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Kenya at the Centre: How Mineral Logistics, Health Security, and Defence Diplomacy Are Reshaping East African Alignment
Reading Nairobi’s Simultaneous Bets on Washington, Paris, the Gulf, and Khartoum’s Rivals Against the Wider Contest for Africa’s Resources and Routes Editorial Analysis | June 2026 I. THE CORRIDOR CONTEST: TWO RAILWAYS, ONE COPPERBELT The clearest material stake in East and Central Africa’s near future runs along two competing railway corridors converging on the same… Continue reading
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Report: Ghalibaf’s Zurich Visit and Growing Evidence of Internal Divisions Over the Islamabad MoU
The reported arrival of Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf in Zurich comes amid continuing controversy surrounding the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), Iran’s negotiations with the United States, and growing questions regarding the balance of power within the Islamic Republic. While many of the most detailed claims regarding the negotiation process remain unverified, a… Continue reading
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The Racket That Never Sleeps: How War Profiteers Manufacture Consent and Sell Sacrifice
A plain-language investigation into the business of organised violence, the myths that sustain it, and the interests that profit from it War is a racket. Those words were written in 1935 by Major General Smedley Butler, a decorated veteran who had spent his career fighting America’s foreign wars and came to recognise that he had… Continue reading
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Is the Memorandum Built to Last, or Built to Break?
A framework for ceasefire is not a framework for peace, and the distinction has a long American record behind it Editorial Analysis | 18 June 2026 Diplomats concluded a memorandum of understanding with Iran in Geneva, the text finalised after months of Pakistani and Qatari-mediated contact between the two governments, and President Trump put his… Continue reading
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Indonesia Unrest: From Hormuz to Malacca, the Next Front?
How Washington’s pursuit of maritime dominance, from the Persian Gulf to Southeast Asia, is reshaping the geopolitical fate of the world’s fourth most populous nation and why Jakarta’s modest gestures of independence have already attracted familiar consequences Editorial Analysis | 16 June 2026 The American and Israeli strikes on Iran, launched on 28 February 2026,… Continue reading
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The Recognition Network: Emerging Pro-Israel Efforts to Redraw South Africa and Zimbabwe in Response to Their Support for Palestine
How a Transnational Advocacy Architecture Linking Mthwakazi, the Western Cape, Somaliland, and Zionist Precedent Is Being Assembled Against the Territorial Order of Post-Independence Africa Editorial Analysis | June 2026 I. THE DOCTRINE AND ITS ARCHITECT On 2 January 2026, an article titled ‘Africa Must Fragment, South Africa First’ appeared in the Times of Israel under… Continue reading
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Why the Bank of Japan’s Decades-Old Manipulation is Finally Coming Apart
An explanation of the policies that created a 518 trillion yen balance sheet and why exit is so difficult For more than a decade, the Bank of Japan operated as the primary exception to every global monetary rule, a lonely laboratory where conventional economics was suspended in favour of a vast experiment in perpetual stimulus.… Continue reading
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Russian MOD Confirms Strikes on Ukrainian Military Facilities: What We Know So Far
Moscow claims military targets were struck as Ukraine reports extensive aerial attacks. Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Monday that its forces carried out long-range strikes against military-industrial facilities, airfields, and conscription centers across Ukraine. According to the ministry, the attacks targeted sites in Kiev, Kharkov, and Dnepr using drones and missiles launched from air, land,… Continue reading
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The Language of Losers: European Protectionism and the Limits of Western Trade Orthodoxy
When a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman stood at a lectern in Beijing on 11 June 2026 and addressed a Bloomberg News correspondent’s question about European supply-chain legislation, he said little that the Foreign Ministry had not said before. The EU’s proposed directive compelling companies to reduce over-dependency on single suppliers was, the spokesman observed, simply… Continue reading
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Trump’s Narrative Collides With Negotiation Reality
Behind the Scenes of Trump’s Claim That “Iran Accepted the Terms” As the United States retreated from its attempt to add new provisions to the draft agreement, Donald Trump simultaneously escalated his threats on social media and launched a campaign to portray Iran as having surrendered under military pressure. According to sources familiar with the… Continue reading
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