Middle East

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Turkey’s ‘Mavi Vatan’: Erdogan’s Ambitions And A New Challenge In The Mediterranean

Last Sunday, Istanbul hosted a grand naval parade as part of the “Mavi Vatan” (“Blue Homeland”) Technofest, which vividly showcased Turkey’s ambitious foreign policy strategy. The centerpiece of the event was a procession of flagship vessels of the Turkish Navy, including the amphibious assault ship TCG Anadolu, the historic yacht […]

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Useful Expedient: Expelling Iran’s Ambassador To Australia

The rank odour of opportunity seems to have presented itself to Australia’s Albanese government.  To balance its apparently principled promise to recognise Palestinian statehood come the 80th United Nations General Assembly next month, it seemed only fair that some firm measure be taken against another Islamic outfit to balance the ledger.  The Israelis […]

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Albion Stupidities: Palestine Action And Anti-Terrorism Laws

Protest in Britain has become dangerous of late.  Shaky lawmakers minding their elected positions, displaying decorative ignorance, have been criminalising protests against the war in Gaza, branding certain groups “terrorist” in inclination.  While the laws dealing with criminal damage to property and such are already more than adequate, the government […]

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The End Of Superpowers: Toward An Islanded World Order

For decades, global politics has been understood through the prism of hegemony. The Cold War offered a bipolar struggle, while the post–1991 era witnessed the rise of American unipolarity, proclaimed as the “end of history.” Today, however, the world is entering an entirely different phase: not the replacement of one […]

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Making It Official: Famine Strikes Gaza City

History shows that famines are, for the most part, engineered.  Be it through carelessness, selfishness or plain malice on the part of officialdom, creating the circumstances under which a population expires to hunger is a matter of construction.  As the economist and Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen so powerfully showed in Poverty […]