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Big tech and the architecture of the Israeli genocide against Palestinians: From execution to media whitewashing

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Jamal Kanj

Bondi Beach attack: How the media smears pro-Palestine protests while erasing a Muslim hero

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Adnan Hmidan

Iran’s shadow diplomacy: The art of winning without showing

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Gaza’s winter as a weapon of war: Living in tents of cloth and cold

Gaza’s winter as a weapon of war: Living in tents of cloth and cold

By any measure of humanity, the sight is unbearable: tents stitched from old blankets, torn clothes, and scraps of plastic laid directly on the...

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Dr Oroub El-Abed

Why The Wall Street Journal amplifies collaborators instead of Palestinian voices

Why The Wall Street Journal amplifies collaborators instead of Palestinian voices

Once again, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has chosen to offer its pages not to genuine Palestinian voices, but to figures who align explicitly with...

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Ahmed Asmar

The limits of Iran’s emerging “pragmatist prescription”

The limits of Iran’s emerging “pragmatist prescription”

A recent  Financial Times   article,  “Scions of Iran’s revolution call for reset with the world,”  highlights a growing current among a new...

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Reza Asadian

Why Indonesia’s two-state stance works in Israel’s favour

Why Indonesia’s two-state stance works in Israel’s favour

Prabowo Subianto’s appearance in Pakistan this week followed a script that has been performed too many times to count. Standing beside Prime...

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Dr. Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat

No room for toxic Blair on Gaza peace council

No room for toxic Blair on Gaza peace council

There are moments when history rises from its long slumber and delivers a verdict with the clarity of a hammer striking iron. Tony Blair’s...

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Why Barham Salih cannot be like Francesca Albanese

Why Barham Salih cannot be like Francesca Albanese

The appointment of Barham Salih as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is not just a technical decision. It is a political statement,...

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Karam Nama

Trump’s agenda: Steering US foreign policy toward a dangerous downturn

Trump’s agenda: Steering US foreign policy toward a dangerous downturn

President Donald Trump’s Gaza plan appeared this year amid the ongoing war on the Strip, gaining additional momentum following the adoption of UNDC...

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Dr Sania Faisal El-Husseini

The moral and political crisis of Zionism

The moral and political crisis of Zionism

Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has reached a level of brutality that places Israel and Zionism before their own moral, political, and legal abyss....

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Sayid Marcos Tenório

Kurdistan region 2035: Hybrid gas-solar power at Iraq’s geopolitical crossroads

Kurdistan region 2035: Hybrid gas-solar power at Iraq’s geopolitical crossroads

Introduction The Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) sits at a hard geopolitical junction. Baghdad seeks tighter federal control over energy, a trend...

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Dr Kamran Yeganegi

Justice alone can be the basis for a ceasefire – Understanding Hamas’s rejection of Israel’s terms

Justice alone can be the basis for a ceasefire – Understanding Hamas’s rejection of Israel’s terms

The latest round of ceasefire negotiations in Gaza has collapsed under the weight of impossible terms, tightening Israeli violations, and a...

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Ranjan Solomon

Bolivia restores diplomatic relations with Israel; while the world still chases the two-state mirage

Bolivia restores diplomatic relations with Israel; while the world still chases the two-state mirage

Bolivia and Israel restored full diplomatic relations on Tuesday this week, marking a shift in the country’s politics as the country’s right-wing...

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Ramona Wadi

A letter from an Arab nationalist to Netanyahu

A letter from an Arab nationalist to Netanyahu

When the knock comes: There will come a time—and history demonstrates this with cruel predictability—that the barricades will come crashing down,...

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Studies confirm: German media disseminate pro-Israel propaganda

Studies confirm: German media disseminate pro-Israel propaganda

Germany’s mainstream media report in a highly one-sided manner on what is commonly labelled the “Middle East conflict” – a German term that...

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Leon Wystrychowski

Split on the ground, intact on paper: Libya’s enduring limbo

Split on the ground, intact on paper: Libya’s enduring limbo

More than a decade after Libya fractured into rival administrations, the country remains split in practice—but not on paper. What prevents this...

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

FIFA’s moral collapse: The day FIFA forgot what peace means

FIFA’s moral collapse: The day FIFA forgot what peace means

The leadership of FIFA has always had a talent for mistaking theatrics for virtue. Under its president, Gianni Infantino, the organisation has...

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Ziyad Motala

The post-Assad dawn: Syria’s struggle to rise again

The post-Assad dawn: Syria’s struggle to rise again

On 8 December, Syria marked the first anniversary of its liberation from the Baathist dictatorship that had dominated the country since 1971. The...

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Hammadurrahman