Political Violence

A five-part series examining why the countries best endowed with natural resources are so frequently the worst governed, and how the arithmetic of commodity dependence — not culture, not climate, not colonial history alone — explains the pattern.

A four-part examination of how unaccountable power, racial dehumanization, settler colonial logic, and economic imperatives combined to produce systematic violence across five centuries of colonial history.

How the four-factor framework illuminates the ongoing settler colonial project in Palestine, from the 1948 Nakba to the present.

How the Belgian Congo under King Leopold II demonstrated the fusion of unaccountable corporate power with extractive economics, causing an estimated 10 million deaths.

How North American and French Algerian settler colonialism transformed racial dehumanization into systematic policies of expulsion and elimination.