The Israeli government carried out a strike in Doha today in an attack on Hamas’ political leadership: Qatar condemned the attack, which Majed al-Ansari, the spokesman for the Qatari foreign ministry, said in a statement targeted the “residential headquarters” where a...
When he was running for president in 2024, Donald Trump promised that he would shut down the Ukraine war shortly after taking office, if not before he moved into the White House. He also promised that he would not start any more wars and would markedly improve U.S....
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Monday announced a series of nine new measures – including a total arms embargo – aimed at pressuring the government of fugitive Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "to stop the genocide in Gaza." Sánchez, who leads the...
There are several points that urgently need making about yesterday’s Palestine Action protest, which led to some 890 demonstrators being arrested – most of them on terrorism charges for silently holding a sign saying: “I support Palestine Action.” Police...
On COI #834, Kyle Anzalone discusses news from Europe and the Middle East. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.
Reprinted from The Realist Review. According to a report by the estimable Kelley Vlahos, this year’s National Conservatism conference in Washington, DC came replete with fireworks – of the figurative variety. In a debate moderated by Modern Age editor Dan McCarthy,...
On 4 September 2025, I was on “Judging Freedom” talking with Judge Napolitano mainly about how foolishly President Trump is acting on the foreign policy front — driving India and Russia into the arms of China and causing a significant tightening of relations between...
After years of lobbying from US weapons makers, President Donald Trump is reportedly set to implement his first-term reinterpretation of a Cold War-era arms control treaty in order to sell heavy attack drones to countries including Saudi Arabia, according to a report...
On September 2, the US government claimed that military operators acting on its behalf murdered 11 foreign nationals aboard a boat in international waters off the coast of Venezuela. I say “claimed” because Venezuelan communications minister Freddy Ñáñez suggests that...
US Navy SEALs shot dead a number of civilians during a botched secret mission to plant a listening device inside North Korea during tense nuclear negotiations between the first Trump administration and the government of Kim Jong Un in 2019, The New York Times reported...
