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The Rise of the Houthis

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How did the Houthi rebels of Yemen become a threat to global trade? Benoit Faucon and Warren P. Strobel explain in The Wall Street Journal, writing: Iran’s “axis of resistance” has suffered a series of blows delivered by Israel over the past month, including operations targeting the leadership of Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah, and […]

Democrats Face Doomsday in Dearborn

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In The Spectator, Zack Christenson discusses how Democrats are losing the Arab vote and the union vote in Dearborn, MI. He concludes: While the Arab-American vote could sink Harris, it’s here, and cities like it all across Michigan, where the election will more likely be decided. There are over 1.1 million people in Michigan who […]

Political Prisoner Steve Bannon Released Days before Election 2024

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Political pundit and former Trump administration adviser Steve Bannon has been released from prison after his conviction of refusing to comply with a subpoena for the January 6 congressional commission. Richard Pollina reports in the New York Post: Steve Bannon was released from a Connecticut federal prison early Tuesday after serving four months behind bars […]

Trump and Tucker Carlson Live on October 31

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Donald Trump will sit down with Tucker Carlson for a live show on X.com on October 31. The show, set to take place in Glendale, AZ, will be the grand finale of Carlson’s recent tour. Our live tour is not over yet. For the grand finale, we’ll be in Glendale, AZ, on October 31st with […]

Trump Working Much Harder than Harris

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Donald Trump is campaigning way harder than Kamala Harris at this late stage in the election, and that has many Harris supporters puzzled and irate. Democrats have knocked Trump’s age as a negative for the president, but he’s doing much more than Harris. Maggie Hroncich reports in The New York Sun: “Insane” is how some […]

Russia’s Attack on the U.S. Dollar

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Vladimir Putin knows that the weakest part of the United States is its abused currency. Newsmax recently noted in an email that Putin is going to war against the U.S. dollar, noting: Vladimir Putin opened the expanded BRICS summit by calling for an alternative international payment system that will prevent the U.S. from using the […]

Foreign Governments Stoking Division in America

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Microsoft’s Threat Analysis Center (MTAC) has noted that foreign influence operations from countries like Russia, China, and Iran are attempting to stoke division in the U.S. surrounding the presidential election. WIRED’s Lily Hy Newman reports: As November 5 draws closer, the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center (MTAC) warned on Wednesday that malicious foreign influence operations launched […]

Don’t Blame Ukraine’s Failures on Donald Trump

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In The Wall Street Journal, Holman W. Jenkins explains at length the history of presidents dealing with Ukraine and its Russian problem and cautions readers to avoid believing anyone blaming Trump for Ukraine’s failures. He writes: Even tendentious newspaper accounts, rolled out in the final days of a close election, can’t conceal that Donald Trump, […]

Gulf Arab States Hoping for a Trump Win

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In Foreign Policy, Talal Mohammad suggests that the Arab states of the Persian Gulf are hoping Donald Trump will win the coming presidential election. During Trump’s first term, he aligned U.S. interests with Saudi and Emirati interests in the area when it came to Iran and Yemen, while Harris has suggested she will follow an […]

Turkey: BRICS or NATO? Maybe Both

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At Foreign Policy, Jorge Heine explains the balancing act Turkey is attempting between the West and the BRICS countries. Heine writes: This week’s BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, features a new participant: Turkey. A Kremlin official leaked last month that Ankara had applied to join the grouping, following repeated expressions of interest over the years. […]