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The Middle East is once again speaking in the language of pressure, grief and unfinished power. Iran’s streets, its nuclear sites and its diplomacy...
The West is very proud of its eyesight. Satellites blink. Algorithms scrape. Journalists retweet. Intelligence agencies inhale metadata like...
The United States is a paradox that defies the typical categories of power analysis. Is the United States an empire on the brink of decline, or is...
This is the third and final article in a series examining Jeffery Epstein’s impunity and eventual demise. In the first, I argued that Epstein was...
Global billionaire wealth reached an unprecedented peak in 2025. Oxfam described this as a moment that “undermines political freedom” and deepens...
On January 14, 2026, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jakarta, Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Sugiono delivered his Annual Press Statement (PPTM...
In “False Front,” historian Kenneth Lowande exposes one of Washington’s most deeply embedded legends: that today’s president serves as an...
Indonesia is being invited not to keep the peace in Gaza, but to help launder an injustice. The proposed International Stabilization Force (ISF), a...
Syria has become the graveyard of Middle Eastern certainties. What once looked like a frozen conflict—managed by dictators, militias and foreign...
As Somalia witnesses the historic inauguration of the first administration of the North-Eastern State, the moment carries profound national,...
This essay responds to a Washington Post argument that treats the fragmentation of Iran as a plausible, or even tolerable, endpoint of regional...
In the lexicon of modern geopolitics, language is rarely used to describe reality; more often, it is used to camouflage it. The emergence of...
Between 28 December 2025, and 8 January 2026, Iran was hit by a series of attacks, terrorist sabotages, and violent actions within its territory....
The pattern is no longer subtle. It is not policy. It is a pathology manifested as power. Donald Trump rules through a series of shock waves meant...
The internationally recognised Lemkin Institute for the Prevention of Genocide has issued severe criticism of Germany. In a statement dated 13th...
By January 2026, “cumulative erosion” will begin to characterize Iran’s Islamic Republic, defying the classical rhythms of reform and repression....
“Anyone can go to Baghdad. Real men go to Tehran.” It is difficult to imagine a sentence that more perfectly distils the arrested adolescence of...
In 2026, the global discourse on Iran remains trapped in a binary of “regime” versus “revolt,” a reductionist lens that ignores the profound...
On 15 January 2026, the Misdemeanours Court of Mytilene, Lesvos, delivered a verdict of acquittal in the case of Seán Binder, alongside 23 other...
The phrase long used by the Israeli Mossad to describe its relationship with Iran — ‘a friendly enemy is better than a hostile friend’ — sprang to...
I have faced these few weeks with a heavy heart. Like many Australian Arab Muslims, I experienced the horror of the Bondi attack not simply as a...
Last week, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) made clear it intends to deepen its involvement in Indonesia’s geothermal sector. Speaking at Abu Dhabi...
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