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Beware Hubris: Trump’s Iran War Has an Ozymandias Flavor

Never short of hyperinflated self-praise and self-adulation, US President Donald Trump has been true to form regarding his blitzkrieg joint attack with Israel on Iran. But, beyond the bombast and... Read full article

Alan Waring - March 28, 2026

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The “Old” and the “New”: Trump’s Approach to Central and Eastern Europe Revives Bush-Era Themes
by Stoycho Velev
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Iran Triggers Hormuz Chokepoint Crisis and Risk of Global Stagflation
by Atul Singh & Manu Sharma
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Hormuz Constrains the US Administration, but Won’t Save the Regime
by Gary Grappo
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Imperial Decline in the Straits of Hormuz: The Iran War as America’s Very Own Suez Crisis
by Alfred W. McCoy

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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

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Football and Politics: An Old Love Affair

by Ellis Cashmore

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The Fog of Foreknowledge Versus the Clarity of War

Two early-century warnings — Wesley Clark’s revelation of a Pentagon regime-change plan and William Burns’s memo on NATO’s Russian redlines...

Peter Thiel: The Antichrist Hunter of Silicon Valley

One journalist describes Peter Thiel as a fan of the Bible. Columnist Ross Douthat calls him...

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 Iran War: How Does It End?

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

by Gary Grappo

What the Iran War Reveals About the Limits of Chinese Power

by Daniel Wagner

The Time Is Out of Joint: Power, Misalignment and the G1.5 World

by Masaaki Yoshimori

Can Bangladesh’s Nationalist Party Transform the Country’s Foreign Policy?

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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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