by Daniel Larison | Nov 8, 2022 | News
Walter Russell Mead jumps at the chance to push for regime change:But using all the diplomatic and economic tools at America’s disposal to help the Iranian people’s fight for freedom is both the right thing to do and the best way to advance U.S. interests at a...
by Gilbert Doctorow | Nov 6, 2022 | News
The single largest contingent of readers of my essays is in the United States, and it is for their particular benefit that I open today’s piece with some concrete facts on how Europe’s self-imposed energy crisis resulting from the ban on import of Russian hydrocarbons...
by Gilbert Doctorow | Oct 12, 2022 | News
Has ‘partial mobilization’ breathed full-blooded democracy into Russia’s parliamentary government structure and broader society?It is normal to think of wartime as a period of tightened censorship and imposition of ever greater controls on society at large. ...
by Daniel Larison | Sep 10, 2022 | News
Ali A. Olomi calls attention to the damage being done by US sanctions and asset freezes in Afghanistan:Despite militarily withdrawing, the United States continues to pursue a policy of financially starving Afghanistan of desperately needed funds in an attempt to force...
by Craig Murray | Jul 10, 2022 | News
Away from the Tory Babel over who will be the top “world-leading” sociopath, I spent the last two evenings in the company of decent people. John and Gabriel Shipton, Julian’s father and brother, were in Glasgow and Edinburgh for the screening of...