Indonesia’s Foreign Policy: Strategy or Personality?
By Ketty L. When a leader turns global diplomacy into a series of impulsive campaign stops, people around the world notice, and notRead More »Indonesia’s Foreign Policy: Strategy or Personality?
Netanyahu May Go. The System Will Stay.
By Ketty L. The question of whether getting rid of Benjamin Netanyahu is enough to truly change Israel cuts right into the heartRead More »Netanyahu May Go. The System Will Stay.
Netanyahu’s Politics of Perpetual War
By Ketty L. Benjamin Netanyahu has rarely relied on peace to secure his political survival. His power rests on the cultivation of perpetualRead More »Netanyahu’s Politics of Perpetual War
The Israeliization of the US Defense Industry
By Ketty L. The US military industrial complex is undergoing a quiet, fundamental transformation. For decades, the defense relationship between the US and IsraelRead More »The Israeliization of the US Defense Industry
Iran War: The Warnings Washington Ignored
By Ketty L. The recent Wall Street Journal report detailing pre war intelligence briefings delivered to the White House offers a stark accounting of strategicRead More »Iran War: The Warnings Washington Ignored
Israel’s Eighth Front: The Campaign to Control Minds
By Ketty L. When Netanyahu met with evangelical leaders and university heads in Florida to discuss what he called a seven front war, he introducedRead More »Israel’s Eighth Front: The Campaign to Control Minds
Anti-Muslim Smears in U.S. Politics
The pattern repeats every election cycle. A candidate like Abdul El Sayed in Michigan, or Zohran Mamdani in New York, gets on the ballot, andRead More »Anti-Muslim Smears in U.S. Politics
From Mamdani to El Sayed: Is American Politics Changing?
By Ketty L. | Columnist on Politics & International Affairs The political playbook that governed US elections for a quarter century is quietly falling apart.Read More »From Mamdani to El Sayed: Is American Politics Changing?
Are US Voters Turning Against the Pro-Israel Establishment?
By Ketty L. | Political & International Affairs Columnist A genuine tectonic shift is steadily dismantling one of the most durable bipartisan orthodoxies inRead More »Are US Voters Turning Against the Pro-Israel Establishment?
Can the US Still Outpace China?
By Ketty L. | Political & International Affairs Columnist The idea that the United States can effortlessly outpace China if it just rediscovers its politicalRead More »Can the US Still Outpace China?
Why the Polls Are Turning Against Trump
By Ketty L. | Political & International Affairs Columnist There’s an old saying that those who ride the tiger often find it very hard toRead More »Why the Polls Are Turning Against Trump
The Weapon Trail: India’s Complicity in the Gaza Genocide
Defense Supply Chains, Ideological Convergence, and International Accountability There’s an old warning that the hands that forge the sword share the guilt of the bloodRead More »The Weapon Trail: India’s Complicity in the Gaza Genocide