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5 March 2026 Haniyeh thought he was safe in Tehran. He wasn’t. Sinwar thought he was safe in Gaza. He wasn’t. Nasrallah thought he was safe in Beirut. He wasn’t. All of Iran’s generals thought they were safe, in deep underground bunkers. They weren’t. — David
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5 March 2026 Discovering the Rule The phrase “deep state” has become the modern person’s all-purpose superstition: whenever something confusing happens, blame a hidden cabal, add a sinister acronym, and feel briefly intelligent. This essay does something more bracing—and more dangerous to the lazy mind. It argues
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4 March 2026 Discovering the Rule The phrase “deep state” has become the modern person’s all-purpose superstition: whenever something confusing happens, blame a hidden cabal, add a sinister acronym, and feel briefly intelligent. This essay does something more bracing—and more dangerous to the lazy mind. It argues
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4 March 2026 “An Iranian regime armed with long-range missiles and nuclear weapons would be an intolerable threat to the Middle East, but also to the American people. Our country itself would be under threat, and it was very nearly under threat. I was very proud to have knocked
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3 March 2006 Reporter: “Who takes over now that the supreme leader is dead?” Trump: “I don’t know… I guess the position’s open. I’m creating jobs in Iran too.” Donald J. Trump, 2 March, 2026 For forty-seven years, a shadow hung over the Middle East—a
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1 March 2026 Part IV: The Neurobiological Reality In the previous instalments of this series (see here, here, here, and here), I systematically studied Quassim Cassam’s Extremism to expose its epistemological failures and its profound ontological poverty. Having mapped the finite theatre of the extremist’s reality, I must
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28 February 2026 Introduction to Part II In the previous instalment of this four-part series—the unified Deutsch-Popper “Master-Scalpel”—I scrutinised the epistemological foundations of Quassim Cassam’s Extremism: A Philosophical Analysis. I discussed how Cassam’s descriptive taxonomy falls into the inductivist trap, mistakenly categorising extremism
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28 February 2026 Against Suicidal Empathy We find ourselves at a moment of profound civilizational hazard, where the hard-won architecture of liberal democracy is being quietly dismantled not by the force of arms, but by a totalitarian software of the mind. The moral and intellectual imperative to publish this
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27 February 2026 Diagram Detailing the Relationships of the Muslim Brothers in Europe The Intelligence Baseline This 2026 strategic update is directly inspired by, and grounded in, the findings of the comprehensive intelligence report published by the Israeli Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, The Muslim Brotherhood Across Europe.
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27 February 2026 Prologue: The Forging of the Master-Scalpel When I initially announced this series on 24 February, my intention was to deploy four distinct analytical scalpels to dissect Quassim Cassam’s Extremism. My original structural plan separated the epistemological critique of his methodology (Scalpel 1) from the political
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26 February 2026 Iran’s future venom? The Crown, the Clerics, and the Crossfire There is a particularly cruel and predictable irony in watching a theocratic dictatorship enter its long-overdue death throes, only to see the self-appointed champions of “liberation” immediately begin sharpening their knives for the Kurds.
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26 February 2026 On 24 February, I announced an upcoming four-part series designed to rigorously audit Quassim Cassam’s widely read book, Extremism: A Philosophical Analysis. Because extremism represents an existential threat to the Open Society, we simply cannot afford to rely on flawed diagnostics or taxonomic illusions. Therefore,