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By Vahid Razavi — Author of The Age of Nepotism and Ethics in Tech and Lack Thereof, Founder of EthicsInTech.com and NoEthicsInBigTech.com Producer of the Forever Peace Now Documentary I have loved the beautiful game since I was a kid in Iran, long before I climbed the Berkeley hills to watch football of the American kind for free among the eucalyptus trees. Football — real football, the one played with feet — has always had one sacred promise: twenty-two players, one ball, one referee, and the same rules for everyone. The son of a king and the son of a street

137 days into a war nobody voted for, one-third of the world's seaborne fertilizer trade is trapped behind a blockade — and the poorest farmers on Earth will pay with their harvests, and their children's lives For over two years my team and I have documented the human cost of war — the children of Gaza, the war in Iran, the forgotten of the war in the Caribbean. Today I want to talk about a weapon that never appears in the Pentagon's briefings: hunger. Because the war that the United States and Israel launched against Iran on February 28, 2026 is

Lindsey Graham died on a Saturday. By Monday, a president had hand-picked his sister — a woman who has never stood before voters in her life — to sit in the United States Senate. This is nepotism in its purest, most public form. Eighteen years ago I wrote a book called The Age of Nepotism, about how favoritism toward family and friends corrodes business, politics and society. I never imagined the age would announce itself this brazenly. Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina died suddenly on July 11, 2026, at age 71, of an aortic dissection, hours after returning from a trip

Most recently Alex Karp, founder of Palantir, published a 22-bulletin manifesto declaring his corporation's right to kill and destroy civilizations. In his past statements he has openly described wanting to spread fentanyl to destroy his enemies. How he values some civilizations more than others. How war is a product to be sold. It reminds me of the Unabomber manifesto. Highly educated narcissists, deprived of all sense of humanity, ready to destroy the world and entire cultures and civilizations for the betterment of the chosen ones. These delusional bastards of the tech industry are deprived of all humanity and empathy — as

By Vahid Razavi — Author of Ethics in Tech and Lack Thereof, Producer of Forever Peace Now Documentary, ParentsPlea.com Vahid Razavi is a Silicon Valley technology veteran turned human rights advocate, author of "Ethics in Tech and Lack Thereof," and founder of ForeverPeaceNow.com and ParentsPlea.com. He is dedicated to documenting the human cost of AI-enabled warfare and working to build a global movement to hold war profiteers accountable before the courts. This week at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum in Türkiye (#ADF2026), global leaders from every corner of the world are gathered in annual and serious conversation. Türkiye, a country I love and

By Vahid Razavi — Author of Ethics in Tech, ForeverPeaceNow.com, ParentsPlea.com A genocidal regime backed by the largest military superpower on earth and its Department of War is not the savior of Gulf Arab nations, and it is certainly not the liberator of the Iranian people. Anyone who believes otherwise has not been paying attention to the last three decades of American foreign policy and the rivers of blood it has left behind. For over two years my team and I have been documenting the slaughter of children and innocent civilians across multiple conflicts — from Gaza before and after October 7th,

Why We Should Be Hopeful for Tomorrow By Vahid Razavi The news pouring in from wars abroad, from collapsing economies, from the daily footage of the human condition at its most broken — it is genuinely depressing and heart-wrenching. Over the past several years, social media has quietly conditioned us to scroll past atrocities, to treat crimes against humanity as just another piece of content between a recipe video and a cat meme. As I travel, I hear the same thing everywhere: people feel helpless. They don't know what to do. They can't see how one person can change any of