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Stolen diamonds and locked archives: The desperate balancing act of the British Crown
AI-generated image. As African and Caribbean nations synchronize their legal strategies, the illusion of the British monarchy’s untouchability is cracking. On September 7, a Jamaican delegation delivered an unprecedented legal petition to London – directly to the Privy Council, a royal advisory body functioning as a court for issues related to the British Empire and Commonwealth realms.
The shadow of Balfour: Confronting a century of selective memory
0:00 / --:-- 1.0x Ready As the 2nd November 1917 anniversary of the infamous Balfour Declaration approaches, we are reminded of the fateful promise issued by the British government that would go on to define much of historical Palestine ever since. Eight years after issuing his government’s infamous pledge to establish a Jewish “national home” in Palestine—a promise that would later evolve into today’s Israel—Arthur Balfour visited Palestine for the first time in the spring of 1925.
The shadow of Balfour: Confronting a century of selective memory
As the 2nd November 1917 anniversary of the infamous Balfour Declaration approaches, we are reminded of the fateful promise issued by the British government that would go on to define much of historical Palestine ever since. Eight years after issuing his government’s infamous pledge to establish a Jewish “national home” in Palestine—a promise that would later evolve into today’s Israel—Arthur Balfour visited Palestine for the first time in the spring of 1925.
The complex relationship between Libyan intellectuals and the state
Last July, Libya’s Tripoli-based ministry of culture and knowledge development organised what it called Libya’s “Cultural Season,” bringing together intellectuals, novelists, poets, journalists and writers from inside the country and from as far afield as Oman. Held from July 11 to 14 under the slogan “Return of Life,” the three-day programme included poetry readings, literary and intellectual debates, and conversations with writers and cultural figures.
AI isn’t a future threat—it is already erasing Gaza
0:00 / --:-- 1.0x Ready Much is being said right now about the dangers posed by AI and the possibility that it could ultimately wipe out humanity. Some exp erts, such as Evan Hubinger, Anthropic’s Alignment Science Lead and one of the AI industry’s leading safety researchers, have gone much further, warning publicly that there is more than a 10 percent chance that AI could kill all humans within the next decade.
AI isn’t a future threat—it is already erasing Gaza
Much is being said right now about the dangers posed by AI and the possibility that it could ultimately wipe out humanity. Some exp erts, such as Evan Hubinger, Anthropic’s Alignment Science Lead and one of the AI industry’s leading safety researchers, have gone much further, warning publicly that there is more than a 10 percent chance that AI could kill all humans within the next decade.
The Mangoush affair, three years on: Palestine remains a red line in Libya’s foreign policy
0:00 / --:-- 1.0x Ready When news broke, in 2023, that Libya’s first female foreign minister, Najla Al-Mangoush, had secretly met her Israeli counterpart, Eli Cohen, in Rome, most Libyans were stunned. It was, as far as is publicly known, the first official meeting between the two countries and the first known high-level diplomatic contact between Libya and Israel.
The Mangoush affair, three years on: Palestine remains a red line in Libya’s foreign policy
When news broke, in 2023, that Libya’s first female foreign minister, Najla Al-Mangoush, had secretly met her Israeli counterpart, Eli Cohen, in Rome, most Libyans were stunned. It was, as far as is publicly known, the first official meeting between the two countries and the first known high-level diplomatic contact between Libya and Israel.
From Sabra and Shatila to Gaza: The cost of impunity
Imagine this scene: “One young woman, fearing she would not survive, stepped out of the crowd and handed her infant to one of the female doctors.” Those are the words of American Jewish nurse Ellen Siegel, recalling that moment from Shatila—one of Lebanon’s 12 official Palestinian refugee camps, established in 1949—and the adjacent Sabra neighborhood, which was predominantly Palestinian but was not itself an UNRWA refugee camp.
From Sabra and Shatila to Gaza: The Cost of Impunity
0:00 / --:-- 1.0x Ready Imagine this scene: “One young woman, fearing she would not survive, stepped out of the crowd and handed her infant to one of the female doctors.” Those are the words of American Jewish nurse , recalling that moment from Shatila—one of Lebanon’s 12 official Palestinian refugee camps, established in 1949—and the adjacent Sabra neighborhood, which was predominantly Palestinian but was not itself an UNRWA refugee camp.
From Sabra and Shatila to Gaza: The Cost of Impunity
Imagine this scene: “One young woman, fearing she would not survive, stepped out of the crowd and handed her infant to one of the female doctors.” Those are the words of American Jewish nurse Ellen Siegel, recalling that moment from Shatila—one of Lebanon’s 12 official Palestinian refugee camps, established in 1949—and the adjacent Sabra neighborhood, which was predominantly Palestinian but was not itself an UNRWA refugee camp.
