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Fresh Hell
October 08, 2021
The United Nations & Co. The United Nations General Assembly launched into its seventy-sixth session last month, an interminable parade of proclamations and resolutions and revisions to previous proclamations and resolutions that will set the stage for Sustainable ...

The Toll of Toil
October 05, 2021
On August 29, as United States’ twenty-year war in Afghanistan lurched to a close, the Pentagon fired a Hellfire missile from a drone to strike suspected Islamic State militants. The missile used in the airstrike, an R9X, has been touted variously for its ability to pinpoint ...

Fresh Hell
October 01, 2021
By Your Side Earlier this year, a British police officer kidnapped, raped, and strangled thirty-three-year-old Sarah Everard before incinerating her corpse and dumping it in a pond. That officer, sworn to uphold fundamental human rights and accord equal respect to all people in ...

A Contemporary Novel
heeds no council, offers no rawsolutions, is part and parcel of actionsthat were not taken. Finding out who the killer isis not the point of the murderin the opening scene. For the third time my handsalter the female protagonistbefore the novel even begins. In her ...

Body Horror
September 28, 2021
In April, my city was occupied—again. It’s a bodily thing: you see soldiers with the same weapons used in mass shootings cradled in their arms, you see their armored transports camouflaged for occupied deserts, and you are overcome. To walk to the grocery store means ...