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Three years after Al-Aqsa Flood: The obligation to defend Palestine

Three years after Al-Aqsa Flood, “Israel” has no right to impose the subjugation or disappearance of a people. Palestine does not ask permission to...

Signing the protocol to surrender the world’s throne

The meeting hosted by the White House was not the dawn of a new regulatory era so much as a declaration of presidential anxiety—the angst of a political ruler who witnesses with his own eyes how the historic empire of state power is turning into mere lingering shadows, while “Superintelligence”...
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The end of US hegemony in the Middle East

However, US forces currently stationed at 19 bases, eight of which are permanent, are expected to be withdrawn. This is, first, because these bases have proven highly vulnerable to attacks by low-cost drones and missiles and, second, because they are scattered across various locations; consolidating them geographically makes sense, as...
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German Auto Crisis: Capital Attacks Workers

One does not need to be a follower of conspiracy theories or fantasies to recognise that German workers are dealing with a never-before-seen, full-frontal attack on the achievements of Germany’s organised workers. Capital, conservative and reactionary politicians, and the business press are running some kind of “big ideas lottery” on...
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Encountering Zionism

In this story, Jews are not just a model minority but a protected minority of a West whose moral credentials are assured (since everyone remembers Auschwitz) by its philo-Semitism. The civilization can therefore express its anxieties about decline in morally righteous terms. Churchill’s 1920 project has succeeded, converting some Jews...
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The Return Of The German Question

Worse, this looming existential crisis for the EU is unfolding against the backdrop of the continuing war in Ukraine, a persistent Russian threat to the continent, and America’s military withdrawal from Europe. The coming weeks and months could prove decisive for Europe. The new nationalism represents an open betrayal of...
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Europe’s Rearmament: The Push for Military Spending

“We reject the militarisation of our societies and support the young people who are refusing it,” the Stop ReArm Europe coalition wrote on 23 September. “Thousands of high school students and university students across Europe are rising up to refuse militarisation and the return of conscription.” “Nearly 20 million children...
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American Soul-Searching after the Iraq Withdrawal

Our nation was founded with a limited-government republic, one with a relatively small military force. That’s because our American ancestors knew that an enormous standing army would be the greatest threat to their freedom and well-being. It’s time to dismantle the old Cold War-era national-security state and restore our founding...
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Between Trump’s US and Xi’s China, the trap India must avoid

Faced with converging and competing Sino-American imperatives, India risks drifting into the Thucydides Trap. Unfortunately, the BJP government has mired India in asymmetric relationships and a performative foreign policy that prioritises optics over tangible national interest gains. This is compounded by the BJP’s intellectual and strategic inertia, manifested in clumsy...
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Xi Jinping’s US Visit

Peace requires restraint from both sides, but restraint cannot mean that the United States surrounds China with military bases and warships and then demands that China alone remain calm. Security cannot be achieved through the permanent insecurity of another country. There will, of course, be disagreements. Collaboration does not require...
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When Orientalism Becomes a Career: From James Mill to Jared Kushner

For James Mill, knowledge about India helped produce institutional authority and personal security. For John Stuart Mill, empire could coexist with liberalism once colonized peoples were placed outside liberalism’s immediate protections. In our own century, access to Middle Eastern rulers and state capital can generate opportunities whose value is measured...
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Workers Helping Feed the World but Starved of Dignity
The global food system exploits more workers than any other economic sector, and the report notes that this exploitation is
Managing Oil’s Decline: The Coming Petrostate Reckoning
Managing these risks is symbiotic with accelerating the spread of cleaner energy and mitigating the effects of global warming. International
Trump’s Big Bluff on Iran
This, of course, helps explain why the Trump administration and its allies are waging a media campaign designed to persuade
How did Earth get its oxygen?
We don’t know exactly when life arose on Earth. It’s possible life came into existence and was wiped out multiple
U.S. Leaves Iraq More Unstable Than It Found It in 2003
Short of an incremental yet full withdrawal from the entire Middle East, the United States will continue making the same
Food is Becoming a Geopolitical Weapon
The real tragedy in this entire story is not a single event but a broader transformation: food is increasingly becoming
What Killed Liberalism?
There is no shortage of people and ideas to blame for liberalism’s decline, but searching for a single culprit is
Pension Peril Among Populations
Dozens of government-funded pension programs providing benefits to hundreds of millions of men and women face growing fiscal strain and
AI weapons systems
To have meaningful human control of AI, we need not just nominal endorsement of its decisions. We need intense questioning
How can Jordan respond to Israel’s escalation across the West Bank?
Jordan’s position, therefore, must remain unequivocal: Resolving the Palestinian question cannot come at Jordan’s expense; displacement is not a political

Interview with Fabio Vighi On Crisis Deployment and the Collapse of Political Language

Here’s the mechanism: US federal debt is now so enormous ($38 trillion and climbing) that any rise in borrowing costs becomes an existential threat. To...

Ex Oriente Odysseus: the Babylonian Connection of a Greek Hero

The transfer of Mesopotamian culture to Greece was multidimensional, and it also featured a very important linguistic component. Akkadian, an Afro-Asiatic language of the Semitic...

Four Questions in the Universal Quest for Meaning

Not because God saved me but not others; not because I have a deeper spirituality than others; not because I have tapped into some planetary...

Southeast Asia’s Room for Manoeuvre in Critical Minerals

In the final analysis, access to critical minerals will likely...

Interview with Fabio Vighi On Crisis Deployment and the Collapse of Political Language

Here’s the mechanism: US federal debt is now so enormous...

The rise of the far right in Germany and the crisis of democratic representation

The analysis “The Far Right in Germany: Liberal Democracy’s Crisis...

How Intelligence Agencies Bend Universities to Their Will

Developing education that examines rather than endorses intelligence is a...

Nigeria: Too big to regulate

Dangote’s refinery ended Nigeria’s dependence on imported fuel and became...

When Saudi Arabia realizes it’s backed the wrong horse

The great irony is that an American war intended to...

Where is the world heading?

Today, we are living in a world increasingly defined by...

Post-Liberalism Has Helped to Reinvent Far-Right Global Politics

Hannah Gurman, who teaches American Studies and history at New...

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