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Duncan paused the moment he heard the knock at his front door. It was loud. Assertive. He cautiously stood behind the heavy wood, “yes, hello.” “It’s the police, is Mr Duncan Trywood home?” a firm female voice asked. “Yes, I am him.” “Can you please open the door so we may ask you some questions?” []
The terrible siege of Lenningrad (St. Petersburg) lasted 872-days as German and Finnish military forces encircled the city. It was only when the harsh winters froze Lake Ladoga that the Road of Life could be established. A lifeline of trucks and mules and makeshift rail brought food and ammunition to the besieged city. While half []
The official story is simple. The timeline is not. We take a hard look at the reporting around Senator Lindsey Graham’s death and ask a basic question that gets skipped too often in political news: does the schedule even work. With Larry Johnson back on the show, we walk through the travel route to Kyiv, []
The US intelligence community has briefed President Donald Trump that bombing Iran is unlikely to change Tehran’s positions in negotiations to end the war. Last week, the US resumed major military operations against Iran, including bombing civilian infrastructure. President Trump has repeatedly told the American people that the strikes are meant to force Tehran to []
Israeli Finance Minister Betzel Smotrich said that Tel Aviv was not interested in rejoining the war against Iran. Multiple outlets have reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convinced President Donald Trump to start the war. “The State of Israel has no interest in joining the contained confrontation between Iran and the United States,” the []
President Donald Trump suggested he would relaunch his war on Yemen if Ansar Allah follows through on its pledge to prevent Saudi shipping through the Bab al-Mandab. Last year, Trump ordered a massive bombing campaign against Yemen in an effort to break Ansar Allah’s blockade on Israel. On Monday, the Yemeni Armed Forces said it []
“The idea that deficits don’t matter as long as you have your own currency is just wrong. In a world of scarce resources, someone always pays.”- N. Gregory Mankiw Some are calling recent political events America’s “socialist moment,” as many libertarians have been predicting for a generation that this surge would occur. The current “socialist []
Calling it a “lab leak” makes the story feel tidy, but the real scandal might be the system that makes lab-origin disasters plausible in the first place. We sit down with independent journalist Sam Husseini to unpack gain-of-function research, why “potentially pandemic pathogens” are funded and defended, and how a small circle of incentives, prestige, []
Ansar Allah announced that Yemen will begin preventing Saudi ships from transiting the Bab al-Mandab Strait. Riyadh has relied on its Red Sea ports to export oil following Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz. On Monday, the Yemeni Armed Forces said it was imposing the blockade in response to Saudi’s blockade of Yemen and []
President Donald Trump posted a poll that found over 60 of Americans support the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the US and Iran last month. Last week. Trump said he “couldn’t care less” that Iran terminated the MOU. When asked by Big Data Poll if they support the MOU with Iran, 62 of likely American []
