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Freedom Talk, War Risk: America’s Iran Playbook

Washington frames Iran policy as a choice between “freedom” and “appeasement,” even as it expands its military posture alongside indirect talks. This coercion, packaged as solidarity, risks escalating tensions and... Read full article

Alice Johnson - February 18, 2026

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Central & South Asia
Rethinking the Living Wage Debate: Helping India Secure its Future
by A. Amarender Reddy
Latin America & the Caribbean
Suffocating an Island: What the US Blockade Is Doing to Cuba
by Medea Benjamin
Europe
The Arctic Litmus Test: Greenland and the Collapse of Global Order
by Rezgar Omer
Central & South Asia
The Myth of Pakistan’s War Economy: Debunking the “Dollars for Conflict” Narrative
by Ali Hassan

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The Indian Subcontinent’s Hindu-Muslim Divide

by Ayan Rakshit, Atul Singh & Ishtiaq Ahmed

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Understanding the 1975 Autocratic “Emergency” in India

by Vikram K. Malkani, Atul Singh & Lee Thompson-Kolar

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The Story of World War II

by Atul Singh, Abul-Hasanat Siddique & Anton Schauble

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The Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein

by Ellis Cashmore

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Football and Politics: An Old Love Affair

by Ellis Cashmore

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Is Silicon Valley’s Next Big Export… Sainthood?

A world dominated by narcissistic celebrities and corporate propaganda is in dire need of a new definition of “sainthood” to...

Arms (Nuclear) and the Man (Epstein)

Two chilling stories converge this week: The Epstein files reveal an oligarchy operating beyond democratic oversight,...

Who Canonized the Western Canon — and Why Did We Kill It?

Some at Davos this week are wondering why deep anxieties about AI, power and leadership feel...

Dollar Milkshake Theory Is Still Useful

Despite rising debt and excessive money printing, US Treasuries remain...

by Alex Gloy

The US Legal System is Being Hacked

by William Softky

Governance Without Legitimacy: The Kurdish Region’s Descent into Stagnation

by Shermeen Yousif

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by Peter Isackson

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The Dialectic: Narendra Modi’s Vegetarian Stalinism Has Ruined the Indian Economy

In this episode of The Dialectic, Atul Singh and Glenn Carle explain how India’s current leader has rolled back the 1991 economic reforms, restoring the extreme centralization of the socialist 1970s. Competitive populism and crony capitalism have led to a dumbbell economy where the babu...

by Glenn Carle & Atul Singh

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