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29 Apr
Moscow Meeting Reveals How Sanctioned States Built Their Own Financial Infrastructure
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · mena · 6 min
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28 Apr
Iranian Diplomacy Goes North: Araghchi in Moscow and the Architecture of a New Alignment
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · europe,middle-east,eurasia · 7 min
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27 Apr
What the White House Correspondents' Dinner Shooting Reveals About the Collision of Political Violence and Digital Culture
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · americas · 6 min
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27 Apr
Sri Lanka's Twin Governance Tests: Monks, Money, and the Limits of Recovery
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · south-asia · 8 min
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27 Apr
The Screech and the Cause: How Poland's Most Unlikely Cultural Export Became a Fundraising Juggernaut
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · europe · 7 min
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27 Apr
Israeli Airstrikes Hit Southern Lebanon Amid Fragile Ceasefire
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · mena · 6 min
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27 Apr
Iran's Three-Stage Negotiation Formula: What Tehran Wants, What It Won't Discuss, and Why the Strait of Hormuz Is the Leverage Point
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · mena · 7 min
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27 Apr
Iran's Araghchi meets Putin in St Petersburg with Hormuz opening on the table
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · middle-east · 6 min
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27 Apr
The Disconnect at the Center of Trumpworld
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · americas · 7 min
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26 Apr
Storm Kills Two in Ukraine, Injures Two More as Rescue Teams Deployed Across Thirteen Regions
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · europe · 6 min
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26 Apr
Trump's three-day Iran ultimatum exposes the fractured state of nuclear diplomacy
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · Middle East · 6 min
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26 Apr
Trump's Ukraine Gambit: Europe's €90B Pledge and the Question of American Staying Power
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · europe · 6 min
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26 Apr
President Trump Evacuated After Shots Fired at White House Correspondents' Dinner
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · north-america · 5 min
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26 Apr
The Trump Assassination Attempt and the Architecture of Political Violence in America
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · north-america · 6 min
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26 Apr
Tashkent's Cash Ban: Uzbekistan's Quiet War on the Shadow Economy
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · central-asia · 5 min
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26 Apr
Secret Service Agent Shot at Trump Property, Suspect Detained
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · north-america · 5 min
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26 Apr
Pakistan Lifts Islamabad Curfew as Iran-US Talks Stall Over Oil Sanctions Blockade
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · middle-east · 5 min
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26 Apr
Mali's Defense Minister Killed in Attack on Residence: What We Know
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · west-africa · 6 min
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26 Apr
Khamenei's death puts Araghchi in the spotlight as Iran navigates succession and a regional war
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · mena · 7 min
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25 Apr
Mali's Junta Problem: Why the Bamako Offensive Exposes a Decade of Failed Security Architecture
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · africa · 7 min
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25 Apr
Iran's Divided Frame: 56 Nights of Street Protests and Araqchi's Peace Offensive
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · middle-east · 5 min
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25 Apr
The DOJ's Paradox: Cuts to Law Enforcement Under an Administration That Vows to Be Tough on Crime
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · americas · 6 min
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23 Apr
U.S. Intercepts Stateless Tanker in Indian Ocean, Alleges Iranian Oil Link
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · middle-east · 5 min
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23 Apr
US Naval Blockade of Iran Enters Second Week as 31 vessels Diverted and Airspace Remains Unbreached
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · mena · 5 min
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23 Apr
US Pauses Weapons Shipments to Estonia, Iranian State Media Reports
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · europe · 5 min
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23 Apr
Trump's Strait of Hormuz gambit and the entertainment spectacle that almost drowned it out
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · middle-east-iran · 6 min
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23 Apr
Trump Sets Three-to-Five-Day Clock for Iran Deal as Questions Mount Over Tehran's Military Reach
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · mena · 6 min
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23 Apr
Trump's 'shoot to kill' order on Hormuz mines: escalation or deterrence?
