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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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Updated Analysis: 29 November 2025
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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
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24 November 2025 In two articles, I attempt to understand not only what happened on October 7th, 2023, but also what followed: the subsequent wars in which Israel has been drawn into several fronts at once. My longstanding interest lies in institutional crisis, failure, and recovery, especially under the extreme
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23 November 2025 The novel begins instantly with the protagonist’s sudden, brutal arrest at his home by soldiers, marking the immediate descent into tragedy. Dragged blindfolded to the Sulaymaniyah intelligence “Black Site,” he endures isolation, severe heat torture, and harsh interrogation, made worse by the revelation that a captured
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By Khaled Salih 22 November 2025 Israeli’s Infinite Game visualised by NotebookLM Let me be unconventional The cover of a primer, Sālim in the Army, used to teach reading and writing to Syrian soldiers. It takes a truly Ba’athist level of neurological confusion to name your cartoon soldier
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By Khaled Salih 21 November 2025 HUSSEIN ABOUBAKR MANSOUR has named a genuine malady in our public talk: he shows how terms like “Nazi” and “genocide” undergo a “complete functional inversion” and become “liturgical triggers” that license cruelty rather than describe reality. He sketches the “Imago Nazi” and installs a
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By Khaled Salih Let us begin where the fever actually lies: not in a point‑scoring quarrel with “Orientalism,” but in the high‑voltage room where its foundational arguments are subjected to a battery of powerful analytical frameworks, and its gears and pulleys laid bare as the thing they are—
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Re-produced by Helena Lindholm and Nina Gren