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Hope in the Data: Can Palestine Explain America’s Moral Shift?

Hope in the Data: Can Palestine Explain America’s Moral Shift?

In the Middle East, the perception of ordinary Americans has long followed a familiar script: detached, uninformed, inward-looking, and politically...

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Dr Ramzy Baroud

Celebrating division as a success in Libya

Celebrating division as a success in Libya

This week, Libya witnessed two events that were celebrated as signs of progress, even though they express nothing more than the normalisation of...

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Karam Nama

The language of media as a weapon of war

The language of media as a weapon of war

The language of hegemonic media does not merely describe the world. It organizes it, hierarchises it and, above all, disciplines it. Within the...

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Sayid Marcos Tenorio

Cracks in Europe’s support for colonial violence and genocide

Cracks in Europe’s support for colonial violence and genocide

Spain was recently targeted by Israel’s antisemitism narrative after an effigy of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was blown up in El Burgo, during...

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Ramona Wadi

Berri’s calculated defection and the future of Shia politics in Lebanon

Berri’s calculated defection and the future of Shia politics in Lebanon

On 2nd March, when the Lebanese government declared a total ban on Hezbollah’s military and security activities, most of the commentary focused on...

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Ali salman

Nobel, Not Flattery: Pakistan’s Moment of Leverage

Nobel, Not Flattery: Pakistan’s Moment of Leverage

There are few habits in client-state politics more revealing than the urge to decorate empire’s latest strongman with the language of peace. Some...

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Junaid S. Ahmad

Sudden anti-Israel rhetoric in South Korea: A call for Iran or human rights?

Sudden anti-Israel rhetoric in South Korea: A call for Iran or human rights?

“It is disappointing that they do not reflect on the criticisms of people around the world who are suffering and struggling due to ceaseless actions...

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Hwanbin Jeong

Fascism for the digital age

Fascism for the digital age

Old-school fascism controlled the press with a fist; the new version controls the data with a contract. When the state and the corporation agree on...

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Dr Sahar Huneidi

What kind of colonialism is Trump deploying in the Middle East?

What kind of colonialism is Trump deploying in the Middle East?

As a Political Science student who studies peace-building in the Middle East, I want to start with something a scholar named Edward Said taught us:...

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Tamer Ajrami

The US attack on Iran is a wrecking ball aimed at its foundations

The US attack on Iran is a wrecking ball aimed at its foundations

In Washington, the phrase “restoring deterrence” functions as a foreign policy reflex. The logic appears straightforward: strike Iran’s assets,...

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Greg Pence

How the Iran War Turned Civilian Lifelines into Bargaining Currency

How the Iran War Turned Civilian Lifelines into Bargaining Currency

The most revealing thing about the 8 April ceasefire was not that it paused, for the moment, threatened attacks on Iran’s bridges, power stations...

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Dr Mojtaba Touiserkani

Does diplomacy through the use of military force always succeed?

Does diplomacy through the use of military force always succeed?

In a surprising development, US President Donald Trump announced in the early hours of Wednesday morning a two-week ceasefire with Iran, contingent...

12.04.2026 40

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Dr Sania Faisal El-Husseini

Varying degrees of silence over colonialism and annexation

Varying degrees of silence over colonialism and annexation

Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of a settlement in Benjamin, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said that Israel will expand in Gaza, the...

12.04.2026 40

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Ramona Wadi

Reshaping the Geographic Space in the Vicinity of East Jerusalem: Dynamics of Spatial Isolation and the Fragmentation of the Urban Fabric

Reshaping the Geographic Space in the Vicinity of East Jerusalem: Dynamics of Spatial Isolation and the Fragmentation of the Urban Fabric

Al-Baidar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights and Targeted Villages affirms that the on-the-ground realities in the area extending between...

12.04.2026 40

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Dr Rassem Bisharat

From the Strait of Hormuz to global markets: The chain reaction of war on energy security

From the Strait of Hormuz to global markets: The chain reaction of war on energy security
11.04.2026 40

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Dr Kamran Yeganegi

Ceasefire exemptions and quarries of death: Israel’s war on Lebanon

Ceasefire exemptions and quarries of death: Israel’s war on Lebanon
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Dr Binoy Kampmark

Not radicalism but rivalry: Why autocrats fear the Brotherhood

Not radicalism but rivalry: Why autocrats fear the Brotherhood
11.04.2026 40

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Ziyad Motala

The illusion of a substitute: Turkey is not the region’s replacement for Iran

The illusion of a substitute: Turkey is not the region’s replacement for Iran
11.04.2026 40

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Karam Nama

Islamabad and the end of easy empire

Islamabad and the end of easy empire
11.04.2026 40

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Junaid S. Ahmad

Iraq: A gaping enigma and a global laughingstock

Iraq: A gaping enigma and a global laughingstock
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Jasim Al-Azzawi

The Islamabad opening: Translating the ceasefire into a process

The Islamabad opening: Translating the ceasefire into a process
11.04.2026 40

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Arhama Siddiqa

Fragile ceasefire: The illusion of war’s end

Fragile ceasefire: The illusion of war’s end
10.04.2026 50

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Eko Ernada

Indonesia should use its Morocco pact to build a real security presence in MENA

Indonesia should use its Morocco pact to build a real security presence in MENA
09.04.2026 40

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Dr. Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat

The victory Iran names, the diplomatic space it unexpectedly opens

The victory Iran names, the diplomatic space it unexpectedly opens
09.04.2026 50

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Kurniawan Arif Maspul

Beyond the ceasefire: Pakistan’s diplomatic “success” and the illusion of peace in the Muslim world

Beyond the ceasefire: Pakistan’s diplomatic “success” and the illusion of peace in the Muslim world
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Faraz fateh

After US-Israeli war on Iran: What is left of the Gulf countries’ trust in America?

