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18 January 2026 This article is not a gentle peer review; it is an indictment. Larsson & Mattsson (2024) set out to explain why riots erupted in Sweden and end up mistaking a bag of textual anecdotes for a theory of reality. They promise root causes and deliver word counts,
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17 January 2026 Let us dispense, at once, with the usual superstitions of “goodwill statements” and “historic overtures.” Ahmed al-Shara’s statement is not a poem, not a promise, and certainly not an olive branch. It is a calculated artefact: a biological signal and a memetic construct engineered to
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16 January 2026 Deniz Chiya Ideology rarely begins by asking you to murder. It begins by asking you to stop noticing—to surrender the irritating habits of doubt, proportion, and individual moral judgment, and to accept instead a ready-made grammar in which cruelty can be conjugated as virtue. Once
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15 January 2026 In a Middle East often fractured by silence and defined by the stark lines of nationalism, it is a rare and thunderous event when a voice crosses the divide to offer not just sympathy, but profound recognition. For decades, the Kurdish fate has been written in invisible
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14 January 2026 From Theory to Action In this analysis, I will synthesise a series of my recent works that have tracked the evolution of the 2025 US National Security Strategy (NSS) from a foundational document into a guiding principle for overt action. My central thesis is that this strategy
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14 January 2026 Substantiating the Hard Way Doctrine While my article, “The Easy Way or the Hard Way,” outlines the doctrinal framework behind the American ultimatum regarding Greenland, this brief provides the crucial intelligence-based validation for that doctrine. The purpose of this brief is to analyse the Danish Defence
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13 January 2026 A Promise That Is Also a Warning In the volatile crucible of a country convulsed by protest, the words of world leaders carry extraordinary weight. As millions of Iranians take to the streets in a country-wide uprising against the Islamic Republic, every statement from abroad is
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11 January 2026 “I’m not talking about money for Greenland yet. I might talk about that. But right now, we are going to do something on Greenland, whether they like it not, because if we don’t do it, Russia or China will take over Greenland, and we’re
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10 January 2026 Sun Tzu in Washington? This is my fourth article on this journey (see: 1, 2, and 3 ), and by now one has to resist the lazy temptation to treat each new episode—an NSS here, a coup there, a summit with oil executives somewhere else—as if
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9 January 2026 This is my third article on this journey (see here and here), and the pattern by now is too familiar to be accidental: higher education, once the training ground for argument, has begun to behave like a church that has mislaid its theology and compensated by inventing
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9 January 2026 I framtiden riskerar ideologi styra evidensen och morgondagens beslutsfattare blir oförmögna till kritisk reflektion och kausalt tänkande. Khaled Salih Publicerad 2026-01-09 I en tid då högre utbildning förväntas vara en bastion för kritiskt tänkande och rigorös sanningssökande har Högskolan i Skövde blivit ett alarmerande exempel
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8 January 2026 Human Nature at the Knife’s Edge This is my third article on this journey, and by now the reader will have noticed that the Rushdie affair stubbornly refuses to stay put inside any single category—crime report, culture war, theological tantrum, or “security incident”—because it