Epstein Secrets

wing its partnership with friendly autocrats even as it engaged the hostile regimes in Damascus and Tehran. The United States was to remain on the Kabul hook for a while longer, but the greater Middle East would be left to its Furies. When a revolt erupted in Iran against the theocrats in the first

not do terribly well in the new era. A zero-sum world may summon up rather darker forces. Gideon Rachman is chief foreign-affairs commentator for the Financial Times and author of Zero-Sum Future: American Power in an Age of Anxiety, available in paperback on Feb. 4. Article 6 The Christian Science Monitor Can

ea Marianne Williamson wants to remember the ladies in Afghanistan Women attend a rally for Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's reelection campaign in Kabul on Aug. 5. He is seeking a second term on promises of ending the 18-year war, but he's been largely sidelined over the past year as the United Stat

onsumer demand for luxury items — an early sign of economic anxiety. (Wall Street Journal) -- But resilient U.S. earnings buck recession fears, per the Financial Times: "Earnings season in the US has gone better than analysts anticipated. Despite early forecasts for dismal second-quarter results, earnings for S&P

veryone else save for Bannon and the president. Powell even helped design a PowerPoint deck that McMaster began using with the president: pictures of Kabul in the 1970s when it still looked something like a modern city. It could be like this again, the president was told, if we are resolute! But even wi

e’s going to do is come in and subpoena your fucking tax 299 returns. Bannon, with further disbelief, recounted the details of a recent story from the Financial Times about Felix Sater, one of the shadiest of the shady Trump-associated characters, who was closely aligned with Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Micha

Pakistanis. Americans, meanwhile, are furious at Pakistan for sheltering the leadership of the Afghan Taliban, who are fighting U.S. forces and the Kabul government in Afghanistan. Given this explosive situation, is it really possible for the United States and Pakistan to go on working together again

n-controlled Congress. So Vice President Joe Biden has been left to handle the file, and he's seemed none too happy about it. In an interview with the Financial Times, he argued that America's real strategic interests were elsewhere, notably in helping to stabilize Egypt, while continuing to try to deal with Iran