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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...

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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Manipulators Do Not Use Language the Same Way Normal People Do

If you see all the world’s resources moving from the global south to the global north, that tells you all you need to know about what’s really going on, regardless of all the narrative spin the propagandists try to put on it. If you see Israel constantly inflicting genocide, ethnic...
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The American Prison

At this moment of reckoning, unless humanity once again proves capable—as it has at critical junctures in the past—of generating its own alternative, the world may no longer possess even the strength to choose between the “American Prison” and the “G-2 Prison,” neither of which embodies an imperial vision. The...
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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
Who Funds the Climate Agenda?
Regardless of one’s view of climate science, organisations spending hundreds of millions of euros to influence public opinion and public
Anxiety in the Divide
Many individuals wake up already emotionally bracing themselves for the day ahead. Before breakfast, they have already seen breaking news
“Capital Is Not a Thing”: The Legal System’s Pre-Distribution of Economic Power
This system will be impenetrable and unchangeable for as long as we assume the truth of its concepts and categories.

The End of the Old Economic Order Is an Opening for the Left

For decades, the rules of the global economy — and the economics discipline — seemed fixed. But now, with Donald Trump’s help, the edifice is...

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...

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...

Stop Mourning the Old NATO. Build the New One.

The Ankara Summit should serve as Europe’s graduation ceremony: the...

Is America Truly Becoming a “Zionocracy?”

The move to criminalize any criticism of Israel or the...

China Targets Japan’s Defence Industry

Export controls signal a new phase in regional rivalry. On...

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