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Libya’s dried-up banks: The daily struggle for cash

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

UAE President to visit Pakistan to bolster trade, investment and strategic ties

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Dr Musab Yousufi

MAGA implodes: Will Israel’s power over Washington collapse next?

MAGA implodes: Will Israel’s power over Washington collapse next?

The MAGA empire has turned inward. Its warriors no longer march shoulder to shoulder in lockstep but carve at one another like rival warlords. The...

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Indiscriminate suppression: Attacking pro-Palestinian protests after the Bondi killings

Indiscriminate suppression: Attacking pro-Palestinian protests after the Bondi killings

It has become a wallowing cringe.  The extolling of multi-cultural values, the incessant self-praise of diversity, variety and cosmopolitanism,...

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Dr Binoy Kampmark

A legal victory that shakes the Zionist narrative: What comes after the Bob Vylan and Reginald D Hunter cases?

A legal victory that shakes the Zionist narrative: What comes after the Bob Vylan and Reginald D Hunter cases?

Legal rulings are not always the end of a battle, but they are often signposts along the way. What happened with artists Bob Vylan and Reginald D...

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Adnan Hmidan

From Guantanamo to UK prisons: In solidarity with the hunger strikers

From Guantanamo to UK prisons: In solidarity with the hunger strikers

I know this road. I have its map etched into my bones. I carry scars that won’t heal without justice, without accountability. I learned it in...

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Mansoor Adayfi

Indonesia’s classrooms are not sites for Zionist social engineering

Indonesia’s classrooms are not sites for Zionist social engineering

The spectacle of a foreign official discussing how to “change textbooks” in a sovereign country should be recognised for what it is: an assertion...

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Dr. Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat

German politicians and police on lobby trips to Israel

German politicians and police on lobby trips to Israel

Several recent investigative reports in Germany’s alternative media have revealed that Israel has been stepping up efforts to invite German...

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Leon Wystrychowski

Egypt targets its opponents abroad

Egypt targets its opponents abroad

He believed that by fleeing Egypt, the ordeal of pursuit, repression, and enforced disappearance would come to an end, but the jailer’s hand still...

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Mahmoud Hassan

The Met decision to criminalise intifada chant is a blunt attempt to muzzle anti-genocide activism

The Met decision to criminalise intifada chant is a blunt attempt to muzzle anti-genocide activism

When the Metropolitan Police declared it would arrest anyone chanting “globalise the intifada” after the Bondi Beach killings in Australia, it did...

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Ismail Patel

Genocide by other means: Palestinian babies murdered by exposure, not bombs

Genocide by other means: Palestinian babies murdered by exposure, not bombs

The bombs may have eased, but Palestinian children are still dying. This time, not by Israeli airstrikes, but from cold, and collapsing damaged...

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Jamal Kanj

Iraq is trapped inside a closed box

Iraq is trapped inside a closed box

In recent weeks, the Iraqi political landscape has resembled an old television screen that has lost its image balance. The statements made by the...

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Karam Nama

Iraq’s three vulnerable pillars: A blueprint for dysfunction

Iraq’s three vulnerable pillars: A blueprint for dysfunction

Iraqi sovereignty is undermined by the “Triad” of instability inherent in its structure. The Iraqi government is now a house divided: it has two...

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Dr Hussam Abu Safiya deserves the title of “Hostage of the Year 2025”

Dr Hussam Abu Safiya deserves the title of “Hostage of the Year 2025”

If the world were honest with itself, it would admit that some crimes no longer bother to hide. They are committed openly, in full view of cameras,...

monday 10

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Adnan Hmidan

Nuclear energy in the 2025 NSS: A policy correction or the strategic reawakening?

Nuclear energy in the 2025 NSS: A policy correction or the strategic reawakening?

Nuclear energy has moved to the core of American strategic thinking, from being merely a peripheral climate policy tool to a central strategic...

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Anam Murad Khan

How Artificial Intelligence threatens human freedom and consolidates control in the hands of its controllers

How Artificial Intelligence threatens human freedom and consolidates control in the hands of its controllers

US Senator Bernie Sanders, the well-known Democratic lawmaker, recently raised the alarm over the potential dangers that artificial intelligence...

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Dr Sania Faisal El-Husseini

America’s double game with international justice: When power poses as principle

America’s double game with international justice: When power poses as principle

The US likes to cloak itself in moral terms. It likes to envelop its policies with the trappings of “human rights,” “democracy,” and “a rules-based...

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Why Britain must designate the RSF a terrorist entity

Why Britain must designate the RSF a terrorist entity

Last November, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia overran El-Fashir—the largest refuge for displaced families in Darfur—with chilling speed....

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Mohamed Suliman