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Spyware and Murder: The NSO Group, Governments, and Khashoggi
The efforts to hold the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia accountable for the murder of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in its Istanbul consulate in October 2018 continue. In his complex connubial life, the slain scribbler can now count, not only on efforts made by fiancée Hatice Cengiz in 2020 but his widow Hanan Elatr Khashoggi […]
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Empire, Mortality, and the Multi-Pronged Attack on Humanity
The following is an interview of me done by substacker Unbekoming, originally published with his introduction here. The questions and answers are broad-ranging and allow me to explain decades of my work in many areas of science. A main focus is to understand the Covid period, the so-called COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The main intermingled […]
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Artificial Intelligence, Global Inequality, and the Colonial Machinery of Capital
Artificial intelligence is often presented as a universal breakthrough — a tool that will democratize knowledge, expand opportunity, and usher in a new era of human progress. But AI does not emerge in a vacuum. It is built inside a global order shaped by conquest, extraction, and the long shadow of empire. The world into […]
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The Teacher’s Burden
Teachers have always been society’s most underestimated heroes. They carry the emotional, intellectual, and social development of entire generations—yet they work inside systems that often value credentials more than contribution, compliance more than creativity, and paperwork more than human potential. This essay explores the invisible load teachers carry — a burden that cannot be quantified, […]
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A Moment of Hope in Gaza

Gazan doctors graduate in front of an Al-Shifa Medical Complex building destroyed by Israeli bombing. Photo credit: Al Jazeera On Thursday, December 25, 2025, during Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians, 168 students graduated from medical school, in Gaza. Wearing their white coats, they stood in front of the ruined façade of what was formerly Gaza’s […]
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Combatting Antimicrobial-Resistant Infections

“The Good Virus is the most important documentary film I have seen in years.” Karl Drlica, Prof. of Microbiology, Biochemistry, and Molecular Genetics, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University New from Bullfrog Films, The Good Virus explores the global efforts of leading scientists combatting one of the most pressing health challenges of our time: the […]
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Epstein, Dershowitz, and the Israel Lobby
Conman, convict, paedophile and a life terminated in circumstances of purported suicide. The list for Jeffrey E. Epstein, figure of cosmic social and political influence in the United States, is long. Trafficking in female flesh for his extensive client list, lubricated by his lover Ghislaine Maxwell, tends to be the crowning feature of most discussions […]
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Distinguishing Chinese Countermeasures from US Sanctions

On 26 December, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) announced countermeasures against US military-related companies and senior executives. Most western mass media has been referring to China as imposing sanctions rather than countermeasures, but the distinction is important. The US uses sanctions offensively, as a punitive measure to achieve […]

