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Graham Crackers: The Words of a Professional Warmonger

Lindsey Graham will go down as an inconsequential figure in American history, a bloodthirsty cheerleader for some of the nation’s most disastrous wars who...

Prevent the Great War

It takes more than a conference to stop the coming Great War. Still, the Alliance to Prevent the Great War was a very useful discussion of the possible ways to do it. And surely much better than NATO’s own conference of trial balloons for their future war crimes....
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The Emergence of the Retention State

The nineteenth century fought over territory. The twentieth century fought over oil. The twenty-first century will compete for people. Nations that grasp this transformation early will flourish, whereas those that persist in treating their citizens as expendable exports will gradually impoverish themselves, regardless of the resources beneath their soil....
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Why Ideology Is the Wrong Lens for Understanding China

Perhaps China’s rise is not an ideological anomaly after all. Perhaps it simply reminds us that successful societies perform two essential functions simultaneously. They create sufficient order to make long-term planning worthwhile while preserving sufficient institutional diversity for adaptation and innovation to emerge. Different political systems may achieve that balance...
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Ankara at the heart of the alliance

Washington offers readmission in exchange for alignment, while Ankara seeks recognition without relinquishing the levers of its autonomy. The outcome will depend on how the S-400 issue is resolved and on the production pace the KAAN will be able to maintain once its engines are secured. Until then, Turkey will...
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There is No America

This also exposes the central ideological illusion of our moment. We are increasingly encouraged to believe that salvation lies in a different geopolitical configuration: a multipolar order, digital currencies, artificial intelligence, or a new balance between East and West. These transformations are real, but in their current form they do...
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Imperial Vision, or Reviving the Spirit of an Extinguished Fire

The state of the nation, that is, the state representing the brotherhood of the region’s peoples; the true state that serves as the guarantee of this country’s freedom and independence, awaits the day it will manifest as a willpower hidden within the plow of a farmer in an Anatolian village,...
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The Case for Holocaust Revisionism: Interview with John Beaumont

John Beaumont is a lawyer, writer, and the author of The Truth Will Set You Free: The Case for Holocaust Revisionism. He worked in the courts and university sector, including Head of the Department of Law, Leeds Metropolitan University, and posts at Leeds University, Lancaster University and University of Central...
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The legacy of John Esposito: The scholar who refused to turn Islam into an enemy

John Esposito built bridges in an age that rewarded walls. The finest tribute we can offer him is not simply to praise those bridges, but to possess the courage to cross them....
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The Judeo-Christian Illusion

My own conclusion is that the greatest fraud in Christian history was persuading countless generations that an institutional religion, which gradually evolved under the influence of imperial power, theological development, and ecclesiastical authority, was identical with the original spiritual movement associated with Jesus of Nazareth. History belongs to no institution....
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Israel and the United States are Merging their Militaries. Here’s Why.

This NDAA is dangerous. Through the US-Israeli integration, it would facilitate more deadly technology, more weapons for genocide, and make it nearly impossible to sever support for Israel by the US. Through the $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget, it would funnel money out of welfare into more war and violence across...
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ASEAN reclaims its centrality as newer blocs wobble and wane
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The Rise and Rise of E-Spirituality
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Defending Humanity at the Root: A Different Radicalism
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Victory Disease: When Winning Begets Defeat
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Israel: Rapist Zionism
The United States cannot treat this as someone else’s crime. US officials have been told about these abuses. US weapons
How Stone Tools, Fire, and Language Paved the Highway to Artificial Intelligence
Uniformity is increasingly becoming a defining characteristic of human life shaped by digital communication. Despite the technological sophistication of the
How Technology is Rewriting the Way We Write
Compared with the past, handwriting has clearly declined, but it doesn’t seem likely to vanish in the future. After all,
Albania’s Flamingo Revolution Tests The New Western Order
The Flamingo Revolution has no single organizer. It draws from a loose network of environmental groups, anti-corruption activists, and ordinary

The Case for Holocaust Revisionism: Interview with John Beaumont

John Beaumont is a lawyer, writer, and the author of The Truth Will Set You Free: The Case for Holocaust Revisionism. He worked in the...

What Distinguishes History, Story, and Gossip from One Another?

What falls to the lot of human beings is not to possess truth, but to cultivate humility before it; not to consume it, but to...

Britain’s General Strike Was Class Struggle at Its Rawest

A century ago, Britain was rocked by perhaps the most serious episode of class struggle it has ever known. Millions of workers joined the general...

A Fatiha: A Letter to the Soul of My Friend Ahmet Aşık*

The reason I am writing you this letter is to...

Rivalries and Anxieties: Reviving the Hejaz Railway

A less pessimistic reading of the project could see Israel...

“We Are in a Good Place”: Nato, Europe and the Dangerous Illusion of Nuclear Security

Humanity avoided nuclear catastrophe not because the system was inherently...

Can Iran Replace Israel?

We have good reason to start looking for a new...

Manipulators Do Not Use Language the Same Way Normal People Do

If you see all the world’s resources moving from the...

The American Prison

At this moment of reckoning, unless humanity once again proves...

On Israel’s Systematic Sexualized Violence and the Silence That Enables It

Palestine is not a tragedy without an author. What is...

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