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When Paratroopers Designed to Deter China Get Sent to Minneapolis

Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the 11th Airborne Division

3 hrs ago • hans jonsson

The Arctic Just Got Hot: Eight Nations Tell Trump to Back Off

When dogsled diplomacy meets tariff warfare

3 hrs ago • hans jonsson

When They Came for the Basketball Families

How Six Children Ended Up in a Hospital While America Argued About Sides

8 hrs ago • hans jonsson

The Real Estate Agent of the Apocalypse: When Tariffs Become Territorial Warfare

Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Watch NATO Implode Over an Ice Cube

8 hrs ago • hans jonsson

Missing Plane in Indonesia: What We Know, What We Don’t, and What We Should Be Asking

A passenger plane has disappeared in one of the world’s most treacherous flying environments. Here’s the story behind the story.

Jan 17 • hans jonsson

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The Same People Who Brought You Iraq Are Back (And They Want Iran This Time)

Jun 18, 2025 • hans jonsson

🪨 The Most Dangerous Rock You’ve Never Heard Of (Iran Just Found 7,000 Tons of It.)

Jun 24, 2025 • hans jonsson

Welcome to the United States of Gilead (Population: 50% Second-Class Citizens)

May 30, 2025 • hans jonsson

When Democracy Gets Weird: A Survival Guide for Trump's America

Jun 9, 2025 • hans jonsson

Demolition of Perception

The Maps We Mistake for Mountains: Steve McIntosh and the Institutional Seduction

Or: How Developmental Philosophy Built a Church While Claiming to Transcend Churches

Jan 12 • hans jonsson

I will build my assembly of people

ek = "out" kaleo = "to call" ekklesia = "called-out ones" or "assembly"

Jan 11 • hans jonsson

The Playground of Civilizations

A Comprehensive Dimensional Map of World History for Anyone Who Wants to Start Learning

Jan 2 • hans jonsson

Civics 101: The Architecture of Government

How multiple levels of government create checks on concentrated power

Dec 7, 2025 • hans jonsson

The Hole Through Which Everything Flows

Lets SHOW the propagation by BEING the propagation.

Nov 11, 2025 • hans jonsson

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