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Fair Observer Monthly is a chance for you to sit down, look back and think about the month past. A month lasts 28 to 31 days, a suitably appropriate time to take stock of the world. We publish daily on our website and we select some of our best articles every month in our e-magazine. We will give you context and multiple perspectives on issues that matter. We will inform and educate you. Fair Observer Monthly does what we promise: make sense of the world.
This month reveals a world strained by conflict, political upheaval and shifting power. Punsara Amarasinghe and Alan Waring both focus on Israel’s harsh campaign in Gaza, highlighting the worsening humanitarian crisis and the risks of strategic collapse, while Srijan Sharma highlights how strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites escalate regional tensions without curbing Tehran’s ambitions. In New York, Christopher Roper Schell critiques mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s elite-backed socialism as risking failed economic models amid inequality.
Global economic and political conflicts also deepened this month. Luiz Cesar Pimentel exposes the US–Brazil tariff standoff as political blackmail that threatens Brazil’s economy. Masaaki Yoshimori details Japan’s election shock and the rise of populism amid fiscal risks. He also shows how technology, namely AI, biotech and semiconductors, shapes national power. Mario Zamponi recalls Cold War imperialism through a jazz-infused documentary on Congo, while Ellis Cashmore and Peter Isackson explore complex struggles over racism and moral reckoning in Britain and Israel. From Sudan’s civil war to Serbia’s protests, citizens confront authoritarianism and inequality in a fractured global order, demanding justice and strategic diplomacy.
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Content of Publication
What Can Netanyahu Learn from Sun Tzu’s “Golden Bridge”? – Punsara Amarasinghe
Zohran Mamdani: Hypocrisy, Socialism and the Danger of Elitist Politics – Christopher Roper Schell
Operation Rising Lion to Midnight Hammer: Why the US and Israel are Gambling with Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions – Srijan Sharma
Geopolitics by Design: Rethinking Power in the Age of Critical Technologies – Masaaki Yoshimori
The Problem with the Dollar: When One Nation’s Currency Becomes the World’s – Alex Gloy
Is Diane Abbott Right? – Ellis Cashmore
The World’s Silent Complicity in Israel’s War on Gaza – Alan Waring
Latin America: A French Idea That Outlived Its Empire – Alfredo Toro Hardy
Trump’s Gordian Knot: Brazil is Under Threat Thanks to Bolsonaro and Big Tech Lobbying – Luiz Cesar Pimentel
The One Big Beautiful Bill: Trumpism in Legislative Form – Alex Gloy
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat: Jazz and International Politics in Léopoldville – Mario Zamponi
Japan’s 2025 Upper House Election: Fiscal Reckoning, Market Jitters and the Waning Patience of the Middle Class – Masaaki Yoshimori
The Cost of Silence: Why Global Inaction Is Betraying the People of Sudan – Fernando Carvajal
Genocide… and Then Some! – Peter Isackson
Crackdown Against Protesters Quickly Reveals Old Wounds In Serbia – Harrison Budak
