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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

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Kill Iran’s Nerve Center

Kill Iran’s Nerve Center

From Israel’s perspective, eliminating senior Iranian figures such as Ali Larijani is not about symbolism. It is about dismantling the Islamic...

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Puerto Ricans Can Be President. Still No Vote

Puerto Ricans Can Be President. Still No Vote

A person born in Puerto Rico can run for president of the United States. This should not be a recurring national puzzle. It should be basic civics....

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Israel, Make Sánchez Pay

Israel, Make Sánchez Pay

Spain’s government has mistaken Israeli restraint for weakness. After years of diplomatic insults, embargoes, canceled defense deals, downgrades,...

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No One at the Core of Iran’s Regime Is Safe

No One at the Core of Iran’s Regime Is Safe

Israel’s reported elimination of Ali Larijani and Basij chief Gholamreza Soleimani means more than another successful strike. It shows the war has...

17.03.2026 30

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Libertad Digital: Spain’s Last Pro-West Voice

Libertad Digital: Spain’s Last Pro-West Voice

In today’s Spain, where too much of the press has traded conviction for access, Grupo Libertad Digital stands out as the country’s last major...

16.03.2026 30

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Kharg: America’s New Oil Guantanamo

Kharg: America’s New Oil Guantanamo

Iran is not fighting this war alone. Although Tehran launches missiles and drones, outside powers help keep the regime alive. Beijing helps it sell...

14.03.2026 30

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If Iran Hits America, the Ayatollahs Must Fall

If Iran Hits America, the Ayatollahs Must Fall

If Tehran or one of its proxies strikes US territory—especially the mainland—the war changes in a single hour. Until then, Washington can still...

13.03.2026 30

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Israel’s Missile Shield and the New Middle East

Israel’s Missile Shield and the New Middle East

For years, critics treated Israel’s missile defenses as an expensive umbrella: useful, defensive, and strategically limited. However, that judgment...

12.03.2026 50

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No More Gemayel Errors

Reports that Beirut is again floating direct talks with Israel should be read not as progress but as a warning; the State of Israel has seen this...

10.03.2026 50

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Blaming Israel Won’t Save the American Right

A growing strand on the American Right now argues that Israel is a foreign policy liability—an expensive entanglement draining U.S. resources. The...

04.03.2026 60

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El Al: Israel’s Air Bridge Under Fire

When Israel comes under fire, international airlines suspend flights to Tel Aviv within hours—driven by rising risk, insurance costs, and airspace...

03.03.2026 60

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Iran Can Strike—But It Cannot Fly

Iran boasts about airpower; however, only the State of Israel and the United States are the ones who actually exercise it within the current...

02.03.2026 60

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Iran Cornered as Regime Collapse Begins

This is not an Israeli operation with American support; it is a coordinated U.S.–Israeli campaign designed as a joint strategic intervention from...

01.03.2026 60

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The Sand Paradox: Power Built on Foreign Ground

The Gulf sells a powerful illusion—endless desert, limitless resources, and cities rising effortlessly from the sand. Dubai’s skyline and Saudi...

28.02.2026 60

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Iran’s Minorities: The Regime’s Breaking Point

Iran is not a country in the conventional sense—it is a contained fracture. ‘Persia’ is held together not by cohesion, but by force, timing, and...

27.02.2026 70

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Israel Will Dominate the Algorithmic Battlefield

For decades, much of the international system has misunderstood Israel’s power—measuring it through size, geography, and conventional force. That...

26.02.2026 70

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AI and the Governance of Capital

For much of modern economic history, income has been tied to effort. Labour generated wages; capital generated returns; human judgment mediated risk....

25.02.2026 50

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Break Iran’s Axis – Rebuild the Middle East Order

The debate is over. Iran’s nuclear and missile programs are not a future threat—they are a present strategic reality. The real question,...

24.02.2026 70

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Hemispheric Denial and the Geometry of Containment

When read chronologically rather than rhetorically, a coherent strategic architecture becomes visible: deny permissive hemispheric nodes to rival...

23.02.2026 60

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Haddad vs. The Politics of Permanent Grievance

Yoseph Haddad is not arguing about a coalition — he is exposing a strategic crossroads Israel can no longer avoid. For too long, a segment of Arab...

22.02.2026 70

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Salamanca Was Right—Israel Proved It

Israel’s claim to sovereignty is often debated through the language of twentieth-century diplomacy, mandates, and international law, yet its deeper...

20.02.2026 60

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The Strike That Resets the Middle East

U.S.–Iran negotiations have collapsed. Not with drama, but with inevitability. For years, diplomacy slowed escalation without stopping it. What was...

19.02.2026 70

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The “Faroe-Israel Alignment” Europe Ignores

Europe loves lecturing the world about “values.” Meanwhile, power is being consolidated in the shadows—far from Brussels, beyond the EU’s...

18.02.2026 60

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The Barzanis: West’s Last Stronghold

In a Middle East addicted to volatility, the Barzanis built something unfashionable: a sharp alignment with the West that actually delivers. For...

17.02.2026 50

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Rubio in Munich, Vance Sidelined

By any serious geopolitical metric, sending US Secretary of State Marco Rubio—not US Vice President J. D. Vance—to the 2026 Munich Security...

16.02.2026 60

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Caracas Fuels Jerusalem. Let That Sink In.

12.02.2026 50

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Libya: The War Obama Started and Never Owned

04.02.2026 50

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Why Patrick Bet-David Is The Leader Iran Needs

27.01.2026 30

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Israel’s Forward Edge Beyond Its Borders

26.01.2026 100

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Georgetown’s Long War of Quiet Espionage

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From JD Vance to Rubio: ‘Trumproe’ Changed Power

17.01.2026 100

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Spain’s Embargo Theater 2.0

02.01.2026 40

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Israel the Broker in the Russia–Ukraine War

31.12.2025 70

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Mafias of the Startup Nation

30.12.2025 80

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Black History Beyond One Villain

27.12.2025 90

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From Jesus to Real Genocide: Palestinian Reckoning

25.12.2025 30

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Israel, Greece, Cyprus: Power Lines Against Turkey

24.12.2025 90

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Trump’s Venezuela Delay: Ukraine Comes First

23.12.2025 100

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Australia Has Chosen. Jews Should Too.

22.12.2025 60

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Dermer’s Exit and Israel’s Strategic Vacuum

21.12.2025 90

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Ladino: The Sephardi World in Motion

20.12.2025 70

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Israeli Arabs and the Apartheid Hoax

19.12.2025 90

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New Interdiction Doctrine: War on Shadow Fleet

16.12.2025 70

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Yemenite Hebrew: The Sound Time Forgot

14.12.2025 80

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Moroccan Hebrew: Empire’s Living Bridge

13.12.2025 60

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Trump’s Power Brokers Behind the Curtains

10.12.2025 30

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Bahrain’s Silent Ride into Trump’s Arsenal

10.12.2025 30

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Iran’s Secret Brotherhood Cash Highway

09.12.2025 70

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Cut Puerto Rico Loose, Back Dominican Power

06.12.2025 100

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Barghouti Is a Loaded Gun Israel Cannot Ignore

22.11.2025 70

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