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The Fruit of Patience: How Regional Shifts Ripened Turkey’s Path to Kurdish Reconciliation

Another Turkish saying holds that “with patience, the sour grape becomes sweet halva.” Patience helped produce the agreements now taking shape on both sides...

The Israel Lobby Is Out of Control

Jacobin’s Seth Ackerman spoke with investigative journalist Eli Clifton and veteran scholar Ian Lustick about their new book Israel’s Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power, which reveals how the lobby has not only warped Washington politics but accelerated Israel’s own ideological radicalization — and now threatens Americans’...
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The Shrinking Middle: How the Erosion of the Middle Class Will Reshape Global Politics?

If the middle class stops being the stable middle of society, the political space between citizens and the state will be more contested. If that space gets more disputed, the security industry will move more and more to the heart of politics....
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The Genealogy of Morality and Immorality; Hatred of Humanity & Criticism of Humanity

There is a fine line between criticizing the human and being hostile towards the human. Criticizing the human is a form of self-criticism. Ensuring that the deficiencies inherent in the human nature do not manifest in life in various forms as evil, harm, loss, oppression, and falsehood; and the criticism...
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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 (as opposed to Hamitic) variety, exerted a considerable influence on Greek, a member of the Indo-European family (or “phylum”) of languages, especially on the lexical...
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Preparing for civil war in Europe: FIEP, CoESPU, and EUROGENDFOR

For the moment, we know that Captain Pierre Plas’s home in Spain was searched by the Guardia Civil at the request of the French government. We know that Xavier Poussard—the author of the book on Brigitte Macron alongside Candace Owens—was questioned by the Carabinieri pursuant to a letter rogatory from...
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The Subsidiary Superpower—How Britain Lost Its Crown to America

Britain was the Headquarters of the 19th century. America was the Headquarters of the 20th and early 21st centuries. The money makers are already laying the groundwork for the next Headquarters—and it looks a lot like the Middle East. Or should I say West Asia? We've seen this pattern before....
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Economist Baker Explains: AI Bubble Is About to Burst

Economist Dean Baker (Center for Economic and Policy Research, author of Rigged and creator of the AI Bubble Monitor) joins Taya Graham and Stephen Janis to break down why the productivity data doesn’t match the hype, why Palantir’s CEO seemed to be panicking on live TV, why Bernie Sanders’ AI...
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Imperial Cycle and the Augustus Threshold

The process initiated by the Arab Spring has created a new opportunity, both to settle the score regarding the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire and for the Turkish, Kurdish, and Arab peoples to jointly shape a new Middle East. In particular, the Syrian revolution signifies the elimination of Arab nationalism...
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The New Security Map of the Middle East: The Mecca Joint Defense Agreement

In conclusion, the Mecca Agreement establishes a multi-layered equation extending from Pakistan’s nuclear ambiguity to the potential for maritime-centric expansion in the Red Sea, and from repositioning along the U.S.-China axis to deterring Israel. At the center of this agreement, which is of critical importance for the history of the...
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USA-China; The Inescapability of the Sacred

And a Chinese diplomat who understands that Western human rights commitments are not just cynical covers for Western hegemony, but experienced as inviolable — set apart, forbidden, defended with a fervour of identity that has nothing to do with self-interest — can stop expecting concessions that will never come. Theological...
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Let NATO’s Free-Riders Fight WWIII
Canada and Europe’s NATO members want more war. Non-NATO Ukraine wants more war. The United States should get out of
The Syrian-Israeli Security Agreement between Tentative Understandings and Deadlock
Ultimately, the Amman meeting reveals that Israel approaches Syria not as a state with which a settlement or understanding can
Multipolarity gives middle powers more choices, but fewer guarantees
Multipolarity, in other words, may not require states to choose a new camp. That gives middle and smaller powers greater
Brazil, the Bells Toll for You!
President Lula da Silva returned, but Brazil’s democratic vitality and the richness and diversity of its social movements did not.
Vietnam in the Field of Culture
A new cultural vision of the world cannot be assembled from diversity slogans supplied by the same institutions that finance
All Together Now: The Collective Hero Stars in Who Moves America
The 87-minute documentary focuses on the 2023 showdown between the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and United Parcel Service, as workers
Gaza is Still Waiting to Bury Its Dead
People will continue to disagree about politics and about the future of this conflict. But there should be no disagreement
The Paperwork Got There First
The United States is assembling a strategy out of other people's contracts, but Washington appears to have no single mechanism
Beijing reads Plato while we apologise for him
Chinese model is not my model and I am not propagandising on behalf of the Chinese Government. I generally believe

The Israel Lobby Is Out of Control

Jacobin’s Seth Ackerman spoke with investigative journalist Eli Clifton and veteran scholar Ian Lustick about their new book Israel’s Lobby: America in the Grip of...

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...

Ernst Jünger’s reckoning with nihilism

Rey’s analysis of Jünger’s train of thought is both illuminating and by the same token unsatisfying. Ultimately, Auf den Marmorklippen, beautiful though it may be...

The Pope’s AI Politics

Leo’s focus on the politics of AI offers an arresting...

Did Izz al-Din al-Qassam Participate in the Turkish War of Independence?

Unfortunately, after the passage of so much time, we have...

As the World Is Rebuilt: On the Threshold of the Technopolitical Age

One of the most significant works in Türkiye to systematically...

Open Letter: Enver Pasha; The Great Dream

Apart from the traces that can help us decipher the...

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

Is the US, however, ready for radical change? After all,...

Offshore Britain created the Epstein class

Britain's tax-haven territories are all over the Epstein files -...

The Middle East after the American imperium

The question for American policymakers is not how to restore...

The Heartbreaking Case of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, Now at Death’s Door

Tunnel vision when it comes to demolishing Gaza so impairs...

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