…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (187+ words) Former Trump Attorney and political commentator Robert Barnes joins former CIA analyst Larry Johnson to examine how the wars in Ukraine and Iran, the weaponization of the dollar and a succession of strategic miscalculations are reshaping the international order. From…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (615+ words) The Bank for International Settlements is warning that near-record public debt and the growing role of hedge funds and other nonbank financial institutions have created what it calls a “fiscal-financial stability nexus.” That is sanitized bureaucratic language for a system…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (462+ words) For a short but sweet period of time, it looked like an international agency created to destroy U.S. sovereignty might collapse. But, once again, the Trump administration managed to dash hopes it once raised. According to a congressional notification seen by…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (470+ words) Greenland is far more than the world’s largest island, largely covered by ice. Beneath its vast frozen landscape and around its strategic coastline lie resources and military positions that have made it one of the most important pieces of territory…...