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Endless War, Endless Profit: Stories from Africa and the Middle East
The West promotes democracy but backs dictators. It denounces violence but sells weapons to regimes that bomb schools and hospitals. It proclaims neutrality but profits from war. Peace cannot yet out-earn war but it can outsmart it.
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The Tactical Art of Regenerating A Reef: The Pinto Underwater Museum Story
The mission? Deploy 20 sculptures, each weighing between 400 kilograms and 2.5 tons, onto the seafloor with zero drift, zero tilt, and zero loss.
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How Iranian Policy Can Deter Direct Conflict with the United States
The weapons facility the Iranians built on a hill northeast of Isfahan has been reduced to rubble and news channels keep replaying what seems to be Trump’s victory speech. The people of Iran, although defiant and strong-willed, are now asking each other, “What now?”
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Life, Loss, and Double Standards in the Middle East
If we truly believe in rights, justice, and dignity, we must speak clearly — and take equal responsibility when bombs fall, regardless of the flag under which they fall.
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Two Measures, Two Measures: When the World Hears One Cry but Ignores Another
Not one oppressor in the history of mankind is like Israel because the colonizers of old never projected themselves as victims.
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Iran’s Missile Storm Over Tel Aviv and the Heart of a Region in Turmoil
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned: “Should the Zionist regime dare to respond… a crushing response will ensue.”
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The Shadow Republic: Hezbollah in the Modern Era
Hezbollah is now a political party, a transnational military actor, a welfare provider, and, depending on who you ask - a terrorist organization or a national liberation movement.
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How Archaeology's Gatekeepers Hinder Discovery
The instinct to gatekeep whether in the academe or anywhere else is not elitism or selfishness but a reflex born from the fear of loss or maybe, even change.
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Hezbollah's Long War Begins in the Shadows
A quiet rage was once planted in Southern Lebanon, watered by the blood of martyrs and sermons whispered in the back rooms of mosques. It had the posture of a state and the soul of a vendetta. They called it Hezbollah - Party of God.
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Sudan’s Silent Inferno: Why the World Can’t Afford to Look Away
At the heart of Sudan’s descent into chaos are two men: General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the commander of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), and General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo - better known as Hemedti - leader of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
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Gaza’s Children Waste Away as Israel Tightens Grip
The figures tell a brutal story. As of May 2025, more than 31% of children under five in northern Gaza suffer from acute malnutrition. At least 12 children have officially died of hunger in the last two months though doctors and aid workers say the real numbers are higher.
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The Perfumed Ghosts of Punt
And so, between the Nile and the incense coast, a triangle of secrets emerges: Egypt, Punt, and Sheba. Three corners of a truth half-buried under millennia of dust and desert silence.
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A Chronicle of Palestinian Loss and Longing
If history is written by the victors, then perhaps the Palestinian story was always meant to be told in poetry, in whispers passed from grandmother to child, in graffiti on the wall, in tears smuggled across borders.
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Congo’s Cobalt Curse and the Human Cost of Greed
The government no longer has any control over this part of the Democratic Republic of Congo because it is now a hostage to shiftng allegiances among warlords, foreign fighters, and rebel groups - each with their eyes fixed on the riches that the territory brings.
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Barba, The Statesman of Stillness
Under the unforgiving Ilocano sun, as the sea continues to erode the edges of the land and the air smells faintly of ancestral longing, the people wait not for miracles, but for leaders like Barba - their quiet peacemaker and their detail-oriented architect of the possible.
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Why Archaeology Matters and Why You Should Fund Us
Archaeology is about the bigger, more important questions and the answers can change your life, the lives of your children, can correct stories about the past, and change the course of history in general.
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Inabel and the Fabric of Time
In this belated Christmas story, a journalist explores fabrics that have been passed on from generation to generation and the lives woven by those who breathed life into a traditional weaving technique thought to be in its sunset years.
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The Representation We Need
As Christmastime draws near, a Filipino politician shares his thoughts about the holiday season and the social issues that plague his homeland.
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Sitio Remedios Leads in Preserving Ilocos Norte's Gentler Past
With a beachfront that is witness to traditional fishing techniques and mesmerizing sunsets, the village has proven to be a tourist pleaser but since its establishment in the mid-2000s, it has created a reputation for being a coastal enclave for the rich and famous.
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Unprovoked: A Commentary on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is among the most enduring conflicts that the world has ever seen. After several ethnic cleansings done by the Israeli government, the bombardment of Gaza is now taking more lives from both sides.
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Fraught With Strife: The Journey of Ilocano Painters
Almost two centuries have passed since Juan Luna launched his career in Madrid's art scene and while many followed in his footsteps, they were not as successful. For contemporary artists from the region where Luna was born, the road to recognition is still fraught with strife, and the common notion