Open Dialogue Research Journal
“Trump made a deal out of “desperation.”” – Iranian Supreme Leader Did President Trump really make a deal or rather betray the public at large again – for the umpteenth time? Such treason is only possible because nobody reads the details. He knows it. The mainstream knows it. The Big […]
The latest escalation between Iran and Israel has pushed the Middle East into another period of dangerous uncertainty, raising a critical question for regional observers and international diplomats alike: can negotiations survive when military confrontation appears to offer some factions greater leverage than diplomacy? Recent developments suggest that the answer […]
When Reconstruction collapsed in 1877, Southern states didn’t mince words: they killed, expelled, or otherwise forced out Black legislators. Today the methods are more polished, but the aim is identical. Within weeks of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Louisiana v. Callais — which freed Southern states from Section 2 of […]
For nearly a decade, Donald Trump cultivated something unprecedented in postwar transatlantic politics: an informal ideological network of European allies united not necessarily by institutions or treaties, but by political instinct. Leaders such as Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni became symbols of a conservative-nationalist current skeptical of Brussels, […]
On Sunday, June 21st, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, met in Bürgenstock at Lake Lucerne in Switzerland, with Iran’s delegation, headed by Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, to finalize the U.S.-Iran 14-point peace deal that was signed on Wednesday, June […]
First, here’s Trump signing the U.S. surrender to Iran: https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2067393004239814711 It happened at the same place where Germany had surrendered in WW1, in the Palace at Versailles, outside Paris, on 28 June 1919. In my June 9th “Reading the News Between the Li(n)es: Arab Kings Had Trump Stop Netanyahu”, I explained […]
For years, Hunter Biden occupied a unique place in American politics. To his critics, particularly within the MAGA movement, he represented everything they believed was wrong with the Biden family – a symbol of privilege, scandal, addiction, and alleged corruption. His personal struggles became campaign material, his legal problems generated […]
The global trading system may be heading toward another period of uncertainty as U.S. President Donald Trump seeks to revive one of the defining features of his economic agenda: tariffs. In a move that could affect more than 60 major trading partners, Trump has proposed new import duties ranging from […]
https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/919487/draft-14-point-us-iran-memo-hints-at-unprecedented-concessions-ahead-of-final-deal https://ghostarchive.org/archive/qIT1D https://web.archive.org/web/20260615031827/https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/919487/draft-14-point-us-iran-memo-hints-at-unprecedented-concessions-ahead-of-final-deal https://archive.ph/VjRWO Draft 14-Point U.S.-Iran Memo Hints at Unprecedented Concessions Ahead of Final Deal A reported memorandum of understanding outlines sweeping terms, including a U.S. naval withdrawal, massive financial release, and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, as the U.S. president halts military strikes to pursue a […]
Let us, if only briefly, give thanks for the peacemakers, whatever their poor qualifications and whatever folly drove them to war in the first place. On June 15, the secretariat of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council revealed that, based on the agreement reached with the United States, “the war and […]
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