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Toward a Neuroscience-Grounded Framework for AI in Conflict
The debate about AI and warfare is dominated by two inadequate positions: naive idealism and uncritical embrace.
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Geopolitics
Geopolitics
Diplomatic letters, peace proposals, and international relations for a multipolar world.
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How Pattern Recognition Becomes Evidence
I. What I Know to Be True In 2016, I discovered financial and operational connections between D-Company—a transnational criminal syndicate—and Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), an ultraconservative political party whose supporters have publicly celebrated extrajudicial killings on false accusations
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Questioning My Reality
In retrospect, I should not have been shocked. I had ignored my own instincts for years — partly because of the emotional pressure and dismissal I experienced from people closest to me.
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When a Murder Investigation Borrowed My Identity
On December 4th, 2024, Luigi Mangione killed Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. I had been expecting that something consequential was coming — a global pressure build-up was obvious months before this.
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Building the world's first queryable knowledge graph of 30 years of UN diplomatic history
Generic LLMs can't: Calculate voting correlation across 178 UN resolutions Track how 184 countries voted on specific issues over 30 years Find speeches that reference UNSC Resolution 1325 with sub-second latency and full context Analyze temporal evolution of diplomatic positions using graph relation
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An Open Letter to Benjamin Netanyahu
The tragedy unfolding in Gaza is searing to the human conscience. We appear genetically wired to recoil from such suffering and to reach, however haltingly, for compassion and peace.
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An Open Letter to Volodymyr Zelensky
Your meeting with President Donald Trump and Vice-President J. D. Vance in the White House on February 28, 2025 was a puzzling, thought-provoking spectacle.
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An Open Letter to President Donald J. Trump
If the Abraham Accords had been implemented in both letter and spirit, the Middle East might already be well on the road to peace. Instead, the region is dotted with powder kegs that could ignite at any moment.
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An Open Letter to Ayatollah Khamenei
I write with a heavy heart after the devastating airstrikes of 13 June 2025, in which Israeli aircraft hit dozens of Iranian military and nuclear sites, causing great loss of life--including senior commanders and scientists--in a...
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An Open Letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping
A man finds the ruins of an old city near his hometown. Curious about his ancestors, he begins to excavate. In the ruins, he finds evidence of architecture, engineering, art, and poetry that indicated a civilization led by a community of...
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An Open Letter to Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman
There are people who may resent your country for its role in spreading Wahhabism across the Muslim world, but most of them remain unaware of the extensive efforts you've undertaken to reverse such policies. This transformation is not...
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Peace is Jerusalem
Most civilizations have encountered the dream to harmonize minds at scale but found it to be notoriously hard.
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