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Who Governs Iran?

It is inevitable that Tehran, after a few weeks of fighting, is acutely aware of the limitations of both its own capabilities and its...

The Axes of the Third World War

The Third World War is being waged between those who want to preserve and strengthen the hegemony of the collective West at any cost (both in its wild-Trumpist, Zionist version and in the globalist Euro-model), and multipolar humanity — that is, us. It is already underway. In full swing....
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Muslim Countries’ Search for a New Alliance

Through former Israeli prime ministers, writers, and the media in the United States, the number of publications describing this alliance as a “radical Islamist alliance,” a “radical Sunni alliance,” or “a new Iran–Türkiye axis” has increased. It is clear that Israel is disturbed by this alliance and has engaged in...
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Is Robinson Crusoe a “Deserted” Novel? – 4

Robinson never left his father’s hearth, his home, his homeland, his country in order to become “everyone.” He merely reinvented that hearth, that home, that homeland—as Protestantism and together with Protestantism—against the Papist appropriation of the oceans....
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Let’s Overthrow All the Idols!

Against the attempt to return the world to paganism, it is necessary to resist by renewing the liberating message of the divine religion. Challenging all forms of idolatry, all enslaving political and economic systems, all objects, fetishes, and symbols posing as false gods, rejecting all forms of dependence and subservience,...
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Türkiye Takes Strategic Steps for Peace in the Israel–U.S.–Iran War

In a speech delivered at the International Strategic Communication Summit (STRATCOM), organized by the Presidency’s Communications Directorate, Director of the National Intelligence Organization (MIT), İbrahim Kalın, stated that Israel has taken steps to sabotage negotiation initiatives, and emphasized that Türkiye continues its diplomatic efforts to bring the war to an...
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Y. Varoufakis: Iran War Collapses U.S. Neoliberal Economy

I recently spoke with Professor Yanis Varoufakis, the former finance minister of Greece and a founder of DiEM25, the Democracy-in-Europe Movement, about where this war is heading and what impacts it is having on the global economy....
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Is Robinson Crusoe a Novel of the “Individual”? – 3

Nevertheless, as a genre, the novel will lead to the erasure—almost as if it had been sifted through a sieve—of the very part in which the hero “asserts a claim to rights in the name of Christianity and England.” This erasure begins with the claim that, with Robinson Crusoe, a...
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War on Iran Is Enriching Weapons Firms as It Tanks the Global Economy

In an exclusive interview for Truthout, C. P. Chandrasekhar, a world-renowned scholar of finance and development, explains how the war could affect the global economy....
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The US’s Strategic Alliance With Israel is a Disaster

Netanyahu has gone out of his way to embarrass virtually every American president over the past 25 years. A low point took place in 2015 when Netanyahu addressed a joint session of Congress to stop the ratification of the Iran nuclear agreement—the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Instead of punishing...
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Beijing and Moscow Gain from Trump’s War

In all, US defiance of international norms by rejecting a negotiated resolution with Iran in favor of a war that has affected numerous countries in and beyond the Middle East puts China and Russia in a comfortable political position. They are finding ways to support Iran—China via surreptitious oil shipments...
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Why Capitalism Relies on Nature and Care Work It Does Not Pay For
Modern economies depend on unpriced ecosystem functions and undervalued care and reproductive labor—essential inputs that are difficult to commodify. This
How Microplastics Threaten Marine Ecosystems and the Food Chain
Microplastics are pervasive pollutants that accumulate in marine ecosystems and enter the human food chain. A 2021 report by the
The world is rediscovering chokepoints and they are not just geographic
The lesson of the Strait of Hormuz is not simply that narrow waterways matter. It is that the global economy
How the US Became an International Serial Killer
The United States now faces a stark choice: to continue down this path of lawless violence, or to turn the
Political Islamophobia is back
Geller, Yerushalmi and other anti-Muslim agitators among my co-religionists (yo, Laura Loomer!) would do well to recognize that the Islamophobic
India’s calculated silence on the Iran war
In a conflict that threatens its energy, trade and diaspora, India is astutely betting on quiet diplomacy over overt mediation.
The German Establishment’s Secret Plan Against the Truth
Ultimately, what the Potsdam affair puts in evidence is not the existence of a grand, scary right-wing plot. That, as
The Myth of Authoritarian Stability in the Middle East
Trump may have hoped for a Venezuela-style outcome in Iran. Iran, however, is not Venezuela: not only does it have
Boots on the Ground as Israel Sabotages Trump’s 15 Point Peace Plan
Trump’s desperate effort to find an off-ramp is now being sabotaged by Netanyahu and Israel-first Zionists in America. “The Israel
Trump’s Visit to China Won’t Fix Much, If It Even Happens
This will leave relations on unsteady footing, prone to sudden bouts of escalation. The visit may temporarily stabilize relations. But

Y. Varoufakis: Iran War Collapses U.S. Neoliberal Economy

I recently spoke with Professor Yanis Varoufakis, the former finance minister of Greece and a founder of DiEM25, the Democracy-in-Europe Movement, about where this war...

The Jews and The British Empire

Economically her Zionist rulers have fettered the initiative of her people and through the Zionist P.E.P. (Political Economic Planning) programme of the Manchester School of...

Robinson Crusoe an “Island” Novel? -2

Moreover, there is a similar gap between the self-confidence underlying all those Enlightenment-era aspirations of deserted islands, Robinson-like existence, and living as though outside society...

Armageddon Now! Israel’s Nuclear Weapons Program

However, Israel is noted for going for showy short-term tactical...

Robinson Crusoe an “Island” Novel? -2

Moreover, there is a similar gap between the self-confidence underlying...

The State’s Wisdom, Political Solution, and Sudan’s Threshold

Sudan today stands at a threshold between military balance and...

Open Letter: Dr. Ali Shariati

Ali Shariati was a qualitative level of consciousness. At that...

The Cost of War

Sadly, there is a war that weary Americans are urgently...

Human as Symbol-Maker: Animal Symbolicum

With the rise of modernity, which gathered momentum with the...

Is Robinson Crusoe a Novel That Tells the Story of “Everyone”? – 1

Robinson, a terrestrial creature, escapes the anxiety caused by a...

Britain’s role in attacks on Cyprus, Venezuela, and Iran

We see the intelligence and surveillance role that Britain plays...

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