"The Overseer Class is a deeply rooted yet approachable analysis of how race in America is often a telemetric shorthand for class and interest, but remains only a shorthand." Grateful for this thoughtful review of THE OVERSEER CLASS in @inkstickmedia.com inkstickmedia.com/steven-thras...
"“The clear winners of a faster, looser acquisition system are military contractors — many of which have publicly advocated for reforms to relax weapons testing and evaluation and other oversight measures designed to reduce costs."
In a new book, journalist Thrasher pulls apart the myth that diversity reforms unjust systems.
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"In Lebanon alone, more than one million people have been displaced by airstrikes and military operations that extended across Beirut, South Lebanon, and the Bekaa Valley."
"We, of course, make war and destroy only for the most idealistic motives: to save democracy, uplift the poor, hunt down demonic rulers, or bring the blessings of the American way of life to the benighted."
"A handful of private AI companies shape the boundaries of sovereign military power. Neither the procurement system nor any other existing institutional framework has resolved who calls the shots."
“I told them to ride slowly and to go straight [to the families] and come back to the center,” said Mohamed Sleiman, the father of Joud and a veteran paramedic. “Five minutes later, they were killed by an Israeli strike.”
Anti-war promises or not, Trump cannot break with the long, lethal history of American empire.
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"Any hope that Saudi Arabia would step in following Afghan Taliban operations against Pakistani military positions quickly dissolved as Riyadh found itself drawn into a crisis of its own within hours."
"Some of the psychological conditions in the Black community can certainly be attributed to present-day racism, as well as to the multigenerational trauma inflicted on the descendants of American slavery."
The US-Israeli war on Iran has led to "cascading" crises for refugees and displaced people across the region, far exceeding early worst-case humanitarian projections.
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The conflict has led to "cascading" crises that far exceeded early worst-case humanitarian projections, says a new report.
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Pleased to be @europeanpressprize.bsky.social nominated with @ahnidzara.bsky.social and Maryam Ashrafi for our reportage on migration, minefields and memory in Bosnia for @inkstickmedia.com
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"I experienced the daily reminders that dominant white society and American laws deemed Black people less than equal. I saw the mental and psychological effects on my community — all the damaged souls. I know that, even today, the legacies remain..."
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"I experienced the daily reminders that dominant white society and American laws deemed Black people less than equal. I saw the mental and psychological effects on my community — all the damaged souls. I know that, even today, the legacies remain..."
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War in the Middle East exposes the limits of a Pakistani-Saudi defense pact.
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For decades, Cuban healthcare workers have helped provide care to people across the world. Washington wants that to end.
A little more than six months since that treaty was signed, both Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have faced military retaliation from longtime regional adversaries. Neither Riyadh nor Islamabad appears prepared to come to the other’s aid.
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In Mexico, more than 132,000 people remain missing as families confront mass graves, forensic backlogs, and a security agenda that prioritizes fentanyl over justice.
In his private diary, Eisenhower reflected that “we helped bring about … the restoration of the Shah to power in Iran and the elimination of Mossadegh… The things we did were ‘covert.’"
"Even if history never truly repeats itself, right now it seems all too appropriate to wonder whether the current US intervention in Iran might indeed be America’s version of the Suez Crisis."
The Latest at Inkstick: Northrop’s ‘Culture Change,’ the US-China AI Race, and More
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"They are among 2,055 people — men, women and children — Israel has killed during its latest war on south Lebanon, which ostensibly aims to weaken Hezbollah. Of that number, at least 88 are medics."
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“Administration after administration discovers Guantanamo and thinks it’s a solution to some problem, but then they have no exit strategy.”
"The Pentagon’s investments in autonomous weapons systems, battlefield AI, and programs like Project Maven, the researchers argue, are not peripheral to American dominance; they are structurally central to it."
"This is the second war between Israel and Hezbollah since 2024. Really, though, today’s war is merely the second act of a conflict that never truly ended the first time around."
"The problem is that the excitement (or, to some, hyperbole) around how AI is shaping warfare paints the technology with broad brush strokes."
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"Across the last six years, Greece has faced a steady stream of allegations that it illegally deports asylum seekers. In some cases, displaced people have been abducted by masked individuals who put them in life rafts and cast them adrift in Turkish waters."
