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Canada, the UK and Australia should investigate the WCK attack in Gaza

Canada, the UK and Australia should investigate the WCK attack in Gaza

The Israeli army has concluded its probe into the 2024 drone strikes that killed seven humanitarian workers from the World Central Kitchen (WCK). The...

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Mark Kersten

China does not need to replace the US in the Gulf

China does not need to replace the US in the Gulf

China’s diplomatic calendar this year reflects its growing international weight. A succession of prominent leaders has travelled to Beijing,...

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Khalid Al-Jaber

Burnham must establish an inquiry into Britain’s role in the Gaza genocide

Burnham must establish an inquiry into Britain’s role in the Gaza genocide

History does not really repeat itself, but, as the saying frequently attributed to Mark Twain goes, it often rhymes. Take, for example, Britain’s...

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Neve Gordon

Can a party be leftist and Zionist?

Can a party be leftist and Zionist?

Ahead of Israel’s October 27 elections, Israel’s Young Democrats, the youth wing of the newly formed Democrats party, are seeking foreign...

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Tamam Abusalama

​Bangsamoro’s parliamentary election is a turning point

​Bangsamoro’s parliamentary election is a turning point

On Monday, the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) in the Philippines will hold its first parliamentary election since it was...

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Nadhera Mohammad Qassem

The Houthis’ escalation in Yemen could flop

The Houthis’ escalation in Yemen could flop

The speed of the Houthi advance along the Red Sea coast has changed the strategic landscape. After capturing Mocha, Houthi forces moved into Dhubab...

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Sultan Barakat

The Iran war reveals the limits of BRICS

The Iran war reveals the limits of BRICS

This year’s BRICS summit has wrapped up in New Delhi with the usual promises of deepened cooperation and expanding economic ties. But there was an...

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Ronny P Sasmita

Will the Houthi attacks activate the Mecca Pact?

Will the Houthi attacks activate the Mecca Pact?

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have captured Mocha port and now threaten to control the main waterway of the Bab al-Mandeb strait. They have also attacked...

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Riaz Khokhar

Israel will never stop me speaking up for Palestine

Israel will never stop me speaking up for Palestine

Over my lifetime, it’s been my privilege to visit Palestine on several different occasions. I’ve witnessed what Palestinians endure on a daily...

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Jeremy Corbyn

How 9/11 helped Israel sell its war on Palestinians to America

How 9/11 helped Israel sell its war on Palestinians to America

For me, the New York City skyline was close to home. Quite literally. I grew up just across the Hudson River, with the famed skyline of America’s...

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Yousef Munayyer

The dystopian legal architecture of the ‘war on terror’ must be dismantled

The dystopian legal architecture of the ‘war on terror’ must be dismantled

A protest movement has been proscribed as a terrorist organisation, thereby criminalising support for those enduring a genocide rather than any act of...

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Karsen Trull

9/11 at 25: How the ‘War on Terror’ helped mainstream Europe’s far right

9/11 at 25: How the ‘War on Terror’ helped mainstream Europe’s far right

Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, the political order built in their aftermath continues to shape Europe. The Global War on Terror...

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Farid Hafez

Trump may be BRICS’s best recruitment agent

Trump may be BRICS’s best recruitment agent

United States President Donald Trump has made no secret of his hostility towards BRICS. Last year, he threatened an additional 10 percent tariff on...

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Ilan Kapoor

Europe’s far right: Putin’s best friend?

Europe’s far right: Putin’s best friend?

Russian President Vladimir Putin had a good week. It kicked off with the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, an...

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Dimitar Bechev

The Houthis are testing the limits of Saudi restraint

The Houthis are testing the limits of Saudi restraint

The renewed escalation in Yemen is no longer simply a Yemeni battlefield development. For Saudi Arabia, it is becoming a direct test of national...

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Khaled M Batarfi

The war in the Gulf will have to end in compromise

The war in the Gulf will have to end in compromise

The current Gulf war does not look like other wars. Conflicts, whether short or prolonged, usually end in one of two ways. Either one side achieves a...

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Samir Habashneh

The shift in British policy on Israel is palpable

The shift in British policy on Israel is palpable

Fifty-nine years after Israel established its first illegal settlement in the occupied Palestinian territory, the United Kingdom has imposed a ban on...

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Chris Doyle

BRICS summit may be the only place another Iran ceasefire can be built

BRICS summit may be the only place another Iran ceasefire can be built

Iranian missiles and drones came down on Kuwait on September 3, two days after American aircraft struck roughly a hundred positions along the Hormuz...

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Imran Khalid

Mladic’s funeral: Were no lessons learned?

Mladic’s funeral: Were no lessons learned?

Today, thousands gathered in the Serbian capital Belgrade to pay their respects to Ratko Mladic, the head of the Bosnian Serb army, who was convicted...

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Sir Geoffrey Nice

Will Trump succeed in restarting Russia-Ukraine peace talks?

Will Trump succeed in restarting Russia-Ukraine peace talks?

The visit by White House envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Moscow and Kyiv has left more questions than answers. Details of what was discussed...

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Leonid Ragozin

AfD is rising, but it can still be stopped

AfD is rising, but it can still be stopped

The victory of far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the elections of the East German state Saxony-Anhalt is a dramatic moment for Germany. The...

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Jan Eichhorn

What the US militarisation of Latin America could look like

What the US militarisation of Latin America could look like

Latin America is seeing growing military activity by the United States. Under the umbrella of the Americas Counter-Cartel Coalition (ACCC), launched...

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Carlos H Brandt S

Reform UK says Britain is broken. Birmingham tells another story

Reform UK says Britain is broken. Birmingham tells another story

This week, Reform UK gathered thousands of supporters at Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre to present itself as a government-in-waiting. This...

