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Turkiye’s Planned Revival Of The Hejaz Railway Strategically Encircles Israel

The growing Israeli-Turkish rivalry might soon expand to Jordan. Turkiye, Syria, and Jordan signed a trilateral MoU in early April on transport cooperation that followed their meeting more than half a year prior last September where they first committed to reviving the Hejaz Railway.…

The Strait Narrows: The Neck of the Global System

“The world does not depend only on what it produces, but on how it moves.” The point where the world compresses The global system rests on a silent premise. Flows must remain open. Energy, goods, capital, and food move through…

The War Powers Resolution Is Not What You’ve Been Told

According to The Hill, in an article typical of U.S. media, Trump’s war on Iran is totally legal for 60 days if Congress does nothing, after which it becomes illegal, unless Congress has explicitly OK’d it. This is supposedly because of…

Smokey Mountain communities, civil society mark Earth Month with mass protest vs. waste-to-energy incinerator, warn of global climate and health risks

Manila, Philippines — Hundreds of residents, environmental advocates, and urban poor groups gathered in Smokey Mountain, Tondo, as part of Earth Month actions to oppose the proposed waste-to-energy (WTE) incinerator, warning that the project threatens community health, livelihoods, and the right…

The Iran War as a Threshold

A Siloist Perspective | RSS.com As media coverage focuses on bombs, destruction, and escalating violence, it reinforces an immediate and narrow reading of the conflict. Yet beneath this surface lies another dimension: the Iran war is not only an event,…

As Pakistan Cracks Down on Toxic Beauty Products, EcoWaste Coalition Finds Mercury in Another Facial Cream  

EcoWaste Coalition welcomes the crackdown on cosmetic quality and safety violators by the Government of Pakistan 16 April 2026, Quezon City.  The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition flagged the online sale of another skin lightening product from Pakistan that promises…

Power vs. Humanity: Will World Politics Ever Learn to Follow the Path of Peace?

By Masum Parvez Kallol (Dhaka Bureau) The history of civilization is essentially a struggle between two parallel streams. On one side lies humanity’s eternal aspiration for peace, dignity, and coexistence; on the other is the state machinery’s perennial obsession with…

The EU’s €90 Billion Loan To Ukraine Is Meant To Buy Time For The Democrats To Return

The bloc’s unstated goal is to perpetuate the conflict till at least 2029 in the hope that the Democrats will regain control of the White House and resume the US’ Biden-era Ukrainian policy. Orban’s “democratic ouster” is expected to remove Hungary’s…

Severe Climate System Eruption

The planet’s climate system has turned erratic. Scientific reports over the past 24 months signal trouble ahead as forecasts become impossible with a helter-skelter system. It’s almost like the planet is regurgitating the anthropogenic (human) input of the past couple…

Indonesia’s New Military Partnership With The US Might Upset Some BRICS Supporters

So many were duped by Alt-Media charlatans over the years into thinking that this economic-financial group is also a security bloc when it never was, still isn’t, nor ever will be one. Indonesia and the US announced a “Major Defense Cooperation Partnership”…

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