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Three days after terrorists killed almost 3,000 people in the United States on September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush stood behind…
The People’s Palace: The End of One Experiment and the Beginning of a New Question On 25 August 2026, Mazloum Abdi announced from…
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the United States spent $21 trillion on its military between 2001 and 2024…
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Most countries of the Middle East and the Global South operating under authoritarian regimes share a single structural crisis, one whose substance…
From Historical Necessity to Questions of Reassessment and Renewal The left in most countries of the Middle East and the Global South…
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