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Volume XXIVAugust 21

In-Space Nuclear Propulsion, The Current Outlook With a Historical Overview • Piaget in Texas: Why Logic Loses to Memes • Silenced Voices: Power, War and Representation • China’s Opportunistic Approach to Trump

From the frontlines of Gaza to the frontiers of space, the world is confronting crises both human and technological. In Gaza, civilians endure the devastation of war yet remain absent from the diplomatic conversations that decide their fate, trapped between Hamas’ authoritarian control, Israel’s military operations, and a Palestinian Authority struggling for legitimacy. Meanwhile, across the globe, China is quietly turning Trump’s trade battles into an opportunity, using tariff skirmishes to bolster long-term economic resilience while the U.S. stumbles under consumer pain. Back home, Texas’ Republican-led redistricting fight sparks a political chess game with national reverberations, as Democratic countermeasures in California reveal the absurd theater of modern gerrymandering. And while these geopolitical and domestic tensions unfold, humanity’s gaze stretches outward: in-space nuclear propulsion is inching closer to reality, promising faster travel to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, even as we wrestle with earthly conflicts.

Volume XXIJuly 23

My Last Ride Across Ukraine, via Moldova & Transnistria • New Deals, Old Threats • CPI Saw That Coming: Trump, Tariffs, and the Fed’s Tightrope • Calculated Chaos: Hamas's War and Strategic Calculation • Executive Order Weekly Report - Week of July 3, 2025

From rising prices and slashed green energy subsidies to erratic support for Ukraine and strategic defiance in Gaza, the Trump administration’s summer agenda is rewriting the rules of global engagement. A cyclist’s quiet mission through Europe offers a poignant counterpoint to the noise—while inflation ticks up, allies scramble for clarity, and executive orders reveal a White House straining to balance politics, power, and perception.

Volume XXJuly 15

Tariffs, Threats, and Transatlantic Tensions • Projekt 2029: Leaked Plans of Germany’s Far-Right AfD to Grasp Power • The Rightsizing Racket: How Bureaucracy Replaces Benefits • Who’s in Charge? Trump’s Ukraine Whiplash Leaves Europe Guessing • Blood in the Hills: Settler Violence in the West Bank • Executive Order Report: Week of 06/30/2025

This volume explores the intersection of authoritarian ambition and transatlantic instability, highlighting Trump's tariff threats straining U.S.–EU ties and the far-right AfD's bid for power in Germany. We examine the erosion of public support through bureaucratic "rightsizing" and the confusion in U.S. foreign policy on Ukraine. Additionally, we address escalating settler violence in Palestine and the government's inadequate response to environmental crises in our Executive Order Report.

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