Editorial The arrest of Abdulla Shahid, former Foreign Minister of the Maldives and President of the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, over allegations of sexually abusing a minor is
J.P. Morgan Chase is the largest bank in the United States. It has a global trends advisory organization called the Center for Geopolitics. The study believes the war’s likely outcome is a mixed deal
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Recent US export control decisions imperil national security and threaten not only US artificial intelligence “dominance” but potentially many other emerging technologies critical to military programs. While legal US exports of AI-related
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Between June 13 and 24 Iran launched 574 missiles attacking Israel. Some of them got through, despite Israeli and US efforts to stop them. Until now we have lacked convincing data allowing
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Microsoft was caught with its pants down in a brilliant exposé by Propublica that said that a major part of the Defense Department’s Cloud Computer system was run by Chinese engineers and monitored by
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Air India Flight 171 crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all but one onboard and many people on the ground outside the airport perimeter. It is now widely understood that a preliminary report,
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The Pentagon has taken a step back from supporting research and development of robotic land vehicles. The goal was to be able to move firepower on the front lines without risking the
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The recent massive bombings on Ukrainian territory and advances by the Russian army are harbingers of the end game that will befall Ukraine unless that country can find a way out. One
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President Trump’s decision to launch attacks on three of Iran’s major nuclear enrichment sites took place after negotiations in Geneva collapsed. Iran’s foreign minister met with the foreign ministers of Germany, Britain,
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President Donald Trump has said he wants Iran to accept “unconditional surrender.” It isn’t clear if this is actually his policy, or just a threat. But whatever it is, the policy of
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India is a very nervous country, and it got far worse today, June 12th, 2025 when a Boeing 787-8 aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff. There is no suggestion (yet) of sabotage, although
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In 1943, Sidney Hook published his still controversial but fascinating book, The Hero in History: A Study in Limitation and Possibility. Hook wanted to know just how vital a hero is to a
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Will Ukraine or Russia Win the war? After Ukraine’s attack on Russian air bases, some pundits are writing that Ukraine is winning the war. At least one American newspaper headlined the surprise attack as
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The drone attack on 5 Highly Sensitive Russian Bases was aimed at the US as much as Russia. In a brilliant operation that, according to the Ukrainians, took 18 months to pull
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It was a big surprise to defense experts when, this last week of May, 2025, Israel’s Defense Force, the IDF, revealed that it had a new, small tactical laser already deployed on
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President Donald Trump has gone on a rant, condemning Russian air strikes in Ukraine and complaining that the attacks are killing civilians. The President says about Putin: “Something has happened to him, he has
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