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · middle-east · 7 min
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23 Apr
The Lights That Stay On: Moscow's Caribbean Lifeline and the Calculus of Cost
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · americas,mena,europe · 7 min
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23 Apr
Khamenei Labels Enemy Media Operations a Direct Threat to Iranian National Unity
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · middle-east · 6 min
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23 Apr
34 Tankers, $4 Billion, and the Strait: How Iran Is Testing America's Red Lines
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · mena · 6 min
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23 Apr
Iran Tightens Its Grip on the Strait of Hormuz as Diplomatic Window Reopens
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · MIDDLE_EAST · 7 min
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23 Apr
How Iran's Sporting Revival Mirrors Its Geopolitical Realignment
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · mena · 7 min
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23 Apr
Iranian Air Defenses Activated Over Tehran; No Confirmed Strike as IDF Denies Involvement
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · middle-east · 5 min
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23 Apr
Iran Alleges US Using UAE Territory for Attack Planning in Formal UN Complaint
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · middle-east · 5 min
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22 Apr
Deep-Strike Window: Ukraine Hits Occupied Melitopol Infrastructure as Long-Range Constraints Easing
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · eastern europe · 6 min
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22 Apr
Trump-World Financial Entanglements: Two Cracks in the Façade
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · americas · 6 min
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22 Apr
Trump's Iran Ceasefire Extension: Diplomatic Pause or Strategic Delay Before Strikes Resume?
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · middle-east · 9 min
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22 Apr
Six Months to Clear the Strait: Pentagon's Sobering Assessment on Hormuz Demining
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · mena · 7 min
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22 Apr
Pakistan's Ceasefire Diplomacy Forces Trump to Extend Iran Truce — For Now
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · mena · 4 min
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22 Apr
The Aid Equation: PEPFAR's Departure, Iran's Ceasefire, and a New Transactional Order
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · global · 5 min
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22 Apr
New York's Prediction Market Crackdown Is a Fight Over Who Gets to Regulate Crypto
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · north-america · 5 min
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22 Apr
Navy Secretary Phelan Resigns Effective Immediately, Pentagon Confirms
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · north-america · 6 min
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22 Apr
Lebanon seeks one-month truce extension as Washington hosts new ceasefire talks
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · MENA · 5 min
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22 Apr
Justin Sun Sues Trump-Adjacent Crypto Project. The Real Story Is Who Left Holding the Bag
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · USA · 6 min
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22 Apr
IRGC Gunboat Fires on Container Ship Off Oman Coast in Escalation Warning
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · mena · 4 min
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22 Apr
Islamabad's Quiet Diplomacy: How Pakistan Is Carving a Mediation Lane Between Washington and Tehran
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · south-asia-mena · 6 min
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22 Apr
Iran's Hormuz Gambit: Seized Tankers, Undersea Cables, and the Six-Month Window
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · middle-east · 6 min
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22 Apr
Hezbollah Claims Four Cross-Border Operations as Rescue Teams Search for Missing Lebanese Journalist
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · mena · 4 min
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22 Apr
Britain's Smoke-Free Generation: Bold Policy or Paternalist Overreach?
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · UK · 6 min
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22 Apr
Anthropic's Mythos Launch Day Breach: What the Unauthorized Access Reveals About AI Security
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · global · 4 min
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21 Apr
Trump Demands the Lowest Rates. The Fed Nominee Says No. The Old Fight Is Back.
