A Saudi Treaty Is a Dangerous Trap

The Biden administration won’t give up on one of the worst ideas in the world: The Biden administration is close to finalizing a treaty with Saudi Arabia that would commit the U.S. to help defend the Gulf nation as part of a long-shot deal to encourage diplomatic ties...

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What Does Pushkin Have To Do With D-Day?

Those familiar with the great Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin's biography would assume that the connection is his birthday date, June 6, the same as the beginning of the Normandy landing. But, as will be explained later, the connection is much deeper. Given the growing...

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Four Hostages Freed; 274 Palestinians Killed

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. If you have to kill 274 people to free four others being held hostage, is that a “successful” military operation? According to the Israeli and U.S. governments, it is. Israel, apparently with some U.S. help,...

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Nurse Practitioner on a Hunger Strike for Gaza

I am on day nine of a voluntary hunger strike while Palestinians in Gaza are being starved to death. It is estimated that 3500 children are at risk of death in the coming weeks due to starvation. Two million people are trapped in the besieged Gaza strip, half of them...

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