On the night before Thanksgiving, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan immigrant who had served with the CIA in the war against the Taliban regime, shot two members of the West Virginia National Guard in W...
12.13.2025 Salon.com
One of the great things about books is that they can take you out of your current context. You can go to a different period of history, explore another industry or even a different planet. That’s one ...
12.14.2025 Digitaltonto.com
Not long ago in the sweep of history, countries that had once been buried behind the Iron Curtain, and even some Soviet republics, were transformed into members of the solidly democratic club. Some of...
12.16.2025 Foreignaffairs.com
On 10 December 2025, the United States Navy and Coast Guard conducted what they described as a “sanctions-enforcement operation” in the Caribbean Sea. In reality, it was a dramatic act of maritime pir...
12.11.2025 Countercurrents.org
Listen to this article Under the Trump presidency, the US approach to China has oscillated between coercion, balancing and occasional efforts at conditional cooperation. Contradictions in Trump’s strategic posture are puzzling. Washington has employed coercive geoeconomics and weaponised interdependence to discipline both allies and adversaries. The United States has experimented with a ‘reverse Kissinger’ strategy to weaken the Chinese–Russian axis and restore US primacy. At the same time, it h...
12.17.2025 Eastasiaforum.org