Blockchain technology and the birth of the so-called cryptocurrencies finds deep roots in three contributing factors: the advance of technology: the manipulation of global economic and financial rules; and the persistent attempt to weaken the national economies of countries that geopolitically challenge the US power system. In this first article I address these issues from...
October 16, 2025
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January 27, 2018September 18, 2025Muslim World, Opinion, World
Turkish-Kurdish War Or Daesh Civil War?
A superficial reading of “Operation Olive Branch” indicates that it’s a Turkish-Kurdish war, but the details of who’s fighting make it look a lot more like a Daesh civil war in its opening stages, and that’s exactly what both Ankara and the YPG originally intended. The commencement of Turkey’s “Operation Olive Branch” has led to...
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January 27, 2018September 18, 2025Muslim World, Opinion, World
Turkey: ‘Olive Branch’ of War
Turkey’s “Operation Olive Branch” was recently commenced with the stated intent of destroying what Ankara believes to be “Kurdish terrorists” in the northwestern Syrian region of Afrin. The NATO member earlier warned that it would be forced to intervene there in response to the existential threat that the US’ plans for deploying a 30,000-strong “Border Security Force” pose to its...
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January 23, 2018September 18, 2025Muslim World, Opinion, Special Column, World
Post ISIS Syria and the Operation Olive Branch
Turkish military has launched an all-out assault named operation ‘Olive Branch’ in Afrin region of Syria, where the US backed and Kurds formed YPG is operating. The timing is very important. On the one hand, one of the key actors in Middle-Eastern geopolitics, the US is in deep domestic political crisis over Trump’s performance as...
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January 6, 2018September 18, 2025Muslim World, Opinion, Special Column
Who Will Pay The $250+ Billion Reconstruction Cost In Syria?
The United States Government says that Syria’s Government caused the U.N.-estimated “at least $250 billion” cost to restore Syria from the destruction that Syria’s war produced, and so Syria’s Government should pay those reconstruction costs. That link is to a New York Times article, which explicitly blames Syrian “President Bashar al-Assad’s ruthless triumph” — which was won against all...
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January 5, 2018September 18, 2025Muslim World, Opinion, World
‘They came to kill’: Palestinian village grieves for 16-year-old Musaab al-Tamimi
Borrowed from Middle East Eye While international attention has focused on the imprisonment of Ahed Tamimi, the Palestinian 16-year-old girl arrested for slapping an Israeli soldier, another branch of the Tamimi family on Thursday buried their own child. On Wednesday, Musaab al-Tamimi, also 16, was shot in the neck during clashes with Israeli soldiers as...
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January 5, 2018September 18, 2025Muslim World, Opinion, World
Turkey Is Undergoing A Radical Shift, From Pluralism To Islamic Populism
A year ago, on the evening of a failed coup attempt against the government of Turkey, I was celebrating a family wedding in a posh restaurant on the Bosporus in Istanbul. I was at a table with the grandfather of the young bride ― my uncle, who is a law professor and prominent representative of...
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January 4, 2018September 18, 2025Muslim World, Opinion, Special Column
Iran declares victory against anti-government protesters following week of unrest that left 21 dead
Borrowed from The Independent There are concerns that interference by the Trump administration may exacerbate political and economic situations in the future. Huge counter-demonstrations have taken place against the protests in Iran with the head of the Revolutionary Guards declaring victory against “forces of sedition” which had sought to create “anarchy, insecurity and intrigue in the...
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December 30, 2017September 18, 2025Muslim World, Special Column, World
UN JERUSALEM VOTE: EPIC HUMILIATION OR BRILLIANT OPPORTUNITY FOR AMERICA?
Courtesy : Andrew Korybko , A Political Analyst and Commentator International media is correct in framing the UN General Assembly vote on Jerusalem as an epic humiliation for the US, but it’s overlooking how this entire controversy was choreographed by the Trump Administration as a brilliant opportunity to obtain a “plausible” pretext for scaling down and...
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December 30, 2017September 18, 2025Muslim World, Opinion, World
Ahed Tamimi has become the symbol of a new generation of Palestinian resistance
Sixteen year-old Ahed stands in a long faith tradition. There is an interesting parallel with another teenager in Palestine; her name was Mary. Historians speculate that Mary was around 16 when she did a very gutsy thing. In a leap of faith, she accepted some kind of inspired messaage that she would be a mother,...