Articles on Reality, Natural Law & Consciousness

Newspapers, a phone, and war scenes with a Ukrainian flag symbolize a media-mediated view of war.

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R491 · Justice and security January 25, 2023 18 min read

Slovenian Media and the War in Ukraine: Who Speaks and Whom Do We Believe?

From predictions of rapid Russian collapse to Snake Island and casualties: how sourcing, uncertainty, and headlines can turn wartime claims into apparent facts.

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A person inside a damaged building looks out over a devastated urban landscape.

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R485 · Justice and security January 18, 2023 24 min read

Israel and Gaza: How the Media Shape the Permissible Image of War

How narrative starting points, language, victims, sources, and legal terms shape the permissible media image of the war between Israel and Gaza.

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A war cameraman films a heavily destroyed city.

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R484 · Justice and security January 16, 2023 24 min read

The War We Do Not See: When the Journalist Becomes Part of the War

Embedded reporting, restricted access, and camera framing can create a misleadingly incomplete picture of war even without proof of deliberate censorship.

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A camera and a collage of war, political, and television images merge into an explosion and a mass audience.

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R483 · Justice and security January 15, 2023 21 min read

How Consent for War Is Created

From mass war propaganda to Tonkin and Iraq: how uncertainty, source selection, and political framing can help manufacture public consent for war.

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R344 · Justice and security August 4, 2022 8 min read

First Step: Frighten the Person

When fear becomes permission for what would not be accepted in peaceful times

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A modern crisis-government complex after an emergency, with citizens left outside as an official enters the fortified institution beside locked documents — symbolising temporary crisis power that can distance itself from the public and harden into more permanent authority.

R97 · Justice and security October 15, 2021 14 min read

Emergency Powers: Why Temporary Power Tends to Stay

Crises can require temporary emergency powers; the key question is how to prevent a temporary concentration of authority from becoming permanent.

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An observation scope overlooking an open landscape — symbolising oversight of power, traceability, independent review and accountability of security institutions.

R94 · Justice and security October 11, 2021 13 min read

Who Guards the Guardians?

How should people and institutions with coercive powers be overseen? This article builds a layered model of internal and external oversight, traceability, complaints, whistleblower protection, rotation and accountability of the overseers themselves.

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Autonomous communities connected around a shared defensive shield — symbolising federative collective defence, local capability, mutual assistance and a limited common mandate.

R93 · Justice and security October 10, 2021 12 min read

From Self-Defence to Federative Collective Defence

How can autonomous communities cooperate in defence without creating a permanent monopolistic centre?

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A protective shield between a connected community and an organised coercive network — symbolising community security, proportionate protection, individual responsibility and resistance to criminal capture.

R92 · Justice and security October 9, 2021 12 min read

Violence, Organised Crime and Community Security

What should a community do when the other side rejects voluntary rules and instead uses violence, threats, extortion or organised coercion?

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A symmetrical table with equal parties, a shared case file, a neutral seat and scales within a protective frame — symbolising access to evidence, impartiality, equality of parties and procedural safeguards.

R91 · Justice and security October 8, 2021 13 min read

Fair Procedure Without an Assumed Monopoly

How do we separate fair procedure from the question of who decides? This article builds safeguards for notice, evidence, equality, impartiality, reasons and review without tying justice to a single forum.

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On a round table between two sides lie separate documents and a shared sheet, while scales stand behind the neutral seat — symbolising mediation, arbitration, limited mandate and an independent forum.

R90 · Justice and security October 6, 2021 12 min read

Mediation and Arbitration: Who Decides When We Cannot Agree?

What happens when negotiation fails? This article separates mediation from arbitration and shows how to define an independent forum, its mandate and enforceability in advance.

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On a dark table, a cracked vessel repaired with golden seams stands beside a protective screen and a separate shard, symbolising repair, protection and the limits of punishment.

R89 · Justice and security October 5, 2021 11 min read

After Harm: Restitution, Protection and the Limits of Punishment

What should follow serious harm? This article separates restitution and broader repair, protection against repetition, deterrence and punishment, and draws a boundary between accountability and revenge.

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