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Sep 15, 2026, 3:22 AM

The 2026 BRICS Declaration: The Grammar of EMDE-Centrism

PM Narendra Modi at BRICS Summit Session on “Inclusive Global Governance and Strengthening Multilateralism” at Bharat Mandapam, in New Delhi on September 12, 2026. (Photo Credit: PIB/Govt. of India).

From a bureaucratic category to a language of collective leverage, the New Delhi Declaration shows how BRICS is weaving EMDEs into its claims over capital, representation, and the architecture of global economic governance. On September 12, 2026, BRICS leaders unanimously...

Sep 14, 2026, 12:16 PM

Folha de São Paulo / WHO, May 19, 2026 On May 5, health workers in Mongbwalu — a small town in the Ituri province of eastern Congo, near the Ugandan border — noticed something wrong. People were dying, including colleagues....

Sep 10, 2026, 11:35 PM

Sudan’s Chemical Weapons and the New Red Sea Security Order

Sudan‘s largest oil refinery set ablaze, sending thick, black smoke over Khartoum, the country’s capital. (AP Photo)

The latest revelations about Sudan’s alleged chemical weapons program expose more than another escalation in a war already defined by atrocities. They show how foreign military relationships are becoming embedded in Sudan’s security system and why the consequences extend...

Sep 10, 2026, 10:16 PM

Atlantic Seams: How Africa’s Gold Feeds Iran’s War

While the world watches Hormuz and the Red Sea, West Africa’s fracturing mining sector is opening seams that Iran and Hezbollah are well placed to exploit. Iran’s war is no longer confined to the waters it can physically threaten. Since the...

Evan R. Bernstein

Sep 9, 2026, 11:55 AM

The Slavery Next Door, and the Apartheid Slur Aimed at Israel

A documented record of hereditary bondage, migrant auctions, kafala, and a Yazidi captive in Gaza—set against a Western vocabulary that reserves “apartheid” for Israel. Western capitals still treat “apartheid Israel” as settled moral language. Meanwhile, documented slavery and slave-like systems...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Sep 1, 2026, 6:06 PM

How Antisemitism Is Manufactured

On January 2, 2026, I published an opinion piece called Africa Must Fragment, South Africa First. I argued that colonial borders are not sacred forever and that peaceful, referendum-based self-determination should be available to peoples who want it. People were...

Aug 20, 2026, 9:56 AM

The King was in the field. So was my wife. And a lion

Lions in Maasai Mara. Elul 5786

A lion in the Kenyan grass brought an Elul metaphor startlingly to life — but the Jewish community in Nairobi gave it deeper meaning

Aug 14, 2026, 6:53 PM

Ceuta is Moroccan, and the Israelification of its crisis changes nothing

Anyone with little sense of the geography who first heard of a “migration crisis into Ceuta” might reasonably have imagined desperate migrants reaching mainland Spain – only to discover, perhaps with some astonishment, that Ceuta is quite literally a city on the Moroccan coast, separated from the rest of Spain by the Mediterranean and distinguished from its Moroccan surroundings chiefly by the fact that Madrid still governs it. (AI-generated).

I am late to this – partly because I was away on summer vacation, but also deliberately so, because the sheer density of bad analysis, conspiratorial reasoning, and historical amnesia that followed the events of July 30-31 in Ceuta...

Laurent Cudkowicz

Aug 9, 2026, 11:22 PM

Interview of Dr David Gerbi, a Jew from Libya

Interview of David Gerbi – Tel Aviv July 15th, 2026 Laurent Cudkowicz: Hello, Doctor Gerbi. Thank you very much for this interview. Doctor David Gerbi: Hello. It’s a pleasure to be here. LC: Is there an inventory of the Jewish remains in...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Aug 7, 2026, 7:39 PM

Europe Keeps the Territories. Israel Gets the Label.

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Europe grants its own distant sovereignties history, constitutional complexity and democratic nuance. The Jewish state receives one word: colonial. On 5 August 2026, Mqondisi Moyo, President of the Mthwakazi Republic Party, published Africa's Decolonization Ended Where European Convenience Began. His argument...

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