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · north-america · 5 min
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21 Apr
The Pattern the Market Already Knows: Trump, Bitcoin, and the Iran Signal
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · GLOBAL · 6 min
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21 Apr
Trump's Iran Ceasefire Ultimatum and the UAE Currency Gambit
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · middle-east · 5 min
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21 Apr
Trump's Iran Calculus: Escalation, Negotiations, and the Fuel Price Trap
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · mena · 8 min
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21 Apr
Trump Extends Iran Ceasefire as Oil Markets React to Fragile Diplomatic Window
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · mena · 6 min
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21 Apr
Tim Cook Departs: Apple Begins Its Most Consequential Transition in Two Decades
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · north-america · 4 min
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21 Apr
The Ship, the Sentencing, and the Squeeze: America's Coercive Arcade Runs Out of Coins
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · global · 8 min
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21 Apr
Pakistan Awaits Iran Response as Ceasefire Deadline Nears
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · south-asia · 5 min
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21 Apr
The Onion Takes Infowars: Satire, Liquidation, and the Limits of Irony
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · united-states · 4 min
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21 Apr
Iran Signals US Openness to Lifting Hormuz Blockade as Negotiations Loom
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · middle-east · 7 min
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21 Apr
IDF Removes Soldiers From Combat After Sledgehammer Destruction of Jesus Statue in Lebanon
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · mena · 6 min
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21 Apr
China's Coal Pivot and the Oil Ceasefire: Energy Security After the Iran War
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 8 min
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21 Apr
Apple's Succession Plan: John Ternus Takes the Reins as AI Reshapes the Tech Landscape
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · north-america · 4 min
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21 Apr
Arbitrum Security Council Freezes KelpDAO Exploit Funds as LayerZero Vulnerability Takes Center Stage
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · global · 5 min
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21 Apr
Amazon's $25 Billion Bet on Anthropic Reshapes the AI Power Map
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · north-america · 5 min
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20 Apr
Ukraine Strikes Deep Inside Russia as Kharkiv Front Hardens
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · europe · 6 min
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20 Apr
Trump's Oval Office Spectacle and the Trading Patterns That Won't Stay in the Frame
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · North America · 8 min
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20 Apr
The President's Victory Lap: What Trump's Truth Social Posts Reveal About War Communication
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · Middle East / United States · 6 min
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20 Apr
Trump's Hormuz Gambit: The Naval Blockade, the Seized Ship, and the Deal That Hasn't Come
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · middle-east · 5 min
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20 Apr
Trump's Ceasefire Deadline Puts Iran Nuclear Talks on a Knife-Edge
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · middle-east · 6 min
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20 Apr
Stavropol, terrorism, and the grammar of blame
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · eastern europe · 8 min
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20 Apr
Russia's Iran Gambit: What Peskov's 'Not a Mediator' Statement Actually Reveals
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · mena · 6 min
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20 Apr
The Price of a Frozen Front: Ceasefire Terms, Grounded Flights, and the Fuel Bill
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · middle-east · 7 min
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20 Apr
Iran Nuclear Talks: Islamabad's Quiet Diplomacy and the Trump administration's 90-Day Clock
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · middle-east · 4 min
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20 Apr
Iran Declares Hormuz Control 'Legal' as US Blockade Strains Pakistan-Brokered Talks
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · middle-east · 4 min
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20 Apr
Iran's 'Final Punishment' Rhetoric Tests the Limits of Diplomatic Signal
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · mena · 6 min
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20 Apr
Canada's Carney Turns the Page on Continental Complacency
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · north-america · 4 min
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20 Apr
Ceasefire, Drones, and a Million Returns: What the Lebanon Truce Reveals
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · middle-east · 6 min
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20 Apr
Trump's Third Cabinet Departure: Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer Resigns Amid Misconduct Probe
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · North America · 5 min
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20 Apr
Ayatollah Javadi Amoli's Axis of Resistance Declaration Tests Tehran's Messaging Calculus
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · middle-east · 6 min
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20 Apr
Berri's Revelation Tests Lebanon's Quiet Ceasefire Calculus
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · MENA · 7 min
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20 Apr
The $60 Bet: Bessent's Withholding Gambit and the Economics of Political Optics
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · north-america · 4 min
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20 Apr
Asia's Clean Energy Surge Is Redrawing the Map of Global Power
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · global · 7 min
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19 Apr
Wall Street Wants to Wager on the Future — and That Should Worry You
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · US · 8 min
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19 Apr
