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• How (Desperate) Western Media Manufactures Consent For Iran War | Thomas S. Karat

  Thomas S. Karat argues Western media are actively manufacturing consent for possible U.S. attacks on Iran through synchronized linguistic framing, artificial urgency, and selective omission. Drawing on an automated analysis of some 230 international headlines, he identifies a 48-hour convergence (27

• Insider EXPOSES West’s Narcissist Propaganda | Felix Marquardt
• Sweden: The New Frontline Against Russia | Torbjörn Sassersson

  Torbjörn Sassersson contends that Sweden’s 2024 NATO accession and a U.S. defense cooperation agreement have reshaped national security perceptions, largely through sustained fear‑based messaging since 2014. He argues that popular sentiment now conflates NATO protection with heightened vulnerability

• The Naked Hegemon: US Fails to Project Power in Iran | T. Karat & R. Rupp

  Rainer Rupp contends that contemporary U.S. coercion of Iran relies less on overwhelming military force than on economic siege and cognitive warfare, and that traditional power projection is increasingly ineffective. Drawing on past carrier buildups (2007, 2012) he argues the current U.S. armada is

• Insider Reveals Insane Nuke Industry Facts | Greg Mello

  Greg Mello argues that the contemporary U.S. nuclear enterprise is structurally weakened despite political rhetoric for rapid expansion. Drawing on 35 years of insider activism, he highlights ballooning costs, privatized production networks, and loss of tacit knowledge that make large-scale warhead

• Eastern Europe Is Planning A Future Beyond The EU & NATO | Prof. Ivo Yotsov

  Professor Ivo Yotsov advances "new structural realism" to explain contemporary geopolitics by incorporating history, civilization, collective identity, and non-state actors into traditional realist metrics. Drawing on his Bulgarian naval background, he argues that material counts (tanks, GDP) are ne

• USA and Israel are Panicking | Ex-Spy Rainer Rupp

  Rainer Rupp argues that repeated U.S. threats against Iran have failed because strategic, geographical, and political realities make military coercion costlier and riskier than Washington and its Israeli ally acknowledge. He emphasizes Iran’s legally permitted civilian nuclear activities under the N

• The Rapid Sovietization of Western Democracies | Dr. Peter Lavelle & Dr. John Laughland

  At the heart of this conversation Lavelle and Laughland critique Western intellectual and political conformity, arguing that democracies have shifted from open inquiry to relentless narrative control. Lavelle recounts his move from academia and finance into Russian media, attributing his reassessmen

• Separatist Violence Returns To Thailand’s Deep South | Najmee

  Najmee recounts the armed attack on her family’s PTT-branded petrol station in Narathiwat, situating the incident within the long-running Malay-Muslim insurgency in Thailand’s three southern provinces (Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat). She describes the midnight assault, arson, and threats of further bomb

• Ex-NATO Chairman: USA & Ukraine Proxy War Are Killing The Alliance | Gen. Harald Kujat

  General Harald Kujat argues that ending the Ukraine war and crafting a durable European security order require pragmatic, bilateral settlements that address territorial claims, NATO accession, force levels, and enforceable security guarantees. Drawing on past NATO–Russia cooperation, Kujat criticize

• Freedom of Speech Punished Harder Than Crime | Dr. Juan Branco (Lawyer of Nathalie Yamb)

  Dr. Juan Branco contends that the EU’s sanctions regime has evolved into an extrajudicial instrument that punishes speech and restricts basic rights without meaningful judicial safeguards. Using the case of Swiss–Cameroonian intellectual Nathalie Yamb, Branco shows how opaque Council decisions—often

• How to Win against the State | S & V Rusing

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