Current News and Commentary
Why Do Islamic Republics Condemn Atheism at Home… but Partner with Atheist China Abroad?
Why do Islamic republics that prohibit atheism inside their own borders embrace the strategic friendship of officially atheist Communist China without theological discomfort? ”
Holy War, Earthly Interests. Three Imperialisms and One God
The current conflict involving Iran, Israel, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Gaza, and the United States shows what happens when modern states possess advanced weapons but ancient sacred narratives still command the political imagination. In June 2026, Israel-Hezbollah fighting, U.S.-Iran tensions, and ceasefire negotiations remain entangled in one regional crisis. But to understand this conflict only as a current war is to misunderstand it entirely. This is not primarily a war. It is an architecture.
India and China: A Territorial Dispute Without the Doctrine of Revelation
“Truth about the world is always concrete because reality is concrete. Only within formal logical systems does truth become tautological. Outside logic and mathematics, truth is not self-contained. It must collide with reality.”
From Cheap Oil to Burning Towers,and How America Armed Its Future Enemies
The modern Middle East stands as one of the greatest examples in history of how theology, oil, and geopolitics can combine to derail the natural political evolution of entire societies. For nearly eighty years, the United States and Europe pursued a foreign policy built on a profound contradiction. In the name of fighting atheistic communism and protecting strategic interests, the West empowered conservative theological regimes, financed Islamist forces, and undermined secular nationalist states across the Middle East. The result was not stability, democracy, or peace. The result was oil shocks, endless wars, transferred wealth on a colossal scale, global terrorism, and the destruction of entire civilizations that may otherwise have evolved differently under the pressure of modernization and technology.
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