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From Revolutionary Confrontation to Geopolitical Realism: How the Iran-U.S. Memorandum May Reshape the Middle East Throughout history, some diplomatic agreements merely resolve disputes, while others redefine the strategic architecture of entire regions. If successfully implemented, the recent Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States may prove to belong to the....

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Is there a chance for peace between Lebanon and Israel? The pending ceasefire agreement between the U.S. and Iran - far too fragile to be called a peace agreement - which excludes Israel and Hezbollah, as well as the nuclear issue which Trump has said is the main reason for the war, will not end the hostilities between Israel and the state-within-a-state...

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18 Years and 1 Million Views at OpEdNews: What Has Changed in the World, Opednews, and in my Writing Today I passed a million views on Opednews.com. A lot has changed in the world since those early days, deep in the mid Great Financial Crisis of 2008-2009.

When One Historical Injustice Created Another: Palestine, Netanyahu, and the Human Cost of Endless War

When One Historical Injustice Created Another: Palestine, Netanyahu, and the Human Cost of Endless War More than seventy-five years after the creation of Israel, the Palestinian question remains one of the world's most enduring and painful conflicts. This article examines the historical roots of Palestinian displacement, occupation, repeated wars, and the humanitarian consequences that continue today...

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Hinton Declares 'AI Is Awake,' Pope Asserts AI Has No Soul Sea Beauty: Is it beautiful to A.I. too, or is it just a mindless non-conscious imitation of what it learned from humans?(Image by Swissrock-II)   Details   DMCA Hinton, the ?godfather? in the AI field, is claiming that his creation has consciousness, a soul, and subjective experiences. While th...

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Berie Sanders: The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies Today, the New York Times published an opinion piece by Bernie Sanders to have the U.S. own 50% of the A.I. companies that are collecting our cultural products and knowledge, mostly without paying for them, and then to pay a citizen's dividend from our community IP.

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THE TRAP OF PERMANENT CRISIS: Benjamin Netanyahu, the Iran War, and the Limits of Security Politics For more than three decades, Benjamin Netanyahu defined Iran as Israel's ultimate strategic challenge. The recent Iran war appeared to be the culmination of that vision. Yet the conflict ended without regime change, without a decisive political transformation, and with renewed diplomacy returning to...

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The existence of A.I. is dispositive to the existence of God Pope Leo XIV released a major encyclical recently called --Magnifica Humanitas,' or 'Magnificent Humanity.' It deals with A.I. and contrasts it with the essential differences of humanity. Yet, like God, People also created A.I. from the top-down, yet it isn't human. What does the Pope say about that...

In modern authoritarian systems, some political figures become important not because of charisma, intellectual originality, or public popularity, but because they embody the psychological structure of the system itself. Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei belongs to this category of political personalities. To many outside observers, he appears merely as another senior cleric or judiciary official within the Islamic Republic of Iran. Yet his deeper significance lies elsewhere. Mohseni-Ejei represents the evolution of the Islamic Republic from a revolutionary ideological state into a security-centered system increasingly organized around punishment, surveillance, institutional preservation, and psychological control.

The Hanging Judge of Iran: A Psychological Analysis of Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei This political-psychological analysis examines how revolutionary systems gradually evolve into security-centered states organized around punishment, surveillance, and institutional survival. Using the rise of Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei as a case study.

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Claude is a neoliberal Queries of Anthropic's Claude AI and Xia's Grok produced surprising answers to the 'fix everything' question. Many people would like to relegate policy-making to AI. What do you think?