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Graham Crackers: The Words of a Professional Warmonger

Lindsey Graham will go down as an inconsequential figure in American history, a bloodthirsty cheerleader for some of the nation’s most disastrous wars who...

Ankara at the heart of the alliance

Washington offers readmission in exchange for alignment, while Ankara seeks recognition without relinquishing the levers of its autonomy. The outcome will depend on how the S-400 issue is resolved and on the production pace the KAAN will be able to maintain once its engines are secured. Until then, Turkey will...
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Imperial Vision, or Reviving the Spirit of an Extinguished Fire

The state of the nation, that is, the state representing the brotherhood of the region’s peoples; the true state that serves as the guarantee of this country’s freedom and independence, awaits the day it will manifest as a willpower hidden within the plow of a farmer in an Anatolian village,...
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The Case for Holocaust Revisionism: Interview with John Beaumont

John Beaumont is a lawyer, writer, and the author of The Truth Will Set You Free: The Case for Holocaust Revisionism. He worked in the courts and university sector, including Head of the Department of Law, Leeds Metropolitan University, and posts at Leeds University, Lancaster University and University of Central...
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The legacy of John Esposito: The scholar who refused to turn Islam into an enemy

John Esposito built bridges in an age that rewarded walls. The finest tribute we can offer him is not simply to praise those bridges, but to possess the courage to cross them....
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The Judeo-Christian Illusion

My own conclusion is that the greatest fraud in Christian history was persuading countless generations that an institutional religion, which gradually evolved under the influence of imperial power, theological development, and ecclesiastical authority, was identical with the original spiritual movement associated with Jesus of Nazareth. History belongs to no institution....
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Israel and the United States are Merging their Militaries. Here’s Why.

This NDAA is dangerous. Through the US-Israeli integration, it would facilitate more deadly technology, more weapons for genocide, and make it nearly impossible to sever support for Israel by the US. Through the $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget, it would funnel money out of welfare into more war and violence across...
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A Fatiha: A Letter to the Soul of My Friend Ahmet Aşık*

The reason I am writing you this letter is to bring you glad tidings that will heal every ache within you: for the first time in its history, Turkish society rose as one against a military coup; it resisted and declared, "The coup shall not pass." Yet not a single...
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Rivalries and Anxieties: Reviving the Hejaz Railway

A less pessimistic reading of the project could see Israel benefit in the distant future. “Although at first glance the revival of the railway appears intended to bypass Israeli territory,” writes Gallia Lindenstrauss for Israel Hayom, “an examination of some of the maps published around the time of the signing,...
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“We Are in a Good Place”: Nato, Europe and the Dangerous Illusion of Nuclear Security

Humanity avoided nuclear catastrophe not because the system was inherently safe, but because, at several critical moments, individual decision-makers refused to act according to the logic of worst-case scenarios. Nuclear peace has never been the product of perfect control. It has been the repeated avoidance of disaster....
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Can Iran Replace Israel?

We have good reason to start looking for a new Middle East bestie. Iran would be a far more valuable ally in the region. As we’ve seen, Iran borders and controls the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf. It offers vast strategic depth, access to Central Asia, and leverage...
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The Iran War Is Reshaping Afghanistan and Pakistan’s Geopolitical Landscape
The Iran war therefore should not be read only as a Middle Eastern war with South Asian side effects. It
How Turkey Could Become Europe’s New Energy Gatekeeper
The early signs are already visible. Turkey has begun supplying Azerbaijani gas to Syria through Kilis. That is a practical
Is the West looking for a new relationship with Israel?
And so any backlash from voters or renegade politicians on both sides of the Atlantic might be the beginning of
A Traumatized Landscape
It has become common to treat the oasis as a picturesque remnant—worth photographing, occasionally worth restoring as a tourist attraction,
Iraq’s Washington Pivot Isn’t Diplomacy
It’s a Structural Rewiring of Middle Eastern Power. It is a bold wager. And the entire region—from Tehran to Tel
The Global Economy’s Most Dangerous Decade Since 1945
The years ahead are unlikely to be defined by a single dramatic event capable of determining the fate of the
How apocalyptic worldviews are moving from the fringes to the corridors of power
For a long time, scholars explained global politics in terms of institutions and structural relations, and globalisation through business interests.
Epistemologies of the South, the Left, and Communism
In the non-Eurocentric world, communism referred to premodern, communal forms of collective life. In fact, the truly existing version of
The Coming Clash Between China and Europe
Brussels cannot wait for Trump to see the light. Maintaining the status quo between China and Europe is no longer
How to Respond to the Zionist Hoax of a Peopleless Palestine
To conclude, if we ever hope to see peace in the Middle East, prevailing Zionist myths must be relegated to

The Case for Holocaust Revisionism: Interview with John Beaumont

John Beaumont is a lawyer, writer, and the author of The Truth Will Set You Free: The Case for Holocaust Revisionism. He worked in the...

What Distinguishes History, Story, and Gossip from One Another?

What falls to the lot of human beings is not to possess truth, but to cultivate humility before it; not to consume it, but to...

Britain’s General Strike Was Class Struggle at Its Rawest

A century ago, Britain was rocked by perhaps the most serious episode of class struggle it has ever known. Millions of workers joined the general...

Manipulators Do Not Use Language the Same Way Normal People Do

If you see all the world’s resources moving from the...

The American Prison

At this moment of reckoning, unless humanity once again proves...

On Israel’s Systematic Sexualized Violence and the Silence That Enables It

Palestine is not a tragedy without an author. What is...

NATO 3.0: The Ankara Summit and Türkiye’s Role as a Central Country

Ultimately, the Ankara Summit represents a critical juncture at which...

The Codes of Turkish Foreign Policy

In the period ahead, the current global system dominated by...

Turkey’s neo-Ottoman ambitions: Erdogan, Hamas, and threats to Israel

Is Turkey truly an appropriate member of the Gaza “Board...

Do Muslims Want Sharia Law in the West?

And here is where I see the critique made to...

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