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The abduction of Maduro and collapse of international order

The abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife from the presidential palace in Caracas by a US Delta Force unit, acting on...

yesterday 30

Adnan Hmidan

Trump is making America a rogue state

We woke up to the news that America, under instruction from Trump had attacked Venezuela and abducted its President and his wife. Venezuela is a...

yesterday 40

Professor Kamel Hawwash

Trump’s diversion: Why Venezuela’s oil is the ultimate

Washington didn’t abruptly discover Nicolás Maduro on 3 January. It didn’t suddenly open its eyes to Venezuela’s narcotics and corruption. It chose...

yesterday 30

Jasim Al-Azzawi

The Don-roe Doctrine in action: Trump’s gangster intervention in Venezuela

It has been an accusation long levelled at certain US politicians that their brains might have been softened by a lengthy diet of television,...

yesterday 30

Dr Binoy Kampmark

What 2025 revealed about Gaza and the global order

As 2026 begins, the events of the past year demand more than remembrance — they require reckoning. Throughout 2025, Gaza did not simply endure...

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Eko Ernada

Iran’s self-blinding: How governance by narrative manufactures the pretexts it fears

“Death to high prices”—the slogan was unglamorous, but on 28 December 2017 it lit a fuse in Mashhad that quickly outran its economic frame,...

previous day 40

Dr Mojtaba Touiserkani

Germany: Anti-Palestinian racism on the rise

In 2003, the Antidiskriminierungsnetzwerk Berlin (Anti-Discrimination Network Berlin, ADNB) was founded in the German capital. Since then, it has...

previous day 40

Leon Wystrychowski

Israel and the politics of fragmentation: The hidden hand behind secessionist projects in Yemen, Somalia, and Libya

Israel’s malicious, meddling role in the Arab countries has long extended beyond direct military confrontation, as seen in Palestine, Lebanon, and...

previous day 40

Ahmed Asmar

The Gulf’s cold war: Saudi‑UAE rivalry spills into Africa

In the sterile, high-altitude boardrooms of the Gulf, the mantra for the last decade has been one of shared destiny. From the 2017 blockade of...

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Imran Khalid

Israel’s recognition of the State of Somaliland: Why now?

On 26 December, Israel took the unprecedented step of officially recognizing Somaliland as an independent state. This decision, ending decades of...

friday 30

Tamer Ajrami

After oil, before stability: The Middle East’s energy dilemma in a multipolar world

The Middle East once seemed inseparable from oil — a resource that anchored state budgets, political bargains and global strategic partnerships....

friday 20

Dr Kamran Yeganegi

Secessionist pantomime: Israel recognises Somaliland

For a country so upset about recognition being afforded peoples under their thumb and control, the Israelis have decided to get into the state...

friday 10

Dr Binoy Kampmark

How Indonesia navigates rising tensions in Yemen

Indonesia’s response to the latest escalation in Yemen follows a familiar diplomatic pattern. After Saudi Arabia carried out an airstrike on a...

friday 10

Dr. Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat

The winter of their discontent: When a theocracy freezes

With the chill hitting Iran’s bones in December, that cold has done much more than close schools and government services. It has also revealed the...

friday 40

Jasim Al-Azzawi

Despite war threats, youth revive Tripoli

Despite the constant threat of conflict, Tripoli is emerging as an unlikely hub for digital innovation. Co-working spaces have appeared where...

01.01.2026 50

Dr Mustafa Fetouri

The Price of War

Wars are not won by courage alone. They are sustained by money. Strip away the rhetoric, the flags, and the televised heroics, and every prolonged...

01.01.2026 50

Jasim Al-Azzawi

Statistics alone put the PA’s rhetoric to shame

Two very different images of the current plight of the Palestinian people were presented at the end of 2025 – one based on statistics and the other...

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