Base effect: US power projection and the danger of dispersion
Before the US and Israeli attacks against Iran and Iran’s retaliation, you’d be excused if you didn’t know that the US has a plethora of military bases in the Middle...
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US dispatched Marines to Mideast, feeding Iran invasion warnings
In what has been described as a potential “major escalation” of the Trump administration’s war with Iran, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reportedly approved a request from US Central Command...
‘No decision’ about Japan navy to Hormuz as Takaichi wins...
Japan’s House of Representatives on Friday passed the FY2026 budget, setting the stage for a fight in the upper house — where the government lacks a majority — as opposition...
Trump says US has attacked Kharg Island, Iran’s energy lifeline
As the US and Israel’s assault on Iran grinds on, the Trump administration has issued increasingly bellicose claims that American and Israeli forces are delivering ferocious blows to the Iranian...
Pulpit to Pentagon: the evangelicals who see Iran war as...
As the American and Israeli war with Iran unfolds, some American Christians are speaking of the conflict in biblical terms, mapping end-time prophecies on to current events in the Middle...
Iran may be where the US-led world order ends
In his monumental work “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, historian Edward Gibbon argued that empires rarely collapse suddenly. Their decline is usually gradual, shaped...
US warned of China rare earth curbs if Section 301...
Beijing could resume restrictions on rare-earth exports and halt purchases of United States soybeans if Washington insists on “making trouble” by proceeding with new tariffs under Section 301 of the...
While America fights, China builds
Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. China’s export surge redraws global trade mapScott Foster reports that...
Ghosts of 1997 and 2008 stir as Iran spooks markets
TOKYO — Asia is seeing ghosts again. One apparition amid tight credit markets dates to the 2007-2008 global financial crisis. Another comes from 1997-98, when Asia’s debt-fueled growth boom ended...
Team Mirai pushing to bring ‘digital democracy’ to Japan
The top story to emerge from Japan’s Lower House election on Febuary 8 was the overwhelming victory of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and her Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the...
