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Middle East Danger Zones: A 2026 Update

Danger Zones In February 2026, the United States and Israel attacked Iran, kickstarting a new Middle East ‘energy conflict’. And like most energy conflicts over the past half century, this one too began after the region fell into a ‘danger zone’. The notion of a danger zone was first introduced in our paper, ‘Bringing Capital […]
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No Naval Escort for Trump: US Allies and the Strait of Hormuz
With each dragged-out day, President Donald Trump begins to resemble a mad emperor who has not only taken leave of his senses but also of everything else. Having hitched his wagon to the Israeli program of chaos and destabilisation in the Middle East, he is stuck in a war he is incapable of controlling or […]
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Dilemma
Every answer carries the next problem inside it, the way a season carries the one that will replace it. We have learned not to be surprised by this. We were born here, and so we stay. What else is there? The world ends at the television frame, where the evening news flickers and dies each […]
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US-Israel War against Iran Require a War Crimes Commission

Almost one year after the 2024 election on a peace platform, the Trump Administration backed itself into an alarming militaristic US-Israeli tag team that is not what the American public voted for. Almost immediately, the newly elected Peace President who continued to lust for the Noble Peace Prize, allowed his country to be drawn into […]
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What Mearsheimer Gets Right — and Wrong — About 38 Million Sanctions Deaths
Image: The News Statesman John Mearsheimer recently stated that U.S. sanctions murdered around 38 million people between 1971 and 2021 – see the video below. It is a dramatic figure, and it has spread quickly because it captures, in one sentence, the enormous human cost of modern sanctions. I share his concern about the destructive […]
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The U.S. Bombs Kids So Palmer Luckey Can Have Nice Things

Last week, we watched a U.S.-made Tomahawk missile murder more than 160+ Iranian school children. We watched in horror, helpless to stop the incoming massacres as the U.S. and Israel carpet-bombed Iran, then Lebanon, displacing millions of people from their homes. The pure, unrelenting terror continues to unfold. We are shocked and devastated, but we […]

