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Will the War Everyone Is Talking About Actually Begin?
The simultaneous use of military threats, ambiguous messaging, and a war of narratives suggests that the United States is neither on the brink of war with Iran nor ready for an agreement. Washington is deliberately keeping the region in a state of suspension in order to keep its options open without paying the political cost of making a definitive decision.…
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Jolani’s Revenge Fantasy: Why Syria’s Ruler Cannot Threaten Hezbollah
Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the self-declared leader of Syria and head of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), has in recent months cultivated a narrative of impending military action against Lebanon, framed publicly as "revenge against Hezbollah." The claim has circulated through media outlets aligned with his administration and gained traction in regional…
Spain and Palestine: A Structural Solidarity
he following note was written by Juan Ávila Montero, a Spanish writer and essayist based in Madrid, who writes on history, collective memory, and political culture. His work focuses on the legacies of the Spanish Civil War and questions of self-determination in the contemporary world. I am a Spaniard. I…
Syria’s Year Zero: When the Liberator Looks Like the Problem
A year ago, the fall of Bashar al-Assad was narrated as liberation. Syrians danced in Umayyad Square. The world's cameras were rolling. Yet liberation, in the Middle East, has a habit of arriving with strings attached — and Syria's strings, it turns out, were always going to be held by…
Why Do Warships Arrive with Smiles?
The simultaneous military posturing by Washington alongside explicit messages about imposing “livelihood pressure” on Iranians indicates that the United States’ main equation is not direct war, but the engineering of economic and social attrition. The deployment of warships is less a prelude to conflict and more a bargaining tool to…
Why Palestinians Carried Out the October 7 Operation
In this analysis, political blogger Maryam Yousefi Sadr examines the context surrounding the October 7 operation and the developments that followed in Gaza (Palestine). n October 9, Israel’s Defense Minister announced a “complete siege” of the Gaza Strip, declaring that electricity, food, fuel, and water would be cut off. Two…
The Decay of Human Dignity: Understanding the ‘Porcine Existence’
In this video, we dive deep into a chilling analysis of the modern world, inspired by the provocative piece from MENA Mag: "Porcine Existence: The Decay." We explore the unsettling reality of how human dignity is being eroded in an age of media inversion and global indifference. rom the linguistic…