US-Iranian Forces Clash in Gulf Waters as Tensions Escalate
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · Middle East · 5 min
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19 Apr
Hood Ride to Prison: Ukraine's Mobilization Crackdown and the Anatomy of a Conscription Confrontation
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · Ukraine · 8 min
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19 Apr
Trump Says Iran Commits to Opening Strait of Hormuz; Oil Prices Tumble as Deal Talks Advance
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · middle-east · 5 min
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19 Apr
Trump Cancels Vance Islamabad Trip Hours After Announcement, Citing Secret Service Timeline
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · South Asia / United States · 6 min
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19 Apr
Trump Claims Iran Violated Ceasefire as Negotiations Spiral Into Cross-Border Threats
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · Middle East · 4 min
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19 Apr
Iran's Diplomatic Rejection of Second-Round US Talks Deepens Nuclear Standoff
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · Middle East · 6 min
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19 Apr
The Strait Question: How Iran's Hormuz Gambit Exposed the Limits of US Economic Coercion
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · Middle East · 8 min
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19 Apr
Iran's Hormuz Reversal and the Dollar-Micronarrative: Why Markets Missed the Geopolitical Ratchet
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · Middle East / Global Markets · 7 min
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19 Apr
The IDF's Bint Jbeil Withdrawal and a Viral Photo: What the Sources Show
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · mena · 5 min
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19 Apr
Four Cruise Ships Through an Iranian Minefield: Hormuz as Geopolitical Stress Test
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · Middle East / Persian Gulf · 5 min
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19 Apr
The Fracturing of the 'Special Relationship': Bipartisan Consensus on Israel and the Limits of Atlanticist Propaganda
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · Middle East / North America · 9 min
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19 Apr
Day 51: Hormuz Standoff Tests the Limits of Deterrence and Diplomacy
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · Middle East · 5 min
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19 Apr
The Diplomacy of Loyalty: Trump, Israel, and the Costs of Unconditional Alignment
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · mena · 7 min
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19 Apr
Bitcoin's Ceasefire Highs Are Fading — And the Reason Is the Real Story
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · global · 4 min
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19 Apr
Treasury Secretary Bessent Calls Withholding Cut a 'Real Wage Increase' — But It's Just Timing, Not Money
the-weekly · Monexus Staff Writer · north-america · 7 min
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18 Apr
The Week in Diplomacy: Hormuz, a Papal Pivot to Angola, Fidan's 'New Enemy' Speech, and a Brazil–Mexico–Spain Bloc on Cuba
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · Global · 12 min
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18 Apr
The Week in Financial Flows: Bitcoin ETFs, a Stablecoin FX Market, and Central Bankers War-Gaming Their Own Lehman
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · Global · 12 min
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18 Apr
The Week in Media Narratives: Hormuz, Kyiv, and the UNIFIL Soldier — A Ledger of Selective Outrage
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · Global · 11 min
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18 Apr
The Week the AI Oligarchs Stopped Pretending: Altman's Burning House, Anthropic's Return to the West Wing, and the Infrastructure Capture Nobody Named
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · Global · 11 min
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18 Apr
The Week the Deterrence Ledger Rewrote Itself: Pyongyang's Test, Ghalibaf's F-35 Claim, and Moscow's European Warning
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · Global · 11 min
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18 Apr
The Week the Dollar Architecture Stress-Tested Itself: Russian-Oil Waivers, USDt Oil Tolls, and the Bank of Wars Walking Into a Basel War-Game
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · Global · 11 min
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18 Apr
The Week the Retrospective Arrived: How 'Dragged Into War' Became the Official Story of Trump's Iran Campaign
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · Global · 11 min
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18 Apr
The Quiet Week of the Multipolar Resource Turn: CITIC in Astana, a Purge in Caracas, and the Rerouting of the Global Middle
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · Global · 11 min
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18 Apr
Qalibaf Declares Strategic Failure: Iran Resisted Regime Change and Venezuelaization, Parliament Speaker Asserts
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · Middle East · 6 min
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18 Apr
Iran's Parliamentary Speaker and the Sovereignty Script: Reading Qalibaf's 'Structural Resilience' Narrative Through a Structural Media Lens
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · Middle East · 9 min
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18 Apr
Iran's Qalibaf and the Triadic State: Populist Sovereignty and the Collapsing Distinction Between Street and Diplomatic Arena
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · Middle East · 7 min
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18 Apr
Iran's Qalibaf Declares '49 Days' of National Resilience: Square, Street, and Diplomacy as Unified Front
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · Middle East · 7 min
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18 Apr
Hormuz Tensions Recede but Reveal Persistent Energy Vulnerability
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · Middle East · 5 min
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18 Apr
Hormuz Reopened: Iran Closes Strategic Waterway, Reframes Energy Sovereignty Against US Blockade Claims
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · Middle East, Global · 8 min
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18 Apr
The Hormuz Gambit: Iran, Washington, and the Battle for the World's Most Strategic Chokepoint
the-weekly · Moemedi Michael Poncana · Middle East / Global · 8 min
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