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Beyond a ‘Muslim NATO’: Pakistan and the Middle East’s Emerging Security Order

A Muslim NATO is not yet being established. What’s emerging is more flexible but also more uncertain: a network of pacts, deployments and diplomatic...

Interview With C. J. Polychroniou: Is the US Ready for Radical Change?

Is the US, however, ready for radical change? After all, isn’t there evidence that Americans are losing faith in capitalism and that socialism is gaining ground among voters? Political scientist, political economist, author, and journalist C. J. Polychroniou shares provocative thoughts on these issues in an interview with the French-Greek...
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Offshore Britain created the Epstein class

Britain's tax-haven territories are all over the Epstein files - because the global super-rich rely heavily on them. And, when you follow the money, and look at where it is these people stash theirs, how they protect their secrets and avoid accountability, again and again, Britain’s offshore spaces are a...
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The Middle East after the American imperium

The question for American policymakers is not how to restore the old frame. It is whether Washington can define a narrower set of genuine interests — nonproliferation, freedom of navigation, denying any single power exclusive control of Gulf energy flows — and pursue those without re-assuming the guarantor’s chair for...
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The Heartbreaking Case of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, Now at Death’s Door

Tunnel vision when it comes to demolishing Gaza so impairs Israeli judgment that Likud rulers must consider their nation’s pariah status temporary, that once the Gazans are gone, they will be forgotten, that the way to deal with Palestinian heroes is to kill them. After all, no one has stopped...
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Zionism is a White Occupied Cult

The Ashkenazi supremacists are certainly giving the WASPs a run for their money when it comes to the distinctly martial art of white victimhood, but the numbers don’t lie. America may or may not be a Zionist Occupied Government of sorts, but Zionism itself is just another White Occupied Cult....
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Prevent the Great War

It takes more than a conference to stop the coming Great War. Still, the Alliance to Prevent the Great War was a very useful discussion of the possible ways to do it. And surely much better than NATO’s own conference of trial balloons for their future war crimes....
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The Emergence of the Retention State

The nineteenth century fought over territory. The twentieth century fought over oil. The twenty-first century will compete for people. Nations that grasp this transformation early will flourish, whereas those that persist in treating their citizens as expendable exports will gradually impoverish themselves, regardless of the resources beneath their soil....
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Why Ideology Is the Wrong Lens for Understanding China

Perhaps China’s rise is not an ideological anomaly after all. Perhaps it simply reminds us that successful societies perform two essential functions simultaneously. They create sufficient order to make long-term planning worthwhile while preserving sufficient institutional diversity for adaptation and innovation to emerge. Different political systems may achieve that balance...
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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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There is No America

This also exposes the central ideological illusion of our moment. We are increasingly encouraged to believe that salvation lies in a different geopolitical configuration: a multipolar order, digital currencies, artificial intelligence, or a new balance between East and West. These transformations are real, but in their current form they do...
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Forever War-A widening war
Donald Trump seems incapable of breaking the pattern of bombing and threatening. He told the visiting Lebanese president that the
Whose AI? Whose Opposition?
Until corporate news outlets expand their definitions of who and what count as “newsworthy,” we must remain alert for factually
Europe’s Tech Regulation Regime Enters A New Phase
We at the CEPA have long focused on the opportunities for a positive, pragmatic tech agenda for both sides. There
Weak Elites Add to Systemic Instability in the West
Unless servant leaders step up to replace the managers currently in power, we could soon face a major crisis like
Logotherapy in an Age of Frustration: Finding Meaning Through the Creative Act
I acknowledge that I have oversimplified for the sake of the argument and that the scope of analysis and application
Iran is Overplaying its Hand
Several paths remain possible from here. Trump could ultimately accept another flawed agreement that leaves Iran stronger over the long
The End Of Freedom- The Last Breath of a Dying Continent
In the end, the question is simple: will we live as men and women, with all the risk and responsibility
Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous
Can all the people be fooled all the time? Can a country with a population of a billion-and-a-half be dragged
“The Zionists Who Hate Jews”
That history matters more now that Israel stands accused at the International Court of Justice of genocide and helps explain
Why Iran Cannot Fight a Forever War
Iran faces a larger decision. It cannot strike American assets in Gulf states indefinitely while expecting those states to put

Interview With C. J. Polychroniou: Is the US Ready for Radical Change?

Is the US, however, ready for radical change? After all, isn’t there evidence that Americans are losing faith in capitalism and that socialism is gaining...

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...

Imperial Vision, or Reviving the Spirit of an Extinguished Fire

The state of the nation, that is, the state representing...

The Case for Holocaust Revisionism: Interview with John Beaumont

John Beaumont is a lawyer, writer, and the author of...

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 Judeo-Christian Illusion

My own conclusion is that the greatest fraud in Christian...

Israel and the United States are Merging their Militaries. Here’s Why.

This NDAA is dangerous. Through the US-Israeli integration, it would...

A Fatiha: A Letter to the Soul of My Friend Ahmet Aşık*

The reason I am writing you this letter is to...

Rivalries and Anxieties: Reviving the Hejaz Railway

A less pessimistic reading of the project could see Israel...

“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...

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