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Don’t wait for the blackout: The world needs binding rules for dangerous AI

Don’t wait for the blackout: The world needs binding rules for dangerous AI

In recent weeks, supermarket refrigeration across Europe has been turned against the food it protects. After an earlier wave in France that hit...

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Mansoor Qaisar

More Nobel prizes for Trump? Pakistan’s ruling clique from flattery to fallout

More Nobel prizes for Trump? Pakistan’s ruling clique from flattery to fallout

There is something exquisitely revealing about Pakistan’s ruling establishment discovering that American presidents are not hereditary monarchs and...

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Junaid S. Ahmad

The sum of the humanitarian paradigm is deadly

The sum of the humanitarian paradigm is deadly

The discrepancy between what the international community glorifies as humanitarian aid and what Gaza is deprived of keep growing. A woman and four...

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Ramona Wadi

Egypt’s government refuses to free political prisoners

Egypt’s government refuses to free political prisoners

The Egyptian presidency’s official website highlights a decision by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi under the headline: “President Issues New...

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Mahmoud Hassan

The unfinished war that broke the GOP

The unfinished war that broke the GOP

Trump has admitted that the war with Iran cost Republicans Congress. His vice president is already negotiating a way out of that war. The lesson for...

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Dr. Sara Neumann

The cyberwar comes for the refrigerator

The cyberwar comes for the refrigerator

For years, governments have prepared for cyberattacks on power grids, airports, financial systems, and telecommunications networks. The assumption was...

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Karam Nama

Can the Gulf become a global hydrogen hub amid the Iran–US war?

Can the Gulf become a global hydrogen hub amid the Iran–US war?

The Gulf has spent decades selling oil and gas to the world. Now its governments want to sell something else: low-carbon hydrogen. It is an appealing...

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Dr Umud Shokri

Water must never be a weapon

Water must never be a weapon

A farmer in Pakistan’s Punjab does not need to follow international arbitration to know when his crops are at risk. A family beside the Chenab does...

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Rashida Abbas

The Writing on the Wall: Why Apartheid Israel is on the Threshold of Defeat

The Writing on the Wall: Why Apartheid Israel is on the Threshold of Defeat

They were both born in 1948 from the womb of European colonialism. Like conjoined twins, apartheid South Africa and Zionist Israel thrived on Western...

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Dr Daud Abdullah

Pulling the funding: Trump, Israel and US military assistance

Pulling the funding: Trump, Israel and US military assistance

In a telephone interview on Fox News on the morning of 3rd November, President Donald Trump revealed that a deal had been struck with Israeli Prime...

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Dr Binoy Kampmark

A third war with Iran will not only be futile but also dangerous

A third war with Iran will not only be futile but also dangerous

It seems that a third round of war between the United States, Israel, and Iran may be approaching. The United States and Israel may be considering...

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Mohammad Amin Ahmadi

‘Lula must turn his support for Palestine into concrete action,’ Brazilian analyst tells MEMO

‘Lula must turn his support for Palestine into concrete action,’ Brazilian analyst tells MEMO

“This election was a defeat for denialism and lies.” With these words, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, widely known as Lula,...

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Eman Abusidu

Kafr Qasim at 70: The massacre Israel still hasn’t owned up to

Kafr Qasim at 70: The massacre Israel still hasn’t owned up to

Israel almost always promises to investigate allegations of misconduct by its military, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), which it often portrays as...

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

A script that fails Palestinians

A script that fails Palestinians

It has been over a year since France recognised the State of Palestine during the 80th session of the UN General Assembly in 2025, and diplomacy has...

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Ramona Wadi

Texas’s Political Earthquake: What It Means for Global Energy

Texas’s Political Earthquake: What It Means for Global Energy

Texas’s November 3, 2026, election results overturned assumptions that had shaped American politics for decades. Democratic victories in major...

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Dr Umud Shokri

A Nuclear Strike on Iran Would Poison the Region It Claims to Protect

A Nuclear Strike on Iran Would Poison the Region It Claims to Protect

On the day Americans vote in the midterms, what Washington does about Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain is no longer an abstract question. Tucker Carlson...

