Don’t Intervene in Yemen

The phenomenally stupid idea of attacking the Houthis is getting more support: Saudi Arabia is among a number of Middle Eastern countries telling the West they back strikes against the Houthis in Yemen whose attacks on shipping in the Red Sea have diminished...

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Justin Amash’s Family in Gaza

Reprinted from Justin Amash's Substack. As some of you know, I have relatives in Gaza. They are my dad’s first cousins. Tragically, several of them were killed in October when an Israeli airstrike destroyed part of the complex at Saint Porphyrius Orthodox Church where...

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Another Pointless Assassination in Baghdad

It’s January in an election year, so it must be time for the U.S. to assassinate someone in Baghdad: A U.S. Special Operations drone strike in Baghdad on Thursday killed a senior figure in an Iran-linked militant group that is part of Iraq’s security apparatus,...

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