After US-Israeli war on Iran: What is left of the Gulf countries’ trust in America?
09.04.2026 40

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Ahmed Asmar

Trump, Hegseth and the Language of War Crimes

Trump, Hegseth and the Language of War Crimes
09.04.2026 40

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Dr Binoy Kampmark

Ceasefire or pause? The Gulf held hostage by Netanyahu’s war

Ceasefire or pause? The Gulf held hostage by Netanyahu’s war
09.04.2026 40

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Jamal Kanj

When words become weapons

When words become weapons
09.04.2026 50

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Western politicians lie, millions die: The architecture of manufactured consent

Western politicians lie, millions die: The architecture of manufactured consent
09.04.2026 50

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

The world on the brink of the stone age: When Trump’s threat goes beyond Iran

The world on the brink of the stone age: When Trump’s threat goes beyond Iran
08.04.2026 50

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Peter Rodgers

How to tell the rebels have won: The structural defeat of empire

How to tell the rebels have won: The structural defeat of empire
08.04.2026 40

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Junaid S. Ahmad

The gallows law: Israel moves toward executing Palestinian children

The gallows law: Israel moves toward executing Palestinian children
08.04.2026 40

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Dr Ramzy Baroud

In Israel’s colonial ethnic cleansing, the world fails stand for decolonisation

In Israel’s colonial ethnic cleansing, the world fails stand for decolonisation
08.04.2026 50

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Ramona Wadi

Antisemitism as a weapon to silence critics of Israel

Antisemitism as a weapon to silence critics of Israel
08.04.2026 50

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Sayid Marcos Tenorio

Operational suicide? Inside the military revolt against a ground war in Iran

Operational suicide? Inside the military revolt against a ground war in Iran
08.04.2026 60

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

The geostrategic and geoeconomics of Kharg Island

The geostrategic and geoeconomics of Kharg Island
07.04.2026 40

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Dr Jannus Th Siahaan

Egypt and the Gulf states: Sharp differences over the Iran war

Egypt and the Gulf states: Sharp differences over the Iran war
07.04.2026 40

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Mahmoud Hassan

Tell me how this war will end

Tell me how this war will end
07.04.2026 50

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Karam Nama

The gallows of occupation: Law as execution in Israel’s apartheid state

The gallows of occupation: Law as execution in Israel’s apartheid state
06.04.2026 50

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Ranjan Solomon

A ground war with Iran risks another Vietnam for America

A ground war with Iran risks another Vietnam for America
06.04.2026 40

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Jenny Williams

When the world moves faster for oil than for lives

When the world moves faster for oil than for lives

There is a peculiar moral inversion unfolding in the waters of the Persian Gulf. As oil tankers idle and insurance markets shudder, more than forty...

06.04.2026 50

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Kurniawan Arif Maspul

The “Ultra-Apartheid” Convergence: Regional Escalation and the Engineered Asphyxiation of Palestine

The “Ultra-Apartheid” Convergence: Regional Escalation and the Engineered Asphyxiation of Palestine

The contemporary transformation of the Gaza Strip—from a vibrant Mediterranean economic hub to a landscape of systemic structural...

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Irvan maulana

The inevitable decline and fall of Zionism

The inevitable decline and fall of Zionism

There is a moment in the moral life of nations when the lies that sustained them can no longer hold. Israel is living through that moment. The images...

06.04.2026 50

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

The bomb and the ayatollah: Islamic just war and the nuclear question in post-Khamenei Iran

The bomb and the ayatollah: Islamic just war and the nuclear question in post-Khamenei Iran

The killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the opening phase of the US-Israeli war against Iran has generated a striking argument in strategic and...

05.04.2026 60

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Dr sajid farid shapoo

Rented Power, Borrowed Strength: The Illusion of Gulf Power in War

Rented Power, Borrowed Strength: The Illusion of Gulf Power in War

There is increasing talk of Gulf monarchies entering a war with Iran. This prospect invites not admiration but scrutiny. It would expose, in stark and...

05.04.2026 60

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Ziyad Motala

Executing with prejudice: Israel’s death penalty law

It was celebrated with ghoulish delight.  On March 30, the Israeli Knesset passed the Penal Bill (Amendment – Death Penalty for Terrorists), an...

04.04.2026 50

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Dr Binoy Kampmark

No Apologies – Naming Zionism for What It Is

“A people that oppresses another cannot itself be free” -Friedrich Engels – Zionism is racism. I state this plainly, not as a slogan designed...

04.04.2026 60

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Ranjan Solomon

The normalisation of brutality: When will we reclaim our humanity?

What we are witnessing today across occupied Palestine is not a glitch in the system of international order, nor is it a sudden detour from the...

04.04.2026 50

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Adnan Hmidan

What Israel’s death penalty reveals when law becomes a boundary of belonging

A law can sometimes reveal more than a thousand speeches ever could. Israel’s newly passed ‘Death Penalty for Terrorists’ statute does precisely...

04.04.2026 60

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Kurniawan Arif Maspul