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A long-form analytical pub. for those who find the consensus explanation insufficient. Working at the intersection of systems thinking, political economy, history, and infrastructure — tracing the architectures behind the headlines-LIVE NOW: TRUMP'S WAR

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The Farsi Shells: Libya, Western unIntelligence, and the Continued Framing of a Nation

The making of the Western case for an Iranian chemical weapons program, and how it can't survive contact with a calendar -- In 2011, Libyan rebels…

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Conflict Ledger of the Body: Human Health Costs of Pax Israelica and the War Against Iran

The companion to Conflict Ecology of Domination. This essay documents the human ledger: the wounds that do not heal, the organs that fail, the minds…

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Two Fatwas: Iran's Ignored History of Sacrificial Restraint

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The Iran War Ledger: Pt1. Comprehensive History of American and Iranian Conflict

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Why Americans Don’t Just ‘Do Something’: A letter to everyone in the blast radius

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The God Squad and the God King: How the Iran War and Trump Regime Handed BP the Gulf of Mexico

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Conflict Ledger of the Body: Human Health Costs of Pax Israelica and the War Against Iran

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America, Pax Israelica, and the War Against Iran

The Peninsula of Terror: GCC States, Oil, Wahhabism, and America

A structural history of the GCC from Dilmun to the Burj Khalifa, through colonial lines to the client states, the kafala system, the Wahhabi export, and…

13 hrs ago

American Made: The Supply Chain of Death

Tracing white phosphorus from the Holocaust through to Israel’s many genocides; and from quarries on illegally occupied land, to the shittiest place in…

Apr 13 • Edge Notes

The Farsi Shells: Libya, Western unIntelligence, and the Continued Framing of a Nation

The making of the Western case for an Iranian chemical weapons program, and how it can't survive contact with a calendar -- In 2011, Libyan rebels…

Apr 12 • Edge Notes

Conflict Ledger of the Body: Human Health Costs of Pax Israelica and the War Against Iran

The companion to Conflict Ecology of Domination. This essay documents the human ledger: the wounds that do not heal, the organs that fail, the minds…

Apr 7 • Edge Notes

Conflict Ecology of Domination: Environmental Costs of Pax Israelica and the War Against Iran

Analysis of the Environmental and Ecological Destruction of Pax Israelica and the War Against Iran. A deeply-researched essay examining how…

Apr 3 • Edge Notes

American Christian Nationalism

Desecration of the Tomb and the Resurrection of the Christian Zionist Death Cult

Bearing witness to the betrayal of Christ, kinship, and memory in real time. Spanning Jerusalem, Lebanon, Iran, Israel, the Pentagon, and Afghanistan…

Apr 6 • Edge Notes

The Secretary of War: Pete Hegseth’s Entire Biography Was Always a Credential — Just Not the Kind That Should Command a Military

His love affairs with Gitmo, and what he wants to do with it. A comprehensive biographical and analytical account of Pete Hegseth, Secretary of the…

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Mar 25 • Edge Notes

The Terrifying Truth About Markwayne Mullin

Markwayne Mullin DHS Al-Qaeda Al-Sharaa pipeline, American Jihad Diplomacy. A plumber from Oklahoma with no military, intelligence, or foreign policy…

Mar 22 • Edge Notes

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How the Secretary of War Lobbied on Behalf of a Foreign Corporation to Extinguish a Species and the Entire Administration Profited At Your Expense

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Why Americans Don’t Just ‘Do Something’: A letter to everyone in the blast radius

What happens when a state systematically dismantles the mechanisms of accountability and conditions for collective action

Mar 29 • Edge Notes

Cost of War II: Look What You Could Have Had

America spent $20 trillion on GWOT to buy the Taliban's air force and an international heroin pipeline. Here's what America could have built instead.

Mar 20 • Edge Notes

Cost of War I: Spend It Wisely, Right?!

What $20 trillion buys when you spend it on war. What it builds when you don't.

Mar 17 • Edge Notes

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The Prophet Penalty: Malthus, Cassandra, and the Paradox of Averted Catastrophe

The Prophet Penalty argues that public life is governed by more than one kind of warning failure. We know the familiar form: a warning is ignored…

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The Machinery of Hatred

From Pattern Recognition to Persecution

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The Manufacture of Hatred

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