Shadows SERIES
— The ongoing investigations and essay arcs of Shadows of Empire
Shadows of Empire is a digital magazine, an online news source, a place for dissident views and voices, with in-depth research and investigative reporting.
Some stories don’t fit in a single post. A weapons pipeline, an ideology, a war and the people who profit from it — these are documented over time and read best as an arc, in order.
This page collects those arcs.
Each series has its own home below; open any one and read from the top.
Enjoy your reading.
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The Sudan War and Its Enablers →
Who arms the Rapid Support Forces, who profits, and why Washington keeps looking away — from the fall of El Fasher to the supply lines that keep the killing possible. An ongoing investigation into the money, the weapons, and the human cost.
Ongoing · began July 2026
Survival of the Strongest →
How a misreading of Darwin became the engine of our endless wars. “Survival of the fittest” was quietly rewritten as survival of the strongest — and that distortion became a founding myth of late capitalism, and now drives the reckless race to build AI. On who turned a tool into a weapon, and what it’s costing us.
Ongoing · began July 2026
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— Dede