For those who remember their high school textbooks, the issue of America’s imperial history is very clear cut. American imperialism, the textbooks told us, was that fairly brief period in American history that lasted from 1898 to 1945. This was the period during which the United States acquired a number …

The news that Ansar Allah (Houthi) fighters have fired on the USS Carney in the Red Sea (Friday, 26 Jan.) underscores the shocking failure of the Biden Administration, which initiated airstrikes on the Houthis this month with no plan for “victory” beyond hoping that the mere presence of US warships …

Hezbollah has maintained that it will continue fighting unless the war in Gaza is brought to an end Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar reported on 27 January that a recent meeting between the deputy director of German intelligence and a top Hezbollah official failed to convince Lebanon’s resistance to end its operations …