Sitemap - 2024 - Inkstick’s Substack

Creativity is Human.

LDS Church’s Investment Manager — Learning to Love the Bomb?

Trump vs. the Climate Movement, US Arms to Israel, Greece’s Hard Borders, and More

Happy Holidays from Inkstick — Plus, Highlights from 2024

Critical State: Trespassers Will Be Celebrated

Lebanon’s Midwives, Nuclear Misnomers, SpaceX in Texas, and More

Critical State: Climbing Nietzsche Mountain

Utah Quietly Downgrades Northrop Grumman Worker Death Charges

US Border Hardliners, Terrorism Lists, Northrop Deaths, and More

Critical State: Romanian Rumble

Meet Our New Reporting Fellows from Connecticut and Missouri

South China Sea Tensions, Cuba’s Grim Future, Trust in Governments, and More

Critical State: Who Pays?

Greece’s Exiles, German Reunification, Climate Violence, and More

Critical State: AI-ndangered

We're Dedicated to Thorough and Ethical Journalism. Will You Support Us?

Sudanese in Lebanon, Gaza Winter, Utah Peace Institute, and More

How a New Peacebuilding Institute and an Old Missile Plant Came to be Neighbors in Utah

Critical State: Death and the Desert

Tunisia’s Political Prisoners, Cluster Munitions, Georgia Elections, and More

A Microdose of Local Election News from across the MIC

Critical State: Postcolonialism on the Silver Screen

Democracy needs news. News needs you.

UN Peacekeepers, Child Marriage in Bangladesh, COP29 in Azerbaijan, and More

Critical State: Green Eagle’s Not Landed

Veterans for a Ceasefire, Project 2025, Syrians in Lebanon, and More

Critical State: Big Mac, Small World

Greece Protests, Fixing US Diplomacy, the Nuclear Taboo, and More

Critical State: Heroism over Hope

Palestinian Refugees, India’s Diamond City, West Bank Demolitions, and More

Critical State: Cry for Me, Argentina

Lebanon War, Revisiting Iraq Invasion, the Draft, and More

Critical State: Wilders and Out

Lebanon’s Children, Nuclear Deterrence, Just Climate, and More

Meet the Retired Defense Contractor Pushing Green Jobs at the Machinists

Critical State: Refugees in the UK

Ukraine Landmines, Kazakhstan Nuclear, AI Weapons, and More

Critical State: Taking a Hike

Harris's Nuclear Policy, Europe’s Borders, Far Right in Austria, and More

Critical State: Squirrel This Away

Philippines Scam Centers, US Migration, Lebanon on the Brink, and More

Critical State: Plotting Potential

India-Pakistan VR, Kurdish Shadow Media, Bangladesh Unrest, and More

Northrop Grumman’s “Secret Sauce” to Getting Missile Contracts, According to its Attorney

Critical State: Danger for Doctors

GMO Corn in Mexico, Harris on Foreign Policy, US Nuclear Production, and More

Critical State: Border Battles

Greece Wildfires, Lebanon’s Claymakers, UK Riots, and More

Come cover my beat! New fellowship for field reporters for the military-industrial complex

Critical State: Orbán’s Occupation

Lebanon Blast, Gaza’s Lost Generation, Jerusalem Settlements, and More

Critical State: Dream Home?

Moncada Anniversary, Netanyahu at Congress, Lebanon Vacation, and More

Critical State: Hidden in the Countryside

Greece Migrant Shipwreck, Project 2025, Indo-Chinese Relationships, and More

Critical State: Being Belgian

Meet the Democratic Socialist Winning in a Lockheed Town

RIMPAC, Israeli Settlements, Books at War, and More

Critical State: Counting Mortality

Refugees in Cyprus, Israeli Settler Attacks, NATO-Ukraine, and More

Heat as a Threat, Gaza Songs, Election Security, and More

Gaza Hospitals, Defense Spending, AI-Generated War Crimes, and More

Lebanon’s Druze, Kharkiv Attacks, Women in Negotiations, and More

The Damascus Accident, NATO at 75, Conspiracy Theories, and More

Of Tithes and Nukes, Lebanon Motorbike Crackdown, US-China AI, and More

Watermelon Shirt at Northrop Grumman? Inside Gaza Dissent at Weapons Plants

Cracks in the 'sin screen': the link between Mormon tithes and nuclear weapons

Feminism on Genocide, Israel-Lebanon Conflict, New Great Game, and More

Guam in the Crosshairs, Mexico Gun Violence, Gaza Protests, and More

India Press Freedoms, Rafah Attacks, War Fiction, and More

Lebanon Protests, Cyprus Pushbacks, Arms Control, and More

Abortion in Poland, Environmental Nationalism, US Campus Protests, and More

India’s Importance, Mexico’s Feminist Foreign Policy, Misogyny as Ideology, and More

Creative Capsule Reflections – Fake Drugs in Kenya and Uganda

Creative Capsule Reflections — Where Language Fails

Creative Capsule Reflections — The Black Sea

‘Emergency’ Spending, Pinochet’s Deadly Trail, Arrests in Jordan, and More

Creative Capsule Reflections — Making War Feel Good, Island Style

Google suppressed a map of US defense contractor plants. Until we asked why.

Gaza’s Shifa Hospital, Emigration in Ecuador, Turkey’s Local Vote, and More

Syrians in Lebanon, Gaza’s Female Prisoners, Greece’s LGBTQ Community, and More

Mexico Militarization, Gaza’s Deadly Aid Crisis, Sanction Warfare, and More

Creative Capsule Reflections - Lebanon

Syria Withdrawal, Europe’s Far Right, Oppenheimer Mania, and More

The Not-War in Gaza, Ukraine’s Muslim Soldiers, Europe’s Ethno-Borders, and More

AI War Weapons, a Frozen Cypriot Town, Disarmament at the Oscars, and More

Ukraine War Fiction, South Caucasus Unrest, Piñera’s Legacy, and More

When a Lockheed job was (almost) better than a Caribbean romance

Turkey’s Earthquake Legacy, Deterring China, Pakistan Elections, and More

Failed Afghanistan Sanctions, Nigeria Kidnappings, Anti-Nukes Movement, and More

The Rest of Us - Obiora Ikoku

Everlasting War on Terror, Gaming International Relations, Gaza Genocide Debate, and More

Gaza’s Futile White Flags, Iran-Pakistan Tensions, Hamas in Lebanon, and More

Philippines' War on Terror, Far-Right Conspiracy Theories, EU Migration Crackdown, and More

Gaza Education, Ukraine’s Chechen Fighters, Deterrence in the Middle East, and More

Cuba Embargo, Elections in the Shadow of AI, Resisting Bigotry, and More