The emerging fight over frozen Russian assets has turned the “Ukraine 28‑point peace plan” into a proxy war between Washington and the euro‑establishment over money, leverage, and who will control the political endgame with Moscow. The technical language of “windfall profits,” “reconstruction funds,” and “loan facilities” disguises a blunt question: who gets to capture and deploy the value of Russia’s seized reserves, and for what purpose. In that sense, the transatlantic split is not a sides...

The emerging fight over frozen Russian assets has turned the “Ukraine 28‑point peace plan” into a proxy war between Washington and the euro‑establishment over money, leverage, and who will control the political endgame with Moscow. The technical language of “windfall profits,” “reconstruction funds,” and “loan facilities” disguises a blunt question: who gets to capture and deploy the value of Russia’s seized reserves, and for what purpose. In that sense, the transatlantic split is not a sides...

US warships attacking Venezuelan boats in Caribbean waters is not counter-narcotics; it is a direct act of intimidation against a sovereign nation that has refused to submit to Washington. These strikes fit into a long-standing imperial pattern of sanctions, blockades, and now live fire, all designed to discipline a country whose real crime is insisting that its oil, its elections, and its future remain in its own hands. In early September, the U.S. military destroyed a boat it labeled a drug...

US warships attacking Venezuelan boats in Caribbean waters is not counter-narcotics; it is a direct act of intimidation against a sovereign nation that has refused to submit to Washington. These strikes fit into a long-standing imperial pattern of sanctions, blockades, and now live fire, all designed to discipline a country whose real crime is insisting that its oil, its elections, and its future remain in its own hands. In early September, the U.S. military destroyed a boat it labeled a drug...

Barack Obama’s admirers like to remember the soaring speeches, the symbolism of the first Black president, the calm technocrat who promised to restore law and morality after the excesses of George W. Bush. Less convenient for that story is the arithmetic of his drone wars: hundreds of covert strikes, thousands of people killed, and civilian death tolls that independent investigators say are many times higher than the White House ever admitted. For anyone who believes innocent life is the ulti...

Barack Obama’s admirers like to remember the soaring speeches, the symbolism of the first Black president, the calm technocrat who promised to restore law and morality after the excesses of George W. Bush. Less convenient for that story is the arithmetic of his drone wars: hundreds of covert strikes, thousands of people killed, and civilian death tolls that independent investigators say are many times higher than the White House ever admitted. For anyone who believes innocent life is the ulti...

An Afghan man who once wore the label “ally” of the United States is now accused of ambushing National Guard soldiers in the heart of Washington, D.C. That brutal turn from asset to alleged attacker captures something essential about how America wages war, processes its defeats, and then repurposes the fallout for domestic politics. In late November, two Guard members from West Virginia were on a routine foot patrol near Farragut Square, just a few blocks from the White House, when a man open...

An Afghan man who once wore the label “ally” of the United States is now accused of ambushing National Guard soldiers in the heart of Washington, D.C. That brutal turn from asset to alleged attacker captures something essential about how America wages war, processes its defeats, and then repurposes the fallout for domestic politics. In late November, two Guard members from West Virginia were on a routine foot patrol near Farragut Square, just a few blocks from the White House, when a man open...

Marco Rubio’s story begins, and refuses to let go, in the heat and humidity of Miami’s cocaine years. Today he strides the world as Secretary of State, lecturing presidents and generals about the dangers of cartels and the corrosive power of drug money. Yet his own formative years unfolded within walking distance of one of Miami’s most notorious cocaine operations, and inside a house that doubled as both family hub and trafficking depot. The tension between those two lives, the teenager washi...

Marco Rubio’s story begins, and refuses to let go, in the heat and humidity of Miami’s cocaine years. Today he strides the world as Secretary of State, lecturing presidents and generals about the dangers of cartels and the corrosive power of drug money. Yet his own formative years unfolded within walking distance of one of Miami’s most notorious cocaine operations, and inside a house that doubled as both family hub and trafficking depot. The tension between those two lives, the teenager washi...

Graham Platner’s Senate run in Maine is less a conventional primary and more a live experiment in whether a visibly flawed, deeply online working‑class populist can beat both his party’s establishment and a five‑term Republican incumbent. His story begins far from the polished pathways that normally produce U.S. senators: a kid from rural coastal Maine who enlisted after 9/11, served four combat tours across the Marine Corps and the Army in Iraq and Afghanistan, then came home and built his l...

Graham Platner’s Senate run in Maine is less a conventional primary and more a live experiment in whether a visibly flawed, deeply online working‑class populist can beat both his party’s establishment and a five‑term Republican incumbent. His story begins far from the polished pathways that normally produce U.S. senators: a kid from rural coastal Maine who enlisted after 9/11, served four combat tours across the Marine Corps and the Army in Iraq and Afghanistan, then came home and built his l...