John Mearsheimer

January 24, 2026

Reprinted from John’s Substack:  On 22 January 2026, I was on “Breaking Points” with Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti talking about what happened at Davos over the past three days. We started by discussing Canadian PM Mark Carney’s speech proclaiming a “rupture” in relations between the US and its NATO allies. We then talked about […]

Brett Wilkins

January 24, 2026

A federal judge on Thursday unsealed documents showing that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio personally approved the deportation of university students after receiving memos highlighting their involvement in constitutionally protected campus protests against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Massachusetts-based Senior Judge William G. Young – an appointee of former President Ronald Reagan – unsealed 105 […]

John Mearsheimer

January 22, 2026

Reprinted from John’s Substack:  On 14 January 2026, I was on “Piers Morgan Uncensored” talking and arguing with Piers about a variety of subjects: how radical Trump’s foreign policy is, the kidnapping in Venezuela and where it will lead, annexing Greenland, the failed attempt at regime change in Iran, and Israel’s genocide in Gaza. A […]

Daniel Larison

January 22, 2026

The president’s insane Greenland obsession won’t die: President Trump called for negotiations for the U.S. to acquire Greenland, saying it was vital to secure North America. The U.S. has never needed to own Greenland to secure North America, and there is nothing to negotiate. Greenland is not “our territory,” it never has been, and it […]

John Mearsheimer

January 21, 2026

Reprinted from John’s Substack:  I wrote a Substack post yesterday (20 January 2026) titled “The Tag Team Fails in Iran.” I described the Trump administration’s playbook for producing regime change in Iran. Here is my description of the first of the four key elements in that plan: First, the US has long been working to […]

William Astore

January 21, 2026

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Yesterday, I went on Judge Napolitano’s show, and we talked about several challenging issues. Among them, the Trump administration’s military coup in Venezuela and the illegality of the same, the difficulty of disobeying illegal orders (and of distinguishing what is legal under pressure and within a hierarchical […]

Jonathan Cook

January 20, 2026

Reprinted from Jonathan Cook’s Substack: British-Palestinian doctor Ghassan Abu Sittah was cleared last week by a UK tribunal of misconduct charges, related to social media posts, that could have seen him removed from medical practice. The case was initiated by UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI), a fanatical pro-Israel lobby group that seeks to use abusive […]

John Mearsheimer

January 20, 2026

Reprinted from John’s Substack:  Below is an interview I recently did with the South China Morning Post, which is based in Hong Kong, and is one of the most important newspapers in East Asia. Josephine Ma conducted the “Open Questions” interview for the SCMP. We discussed a wide variety of geopolitical issues, paying much attention […]

Kyle Anzalone

January 19, 2026

A president on camera says only his own morality can stop him. That single line sets the tone for a high-stakes hour where we track real-time war signals around Iran, interrogate the Greenland fantasy, and examine how power bends rules when no one close is willing to say no. We connect the dots between rhetoric, […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

January 19, 2026

On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: President Trump has threatened several European countries – NATO allies – with tariffs of as much as 25 percent by June if Greenland is not handed over to the United States. What will Europe do? Also – a new study shows that tariffs do not work as claimed by […]