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If you don't agree, you're a racist

Martin Enlund
2/28/26

“You’re either with us, or you’re with the terrorists,” President George W. Bush said in a famous statement after the September 11 attacks in 2001. Similar rhetoric was used decades later, when UN Secretary-General António Guterres in 2022 claimed that a lack of collective action would be “collective suicide.”

Won't someone please think of the children?

Martin Enlund
11/11/25

New laws eroding privacy always follow a tired script: Invoke the “four horsemen of the infocalypse” to scare us into accepting surveillance “for the children” or “for security.” The reality is, neither our kids nor the public are any safer, just less free.

Chat Control 2: Digitalizing the Panopticon

Martin Enlund
9/20/25

Europe’s assault on free speech has become widespread and far-reaching. In Germany, a journalist was fined and given a suspended prison sentence this spring for circulating a satirical image of the interior minister captioned “I hate free speech.”

When Justice Fails the Vulnerable

Martin Enlund
9/20/25

A video of a young Scottish girl brandishing both a knife and an axe went viral in late August. She allegedly tried to protect her sister from unwanted advances by an adult man according to the accompanying narrative - a true heroine.

Until the opposite has been proven

Martin Enlund
8/25/25

The core principle of presumed innocence is currently being undermined year by year. The emerging new world order, marked by age controls, introduces a new perverse inversion: one’s humanity is no longer assumed, unless proven otherwise.

EU - a self-licking ice cream cone?

Martin Enlund
7/18/25

The European Commission presented an interim target for 2040 in July on the path to climate neutrality. By 2040, the EU aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 90% compared to 1990 levels.

Your savings - or Brussel's covert slush fund?

Martin Enlund
6/29/25

The European Union’s economic underperformance has been subject to intense debate since Mario Draghi, former head of the European Central Bank (ECB), published a report on the topic last year.

The European Democracy Shield: Who is it Really Protecting?

Martin Enlund
1/3/25

The EU’s regulations aimed at combating disinformation raise questions about who is really being protected and also about the true purpose of the “European Democracy Shield”.