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John Hawkins
John Hawkins is a scholar and writer whose work examines artificial intelligence, surveillance, political psychology, and the ethics of contemporary conflict. He is pursuing a PhD in philosophy at Sofia University (BG) and an MSc at the University of San Diego. His research engages peace studies, critical theory, and phenomenology, with particular attention to how technological systems reshape concepts of security, responsibility, and violence. His recent work has appeared in the journals NanoEthics, Torture, and Humanities. His forthcoming paper on living in a world without God will appear in Religions.
  • Naza: The Real Story, Roi Danino, Ariel Averbuch and Hagay Gutman

    NAZA: The «Real» Story

    ISRAEL: An «approved» Israeli reply to Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor's NAZA borrows its title, its rooftops and its night, and answers a film about targeting with a tour of children's bedrooms.

  • The Trap Radwan Mortada

    The Trap

    LEBANON: Al Jazeera's The Trap follows the 2024 pager attack from Lebanon to Budapest to the White House.

  • The Responders: Breaking the Silence John Kirby

    Still rubble rousing at ground zero, righteously

    9/11: On the 25th anniversary, two documentaries return to the foot of the towers. The Responders gathers testimony of explosions and calls for a reopened criminal case, and 32 Frames follows a single roll of film out of the rubble to the man who shot it.

  • Earth's Greatest Enemy Abby Martin

    Earth’s Greatest Enemy

    MILITARISM: Abby Martin and Mike Prysner spent five years costing out the U.S. military as a planetary object. Washington answered this month by asking for another $1.5 trillion and putting the word War back on the door.

  • Putting on the Glasses: David Sirota’s Master Plan

    POLITICS: A Review of the Master Plan Podcast, Season 2: The Kingmakers

  • Cover-Up, Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus

    Cover-Up

    JOURNALISM: Seymour Hersh and the Socratic sting.

  • Orwell: 2+2=5 Raoul Peck

    Orwell: 2+2=5

    CONTROL: The rat cage gone from metaphor to reality: Orwell's systopia realised and then some.

  • The Encampments Michael T. Workman Kei Pritsker

    The Encampments

    ACTIVISM: From Chicago 7 to Columbia, The Encampments shows how protest is reframed as threat, as language like terrorist and «anti Semite» is used to silence dissent.

  • A Propaganda Film by Betar USA The Grayzone

    A Propaganda Film by Betar USA

    PROPAGANDA Inside Betar USA's campaign of intimidation.

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