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Bondi Beach Hanukkah Attack: Why a Terror Incident in Australia Echoes Far Beyond Sydney The Bondi Beach Hanukkah attack is not just another terroris...
Sarah Johnson
12/18/2025
Pope Leo XIV, Sydney’s Antisemitic Massacre, and the New Test for Interfaith Solidarity The Vatican’s condemnation of the antisemitic massacre at a H...
Bondi Beach Attack: How One Terror Strike Exposes Australia’s Vulnerabilities on Extremism, Guns, and Antisemitism The Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre ...
Bondi’s Hanukkah Massacre: What This Attack Reveals About a Darkening Global Landscape for Jews Fifteen people killed at a Hanukkah celebration on Sy...
Australia’s Hanukkah Terror Attack: What This ‘Act of Pure Evil’ Reveals About the Next Phase of Extremism The Bondi Beach Hanukkah attack, which lef...
Trump’s ‘100 Foreign Policy Wins’: Strategic Reset or Politicized Scorecard? Polaris National Security’s new report touting “100 Trump Foreign Policy...
Trump’s ‘First Line of Defense’: Why Venezuela Is Now the Test Case for a Rewired U.S. Hemispheric Strategy The decision to declare Nicolás Maduro’s ...
Ukraine’s Underwater Drone Strike on a Russian Submarine: Why This Changes More Than the Battle for the Black Sea Ukraine’s claimed first-ever underw...
Yemen’s Southern Gambit: How a Separatist Power Grab in Oil Country Could Redraw the Map of the Gulf Yemen’s Southern Transitional Council (STC) is n...
Bondi Beach Terror Attack: How One Night of Horror Exposed Deep Fault Lines in Australia and Beyond The statements from families after the Bondi Beac...
Maduro vs. Trump’s Oil Blockade: Why Cutting Off Venezuela’s Lifeline Might Still Not Bring the Regime Down On paper, the latest U.S. escalation agai...
Why the New York Archdiocese Just Became Ground Zero for Francis-Era Catholicism At first glance, the Vatican’s acceptance of Cardinal Timothy Dolan’...
Australia’s Post-Bondi Security Crossroads: What the Latest Sydney Anti-Terror Raids Really Signal Australia’s detention of seven men in Sydney durin...
Trump’s $11 Billion Taiwan Arms Deal: Deterrence, Deadlines, and the New Cold War in Asia There is a reason this $11+ billion arms package to Taiwan ...
Zelenskyy in Kupiansk: A Battlefield Photo-Op or a Strategic Message to Moscow and the West? Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to Kupia...
12/17/2025
Australia’s Hanukkah Massacre: How Post–Oct. 7 Politics, Policing and Protest Let a Slow-Motion Threat Turn Deadly Australia’s Hanukkah massacre in S...
Iowa Guard Deaths in Syria: What This Ambush Reveals About America’s ‘Invisible’ War The killing of two Iowa National Guard soldiers and an American ...
12/16/2025
Bondi, Blame, and the Battle Over Antisemitism: What the Sydney Shooting Reveals About a Global Political Fault Line The Bondi Beach shooting at a pu...
Operation Golden Dynamite: What a Private Rescue of Venezuela’s Top Dissident Reveals About a Changing World Order The dramatic extraction of Venezue...
The ‘Dark Fleet’ Oil War: How 1,000 Rogue Tankers Are Rewriting Sanctions, Maritime Law, and Environmental Risk The emergence of a 1,000-vessel “dark...
Bondi, Antisemitism, and Political Blame: What the Sydney Attack Reveals About a Global Failure of Prevention The public clash between Israeli offici...
Bondi, Iran and the New Era of Networked Terror: What Australia’s Warning Signs Really Reveal The Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre is being framed as a ...
Australia’s Bondi Beach Hanukkah Shooting: Why One of the World’s Toughest Gun Regimes Is Tightening Again The Bondi Beach Hanukkah shooting is not j...
