The recent visit by Sudanese Transitional Sovereignty Council Chairman, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, to Turkey has sparked widespread debate in political circles between those who view it as a step to bolster regional cooperation and support, and those who see it as a protocol with limited impact on the trajectory of the war and the escalating crisis in Sudan. (Al Jazeera Net)

Iran’s regime interprets the new wave of protests that erupted there in late December as foreign interference. This rhetoric is not new to Iran’s regime; it has used it for decades, starting with the Green Movement in 2009, and continuing through the protests of 2017, 2019, and 2022.

A wretched life is lived by women and their children under capitalist systems whose flames scorch the entire world, foremost among them the United States. Women in Syria, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Gaza, the West Bank, and elsewhere, have seen these tragedies with their own eyes and heard them with their own ears.

After decades of costly experiments with direct warfare, the preferred option for Western powers has become managing conflict from a distance through economic, financial, and technological sieges, and by reshaping supply chains, rather than undertaking large-scale invasions. In this context, food, especially wheat, comes to the fore as a silent strategic ammunition: