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The Mirage of Statecraft: America’s Blind Drift in West Asia (opens the original)
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by M. Reza Behnam | Sep 30, 2026 | 0 comments For decades, the architecture of West Asia has rested on a comforting fiction: that Pax Americana could indefinitely manage the region through the policy of offshore balancing, security guarantees to autocrats and the supreme might of the U.S. military. That order is gone. Not bruised, not bending, but wholly vaporized. Washington’s illusion that it could facilely pivot away from the region while maintaining a stranglehold on its security dynamics ha
Fatal Alliance: The Reality of the US-Israel Axis (opens the original)
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by M. Reza Behnam | Sep 15, 2026 | 0 comments To examine the unyielding multi-billionaire dollar shield that the United States provides Israel is to confront the coarse mechanics of modern empire. Washington has, for decades, maintained a posture of absolute defense, supplying advanced weaponry, providing diplomatic immunity, and rationalizing actions that human rights organizations and international courts characterize as war crimes, apartheid and genocide. The mainstream narrative has relentle
Distorted Lenses: Ethical Failures in Reporting Israel’s War on Palestine (opens the original)
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by M. Reza Behnam | Sep 10, 2026 | 0 comments As Israel’s war on Gaza enters a grim third year, the prevailing narrative developed by mainstream Western media serves as a masterclass in institutional complicity; filtering genocide through a lens of manufactured neutrality. Since October 2025, when the so-called ceasefire – which Israel has repeatedly violated – began, the tragedy in Gaza has been effectively erased from the news cycle. The incredible suffering of the Palestinian people has been
Growing Up Palestinian in Palestine (opens the original)
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by M. Reza Behnam | Sep 1, 2026 | 0 comments Childhood is meant to be a journey of gradual awakenings; an accumulation of sunlit afternoons, scraped knees, carefree school days and the gradual safe unfurling of identity. However, for a Palestinian child growing up in the Israeli killing fields of Gaza or the occupied West Bank there is no such protected sanctuary. In the West Bank, children are forced to navigate a labyrinth of state-engineered obstacles – concrete walls, checkpoints, barriers,
Why Iran Ruffles the Feathers of the United States (opens the original)
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by M. Reza Behnam | Aug 26, 2026 | 0 comments Strip away the diplomatic briefings, Congressional hearings and the endless cable news loops about centrifuges, regional proxies and cyber attacks, and you hit a raw unvarnished nerve. What truly disturbs the United States about the Islamic Republic is not its policies, its rhetoric or even its nuclear ambitions. It is Iran’s audacity to exist completely outside the American orbit; and make it work. When diplomatic pretenses are scrapped, we see that
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