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Mohamed Elbaikam

Mar 24, 2026, 6:05 AM

Congress Must Judge Western Sahara on Its Own

Congress Should Not Outsource Its Judgment on Western Sahara By Mohamed Elbaikam Independent Sahrawi activist In Sahrawi culture, serious matters do not begin with noise. They begin with listening. Even tea in the desert is served in stages: the first glass...

Shaike Komornik

Mar 5, 2026, 1:45 PM

From Hostility to Development: How a Democratic Iran Could Reshape the Region

The prospect of Iran transforming from a revisionist theocratic regime into a national democracy seeking economic development and global integration would represent far more than a mere change of government. It would amount to a geopolitical earthquake. Since 1979,...

Mohamed Elbaikam

Feb 27, 2026, 11:39 PM

Forbes and the Marketing of Occupation Claims

When Economics Becomes a Language for Polishing a Prolonged Dispute Not all forms of political influence are explicit or confrontational. Some operate quietly, wrapped in the language of investment, growth, and economic stability, and disseminated through international media platforms whose...

Feb 13, 2026, 5:47 AM

When Our Leaders Stopped Making Regime Change Work

Regime changes were made by America from its start. They worked well -- imperfectly of course, like all big things in life, but quite well in the main part. This continued for nearly two centuries. Regime change was still working...

Mohamed Elbaikam

Feb 11, 2026, 6:50 PM

Disinformation in Congress on Western Sahara

Congress, Disinformation, and the Cost to U.S. Strategy in Western Sahara A Reading of the Western Sahara File Recent efforts by a limited number of voices within the U.S. Congress to reframe the Western Sahara issue through a narrow security lens...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Feb 10, 2026, 5:02 AM

Saudi Arabia Just Outplayed Turkey-Qatar in Syria

Saudi Arabia’s renewed embrace of Syria is not about reconstruction, reconciliation, or goodwill. It is about power, timing, and containment. The joint airline, telecom investments, and infrastructure deals announced with Damascus are the visible layer of a deeper Saudi...

Andy Blumenthal

Jan 18, 2026, 4:14 AM

A Listening Heart: Guarding the Jewish Future

In the wake of October 7, 2023, the Jewish world finds itself caught in a global "mishearing" of staggering proportions. Across the streets of world capitals, narratives of "occupation" and "resistance" are weaponized to drown out the explicit genocidal...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Nov 1, 2025, 9:55 PM

Europe’s Silent Conquest: Brotherhood and Salafism

Europe’s transformation is no longer a theory—it is happening in real time. From Brussels to Malmö, two forces reshape the continent’s soul: the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafism. One infiltrates through ballots and bureaucracy; the other through theology and unpredictability. Together,...

Mihran Kalaydjian

Oct 20, 2025, 9:53 AM

Israel’s War on Gaza Is a War on Its Own Soul

Israel’s survival depends not on domination, but on rediscovering its moral compass and embracing coexistence with a free Palestine ================================================================ There comes a moment in the life of every nation when it must confront the truth about what it has become...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Oct 20, 2025, 9:22 AM

Riyadh’s Last Stand Against the Brotherhood Bloc

Something seismic is shifting in the sands of Arabia. Saudi Arabia — once the uncontested heavyweight of the Sunni world — is scrambling to regain Washington’s favor after years of geopolitical gambling with China and Russia that yielded little more...

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