Iran-Chinese Joker in a Game against the United States

Iran-Chinese Joker in a Game against the United States

The recent sanctions and isolationist policy of the White House towards China and Iran declaring them to be the US adversaries directly gave an impetus to countermoves of these countries against Washington’s policy. In that regard, the preparation announced by Iran in July for concluding a bilateral strategic Pact between Tehran and Beijing, involving an…

Apartheid or One State: Has Jordan Broken a Political Taboo?

Apartheid or One State: Has Jordan Broken a Political Taboo?

What will it take for the idea of a two-state solution, which was hardly practical to begin with, to be completely abandoned? Every realistic assessment of the situation on the ground indicates, with palpable clarity, that there can never be a viable Palestinian state in parts of the West Bank and Gaza. Politically, the idea…

Colonialism 2.0: US Assault on Tiktok Is Latest Step in Building Monopoly of Internet-Connected World

Colonialism 2.0: US Assault on Tiktok Is Latest Step in Building Monopoly of Internet-Connected World

The Trump administration’s bid to seize Chinese platform TikTok and hand it over to already-monopolistic Microsoft is part of a huge power grab, as the deteriorating quality of US propaganda puts its narrative dominance at risk. The US government has made clear the fact it won’t rest until the user-facing portion of the internet is…

How Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam became Egypt’s Nakba

How Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam became Egypt’s Nakba

Disaster struck not so much with a bang, but with a trickle. At first, Ethiopia denied the very thing that 100 million Egyptians living downstream on the Nile feared – that the filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) reservoir had started. On 15 July, Ethiopia’s national television broke the news, only to retract…