From the Baghdad Pact to Mecca: Why the New Defense Axis Is More Than a “Sunni NATO”
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, October 2026, pp. 50-52 Three Views: Mecca Joint Defense Agreement: What Does It Mean? AGAINST THE BACKDROP of a restive region, the leaders of three major regional powers—Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif—met at Al-Safa Palace in the holy city of Mecca to sign the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement (MJDA).
Oslo at 33: Anatomy of an ongoing Palestinian disaster
According to the popular narrative surrounding the 1993 Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), some of sort of fully functioning, internationally recognized Palestinian state should have been established over two decades ago.
Oslo at 33: Anatomy of an ongoing Palestinian disaster
0:00 / --:-- 1.0x Ready According to the popular narrative surrounding the 1993 Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), some of sort of fully functioning, internationally recognized Palestinian state should have been established over two decades ago.
Oslo at 33: Anatomy of an ongoing Palestinian disaster
According to the popular narrative surrounding the 1993 Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), some of sort of fully functioning, internationally recognized Palestinian state should have been established over two decades ago.
Gaza’s famine one year on: Did the world learn anything?
On 22nd August last year, the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) officially confirmed famine in Gaza Governorate, including Gaza City, after determining that famine conditions had already existed by mid-August 2025. More than half a million people were facing starvation, destitution and death.
The US has a secret plan for Libya. It will backfire
For nearly a year, Massad Boulos, US President Donald Trump’s senior advisor on Arab, Middle Eastern, and African Affairs, has aggressively pursued a diplomatic circuit connecting Tripoli, Benghazi, Paris, Rome, and Abu Dhabi. His primary objective is to push a transactional political settlement designed to resolve Libya’s administrative paralysis and the internal west-east divide by formalizing an alliance between the country’s rival power centers.
Gaza’s famine one year on: Did the world learn anything?
0:00 / --:-- 1.0x Ready On 22nd August last year, the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) officially confirmed famine in Gaza Governorate, including Gaza City, after determining that famine conditions had already existed by mid-August 2025. More than half a million people were facing starvation, destitution and death.
Gaza’s famine one year on: Did the world learn anything?
On 22nd August last year, the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) officially confirmed famine in Gaza Governorate, including Gaza City, after determining that famine conditions had already existed by mid-August 2025. More than half a million people were facing starvation, destitution and death.
Berlin wants to buy immunity for the first German genocide
The deep physical and structural wounds inflicted on the African continent by European colonialism will take generations to heal – if they ever heal at all. In today’s fast-moving geopolitical landscape, where crises like illegal migration, economic turbulence, and regional conflict dominate African headline news, the question of historical justice is often forced onto the back burner. Yet, through continental efforts, Africa refuses to let the issue recede into memory.
The Violent Annexation of the West Bank: From the Siege of Qusra to De Facto Sovereign Control
The ongoing, siege of Palestinian homes in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus, shows how Israel’s creeping annexation of the occupied West Bank has shifted into an accelerated, paramilitary phase. Beginning on August 10, 2026, armed extremist settlers surrounded three Palestinian homes on the village outskirts—including the property of Palestinian-American Loui Ridi—blocking doors, severing water and electricity lines, and threatening residents at gunpoint to abandon their land.
How Europe betrayed Madrid to punish Sanchez
Image – @FullRetardRadar, X. Solving Europe’s migration crisis requires confronting the colonial mindset driving global displacement—a step Brussels refuses to take.
Calculated deception: How Israel uses diplomacy to buy time for Gaza’s destruction
Last week’s mass funeral of 112 people—including 44 children from two closely related extended families—was not a new tragedy; it was the agonizing, delayed accounting of a crime committed nearly three years ago. The victims, all belonging to the Abu Sharia and Al-Hassayna clans, lived in adjacent residential blocks in Gaza City’s Sabra neighborhood when Israeli airstrikes flattened their homes on 22nd and 23rd November 2023.
Calculated deception: How Israel uses diplomacy to buy time for Gaza’s destruction
0 Comments August 13, 2026 at 9:13 am Displaced Palestinian families try to survive under challenging conditions amidst the rubble of destroyed buildings following Israeli attacks in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, Palestine on August 03, 2026.
Calculated deception: How Israel uses diplomacy to buy time for Gaza’s destruction
Last week’s mass funeral of 112 people—including 44 children from two closely related extended families—was not a new tragedy; it was the agonising, delayed accounting of a crime committed nearly three years ago. The victims, all belonging to the Abu Sharia and Al-Hassayna clans, lived in adjacent residential blocks in Gaza City’s Sabra neighbourhood when Israeli airstrikes flattened their homes on 22nd and 23rd November 2023.
