Global affairs, diplomacy, war, and international relations that shape U.S. interests.
The Iranian hostage crisis is often remembered as a diplomatic failure. This piece examines it as something more consequential: the moment hostage-taking became a durable instrument of revolutionary power. It explains how time itself was converted into leverage—and why that lesson never went away.
The Day the Clock Stopped Read More »
Peru’s jumbo squid fishery once sustained thousands of coastal workers and anchored entire towns. Satellite data and investigative reporting now show how industrial fleets followed the migrating squid until the stock collapsed offshore.
How China’s Squid Fleet Broke Peru’s Pota Economy Read More »
The 1976 Entebbe raid is usually remembered as a daring rescue. This piece treats it as something more disruptive: a moment when the emerging script of modern terrorism was broken rather than accommodated. It shows that the method was never inevitable—and that choices mattered.
The Hostages Who Vanished Read More »
Migration doesn’t begin with movement—it begins when media signals that movement will be rewarded. From Cold War information operations to the southern border surge and Europe’s open-door crisis, journalism has quietly evolved from observer to infrastructure. Once narratives scale, outcomes follow, whether governments intend them or not.
The Migration of Narratives Read More »
On the morning of September 5, 1972, the Olympic Village in Munich still looked the way it had been designed to look: open, informal, unguarded. The West German organizers had been explicit about this aesthetic. These were to be the “Happy Games”—a deliberate contrast to Berlin 1936, an intentional repudiation of militarism, fences, and armed authority.
A Festival of Appearances Read More »
We examine modern NGOs through the historical lens of piracy, where intermediaries and “ports” mattered more than the raiders themselves. If the structure doesn’t change, neither will the outcome.
Ports, Factors, and Prize Agents Read More »
Al-Shabaab likes to posture as a fearsome jihadist force, but up close it looks like a corrupt protection racket with a religious costume.
Welfare Warlords Of The Somali Main Read More »
Minnesota’s fraud crisis finally exploded into national view, and we compare Gov. Tim Walz to Stede Bonnet — the “Gentleman Pirate” who never realized he wasn’t the one steering the ship.
Tim Walz: Minnesota’s Gentleman Governor Read More »
The permanent foreign-policy bureaucracy operates independently of elections, sustaining U.S. influence abroad through NGOs, contractors, and long-running initiatives that outlive every administration.
THE FOREIGN DESK THAT NEVER SLEEPS Read More »
For decades, Minnesota’s welfare programs quietly evolved into a financial pipeline feeding Somalia’s fragile economy — and, through hawala and taxation, its most dangerous actors. Somali politicians, U.S. investigators, and even Al-Shabaab itself have now been forced to react as the scandal spills across borders. This piece unpacks how Gov. Tim Walz’s negligence turned a blue-state safety net into an accidental foreign ATM.
THE SOMALI FRAUD STATE Read More »
