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Jul 10 2026 
Grief and Rising
– Nora Hoppe – Al Mayadeen English
These lines by Hâfez were often recited by a mother to a child who would become a legendary leader of the Resistance – Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei. And he would carry these verses, together with the memory of his mother, in his heart for the rest of his life.
To… Continue reading
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Jun 27 2026 
A World Between Civilization and Barbarism: Why is Law Powerless Against Power? – Mohammad Haghighat
Introduction: Our contradictory world
We live in a time when almost nothing escapes the world’s attention. Images of wars, the destruction of cities, displaced children, nations under sanctions, and people paying the price of the decisions of great powers are presented to our eyes every day. Yet, there seems to be a deep gap between what… Continue reading -
Jun 22 2026 
Truth comes in diverse containers
This is outside of my usual lane. Yet, I enjoyed it and more than that, there is recognizable truth. A friend sent me two videos from a Priest, Munther Isaac, from the Bethlehem Institute for Peace and Justice.
The first one comments on Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, and the long standing theological assumptions behind the… Continue reading
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Jun 19 2026 
The Joke is on Us
The retreat into satirical attacks on Trump and his supporters fuels the solidification of fascism.
Chris Hedges Report
The buffoons who orchestrate fascism, with its quack science, idiocy, penchant for violence and grotesque hypermasculinity, are ripe for satire. It is easy, as late-night comics do — and as the cabarets did for the Nazis in Berlin —… Continue reading
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Jun 16 2026 
The Human Mosaic as a Civilisational Approach for a Multipolar World
The Global Mosaic: “The diversity of world civilisations and values” – honoured and sealed by both ink… and blood…
by Nora Hoppe and first posted at Al Mayadeen English
Leaders and Ink
The Joint Declaration on the Emergence of a Multipolar World and International Relations of a New Type – signed at the May 2026 Beijing summit –… Continue reading
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Jun 13 2026 
„Brave New World“ – Projecting a Humanitarian Future
By Peter Koenig
Brave New World – is a famous line from Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest”: “O, brave new world, that has such people in it!”.
A “Brave New World” is not what Aldous Huxley described in his 1932 dystopian novel, of a fully controlled but happy society. Instead, it is a world where people live together… Continue reading
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Jun 01 2026 
Truth from Sony Thăng
@nxt888
Every time a country resists American power and survives, the story has to be managed.
Cuba has been under embargo for more than sixty years and still exists.
This does not fit.
The story requires that defiance leads to collapse.
Cuba did not collapse.So Cuba must be described as a “failed state,” a “humanitarian disaster,” a “cautionary tale,” even… Continue reading
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May 29 2026 
26 Years of Lebanon’s Liberation Through Resistance
Leith Marouf presented by Internationalist 360
Free Palestine TV
Laith Marouf commemorates 26 years since the Resistance in Lebanon forced the Jewish Occupiers to retreat under fire, on May 25th 2000. The team visits the various locations were crucial battles happened and forced this retreat, from the streets of Beirut at the height of the Occupation… Continue reading
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May 26 2026 
Survival outside Gaza was a lie
A year since I left Gaza for survival and freedom, I am now, however, trying to survive a mental occupation and emotional death.
Abubaker Abed in Dublin, Ireland.
Lying with my shaking, fragile body on a dilapidated mattress under my favourite blue blanket in our house’s guest room, I video-called my friend Abdul-Ruhman Ismail to bid farewell… Continue reading
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May 14 2026 
Some good news! Court halts US sanctions against Albanese for Gaza genocide statements
A federal judge in the District of Columbia has suspended US sanctions against Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian territories.
PressTV
Albanese confirmed the ruling on X, writing: “The US court has suspended the US sanctions against me! Thanks to my daughter and my husband for stepping up to defend me, and everyone who has… Continue reading
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May 10 2026 
The One and Only Nuri Vittachi : Don and Benjamin mess up big time
CHAPTER ONE
THE ATTACK
One windy February morning, a boy called Benjamin told his friend Don they should beat up an Iranian kid who lived nearby. “It’ll be quick and easy,” Benjamin said. “We ring his doorbell, and when he comes out, we jump him, smack him around, and leave him in the dust. We’ll be in… Continue reading -
May 08 2026 
The Mortar of the Mosaic
– Nora Hoppe – Al Mayadeen
An extraordinary mosaic is taking shape in Iran. A mosaic that takes on many different forms thanks to a mysterious mortar…
I. What is a mosaic?
Literally, a mosaic is an image assembled from shards – ceramic, glass, stone, mirror – each piece retaining its own colour and… Continue reading
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May 01 2026 
What’s Next? – Towards a Happiness Economy Life in a New World with New Wellbeing Criteria
Peter Koenig
It would appear that President Trump in his hubris to be the World’s Greatest and unbeatable Emperor has crossed the legendary Rubicon, a reference to Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon River in 49 BC, defying the Roman Senate and starting a civil war. Crossing the Rubicon was a decision of no return. This let… Continue reading
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Apr 27 2026 
A Persian scholar finished a single math book in 9th century Baghdad …
Ihtesham Ali
A Persian scholar finished a single math book in 9th century Baghdad that quietly became the foundation for every line of code running on Earth today.
I started reading about him at midnight and could not believe how many things in my daily life trace back to one man. His name was Muhammad ibn… Continue reading
