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James George Jatras explains why the US Department of State thinks the intricacies of Orthodox Church governance are really important.

Someday, when the US begins to lose its grip on the world economy all of those places being sanctioned will line up to get their revenge and it won’t be pretty.

So long as Russia has a strategic presence in the Middle East, Israel cannot regain its military dominance in the region. And time doesn’t work in Israel’s favour.

A transition to a multipolar reality brings many advantages to Washington's allies, but it also brings many tensions with American oligarchs.

It did not take long for Donald Trump to transform the US government into a mob operation.

Since 2001, the United States has bankrupted and exhausted itself, just as Habsburg Spain, Bourbon France and post-Victorian Britain did before.

The neoconservative vision of the world is a place where the US can do what it wants because it is both better morally speaking and also more capable of enforcing desirable standards of behavior.

The real loss for Israel will be Russia instituting a no-fly zone over western Syria. Any less response from Putin will be seized upon by and the situation will escalate from here.

A turnaround in Iraq puts a spike into the balloon of President Trump’s aspiration to reassert US energy dominance over the Mideast.

Unless more people begin to heed the wise words of individuals like the Dalai Lama and, yes, Steve Bannon, the entire European project will collapse.