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16 December 2025 A Necessary Voice in an Age of Cowardice There are moments in the life of a society when the moral compass spins so wildly that clarity itself feels like an act of rebellion. The shaking spectacle surrounding the Swedish Koran burnings was precisely such a moment, a
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16 December 2025 Kurdish Dancing as Resistance: From Govend to Ballet. When I heard the real on Instagram for the first time, these are some of the raw emotions that washed over me: A deep ache in my chest from the very first lines about the mountains and ancient land—
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15 December 2025 The Codification of a New Reality Geopolitics is not concerned with sentiment, but with the immutable realities of geography, power, and interest. We should not consider the 2025 National Security Strategy as a future-oriented political sentiment, but as the formal codification of a global power shift
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11 December 2025 The Palestinian Curriculum: Incubator of Rejectionism It is a peculiar and persistent delusion among the diplomatic salons of Brussels and the editorial boards of the West that the Palestinian Authority represents a secular, moderate bulwark against the theocratic mania of Hamas. This is not merely a misreading
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10 December 2025 Source: Memri Angels Refuse to Disarm A sheer, celestial irony is that on 6 December 2025, the strategic debate surrounding the continuation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict reached a surreal crescendo, with the voices of both sides broadcasting simultaneously from irreconcilably different realities—one must truly admire
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9 December 2025 The Finite Trap of Modern Success Our modern world has become dangerously infatuated with a narrow and brittle conception of intelligence. From the classroom to the boardroom, we are conditioned to value a single mode of thought: a logical, procedural, and algorithmic prowess geared towards standardised tests
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8 December 2025 The Dawn of Rojava The Fourth Despatch This is the fourth and culminating despatch in a series that began with an attempt to find a new pattern for a cursed landscape. In “A New Pattern for a Cursed Landscape,” “The Song of the Oppressor,” and “The Arab
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4 December 2025 Abstract This study is not a polite contribution to “Islamophobia studies”; it is an autopsy. Taking the vantage point of a fighter pilot rather than a desk-bound bureaucrat, I subject the European Islamophobia Reports to fourteen independent analytical strikes—from causal science and epistemology to cognitive
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3 December 2025 Abusing correlation as causation In this ninth essay, I climb back into the cockpit over the familiar airspace of the European Islamophobia Reports, this time with Judea Pearl’s Ladder of Causation wired directly into the instruments and an odd contact—the Emissary—reappearing on the radar.
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29 November 2025 To be taken prisoner is to learn, at bayonet-point, how thin the membrane of civilisation really is. In these pages, the courteous fictions of “law and order,” “resistance,” and “security” are stripped down to their steel bones, and we are left with two men staring back
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25 November 2025 In this essay, I bring together the core insights of my two earlier articles and reshape them into a single, chronologically coherent story: from Israel’s cognitive collapse and institutional failures on October 7th, 2023, through the cascading wars on multiple fronts, to the painful process of