Open Dialogue Research Journal
A needless, extravagant ballroom. Questionable gifts, not least the 747-200B aircraft from the Qatari government. An inane decision to add a blue protective coating to the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool in Washington. These events increasingly point to the loss of sound mind. The galloping profligacy and indulgence hardly stops there […]
On May 10, Robert Kagan, the high priest of neoconservative thought, the bell ringer for muscular interventionism and general American meddlesomeness, lamented in The Atlantic that the United States had suffered a unique defeat in its efforts to subjugate Iran. The article says much about Kagan’s own identification with the […]
The waxwork figures of the Pentagon recently glowed with excitement with the announcement that the US military would be finally called upon to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. With the ceasefire between Teheran and Washington barely holding, President Donald Trump, as far as his attention span would allow, gingerly put […]
Louts pressing false claims, faux principled types seeking to score successes against clearly useless targets. Jules Hurst, in trying to discharge the duties of the comptroller, had some news for members of the House Armed Services Committee: the Iran War had drawn $25 billion from the coffers of Freedom Land […]
Depending on which historical sources you care to consult, the Pope has been a figure of obloquy, ridicule and abomination. This mediator between the terrestrial and the divine was always set for the battering. Martin Luther’s violent Protestant split from the body of the Catholic Church was merely one aspect […]
The US Faces Significant Challenges from China, Russia and North Korea In 1958 Senator John F. Kennedy, getting ready for his upcoming presidential campaign, said the United States faced a serious and dangerous missile gap. The Senator, later President, said: “The Soviet Union is rapidly building up a missile striking […]
https://www.instagram.com/p/DW8usW1DV1M/ 10 April 2026, NYT’s Jonathan Swan & Maggie Haberman, on how Trump made the decision to destroy Iran 00:00 Of all the people on Trump’s team, Donald Trump was the most hawkish when it came to Iran. 00:06 He decided to go to war on a gut feeling, period, […]
American proxies of Latin American origin have long become a noticeable element in the architecture of hybrid conflicts of the 21st century. The recent BBC news report stating that around 7,000 Colombians are participating in combat operations on the side of Ukraine—more than from any other country—only underscores the scale […]
Donald Trump, whom European leaders generally consider a populist with no political experience, has published his new National Security Strategy, a clumsily written document, but one of considerable philosophical scope. In it, he presents himself as a master of diplomacy and proposes, following President Andrew Jackson’s slogan, to replace war […]
After decades of neglect, Washington’s rare earth stockpiles are nearly empty — just as Beijing tightens its grip on critical materials. Rebuilding US Rare Earth Stockpiles If you’re looking for rare earths, you won’t find them in America’s strategic stockpiles. That’s because the Pentagon, for the past decade or longer, […]
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