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#2986: China and Russia's High-Speed Pipeline to Iran
How China and Russia resupplied Iran in weeks, not months — and what it means for US power.
#2876: When Iran Recruits Your Iran Experts
How a DIA contractor with top secret clearance gave Iran dossiers on US intelligence officers — and why cultural expertise can be a vulnerability.
#2868: Measuring Hidden Opinions in Iran and China
How researchers use digital snowball sampling and list experiments to gauge real public sentiment under authoritarian rule.
#2630: Ahmad Vahidi: Iran's Most Dangerous Insider
The IRGC's new commander is wanted by Interpol for the 1994 AMIA bombing. Here's why he matters now.
#2588: The Golden Crust Ceasefire
A ceasefire is declared, but threats, strikes, and secret deployments suggest the conflict is far from over.
#2552: The IAEA's Only Weapon: Credibility
The IAEA has fewer inspectors, less access, and more enrichment to verify in Iran than ever before.
#2532: When the Internet Goes Dark: Censorship's Unseen Consequences
From Iran’s historic blackout to UK age verification laws — the global picture on pornography regulation is more complex than you think.
#2522: How Science Bridges Hostile Borders
Ireland, Slovenia, and Spain push to exclude Israel from Horizon Europe—while history shows science cooperation works across enemy lines.
#2519: Who Really Blinks in the Iran-U.S. Standoff?
Iran offers to reopen the Strait of Hormuz—but only if the U.S. ends its blockade. Is either side ready to blink?
#2488: Hybrid Pipelines for Entity Resolution
Classic NLP pipelines vs. lightweight LLMs for handling Hezbollah’s half-dozen spellings.
#2416: Ghost Murmur: Heartbeat Detection or Disinformation?
Did the CIA locate an airman by his heartbeat from 40 miles away? We examine the physics and the story.
#2395: Engineering a News Pipeline for the Edges
Building a news pipeline that goes beyond headlines to reveal underreported developments in Israel-Iran coverage—without amplifying noise.
#2376: When States Mine Their Way Out of Sanctions
How Iran turns cheap electricity into cryptocurrency to bypass sanctions—and the tradeoffs of this digital alchemy.
#2367: Iran's Contradictory Signals: Strategy or Chaos?
How Iran uses contradictory signals to shape its adversaries' decisions, and why this strategy is so hard to decode.
#2305: Ceasefire or Chess Move? Decoding the US-Iran-Israel Triangle
Is the Lebanon ceasefire a diplomatic breakthrough or a strategic maneuver? A deep dive into the hidden dynamics between the US, Iran, and Israel.
#2259: The Ceasefire That Wasn't: Hezbollah's Rocket Test
A U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon is immediately tested by Hezbollah rockets, while the U.S. announces a global campaign against...
#2244: When "Global" Recession Means Rich Countries Sneeze
The IMF calls it a global recession when growth dips below 1%—but India grew 6.4% in 2009's "worst recession in decades." Who actually counts?
#2212: The Cost of Winning Every Battle
Israel's military dominance masks a strategic trap: each victory costs more than the last, and the enemy keeps rebuilding. A pattern that repeats a...
#2210: When Every Interceptor Fired Is a Data Point
When Iran launches 574 ballistic missiles, the interceptors Israel fires back tell a story—and adversaries are listening. How open-source intellige...
#2209: Two Wars, One Airspace
The US and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury together—but they're fighting for completely different goals. Islamabad exposed why.
#2202: April Twenty-First: Israel's Ceasefire Collapse Moment
As Iran's ceasefire with Israel expires on Yom Hazikaron, the IDF signals maximum readiness through deliberate leaks while Netanyahu hints at "othe...
#2201: The UK's Impossible Choice in Trump's Iran War
Britain is caught between US military demands and European diplomatic norms—and the fracture could reshape the transatlantic alliance for a generat...
#2200: Reading the Geopolitical Forecast in Oil Prices
When markets spike on breaking news, which price signals actually tell you what traders believe will happen next—and which ones are already priced in?
#2176: Geopol Forecast: How will the Iran-Israel war evolve following the failure of...
A geopolitical simulation reveals why the Pakistan-brokered ceasefire is a "loaded spring"—and what happens when it breaks in the next 10 days.