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Iran Rejects Ceasefire Demands Permanent End to War and External Pressure
Iranian leadership argues that temporary truces only preserve the strategic conditions that have produced decades of confrontation since the 1979 revolution. Iranian refusal to accept a temporary ceasefire reflects a strategic calculation rooted in the historical pattern of hostilities directed against the Islamic Republic since the 1979 revolution. Tehran frames the current confrontation as the… Continue reading
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Africa’s Silent Recolonisation: Debt, Deindustrialisation and the Net Zero Agenda
How net zero climate-linked debt, collapsing grids and external mandates are African states into managed decline and dependence Access to abundant and affordable energy underpins every stage of economic development. African governments that attempt to industrialise without reliable baseload power expose themselves to stagnation, dependence, and political manipulation. External actors promoting net-zero targets in Africa… Continue reading
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Sudan Burns whilst the World Watches
The UAE’s money, Western weapons, and the world’s indifference fuelled a genocide in Sudan. Global GeoPolitics If you believe journalism should serve the public, not the powerful, and you’re in a position to help, becoming a PAID SUBSCRIBER truly makes a difference. Alternatively you can support by way of a cup of coffee: buymeacoffee.com/ggtv |… Continue reading
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Russia’s Shifting Conduct of the War in Ukraine
How Russia moved from holding back to deploying its most advanced missiles against Ukraine, what NATO’s solidarity visit to Kyiv actually delivered, and why neither side is close to stopping For more than four years, Vladimir Putin prosecuted his military campaign in Ukraine with a deliberate restraint that frustrated Russian hawks, confused Western analysts, and… Continue reading
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The Next Ukraine: Armenia’s Geopolitical Reckoning
The Eurasian Corridor, the EU’s Eastern Expansion, and the Strategic Cost of Small-State Realignment Armenia occupies a peculiar and precarious position in the geography of great-power competition. A landlocked country of approximately three million people, bordered by Turkey to the west, Azerbaijan to the east, Iran to the south, and Georgia to the north, it… Continue reading
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The Next Ukraine: Armenia’s Geopolitical Reckoning
The Eurasian Corridor, the EU’s Eastern Expansion, and the Strategic Cost of Small-State Realignment Armenia occupies a peculiar and precarious position in the geography of great-power competition. A landlocked country of approximately three million people, bordered by Turkey to the west, Azerbaijan to the east, Iran to the south, and Georgia to the north, it… Continue reading
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Reading Between the Lines: Why Rezaee’s CNN Interview Is More About Messaging Than Negotiation
Tehran does not expect negotiations to produce a breakthrough, it wants to shape the narrative around any future escalation My reading of Rezaee’s CNN interview is that it is primarily directed at Western audiences and the cameras, not because Tehran genuinely expects negotiations to produce a breakthrough, but because it wants to shape the narrative… Continue reading
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The Longest Betrayal
Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3 and the Recolonisation of Zimbabwe Editorial Analysis | 06 June 2026 The liberation struggle that consumed the better part of two decades and cost tens of thousands of Zimbabwean lives was fought, at its irreducible core, for one thing: the right of Africans to choose who governed them. That right… Continue reading
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Washington Blockaded Iran’s Oil. China Is Blockading Washington’s Capital
The CSRC Brokerage Crackdown, the Hong Kong Gold Clearing System, and the Euroclear Bond Integration – How Beijing Is Targeting the Financial Architecture That Makes Dollar Dominance Possible The Iran ceasefire negotiations that have been publicly described since late April 2026 as approaching completion have not, as of the first days of June, produced a… Continue reading
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Lavrov Highlights Strength of Russia-China Partnership at International Conference
Russian foreign minister says Moscow and Beijing’s strategic partnership remains a stabilising force in global affairs as the two countries mark key diplomatic anniversaries. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has hailed the enduring partnership between Russia and China in a message to participants of the 11th International Conference, Russia and China: Cooperation in a New… Continue reading
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Burning the Lifeboats
How Governments and Markets Are Consuming Strategic Reserves to Bridge a Hormuz Disruption Whose End They Cannot Demonstrate On 11 March 2026, the International Energy Agency coordinated the largest emergency strategic reserve release in history, drawing 400 million barrels from the stockpiles of 32 member nations, the United States contributing 172 million barrels from the… Continue reading
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Ukraine Is Being Ground Down. Europe Is Being Lined Up Next.
How the Apparent US-Europe Rift Conceals a Division-of-Labour Agreement That Puts European Troops in the Line of Fire Editorial Analysis | 1 June 2026 On 26 May 2026, the Wall Street Journal published a report stating that “the growing fear in European capitals is that President Vladimir Putin will try next to reshuffle the cards… Continue reading
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George Galloway Monologue: The UK is Now A Police State
George Galloway Monologue: No more Dixon of Dock Green For younger readers it is important to know that there was a time – in my lifetime- when the British Police were almost universally admired and respected. They were tall, men, in smart uniforms, collar and tie. If you were lost you were taught to ask… Continue reading
