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29 January 2026 There are moments when geopolitics drops the euphemisms and speaks, with the crudity of a drumbeat, in the language of ultimatum and scripture: an American president crowing over a past “Midnight Hammer” and promising an even “far worse” sequel, while the Iranian Supreme Leader reaches back to
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28 January 2026 The military offensive launched in January 2026 by the Syrian transitional government against the Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (DAANES) has precipitated one of the most significant geopolitical realignments in the modern history of the Middle East. What began as an uncompromising attempt
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28 January 2026 A Bridge My two published articles—introduced under “Forging the Tools of Thought”—were written as a paired foundation. In “A Memorandum on the Solvability of Human Problems,” I set out an orientation: the conviction that human problems are not fated to remain permanent fixtures of history,
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Published in Kurdistan Chronicle Khaled Salih, January 20, 2026 In an age when the word “Kurd” is still uttered in the corridors of power as though it were a clerical error on the map of the Middle East, there arrives a book that refuses to ask for recognition and instead
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25 January 2026 The Moral Lighthouse Sweden, in the European imagination, is a kind of moral lighthouse: rational, tranquil, administratively competent, and endearingly convinced that decency is a sufficient border control. It is a country that has elevated “civil society” into a civic religion—complete with state subsidies, official interlocutors,
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25 January 2026 Tom Barrack’s recent proposal for the Kurds in Syria is being sold as a roadmap to peace. It is wrapped in the comforting language of bureaucracy, promising “citizenship,” “cultural rights,” and “national unity.” But if we strip away the pleasantries and look at the brutal mechanics
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24 January 2026 From Symptom to Strategy The dialogue between Glenn Loury and Michael Shermer is a front-line report from a society losing its epistemological footing, diagnosing the pervasive symptoms of a modern crisis: the erosion of trust in our core institutions; the chilling effect of self-censorship born
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23 January 2026 This is the face of barbarism. He proudly holds a severed braid of a Kurdish female fighter as a trophy, thinking he has insulted her honour. But he doesn’t realise that in Kurdistan, a braid is not just hair. It is the root of our land
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22 January 206 The 2026 World Economic Forum marks the official death of the “Old Order” (established in 1971) and the emergence of a new operating system for the West. Through a few analytical lenses a distinct discovery emerges: The Trump Team is not merely negotiating within the existing “globalist”
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21 January 2021 In the antiseptic lexicon of modern diplomacy, United States Ambassador Tom Barrack has framed the absorption of the Syrian Kurds into the new Syrian state as their “greatest opportunity” for security. Writing on X, he championed an “integration agreement” as a triumph of statecraft. Yet, beneath this
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20 January 2026 Here is the full text of [Canada’s] PM Carney speech in Davos earlier today. It will probably be the best of speeches there this year. —Carl Bildt, 20 January 2026 [emphasis added] What is most revealing about Prime Minister Carney’s Davos performance is not the
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20 January 2026 This statement is a direct refutation of claims, as Ambassador Tom Barrack does, that Kurdish “integration” under the new Syrian government represents a safe or historic opportunity. Any policy that pressures the Kurds to disarm and “integrate” under a regime that is simultaneously invoking surah al-anfāl