Lee Smith is the author of The Permanent Coup: How Enemies Foreign and Domestic Targeted the American President (2020).
A China-brokered agreement with Iran shocked and dismayed Washington, whose mercurial policy gyrations are getting harder for the Saudis to understand
If the story of one of the largest security breaches in U.S. history sounds too good to be true, maybe that’s because it is?
U.S. support for demonstrations in Tel Aviv isn’t about the future of Israel’s judiciary. It’s about handcuffing Israel while Iran gets the bomb.
Careless claims that the U.S. blew up the Nord Stream pipelines cover for the real scandals of the Biden administration
A major Biden ally is also a top donor to the National Archives. Could private equity billionaire David Rubenstein hold the key to the White House documents scandal?
The answer begins with Russiagate
What this week’s stunning World Cup upset in Qatar tells us about the state of play in the Middle East
Trump’s ‘stash of nuclear secrets’ is this summer’s Kremlin collusion conspiracy. But the latest chapter of Russiagate may end with a bang.
How a country’s political corruption, institutional decay, and moral decline can be summed up in one sad family saga
The administration’s willing dependence on the Kremlin for its Iran policy sealed Ukraine’s fate
Iran’s attempts to avenge the killing of Qassem Soleimani are another inconvenient truth for the Biden administration’s nuclear negotiators
The president and his people try to seal a new Iran deal by hanging their appeasement of Putin on Israel
By tying itself to a reckless and dangerous America, the Ukrainians made a blunder that client states will study for years to come
Joe and Hunter Biden’s seedy involvements in Ukraine may have given the Russian leader all the ‘kompromat’ he needs to keep America at bay
America’s Nixonian press corps takes a page from the Watergate playbook to try and cover up its active role in the criminal Russiagate hoax
Intelligence community influencers like Bruce Hoffman want to scare American Jews into thinking that 75 million Trump voters are domestic terrorists who are targeting you
The latest effort to censor information damaging to Democrats and the oligarchs they serve masquerades as concern for teenage girls
Afghanistan belongs to the Taliban now, but the Washington elite still has Palestine as an object of its active fantasy life. Naftali Bennett would be wise to stick to the reality principle.
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