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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
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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