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The most talked-about film in the country climaxes with an American vigilante methodically murdering ten Syrian refugees in their apartment. Citizen Vigilante was banned in Germany…
A Record-Setting Pace Wars in Iran, Ukraine, and Israel have drawn attention away from a stark fact: armed conflict is on the…
The modern Middle East suffers from a consequentially glaring paradox: oil-rich Arab states undoubtedly possess some of the most concentrated geopolitical and…
The history of warfare shows that conflicts end either with a clear victory by one side or through negotiations when both face…
On July 10, President Donald Trump announced something that should have stopped Washington in its tracks: The United States would continue negotiations…
There are just over three weeks left before Abelardo De La Espriella takes office as Colombiaās new president, despite the numerous allegations…
On March 1, 1945, only six weeks before his death, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered an address to Congress that pointed…
I recently drove to a gas station in Massachusetts to fill my tank with regular gas, the cheapest around, and, to my…
On March 4, 2026, a U.S. warship torpedoed and sank the unarmed Iranian frigate IRIS Dena off the southern coast of Sri Lanka. The…
Here is the bottom line: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has no intention of leaving Gaza, either before Israelās general electionsālikely to…
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