The State Department has been advising Americans to NOT travel to Afghanistan for some time and suspended the embassy in Kabul after the Taliban took over in 2021. The advisory was updated in December 2023 to add wrongful detention to the list of risks that already included terrorism, kidnapping...
The picture is clear: when it comes to Ukraine, pundits and commentators from the establishment left to the neocon right only disagree on how quickly and strongly the US should wade in to stop a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine. Only Carlson, considered far-right by American liberals, is...
Like the Russian case, the idea that Mao’s gun control allowed him to commit genocidal acts completely overlooks how Mao gained power in the first place: a massive civil war. If guns could have stopped Mao, they would have then, not at the height of his power. It also overl...
There is a great deal of speculation of late on thepossible(make that probable…) invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces. Speculation of whether or not Vladimir Putin really intends to make good on his gambit of a military build up of epic proportions on the Ukrainian border. A build up not...