Tag: control
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The Illusion of Control
The very definition of war has changed over the course of history. Today, many wars are unmanned with no foreign element on your soil. There is an intense digital component to today’s warfare—the speedy spread of information, the even faster propagation of misinformation, the real keyboard warriors versus the bots. People of past wars would…
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Empire’s Desperate Chokehold
People don’t become zealous without good reason. Fanaticism is born of years of deprivation, years of rights being systematically trampled, and years of watching others live comfortable lives while being indoctrinated to believe they are lesser beings. The colonial projects spanning centuries across the world have been demonstrations of unadulterated raw power concentrated in the…