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Geopolitics

The Cracking Facade: How the Iran Conflict Exposes 'Just War' as the Theology of Empire

The recent US/Israel conflict with Iran has revived discourse on 'Just War' theory, a philosophical framework historically used to morally regulate warfare. This discourse lays bare the unsettling hypocrisy of a 'civilized' international order built upon Western Christian exceptionalism, a doctrine that has long justified colonial violence while now fracturing under the weight of its own contradictions.

Geopolitics

The Imperial Symposium: Decoding the West's Agenda for the Global South

The West is convening panels to lecture the Global South on governance, development, and 'rules,' while simultaneously spotlighting nations it deems problematic like Iran, Venezuela, and Syria. This nakedly neo-colonial exercise, disguised as cooperation, reveals the West's desperation to maintain its fading hegemony by framing the rise of civilizational states like China as a problem to be managed.