Jack Lew, who served as President Biden’s ambassador to Israel, stopped a memo from reaching senior Biden administration officials in early 2024 that described north Gaza as an “Apocalyptic Wasteland” with dire shortages of food and medical aid, Reuters reported on Friday. The cable was drafted by USAID staff and was based […]
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, describing fear and disorder tied to federal immigration enforcement and street-level unrest, reached for a loaded analogy. “We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside. Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody’s going to write that […]
Forged under the pressure of the Cold War in 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, is in critical condition. It has been brought to the brink of death by Donald Trump’s threat to take Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, a founding member of NATO. Trump has called acquiring Greenland […]
A colleague, an editor at a widely read outlet that centered Gaza throughout the two-year genocide, recently voiced his frustration that Gaza is no longer a main focus in the news. He hardly needed to say it. It is evident that Gaza has already been pushed to the margins of […]
Israeli officials have made clear they have no intention of withdrawing from Gaza Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has framed US envoy Steve Witkoff’s announcement about the start of “Phase Two” of the US’s Gaza deal as largely symbolic, as the situation on the ground in the besieged Palestinian territory hasn’t changed. […]
Originally published at Judgenap.com and reprinted with permission The Ukrainian military revealed some of its struggles to get men in uniform and remain on the frontlines. “I don’t want to be a populist — I want to be a realist,” Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said. “The Ministry of Defense is coming into my […]
Historian Miguel Tinker Salas’s Venezuela: What Everyone Needs to Know uncovers the century-long architecture of Western intervention and the human cost of a state built on oil. The history of Venezuela is often reduced to a cautionary tale of a single charismatic leader or a sudden economic collapse, yet the reality is […]
When the Trump administration ordered special‑operations forces to seize Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife on January 3, 2026, electricity failed across Caracas and airfields filled with U.S. aircraft. The Venezuelan leader was spirited to New York to face an indictment on drug charges while President Trump pledged that the United […]
The United States finds itself at a moment when the gap between power and prudence has rarely been more visible. As American society grapples with structural inflation, deep social fragmentation, a crisis of institutional credibility, and the steady erosion of public trust, renewed talk of military confrontation with Venezuela is once again circulating within […]
Donald Trump campaigned on ending endless wars and now boasts that he has resolved eight wars. In reality, this claim is delusional, and his foreign policy is a disaster. The United States remains mired in ongoing wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, and now Trump is careening blindly into new wars […]