Under the Barack Obama presidency, US militarism undertook a new shape. Inheriting the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan from the previous administration, and a population struggling under the pressures of the recession and war-weariness, Obama’s administration sought to placate antiwar opposition in the United States, while expanding and maintaining global hegemony. While reports of the …

The following slides were presented during DAWA’s teach-in on April 18, 2026 titled “The War on Iran: How we got here, what might come next, and what we have to do about it.” Below the slides, we are providing detailed notes written during the research for the presentation. The notes roughly correspond to the content …

About Palantir  Palantir is a tech company founded by Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, Stephen Cohen, and Joe Lonsdale that specializes in the development of software platforms for big data analytics. The company is known for their controversial data-mining and has contracts throughout the highest levels of the federal government,. Their products are weaponized against people …