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Which Country Is Most Similar to Israel? Clue: none of the ones you most expect

Israeli politicians treat the United States as a civilisational mirror — a fellow frontier society, restlessly entrepreneurial, divinely ordained...

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DNA Doesn’t Lie: What Genetic Ancestry Tells Us About the Palestinian Question

In the conflict over Israel-Palestine, competing claims to indigeneity are wielded as rhetorical weapons. Both sides invoke history, archaeology, and...

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The Cable War Israel Is Losing: How Syria’s Digital Resurrection Spoils Things

In June 2023, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood before cameras and declared that Israel would become a “global communications centre.” The...

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Toxic Woke, The Institutional Drift: When Progress Becomes Dangerous Orthodoxy

Institutions, like currencies, derive their value from trust. And like currencies, that trust can be inflated away through reckless issuance of claims...

17.02.2026 40

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Britain’s China Crisis: Between Washington’s Warnings and Westminster’s Angst

The timing could hardly be more exquisite in its irony. As Keir Starmer stood in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People this week, pledging a...

16.02.2026 40

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The Blockchain Cannot Launder a Reputation: Venezuela’s Petro Experiment

10.02.2026 30

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When Political Risk Became Geopolitical Risk

28.01.2026 40

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Coming Reckoning for Uncle Sam: Why America’s Next Debt Crisis Will Be Different

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A White Christmas in MENA?

25.12.2025 50

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MENA’s Preventable Blindness Crisis Isn’t About Meds Or Money But Political Will

24.12.2025 80

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MENA v. Eastern Mediterranean: Why Geography Still Matters in a Borderless World

23.12.2025 50

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Weather Walls and Geopolitical Fault Lines: What Disney’s Zootopia 2 Tells Us

22.12.2025 90

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PLAUSIBLE DEEP FAKE VIDEO? Buffett, Trump, NATO And The Unseen Crash In US Power

20.12.2025 90

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It is Not the Heat That Hurts MENA! — It is the Talent Leaving Because of It?

18.12.2025 50

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One God, One People — or Endless Fragmentation?

17.12.2025 60

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Decoupling Delusions!: Green Growth Fails the Climate Test Particularly in MENA

16.12.2025 70

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From Caracas to Cairo: Why a US–Venezuela Clash Hits the MENA Countries

14.12.2025 70

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A Modern Day Christmas of No Room at the Inn: Israel and a Global Housing Crisis

13.12.2025 10

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Israel and Bond Market Buster Bomb: How Europe’s Fury at Washington Spills Over

11.12.2025 40

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The Great Convergence: Power, Culture and the Fragile Geometry of Global Unity

15.11.2025 60

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The Running Man 2025: Spectacle, Sovereignty and the Geopolitics of Distraction

14.11.2025 40

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From Fall of the Berlin Wall to the Market: How 1989 Reshaped the Global Order

11.11.2025 20

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The Former Duke Without a Hill: Mr. Andrew Windsor and Theatre of Royal Decline

01.11.2025 30

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Britain’s Quiet Digital Revolution Under Sir Kier Starmer: Identity Meets Money

30.10.2025 40

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Milei Economics: Thatcherism Reborn—or the Last Revolution of Neoliberalism?

15.10.2025 60

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From the Crash of 1929 to AI Boom of 2025: Are We Living Through Another Bubble?

13.10.2025 40

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When Nations Can’t Stop Stealing:How Geopolitical Kleptomania Rewrites the World

06.10.2025 50

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Thin Globalization: World Connected in Numbers but Fragile in Depth & Solidarity

25.09.2025 20

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Crown vs. Cap: Windsor’s Pomp Meets Trump’s Pageantry in the Theatre of Power

21.09.2025 70

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Renaming Pentagon ‘Department of War’ Risks Global Distrust, Costs and Conflict

06.09.2025 50

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The World as a Complex System: Why Geopolitics Demands a Systems Theory Lens

30.08.2025 70

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UK Labour’s Union Test: How the RMT’s Pension Warning Will Shape Economic Policy

28.08.2025 50

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Marx in the Machine Age: Enduring Relevance in an Era of Artificial Intelligence

09.08.2025 20

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Can Only One Rule?: Why the World Cannot Sustain Multiple Global Hegemonies

08.08.2025 30

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Germany’s Bold Rearmament: A Historic Shift Toward Europe’s Strongest Army

07.08.2025 30

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The Mind in the Machine: Legal Implications of Brain-Computer Interfaces

26.07.2025 50

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Neuralink, Eugenics and Danger of Ethnic Cleansing by Technological Exclusion

23.07.2025 50

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What If Neuralink Could Hack Consciousness Like DMT and Rewrite Reality at Will?

21.07.2025 40

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Neuralink, BCIs and the Law: Protecting Mental Privacy, Autonomy and Human Rights

12.07.2025 30

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The Bringing Back of Benny Hill with AI: Slapstick Nostalgia Meets Woke Nightmare

05.07.2025 60

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Bob Vylan Villainized at Glastonbury: The Price of Saying “Death to the IDF”

30.06.2025 50

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From Kyiv to Kashmir, Gaza to Gilgit: The Conflicts and the Fragile Global Peace

18.06.2025 50

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Global Financial Crises and Inequality Trap: Understanding the Gini Connection

15.06.2025 20

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Trump v Elon, Magic Mushrooms v Sautéed Mushrooms: The Ultimate Fungus Face-Off

09.06.2025 40

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Path Dependency in MENA Geopolitics: Energy, Alliances and Strategic Renewal

26.05.2025 40

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New Business Careers for an Age of Volatility: A MENA–India Perspective

11.05.2025 40

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Exodus Without End: The Ongoing Struggle for Jewish Identity in a Broken World

04.05.2025 50

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Knighthoods and Kippahs: Being Jewish in an Age of Royal Honour and Antisemitism

03.05.2025 40

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Is Maggie Turning in Her Grave? The Ghost of Neoliberalism in a Fractured World

28.04.2025 30

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Kosher Capitalism: How Jewish Values Are Reshaping Venture Capital by Mitzvah

21.04.2025 40

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