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3am Thoughts

Alan Flanagan

Essays weaving together history, politics, society and culture, as a critique of our turbulent times.

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From Tobacco Fatwas to Constitutional Reform and a Cavalry Officer

The history of Iran in the West, particularly in left/liberal circles, is told as a simple story that starts in 1953 with a CIA/MI6-backed coup that ‘installed’ a dictator, and that led to the Islamic Revolution, which, if lamentable in som...

21 days ago
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The Mask Has Fully Slipped

The online (dis)information war over Iran escalated into a fever pitch once Great Satan and Little Satan entered the chat and thus opened the doors for the RightSideofHistory™ rabble to finally decide on where they stand. Unsurprisingly, gi...

2 months ago
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This is the Final Battle

As of this morning, the intervention Iranians have so desperately asked for has come, and Israel and America have started strikes to end the horrific, blood-soaked reign of the Islamic regime in Iran.

Not a single other country in the worl...

3 months ago
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Making a Mockery of Oppression

June 2020. America convulses in the aftermath of the death of another Black man at the hands of the police. Progressive activists take up the mantle. In protest, White activists don black makeup and lie in the streets of Minneapolis, repeat...

3 months ago
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Can the Islamic Republic Fall?

As the Islamic Republic’s brutal monopoly on violence runs unchecked in Iran, and death toll estimates range from 3,000 to 20,000, much of the commentariat in the West has filtered this moment through a predictable lens, reducing the discou...

4 months ago
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    Lifelong history nerd, History & English lit. BA, former lawyer now working in science. 3am Thoughts is the name I gave to long-form essays intertwining history and politics, society and culture.

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