Demonstrators gather outside the Iraqi embassy in Tehran to thank Iraq for what they consider its support of Iran and the “Axis of Resistance” during the war with the US and Israel.(Majid Saeedi / Getty Images)
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The conflict in the Middle East is currently in an intermittent holding action with an extended ceasefire but no diplomatic breakthrough. To assess where things are going, I sat down with the foreign policy analyst Anusar Farooqui, who runs an excellent substack called Policy Tensor and posts on Twitter here. We discussed the resiliency and growing stature of Iran, as well as the signs that unipolar US hegemony is coming to an end, to be replaced by a multipolar world.
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The conflict in the Middle East is currently in an intermittent holding action with an extended ceasefire, but no diplomatic breakthrough. To assess where things are going, I sat down with the foreign policy analyst Anusar Farooqui, who runs an excellent substack Policy Tensor. We discussed the resiliency and growing stature of Iran, as well as signs that unipolar US hegemony is coming to an end, to be replaced by a multipolar world.
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Many of Joe Biden’s closest advisors are now well-ensconced in the sinecures reserved for the elite, working at think tanks, academia, and major media outlets. Normally, they could expect to have future jobs when the Democrats retake the White House. But this cozy situation is being disrupted by ongoing reporting showing the extent of their complicity in the Gaza genocide and other US crimes in the Middle East. I spoke about this with Connor Echols, managing editor of Responsible Statecraft, who wrote an excellent article on the efforts to hold these officials accountable.
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