Dania Thafer Over the course of the Trump Presidency, there has been one crucial variable missing in its justification for escalation with Iran: a direct linkage of Iran to the security of the international community. Recently however, an attack on oil facilities in Saudi Arabia may have provided …

Following much speculation, former Vice President Joe Biden has impactfully jumped into the Presidential race. Unlike some of Joe Biden’s fellow candidates, the former Vice President brings with him a storied political career available for unpacking by political commentators, going back even before 1997 when then-Senator Biden became …

By Andy Tyborg The ground invasion was held up overnight but recommenced on Thursday morning. Can international pressure and the U.S. Congress prevent a massacre? What began with bluster at 10:37 Wednesday night following the Turkish defense ministry’s announcement of a ground incursion into Syria quickly failed to …

By Andy Blatchford Andrew Scheer began on Saturday to lay out what he would do in the first 100 days of a Conservative government — and he pledged to pin an early bull’s-eye on what he called “frivolous spending.” With a little over a week until election day, …

By Tonda MacCharles After a stinging 2011 defeat, the Liberal Party licked its wounds and began to cast about for a new leader. And Justin Trudeau decided to quit. Although he had just been re-elected, Trudeau told anyone who asked that he would not be in the running …

By Alex Boutilier  Bruce Campion-Smith  In the months leading up to the federal election, many political observers in Ottawa thought immigration issues would figure prominently in the campaign. The Conservative opposition had spent months between 2017 and 2019 hammering the Liberal government on their handling of a spike …

Shawn Donnan Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. With the partial agreement with China that he announced Friday, President Donald Trump is back in dealmaker mode after months of escalation. That doesn’t mean, though, that the new …

Giancarlo Elia Valori   The Soviets called it “the shadow theatre”, i.e. the set of  psychological warfare techniques of the time, in the Cold War world.  Maskirovka, in particular, e.g. everything is camouflage, deception, real psychological warfare, disinformation. In fact, if we analyze the psywar techniques currently used, …

Paul R. Pillar Critics of the decision to withdraw seldom address the long-term question of how their recommended course of action ends. The vision seems to be a permanent U.S. protectorate of a Kurdish-controlled part of a still-divided Syria, with a never-ending American troop presence that doesn’t really …