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Ranjan Solomon

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Power without exit – America’s strategic trap in the Strait of Hormuz

Power without exit – America’s strategic trap in the Strait of Hormuz

The United States today finds itself ensnared in a war it cannot win, yet cannot leave. What appears, at first glance, as a familiar display of...

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Bedouin communities – Dispossession and entrapment

Bedouin communities – Dispossession and entrapment

As the war in Gaza continues to devastate Palestinian life, and the ongoing confrontation involving Iran, Israel, and the United States deepens...

tuesday 30

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Annexation without a declaration- Israel’s quiet seizure of the West Bank

Annexation without a declaration- Israel’s quiet seizure of the West Bank

Israel has not formally declared the annexation of the occupied West Bank. No dramatic parliamentary vote has proclaimed sovereignty over the...

15.03.2026 40

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Even off-hand talk about Israel’s nuclear option is obscene

Even off-hand talk about Israel’s nuclear option is obscene

The “real” chances of a nuclear hit-back from Israel, driven by desperation in an existential crisis, are generally considered low due to...

11.03.2026 40

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Governance in the rubble – why Hamas still holds Gaza

Governance in the rubble – why Hamas still holds Gaza
10.03.2026 40

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Mojtaba Khamenei and the meaning of revolutionary continuity

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the central figure in the country’s political and religious...

06.03.2026 60

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India’s hyphenated ties with Israel betray its past stand for decolonization

India and Israel have cultivated a robust strategic partnership based on shared interests in defense, technology, agriculture, and counter-terrorism....

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A stunted start marks the inaugural Board for Peace in Gaza

Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace,” inaugurated in early 2026 to oversee Gaza’s reconstruction and potentially supplant UN roles, began with low...

20.02.2026 60

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From Coercion to Negotiation – Why Washington Now Sits Across from Tehran

For years, Washington addressed Tehran through pressure. Sanctions were tightened layer upon layer. Naval deployments in the Gulf were amplified....

19.02.2026 80

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Israel’s not-so-subtle annexation plans in the West Bank

Israel’s latest moves in the occupied West Bank are not being framed in dramatic language inside the country. There has been no formal declaration...

18.02.2026 80

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Gaza’s Rafah gate opens under tight Israeli restrictions

06.02.2026 70

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Israel’s is surreptitiously gaining control over East Jerusalem

03.02.2026 60

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Israel’s food crisis – blowback from the economic costs of perpetual war

31.01.2026 50

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Iran, China and Russia sign trilateral strategic pact

29.01.2026 90

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Palestinians create the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG) – Gaza’s technocratic turn to genocide management

27.01.2026 30

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Buying peace, selling Gaza: Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ and the monetisation of ruins

24.01.2026 60

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NATO’s Arctic bluff: How Greenland exposed Western hypocrisy

23.01.2026 80

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The Gaza Board for Peace is Humpty Dumpty diplomacy -Assembled for spectacle not for restoration

20.01.2026 100

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The new mandate: Recolonisation, “peace” boards, and the architecture of erasure

18.01.2026 50

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​The civilisational shield: Rebutting the architecture of chaos in Iran

16.01.2026 60

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When a state bans compassion, the underground grows

13.01.2026 30

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Beyond ruin – One state, liberation, and the grim work of reconciliation in Palestine

09.01.2026 70

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Maduro’s capture and the return of empire: Why Venezuela is not a ‘rescue mission’ but a colonial reprise

05.01.2026 30

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After Gaza, no alliance is permanent: Justice and the reordering of West Asia

31.12.2025 80

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Arms, silence, and alignment: The moral and geopolitical cost of India-Israel military ties

29.12.2025 100

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Europe’s condemnation of Israel’s settlements and the poverty of international law: When words replace will

26.12.2025 70

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US power, Israeli settler colonialism, and the UN: The political economy of impunity

19.12.2025 20

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When ruins are inconsiderately marketed as futures

15.12.2025 50

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

11.12.2025 60

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Gaza ceasefire – A pause by name, while atrocities continue unabated

06.12.2025 100

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The exodus of faith: Israel’s internal reckoning

27.11.2025 50

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Abstentions and the arithmetic of power: Reading China and Russia’s silence on Gaza

21.11.2025 60

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No more custodians and colonialists, Palestinians will reject even a benign western control

19.11.2025 40

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Iran, the West, and the hypocrisy of civilization

14.11.2025 50

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Rafah’s fighters will not surrender, when disarmament means extinction

11.11.2025 90

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From Mamdani’s victory to the future of Zionism: Lessons for a one-state of equals

07.11.2025 50

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Tata Group’s ties with Israel: How Indian capital fuels occupation and genocide

06.11.2025 60

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The empire that disregards history: Why Israel and the US are losing the future

05.11.2025 50

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Cease-fire betrayed: Israel’s strike wave and the human catastrophe in Gaza

30.10.2025 30

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Israel cheats on the ceasefire and jails a nation

21.10.2025 40

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Hamas, democracy, and the right to resist: A case for Palestinian self-determination

15.10.2025 40

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Why Israel fears Marwan Barghouti’s freedom

14.10.2025 30

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Justice first: Rewriting the Gaza peace plan

12.10.2025 60

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Palestine in BRICS: Decolonisation’s second wave

10.10.2025 40

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Famine by design: Why the West must be sanctioned alongside Israel

07.10.2025 50

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Kushner’s mirage: The “Gaza Riviera” and the theft of a homeland

05.10.2025 70

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Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan: A moral and deliberate failure

01.10.2025 40

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The oppressor within: How Israel turned Holocaust memory against Palestine

29.09.2025 50

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Profit and complicity: How Indian investments sustain Israel’s occupation

25.09.2025 40

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Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the unmaking of an American order

19.09.2025 30

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