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Salma Yaqoob

Multipolarity gives middle powers more choices, but fewer guarantees

Multipolarity gives middle powers more choices, but fewer guarantees

At the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Bishkek this week, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian received precisely the kind of...

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Luciano Zaccara

Mansour Abbas is betting on a Zionist to make Palestinian votes count

Mansour Abbas is betting on a Zionist to make Palestinian votes count

When Raam leader Mansour Abbas appeared alongside former Yesh Atid lawmaker Yoav Segalovich this week and announced that Segalovich would run second...

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Ehab Jabareen

Israel takes its war on Palestine into the AI age

Israel takes its war on Palestine into the AI age

The battle over Palestine has never been fought only on the ground. For decades, Israel and its powerful political, lobbying and public-relations...

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Said Arikat

The number 10 shirt must not retire with Messi

The number 10 shirt must not retire with Messi

When Lionel Messi announced his retirement from the Argentina national team last Monday, the reaction bordered on national mourning. Children cried in...

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Ezequiel Fernández Moores

Gulf insecurity fuels US energy dominance

The global energy order is changing. US President Donald Trump celebrated on Truth Social what he called the “biggest oil deal in history” – a...

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Sultan Barakat

Kais Saied’s economic experiment has failed Tunisia

On the eve of the January 14, 2011 revolution, Tunisia was neither an ideal democracy nor the economic “dragon” of the southern Mediterranean that...

03.09.2026 40

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Hichem Mechichi

How Trumpism is changing the world

The post-World War II era was dominated by idealism that gave birth to a dense architecture of multilateral institutions and Western-led governance...

02.09.2026 70

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Firas Dabbagh

Why Greece is betting on Israel’s Achilles Shield

On Monday, Greece and Israel signed a $3.5bn defence deal to build an integrated, multilayered defence network to protect Greek territory dubbed the...

02.09.2026 90

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Rob Geist Pinfold

Syria’s restrained approach to Israel carries risks

Last week, Israel attacked Syrian territory yet again. Israeli forces shelled a hilltop near Beit Jinn in the western Damascus countryside, while...

02.09.2026 90

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Ehab Badwi

Why China will not comply with US sanctions on Iran

On August 31, the leaders of China, Russia and India met in Bishkek for the annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Iranian President...

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Yang Xiaotong

After the flash flood disaster, here is what Nepal really needs

Five days after the flood that struck the Rasuwa and Nuwakot regions of Nepal, the number of missing people is growing. The whereabouts of more than...

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Dikshya Subedi

The looming failure of Operation Economic Outcast

Last week, Pakistan announced that it will not comply with the latest sanctions the United States imposed on Iran and will continue trading with its...

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Jeffrey D Sachs

Educated? Skilled? Ambitious? Traffickers are looking for you

Good salary. Visa sponsored. Flight included. Applicants must be educated, fluent in English and confident online. It sounds like a great opportunity...

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Amy Pope

The toxic waste of the Gaza war has reached Israel

Earlier this month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and representatives of the Board of Peace agreed to set up a working group on...

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Dianne Woodward

Mladic died a happy man. He won

The death of war criminal Ratko Mladic made headlines across the world. “The Butcher of Bosnia dies in The Hague”, the international media...

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Nidzara Ahmetasevic

Six months into the Iran war, a new Gulf security architecture is emerging

Six months into the war with Iran, it is worth taking stock of what has actually changed around the Gulf. After Iran’s June 2025 missile strike on...

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Rashid Al-Mohanadi

India and Pakistan are united in spending citizen lives like pocket change

This week, three newborns died in an NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) fire at a government hospital in Amravati, in the western Indian state of...

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Vidya Krishnan

Six months on, Trump’s Iran strategy is starting to pay off

Six months into the conflict between the United States and Iran, the situation is not the humiliating quagmire that critics of the...

28.08.2026 100

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Adolfo Franco

Six months on, Iran is still standing, but survival is becoming more costly

It has been six months since the United States and Israel launched their coordinated military campaign against Iran on February 28. The war is easily...

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Mahjoob Zweiri

Israel is not heading for civil war

On August 24, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood outside the Etzel Museum on Tel Aviv’s seafront after the wreck of the Altalena was...

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Ori Goldberg

Ben Shapiro’s anti-Muslim film is nothing new

Ben Shapiro, prominent pro-Israel blogger and co-founder of the far-right news site The Daily Wire, claims Hollywood has spent the last three decades...

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Enjy El-Kadi

No, the Democratic Party is not shifting on Israel

Recent progressive wins of outspoken Israel critics in Democratic primaries have generated a lot of optimism. Abdul El-Sayed won the Democratic...

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Ahmad Ibsais

The RSF’s defeat will not end Sudan’s war but merely fragment it

Sudan’s army has had a good summer. Last month, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) recaptured several towns along the strategic Export Road, known...

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Elfadil Ibrahim

Trump’s Korean gambit exposes a shifting East Asian order

When President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to cut the annual United States-South Korea Ulchi Freedom Shield (UFS) military exercise planned for...

26.08.2026 100

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Wenran Jiang

The Iran war is bringing cyberwarfare into critical infrastructure

Media reports about a cyberattack that forced a British power plant offline for four days should be taken seriously far beyond the United Kingdom. It...

25.08.2026 100

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Graeme Stewart

What would justice look like if there were no Rohingya left in Myanmar?

August 25 is an incredibly painful day for the Rohingya. It marks the anniversary of the 2017 genocidal campaign by the Myanmar military. Babies and...

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Tun Khin

The right to health in Gaza is now a privilege

These days, Gaza’s healthcare system is not in the news. There are no violent raids on hospitals, as happened to Al Shifa Hospital, while I was...

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Hadeel Awad