"Even if [Trump] simply persists in his policies for another 37 months, his impact on the American version of a world order will undoubtedly prove so profound that it will strain the limits of language."

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“The United States is everywhere and nowhere in Latin America these days,” I wrote for @inkstickmedia.com. U.S. security policy is “stunningly aggressive.” But in other ways, such as foreign aid and economic integration, “the United States has departed the field.”

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"More than half of that trillion is going to go to contractors, large and small, but the big payoff will be from Golden Dome, which every scientist who is not on the payroll of the industry says is unworkable in the form they’re promising." inkstickmedia.com/the-year-of-...

As international donors debate whether to engage or isolate the Taliban, millions of Afghan civilians are left to endure hunger, homelessness, and a future with shrinking options.

"International support for displaced people tends to fade as crises stretch on and the challenges morph from those associated with erecting tents and latrines into more complex ones involving opportunities for children to go to school and for adults to find work."

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"The New Year came to Gaza with the sound of wind and bombings, not fireworks. On the edge of the camp east of Deir al-Balah, where the sand turns to mud with the first hard rain, Sabreen Abu Jriban’s tent shook all night."

"But a quest to subjugate Latin America — 30 countries with a combined population of well over 600 million — through the application of military force and coercive intervention will almost certainly incur costs, both economic and political, far in excess of any gains to be had."

The New START nuclear arms reduction treaty between the United States and Russia is slated to end on Feb. 5, 2026. What will it mean for a world increasingly engulfed in conflict? inkstickmedia.com/what-will-th...

The rise of extremist meme coins is part of a broader crypto culture that has long tolerated misogyny, racism, and conspiracy theories.

While superpowers continue to negotiate trade wars over technology, the rest of the world has quietly entered a new state of systemic exploitation: algorithmic neo-colonialism that allows tech companies to compile wealth from the Global South's data. inkstickmedia.com/in-the-data-...

"While the majority of the GOP continues to stand by Israel with unquestioning allegiance, a shift has happened in the party so severe that it promises to break some of the foundational relationships that have ensured the party’s ascendency."

A recent report by @globalextremism.bsky.social finds that so‑called “meme coins” have become a lucrative vehicle for far‑right propaganda, Nazi symbolism, and racist messaging, particularly as the Trump administration embraces crypto‑friendly policies.

"Three-quarters of the world’s forcibly displaced people live in countries that are heavily impacted by climate change, a reflection of the fact that the vast majority of refugees and other humanitarian migrants live in or next to their conflict-battered home countries."

"What permits this? Impunity is not merely a void where the law disappears. It is a deliberate rearrangement of accountability."

"The United States is everywhere and nowhere in Latin America these days — a bull in a China shop and a great disappearing act all in one. During Trump’s first term, he showed little interest in the Americas."

For Palestinian families in Gaza, 2026 arrives as a date on a screen, not a future.

A new report says Trump's crypto-friendly policies have helped neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and other extremists make large sums of money. inkstickmedia.com/deep-dive-ho...

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"The core contradiction is between a declared desire to increase US influence in the region and a simultaneous pattern of engaging in bluster, threat, and outright violence that seems certain to reduce US soft power and turn other Western Hemisphere nations against us politically."

"The New Year came to Gaza with the sound of wind and bombings, not fireworks. On the edge of the camp east of Deir al Balah, where the sand turns to mud with the first hard rain, Sabreen Abu Jriban’s tent shook all night. She lay awake, listening to thunder and shelling."

"The trial of 24 aid workers in Greece shows how far EU countries are willing to go in its crackdown on solidarity."

"What surprised me about the tech world was that I knew they were going to brag about their technology, overstate what it could do, and minimize the harms of automated warfare. But I didn’t know the leaders were so unhinged. You know, 'I want to live forever.' 'I’m going to colonize space.''"

Critics say the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda is a “nightmare” brought about by unfettered mass surveillance and unchecked artificial intelligence. inkstickmedia.com/what-will-un...

"As the trial of two dozen humanitarian volunteers continues in Greece, I keep returning to the same question: By what legal maneuvers has humanitarian assistance been reframed as criminal conduct?" inkstickmedia.com/in-europes-w...

"Both of Iraqi Kurdistan's main parties fought for decades in the face of oppression and violence at the hands of the central government in Baghdad, including dictator Saddam Hussein’s genocidal Anfal campaign in 1988."

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -- President Eisenhower.

"As for politicizing the military, you need look no further than the Trump version of political theater — National Guard deployments to Democratic-run cities on his shitlist."

As the year of the Trillion-Dollar US military budget begins, @tkbarnes.bsky.social & @hurwitz.bsky.social speak to William D. Hartung about the new book he co-authored, Trump, the military industrial complex, and the forever wars: inkstickmedia.com/the-year-of-...

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The top-10 most-read reported pieces Inkstick published in 2025.

“Increasingly, climate change is both magnifying the underlying drivers of conflict and striking the people fleeing war perniciously hard.” Read @jmhattem.bsky.social's new excerpt from his new book on refugees, climate disasters, and movement in a warming world:

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"After fighting for four years and sacrificing 400,000 lives during World War II, Washington captured vital bastions at both ends of the vast Eurasian land mass and spent the next 40 years of the Cold War ensuring its control of that strategic continent with circles of steel ."

For a variety of reasons, refugees may be the most vulnerable victims of climate change Can they outrun both war and disasters? Excerpt from SHELTER FROM THE STORM is up today in @inkstickmedia.com inkstickmedia.com/can-refugees...

"People fleeing warzones may sometimes successfully outrun the bullets. But disasters do not stop at the border and often follow people into refugee camps." Read an excerpt of Julian Hattem’s new book, ‘Shelter from the Storm,’ which will be out tomorrow with @thenewpress.bsky.social

From Marvel to Musk: Inkstick’s Most-Read Commentary of 2025

"As countries around the world join the crackdown on Palestine solidarity, legal experts and free speech watchdogs warn of consequences that could reverberate for years. Last October, UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression Irene Khan warned of a “global crisis of freedom of expression.'"

From Gaza to DC: Inkstick’s Most-Read Reportage of 2025

"Both proximity and resistance define San Diego’s Barrio Logan. It is a place pressed against naval shipyards, fenced in by freeways, and crowned by the Coronado Bridge. For decades, the community has lived with the noise, the pollution, and the promises that never quite came true."

"Donald Trump says he's against endless wars, but the US is still launching strikes in Somalia."

"For a Trump administration hoping to get drugs and crime off US streets, military action in Venezuela is likely to backfire, further destabilizing a region key to US interests while inflicting unnecessary suffering and failing to achieve its stated objectives." inkstickmedia.com/trumps-venez...

"I sat by the window, hoping for some relief from the noise of my thoughts, when gunfire suddenly cut through them. Looking up, I saw a quadcopter drone hovering low above our neighborhood. My heart jolted. It was the first time I had seen it this close."

'Vandenberg Space Force Base, “the missile capital of the free world,” is the only place in the US where intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) launch. It was claimed by the Air Force in 1956 and “designed to fire in anger at Russia” in the event of nuclear war.'