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The Disruptive Iran War, Limits of Western Power and Moral Costs of Grotesque Imperialist Wars

Western imperialism persists through economic sanctions, military interventions and control over global resources, as seen in Venezuela and Iran. Nations with strong ideological commitment, like Iran, demonstrate resilience against superior... Read full article

Avichal - April 4, 2026

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Short Selling: When Prophecy Collides With Reality
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The Master Paradox: How a Mid-Sized Bank Exposed the Cracks In Brazil’s Power
by Luiz Cesar Pimentel
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FO Interview: The Khonoma Reconciliation Process
by Charles Chasie & Roberta Artemisia Campani
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Why the Houthis Have Held Back: Yemen’s Calculated Restraint in a Regional War
by Abdul Galil Shaif

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Easter and Passover Explained: Two Stories, One Crossing

by Liam Roman, Casey Herrmann & Roberta Artemisia Campani

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The Indian Subcontinent’s Hindu-Muslim Divide

by Pocket Dynamo, 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

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The Agenbite of Diplomacy: Are Negotiations Still a Thing?

Language sometimes betrays us. Politicians routinely betray language. Trump has perfected a trend he didn’t initiate: the discrediting of diplomacy...

The Fog of Foreknowledge Versus the Clarity of War

Two early-century warnings — Wesley Clark’s revelation of a Pentagon regime-change plan and William Burns’s memo...

Peter Thiel: The Antichrist Hunter of Silicon Valley

One journalist describes Peter Thiel as a fan of the Bible. Columnist Ross Douthat calls him...

Beware Hubris: Trump’s Iran War Has an Ozymandias Flavor

Never short of hyperinflated self-praise and self-adulation, US President Donald...

by Alan Waring

The Supreme Court of India Has No Spine

by Rishi A. Kumar

Iran Triggers Hormuz Chokepoint Crisis and Risk of Global Stagflation

by Atul Singh & Manu Sharma

The Agency of Middle Powers in a Fragmented and Polarized World

by Thomas Greminger

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China–Taiwan Tensions — Civil War Legacies and Geopolitical Chess

Since President Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, China has been acting more aggressively towards Taiwan. Tensions go back nearly a century ago, when communists and nationalists fought a bloody civil war. The latter lost and fled to Taiwan, running a one-party state for...

by Glenn Carle & Atul Singh

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