Darkness: How corruption, mismanagement, and heat ignited Libya’s protests
0:00 / --:-- 1.0x Ready When temperatures crossed 43°C across western Libya in July, with some places like Al-Azizia, just south of Tripoli, recording near 50°C, it was not merely the air that reached a boiling point—it was the collective patience of a population pushed beyond its limits.
Darkness: How corruption, mismanagement, and heat ignited Libya’s protests
When temperatures crossed 43°C across western Libya in July, with some places like Al-Azizia, just south of Tripoli, recording near 50°C, it was not merely the air that reached a boiling point—it was the collective patience of a population pushed beyond its limits.
Trump’s Reunification Initiative in Libya Will Only Prolong the Gridlock
What had long been a subject of quiet speculation among Libya analysts since last September has finally come into the public domain. In a recent interview with the Saudi state television channel Al Hadath, Massad Boulos, a senior adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump on Middle East affairs—and the father of Trump’s son-in-law, Michael Boulos—explicitly acknowledged a sweeping “American initiative” for Libya.
Paying the Warlords: The Cynical Economics of EU Border Control in Libya
As the European Union seeks to further fortify its external borders, its Home Affairs Council met in Luxembourg on June 8 to finalize a common policy on establishing controversial “return hubs” in third countries under an overhauled Return Regulation framework.
This man defied Britain, France and Israel – and his legacy still animates Africa
Gamal Abdel Nasser. Image – @incontextmedia, X. Gamal Abdel Nasser proved that true independence is won through active solidarity. When Gamal Abdel Nasser led the Free Officers Movement to power in 1952, Africa’s political landscape was mostly vacant – with independent nations limited to Egypt, Ethiopia, Liberia, Libya, and apartheid-ruled South Africa. Yet, by his death in September 1970, more than 40 African countries had achieved sovereignty. This monumental shift was no coincidence.
This man defied Britain, France and Israel – and his legacy still animates Africa
When Gamal Abdel Nasser led the Free Officers Movement to power in 1952, Africa’s political landscape was mostly vacant – with independent nations limited to Egypt, Ethiopia, Liberia, Libya, and apartheid-ruled South Africa. Yet, by his death in September 1970, more than 40 African countries had achieved sovereignty. This monumental shift was no coincidence.
The Mandela they want you to forget: The strategist who defied the West
When the UN established Nelson Mandela International Day in 2009, the anti-apartheid icon had already been a free man for nearly two decades. The tribute asks people worldwide to dedicate 67 minutes to public service on July 18, his birthday – one minute for every year Mandela spent fighting for human rights.
Sitting ducks: Why the US security umbrella no longer protects the Gulf?
0:00 / --:-- 1.0x Ready In Kuwait alone—less than 150 kilometres across the Gulf from Iran—the United States maintains a major military hub of approximately 13,500 personnel spread across installations such as Camp Arifjan and Ali Al Salem Air Base. To its south, Saudi Arabia hosts roughly 2,700 U.S. troops, centered at Prince Sultan Air Base in Al Kharj.
Sitting ducks: Why the US security umbrella no longer protects the Gulf?
In Kuwait alone—less than 150 kilometres across the Gulf from Iran—the United States maintains a major military hub of approximately 13,500 personnel spread across installations such as Camp Arifjan and Ali Al Salem Air Base. To its south, Saudi Arabia hosts roughly 2,700 U.S. troops, centered at Prince Sultan Air Base in Al Kharj.
Lebanon’s Faustian bargain: The mirage of the trilateral framework
Can Lebanon extract a genuine, equitable peace from the 26th June Trilateral Framework Agreement (TFA)? The simple answer is yes, but that “yes” comes at a devastating cost. Marketed by Washington as a breakthrough, the framework is fraught with severe imbalances.
Why US Ebola funding is hidden inside Pentagon war bills
When news emerged that Kenya had authorized a 50-bed, American-funded Ebola isolation centre at Laikipia Air Base in Nanyuki, the controversy immediately eclipsed medical logistics. The premise was stark: Quarantine US citizens exposed to the virus offshore to prevent them from entering US territory. The backlash was fiercely swift. Opposition politicians, civil society groups, and citizens secured court injunctions and poured into the streets.
Oil, Elites, and Empty Promises: Inside the US-Backed Coup Against the UN in Libya
Following the conclusion of the United Nations-facilitated Structured Dialogue, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNSMIL, Hanna Tetteh, briefed the UN Security Council on the fragile state of play in Libya. Her briefing shed light on the UN’s latest efforts to revive a stalled political process, but it also highlighted an emerging geopolitical friction point: a competing, US-backed counter-push led by Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, Massad Boulos.
The Quiet Rise of a Shadow Theocratic State in Libya
Earlier this year, a video of a teenage boy celebrating his sister’s good grades went viral in Libya. In a seemingly innocuous display of sibling affection, the boy hoisted and spun his younger sister in joy. But what was meant as a moment of celebration ignited a fierce wave of religious condemnation across Libya as conservative Muslims criticized what they saw as the siblings’ immodest behavior.
