BREAKING: The Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to Navanethem “Navi” Pillay.
She Defended Nelson Mandela and other activists fighting against apartheid in South Africa.
Note: It is NOT Trump!!
There is some poetic justice in that Israel is the biggest loser in the US-Iran deal, since it was Israel who aggressively pushed for this idiotic war of choice.
And if it leads to Netanyahu losing the elections and ending up in jail, the justice will be near complete.
قيمة الصورة تتجلي في الأفكار المتولدة عنها.
اكد الفيلسوف الفرنسي جيل دولوز علي ان السينما تمنحنا القدرة علي التفكير عبر ما دعاه بصدمة الفكر، لان الاصطدام بالصور هو ما يوقظ المفكر فينا و بالتالي يجبرنا علي التفكير فيما هو كلي و شمولي.
كبار كتاب السينما—بحسب دولوز—يمكن مقارنتهم لا بالرسامين و المعماريين و الموسيقيين فحسب ، بل بالمفكرين أيضاُ. ذلك أنهم يفكرون من خلال الصور / الحركة و الصور / الزمن بدل أن يسوقوا المفاهيم.
If Iran succeeds in implementing transit fees for ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, as approved by its parliament, Oman should be part of any such arrangement and receive a percentage of the transit fee revenues, .....
Iran’s defense of its sovereignty is not merely a regional conflict but part of a wider structural struggle over the global order. If it remains steadfast and prevails, the outcome may mark a historical shift in the balance of power toward the Global South.
Clausewitz famously wrote that war is the continuation of politics by other means. In the modern world-system, it is more precise to say: war is the continuation of economics by other means. Destruction is not accidental to capitalism; it is constitutive of it.
Ali Kadri’s theory suggests that imperial wars produce “waste” — premature death, destroyed societies, and devastated economies — and that this destruction plays a role in sustaining the global hierarchy of accumulation between the core and the periphery.
Clausewitz famously wrote that war is the continuation of politics by other means. In the modern world-system, it is more precise to say: war is the continuation of economics by other means. Destruction is not accidental to capitalism; it is constitutive of it.
Professor John Mearsheimer-
"If the Nuremberg Trials took place today, and Israelis and Americans were put on trial, Trump, Netanyahu, and many of their advisers would have been hanged."
A remarkable condemnation from one of the world's foremost Geo-Strategic thinkers.
It was a huge strategic miscalculation, and now it has blown up in their faces. You cannot override the facts of history, culture, geography, and the balance of power.
How they could not see that the conflict trajectory between Israel and Iran will end in an inevitable war ??!
I was always stunned by the lunacy of the Abraham Accords from an Emirati perspective.
The UAE's conflict with Iran is far more resolvable than Israel's conflict with Iran. By joining the Abraham Accords and explicitly becoming a member of Israel's anti-Iran bloc, the UAE essentially attached itself to Israel's conflict with Iran - even though Israel is 1000 miles from Iran, while the UAE is only 50 miles from Iran's shores.
The UAE made itself a frontline state in Israel's fight with Iran.
Abu Dhabi is now paying the price for this mistake. Geography is ensuring that the key decisions are made elsewhere - while it pays the highest price.
Missiles may fall on Omani ports, but what does not fall is Muscat’s belief that the world is not governed by anger, but by balance. The moderation some mock is, in truth, the last remaining form of sanity in a region that too often feeds on illusions.
Omani moderation is therefore not a tactic but a worldview shaped by centuries of political experience. It rejects polarization, resists dependency on any single power, and understands that survival in a turbulent region requires a cool head, not a loud voice.
Its understanding of Iran is not rooted in fear or admiration, but in familiarity—an intimate knowledge of a neighbor whose behavior cannot be managed through threats alone.