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For JD Vance, Blaming Israel Is Easier Than Admitting Iran Won

US Vice President JD Vance鈥檚 recent interview with podcaster Joe Rogan shifted blame for the faltering US-brokered Iran deal onto Israel, citing an Israeli-funded influence campaign as the reason for... Read full article

Ali Omar Forozish - July 30, 2026

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Economics and Finance
When AI Confuses the Central Banker
by Masaaki Yoshimori
Climate change news
Summer in Europe: Hotter Than Yesterday, Colder Than Tomorrow
by Francesca Collu
Culture
America: My Country, Right or Wrong?
by Emma Isabella Sage
Economics and Finance
Is the United States (Literally) Running Out of Gas?
by Bill Klun

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The Fall of the Ottoman Empire

by Kayra Altan & Lee Thompson-Kolar

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FIFA World Cup: The Greatest Show on Earth

by Atul Singh, Abul-Hasanat Siddique, Samantha Mendiguren

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The Rise of the Ottoman Empire

by Kayra Altan & Lee Thompson-Kolar

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Football and Politics: An Old Love Affair

by Ellis Cashmore

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Mediaphobia 鈥� A Timeline of Panic

by Ellis Cashmore

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The Indian Subcontinent鈥檚 Hindu鈥揗uslim Divide

by Pocket Dynamo, Atul Singh & Ishtiaq Ahmed

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Can Socrates Replace Lindsey Graham?

With 鈥渕ilitary Keynesianism,鈥� US foreign policy shifted from weighing war鈥檚 costs to calculating expected profits. The Devil鈥檚 Advocate cites his...

Time to Update Bacon鈥檚 Critique of Our 鈥淐orrupt Love of the Lie鈥�

Francis Bacon鈥檚 essay 鈥淥f Truth鈥� masks his own service to Elizabethan surveillance and political deception. Security...

250 Years of American Scripture

On America鈥檚 250th anniversary, it may be time to think about how the Founders were mythologized...

Will the Gen Z-Fueled CJP Achieve What It Set Out To Do?

Education reform campaigner Sonam Wangchuk鈥檚 20-day hunger strike and forceful...

by Vasavi Seethepalli

The Dialectic: The Mayflower Legacy: A New Telling of the Old Story of America

by Glenn Carle & Atul Singh

Graft Rules: Trump, His Family and His Friends Take Their Cut

by Larry Beck

Lindsey Graham: Requiem for a War Racketeer

by Peter Isackson

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FO Podcasts: Why Narcoterrorism Still Matters

In this episode of FO Podcasts, Atul Singh and Jeffrey James Higgins examine how narcoterrorism combines organized crime, insurgency and geopolitical conflict. They discuss the rise of synthetic opioids and how cartels in Latin America increasingly resemble paramilitary organizations capable of challenging state authority. Should...

by Jeffrey James Higgins & Atul Singh

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