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The Silent War for Submarine Cables

The Hidden Nervous System of the Digital Economy In the popular imagination, the internet is often depicted as an intangible cloud floating above the planet. The physical reality, however, is very different. Beneath the world’s oceans lies a vast network…

Chile, the submarine cable, and the strategic competition between the United States and China

“In the 21st century, whoever controls the flows of data controls the architecture of power.” In public debate, submarine cables often appear as technical projects associated with connectivity, digital commerce or telecommunications modernization. However, behind these invisible routes under the…

Civilized Masks, Violent Hearts

Sirens cut through the night like a scream that has forgotten how to end. Children cry in basements and stairwells; mothers clutch trembling hands; fathers scan the sky as if their eyes alone could shield their homes from fire. Across…

A Fire on the Frontier: The Escalating Tensions Between Pakistan and Afghanistan

Another round of tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan is unfolding — and it is far more complex than a simple border dispute. The roots of this conflict lie in a tangled web of historical grievances, geopolitical rivalries, and competing national…

Legal sovereignty in the face of orbital power

In the dispute between the Brazilian State and Starlink, the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has embodied an active defense of legal sovereignty in the era of global private infrastructures. More than a personal conflict with Elon Musk,…

The Pentagon v. Anthropic: AI between the sword and ethics

This Friday, February 27, 2026, marks the deadline set by the United States Department of Defense for Anthropic to remove the ethical restrictions from its Claude model within the framework of its military contract. The ultimatum was communicated only days…

For the first time, I was grateful to be human

One night, I dreamed that I was flying toward a place called the Island of Robots. At first, the dream appeared as spectacle: a high-tech airport, luminous corridors, metallic figures moving with calculated grace. But upon waking reflection, I realized…

China: reconverting taxi drivers in the era of the robotaxi

China has not waited for robotaxis to massively displace drivers before asking what to do with them. The expansion of autonomous driving in cities such as Wuhan, Shenzhen, or Beijing is not presented as an isolated experiment, but as an…

When Code Replaces Conscience

by Irshad Ahmad Mughal & Dr. Qurat al Ain Rana In the last century, millions perished in the fires of the First and Second World Wars. Europe, proud of its philosophy and its progress, burned the world in the name…

Artificial Intelligence as a New Structure of Power: Freedom, Responsibility, and Algorithmic Governance

by Irshad Ahmad Mughal & Dr.Qurat al Ain Rana  Every age invents a power that promises liberation and secretly reorganizes obedience. Fire freed humanity from darkness but bound it to settlement. Writing preserved memory yet transferred truth from living voices…

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