Maximum Pressure: How Trump Spent Five Years Proving Obama Was Right About Iran
0:00 / --:-- 1.0x Ready Tomorrow, Friday June 19, will mark yet another historic day in the international community’s decades-long preoccupation with Iran’s nuclear program—an assumed ghoul that, despite endless Western hyperbole, never actually materialized into a weapon.
Maximum Pressure: How Trump Spent Five Years Proving Obama Was Right About Iran
Tomorrow, Friday June 19, will mark yet another historic day in the international community’s decades-long preoccupation with Iran’s nuclear program—an assumed ghoul that, despite endless Western hyperbole, never actually materialized into a weapon.
The NATO legacy: The EU wants to black-hole its migrants in Libya
Libyan social media has been simmering for weeks over the presence of irregular migrants, particularly those arriving from sub-Saharan Africa, with accusations directed at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and other international agencies operating in the country.
Qatar Chooses Geography Over Ideology in Its Iran Diplomacy
0 Comments June 4, 2026 at 1:04 pm An Iranian-launched missile is intercepted and destroyed by defense systems over Doha, Qatar on February 28, 2026. [Ali Altunkaya – Anadolu Agency] 0:00 / --:-- 1.0x Ready Over the years, tiny Qatar has emerged as a pivotal regional mediator, deploying balanced approaches to critical crises stretching from the Gulf to the Horn of Africa with a high degree of success.
Qatar Chooses Geography Over Ideology in Its Iran Diplomacy - Dr Mustafa Fetouri
Over the years, tiny Qatar has emerged as a pivotal regional mediator, deploying balanced approaches to critical crises stretching from the Gulf to the Horn of Africa with a high degree of success. More recently, Doha has had to navigate increasingly volatile conflicts closer to home, most notably the fallout from the current U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.
The ceasefire illusion: Managing genocide under the “Board of Peace”
For two years, images of dead Palestinian children, flattened neighborhoods and starving civilians flooded television screens and social media feeds around the world. What once shocked global audiences gradually risked becoming routine. The war in Gaza — from October 2023 until the ceasefire of October 2025 — left behind extraordinary destruction and an uncomfortable question: had mass suffering itself become normalized?
The ceasefire illusion: Managing genocide under the “Board of Peace” - Dr Mustafa Fetouri
For two years, images of dead Palestinian children, flattened neighbourhoods and starving civilians flooded television screens and social media feeds around the world. What once shocked global audiences gradually risked becoming routine. The war in Gaza — from October 2023 until the ceasefire of October 2025 — left behind extraordinary destruction and an uncomfortable question: had mass suffering itself become normalized?
Maps of a vanished world: The myth of containing Iran
Despite decades of maximum pressure, crippling sanctions, and diplomatic isolation, the geopolitical reality of the Middle East suggests a profound paradox: the more the West and its regional allies speak of “containing” Iran, the more central Tehran becomes to the regional order. From the Levant to the Gulf of Aden, the Islamic Republic has moved beyond being a mere “disruptor” to becoming a structural pillar of the Middle East’s political and security landscape.
Middle East Press On: Turkey, Israel's Critical Election, Bibi-Bennett, Iran, Palestine, United Arab, Trump, Netanyahu, Israel, New Age Islam's Selection, 21 May 2026
By New Age Islam Edit Desk 21 May 2026 Türkiye as alternate corridor for energy resilience Who will win Israel's critical election: Bibi or Bennett?
Washington is about to screw Libya over again
AI-generated image. While the US touts Libya’s unified budget as a breakthrough, in practice it cements the shared-power status quo. On paper, Libya is one. It has one flag, one UN seat, and – as of April 11, 2026 – its first unified budget in 13 years. Yet, beneath lies a deepening fracture. While the international community celebrates the 190-billion-dinar “breakthrough,” the reality is a tale of two Libyas.
Washington is about to screw Libya over again
On paper, Libya is one. It has one flag, one UN seat, and – as of April 11, 2026 – its first unified budget in 13 years. Yet, beneath lies a deepening fracture. While the international community celebrates the 190-billion-dinar “breakthrough,” the reality is a tale of two Libyas. This is functional fragmentation, where rival governments share a bank account while remaining at each other’s throats for the keys to the state.
The Anatomy of a Fracture: The Structural Forces Behind the UAE’s OPEC Exit - Dr Mustafa Fetouri
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was primarily established by five oil-exporting nations as a defiant response to the dominance of the global energy giants. These corporations, famously known as the “Seven Sisters,” wielded absolute control over the industry—dictating production levels and setting prices without even consulting the sovereign nations whose resources they were extracting.
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