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Imperial Decline in the Straits of Hormuz: The Iran War as America’s Very Own Suez Crisis

Empires rise and fall — one major example being the British Empire following the 1956 Suez Crisis. The US–Israel war with Iran may end the American Empire, as the US’s... Read full article

Alfred W. McCoy - March 25, 2026

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Middle East News
The Road to Quagmire in Iran: Why Arming the Kurds Risks Destabilizing the Region
by Jason Abbott
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Private Credit Turned Out to Be an Illusion. What’s Next?
by Imran Khalid
Outside the Box
Has the US Invented the Pyrrhic War? Part 2
by Peter Isackson
Economics and Finance
The Hidden Tax of Financial Misinformation
by Avi Tuschman

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The Indian Subcontinent’s Hindu-Muslim Divide

by Pocket Dynamo, Atul Singh & Ishtiaq Ahmed

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Understanding the 1975 Autocratic “Emergency” in India

by Vikram K. Malkani, Atul Singh & Lee Thompson-Kolar

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The Story of World War II

by Atul Singh, Abul-Hasanat Siddique & Anton Schauble

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The Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein

by Ellis Cashmore

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Football and Politics: An Old Love Affair

by Ellis Cashmore

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Peter Thiel: The Antichrist Hunter of Silicon Valley

One journalist describes Peter Thiel as a fan of the Bible. Columnist Ross Douthat calls him an influential right-wing intellectual....

Trump Makes Wars of Religion Great Again!

From Bush’s War on Terror to Trump’s strikes on Iran, US foreign policy has quietly transformed...

The Devil’s Stagecraft: When Biblical Prophecy Drives Foreign Policy

Shakespeare’s Macbeth offers a haunting mirror for today’s geopolitics. The witches’ art of “equivocation” — truths...

The Iran War: How Does It End?

The US and Israel started the war in Iran without...

by Gary Grappo

This Isn’t a Pretti Good Story!

by Peter Isackson

The US Legal System Is Being Hacked

by William Softky

What the Iran War Reveals About the Limits of Chinese Power

by Daniel Wagner

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The Dialectic: Narendra Modi’s Vegetarian Stalinism Has Ruined the Indian Economy

In this episode of The Dialectic, Atul Singh and Glenn Carle explain how India’s current leader has rolled back the 1991 economic reforms, restoring the extreme centralization of the socialist 1970s. Competitive populism and crony capitalism have led to a dumbbell economy where the babu...

by Glenn Carle & Atul Singh

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