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Mansoor Qaisar

The Israeli and US elections and the future of the war on Iran

The Israeli and US elections and the future of the war on Iran

The results of Israel’s parliamentary election and the US midterm elections revealed a decline in public support for the policies of Israeli Prime...

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Dr Sania Faisal El-Husseini

Gadi Eisenkot’s Coalition Challenge

Gadi Eisenkot’s Coalition Challenge

Israel faces a defining political moment as Gadi Eisenkot attempts to assemble a new governing coalition. His four principles offer a framework for...

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Ranjan Solomon

Trump went to Iran for regime change. Iran delivered it in Washington

Trump went to Iran for regime change. Iran delivered it in Washington

Donald Trump went to war against Iran to demonstrate the invincibility of American empire. Eight months later, Iran has helped deliver one of the most...

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Junaid S. Ahmad

From public opinion to political pressure: Gaza and the US midterm elections

From public opinion to political pressure: Gaza and the US midterm elections

The genocidal Israeli war on Gaza has contributed to a shift in the American political environment and created an opportunity to strengthen political...

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Zaher Birawi

A historic Arab vote: Can Palestinians disrupt Israel’s apartheid system?

A historic Arab vote: Can Palestinians disrupt Israel’s apartheid system?

The results of Israel’s 27th October elections were welcomed by Palestinian Arab communities in Israel and millions of Palestinians worldwide....

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Dr Ramzy Baroud

The bill for the war on Iran is heading to Europe

The bill for the war on Iran is heading to Europe

Late on Monday night, residents of Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz reported a series of explosions. US officials later confirmed what they called...

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Peiman Salehi

Fetishists for bombing: Resuming the attacks on Iran

Fetishists for bombing: Resuming the attacks on Iran

Tenured insanity is set to return after the midterm elections in the United States.  In October, US President Donald Trump seemed to ice the ongoing...

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Dr Binoy Kampmark

Elections in Israel: The names change, but colonisation continues

Elections in Israel: The names change, but colonisation continues

With every election in “Israel”, the expectation resurfaces that replacing the prime minister will pave the way for Palestinian freedom. History...

04.11.2026 70

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Sayid Marcos Tenorio

Human rights discourse serves the two-state paradigm, not the Palestinian people

Human rights discourse serves the two-state paradigm, not the Palestinian people

Since Israel commenced with its genocide in Gaza, Israeli leaders openly spoke of ethnic cleansing and forced displacement. Protected by a web of...

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Ramona Wadi

Abdul El-Sayed: ‘Trump can just call me senator now’

Abdul El-Sayed: ‘Trump can just call me senator now’

All the states were on one side of the scale, and Michigan was on the other. Donald Trump did not see the Michigan Senate race as one seat out of a...

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Adnan Hmidan

Netanyahu’s fall won’t solve Israel’s dilemma, and Eisenkot’s rise won’t solve it either

Netanyahu’s fall won’t solve Israel’s dilemma, and Eisenkot’s rise won’t solve it either

Whenever Israeli politics is shaken by an election or a domestic crisis, the same hope resurfaces in Western capitals: perhaps the problem is Benjamin...

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Karam Nama

Who pays for Washington’s war?

Who pays for Washington’s war?

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said last Friday that higher energy prices alone have cost Europe more than €100 billion in eight months. The...

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Dr. Sara Neumann

Iran is turning deterrence into a weapon of escalation

Iran is turning deterrence into a weapon of escalation

On 31 October, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, instructed the armed forces to answer any future threat with an immediate and effective...

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Dr Jannus Th Siahaan

The Gulf goes to Tehran

The Gulf goes to Tehran

On 26 October, senior officials from three of Washington’s regional security partners flew to Tehran and sat down with its fiercest adversary. Saudi...

02.11.2026 80

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

The world is stocking its Pantry. Are we?

The world is stocking its Pantry. Are we?

A few weeks ago, a government booklet started landing on doormats across Ireland. It explains what to do when the lights go out, and it is being sent...

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Mansoor Qaisar

Why Qatar is buying American LNG while expanding its own exports

Why Qatar is buying American LNG while expanding its own exports

Qatar is buying American liquefied natural gas while spending billions to expand its own export capacity. That apparent contradiction offers a way to...

