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View More NewsThere’s a 15-point peace plan on the table and bitcoin BTC$70,963.98 is sitting at $71,000 like the ongoing U.S.-Israel-Iran war might actually end.Brent crude slid 4.7% to $99.55 on Wednesday, breaking below the $100 level that had held since mid-March, after Bloomberg reported the U.S. had drafted a 15-point plan to end the Iran conflict and delivered it to Tehran via Pakistan. Israel’s Channel 12 reported separately that Washington was seeking a one-month ceasefire. Asian equities jumped 1.9%. The dollar weakened. U.S. and European futures pointed to further gains.Bitcoin was trading at $71,019, up 0.9% over the past 24 hours…
In 2016, I mistook a fortress for a prison. When I first moved to the United Arab Emirates, I believed I was arriving in a country that feared freedom. My suspicion felt principled. I had been shaped within American liberal-arts institutions that trained students to view the Middle East through a woke-progressive lens, where distrust of petro-states signalled intellectual sophistication. I had internalised the assumption that nationalism was always a façade, a polished surface concealing exploitation and the machinery of the military-industrial complex. Years later, I realised I had misunderstood something fundamental: the difference between regimes that censor to protect…
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