Bondi Beach Hanukkah Attack: What Heroic Bystanders Reveal About Terror, Community Resilience, and Australia’s Next Reckoning The Bondi Beach Hanukka...
Zelenskyy, Wartime Elections, and Trump’s Pressure: What’s Really at Stake in Ukraine’s Democratic Test Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s sig...
12/14/2025
Pickleball Death in Malaysia Exposes a Quiet Crisis in Urban Sports Safety A 32-year-old pickleball player’s fatal fall from a third-floor court in K...
What the Sydney Hanukkah Attack Reveals About Everyday Heroism, Polarization, and the Future of Community Security When a 43-year-old Muslim man name...
Ambush in a ‘Finished’ War: What the Syria Attack on U.S. Troops Really Signals Multiple U.S. service members have been seriously wounded in an ambus...
12/13/2025
Prince Andrew’s Quiet Constitutional Shield: What His Survival in the Line of Succession Really Reveals About the Modern Monarchy King Charles III ha...
12/12/2025
Princess Sofia, Jeffrey Epstein, and the New Rules of Royal Accountability Princess Sofia of Sweden’s acknowledgment that she met Jeffrey Epstein “on...
King Charles, Prince Harry, and the Politics of Forgiveness: What a ‘Door Open’ Really Means for the Monarchy Buried beneath the Christmas-at-Sandrin...
Post-Assad Syria at Year One: Hope, Amnesia, and the High-Risk Bet on a Former Jihadist One year after Bashar al-Assad fled Damascus, Syria stands at...
Why Two F/A-18s Near Venezuela Matter Far More Than a “Routine Flight” Two U.S. F/A‑18 fighter jets flew a short mission over the Gulf of Venezuela, ...
Skydiver’s Near-Death Ordeal Exposes Hidden Risks in an Industry That Sells Adrenaline and Safety The video of an Australian skydiver dangling from t...
NATO’s New Red Line: Why Rutte Is Saying Out Loud What Many in Europe Only Whisper NATO’s new secretary general, Mark Rutte, did something in Munich ...
Maduro’s Sword, Seized Tankers, and the Long War Over Venezuelan Oil When Nicolás Maduro sings “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” while clutching Simón Bolívar’...
Sudan’s ‘Invisible’ Catastrophe: Why the World’s Largest Displacement Crisis Barely Registers As 12 million Sudanese are uprooted and up to 30 millio...
Louvre Pipe Burst: A ‘Minor’ Flood That Exposes a Major Crisis in How the World Protects Knowledge At first glance, a burst pipe damaging 300–400 lib...
12/9/2025
What the Murder of Zhe Wang Reveals About Gendered Violence, Digital Evidence, and Cross-Border Justice The killing of 31-year-old student Zhe Wang b...
Belgium’s Resistance to Seizing Russian Assets Exposes Europe’s Biggest Strategic Gamble Belgium’s hesitation over a European Union plan to seize nea...
Goa Nightclub Fire Exposes India’s Deadly Safety Gap Between Law and Reality The blaze that killed 25 people at the Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub in ...
12/8/2025
Nigeria’s Schoolkidnapping Crisis: What the Release of 100 Children Really Tells Us The release of 100 abducted schoolchildren from St. Mary’s Cathol...
Trump’s ‘Peace Plan,’ Putin’s Endgame, and Zelenskyy’s Delay: What the Standoff Really Signals About the Future of the War Donald Trump’s claim that ...
Venezuela’s ‘Fortress on Sand’: Why Maduro’s Hollowed Military Still Poses a Hard Problem for Washington On paper, Venezuela under Nicolás Maduro loo...
12/7/2025
Opening AnalysisThe announcement that the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370) will resume more than a decade after its mysterious disappea...
12/3/2025
Welcome to Verdis, population 400—a postage-stamp nation wedged between Croatia and Serbia that is smaller than most golf courses yet issues its own p...
8/3/2025