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Dr Umud Shokri

The 19 seats Netanyahu cannot ignore: Israel’s election deadlock

The 19 seats Netanyahu cannot ignore: Israel’s election deadlock

Israel has finished counting the votes, but its political leaders now face a more difficult question: will they accept the political power of the...

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Tamer Ajrami

Israel’s next government must end Gaza’s catastrophe

Israel’s next government must end Gaza’s catastrophe

Israel’s Arab voters have made themselves impossible to ignore. The question now is whether the country’s political leaders will accept their...

30.10.2026 80

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Dr Egemen Bağış

The inherent violence in the two-state paradigm

The inherent violence in the two-state paradigm

Regardless of the Israeli election result, France will still pursue the two-state paradigm. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot completely...

30.10.2026 90

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Ramona Wadi

The Knesset election and the prospect of meaningful Palestinian political participation

The Knesset election and the prospect of meaningful Palestinian political participation

Could this election usher in a new era of meaningful Palestinian political participation? Tuesday’s election took place amid deep polarisation in...

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Dr Sania Faisal El-Husseini

Beyond Netanyahu: what Israel’s election means for Palestinians

In the past, many Palestinians and Arabs followed Israeli elections closely. They did so not because they entertained illusions that a Zionist leader...

29.10.2026 80

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Dr Ramzy Baroud

America’s hegemonic gamble: how a third war could push Iran towards nuclear weapons

The most dangerous moment for a dominant power comes when it considers continuing a war necessary to vindicate the decision to begin it. At that...

29.10.2026 100

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Mahdi Niksefat Motlagh

Declared 38 years ago, denied since: the Algiers Declaration remains a milestone in the Palestinian struggle

On 15 November, 1988, in Algiers, Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), stood before the Palestine National Council,...

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Indonesia should stop selling palm oil to Israel

Indonesian palm oil is still going to Israel. This week, new reports showed that thousands of tonnes are shipped there every year, even during the...

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Dr. Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat

Thinking a possible Netanyahu departure changes anything? Think again.

The prospect of seeing the architect of Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people, Benjamin Netanyahu, ousted from political office would be a...

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Dr Brendan Ciarán Browne

Whose interests does the ceasefire serve?

A new report released yesterday by the UN Commission of Inquiry states that Israel is still committing genocide in Gaza after the ceasefire agreement...

27.10.2026 100

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Ramona Wadi

The Mecca Pact Courts Iran: Containment Comes Full Circle

For nearly half a century, Iran’s adversaries have tried to isolate it, intimidate it, sanction it into submission and bomb it into irrelevance....

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Junaid S. Ahmad

Weighing dependence on Washington: Trump between Zelensky and Netanyahu

Within eight days in October, US President Donald Trump made two statements about two wartime leaders that, placed side by side, read like a...

27.10.2026 100

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Ahmed Asmar

Egypt’s regime persecutes journalists

The assault on an Egyptian journalist, who was beaten and dragged along the ground outside 6 October Central Hospital, west of Cairo, just days ago,...

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Mahmoud Hassan

Lula’s victory is a cry for sovereignty against imperialism

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s victory in the second round of Brazil’s presidential election safeguards the country’s path towards determining its...

26.10.2026 90

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Sayid Marcos Tenorio

Why is the Middle East waiting out the Trump presidency?

There appears to be little prospect of lasting peace between Iran and the United States while Donald Trump remains in the White House. This is a view...

25.10.2026 90

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Nouroz Khan Bijarani

Could Hormuz become America’s Suez?

In 1956, Britain was forced to abandon the Suez Canal and withdraw from Egypt after a humiliating political and financial defeat. The crisis did not...

25.10.2026 100

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Mohammad Amin Ahmadi

Terrorists in the West Bank: Settler violence and the excusing hand

The persistent violence from Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied territories of the West Bank has become such common fare it risks...

25.10.2026 100

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Dr Binoy Kampmark

Gwadar in the Regional Energy Equation: Strategic Opportunity or Costly Promise for Pakistan?

Marine bunkering services have begun at Gwadar. Meanwhile, according to reporting in June 2026, the proposed $10 billion Saudi refinery announced for...

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Dr Kamran Yeganegi