In Part Four of Us and Them, Shahid Bolsen makes one thing absolutely clear before going further: when he says "them," he means everyone in Western society. Not just the elites. Not just those in power. Not just white people. Everyone. Rich, poor, black,…

In Part Five of Us and Them, Shahid Bolsen goes deeper into the machinery — past the media, past the education system, into culture itself. Entertainment, film, music, sports: this is where they tell you not what to think, but who to be. The lone hero myth…

In Part Six of Us and Them, Shahid Bolsen relocates the entire conversation about so-called white people back to reality — starting with the most basic fact: physically, no human being is white. Steven Biko said it in the dock. Black and white are opposites.…

In Part Seven of Us and Them, Shahid Bolsen answers the question the entire lecture has been building toward: what actually happened to everyone inside that system, regardless of where they came from. The people who fled Europe to build America were not fleeing…

In Part Eight of Us and Them, Shahid Bolsen addresses the people who thought this lecture wasn't about them — the descendants of the colonized, the children of enslaved people, the grandchildren of the dispossessed who have spent generations inside the Western…

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Shahid Bolsen breaks down a phenomenon Muslims in the West know intimately but rarely name directly: the constant self…

In Part Nine of Us and Them, Shahid Bolsen delivers the most direct diagnosis of the lecture. You can be oppressed and still have the colonizer's mind. You can be marginalized, discriminated against, locked out of upward mobility, anti-capitalist, anti-establishment…

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In Part Eleven of Us and Them, Shahid Bolsen does what he said he would do from the beginning — stops talking about so-called white people and talks directly to them. And he can do this from a position almost no one making these arguments can occupy: he is…

In Part Twelve of Us and Them, Shahid Bolsen continues the direct address to so-called white people and extends the philosophical diagnosis into the structural pathologies of the civilization — the ones that produce the behavior without requiring conscious…

In Part Thirteen of Us and Them, Shahid Bolsen names what most people getting this wrong call racism, and describes what it actually is. Not the overt, identifiable version — the conscious hatred of the bigot. That version exists but it is almost beside the…

In Part Fourteen of Us and Them, Shahid Bolsen closes the circle on everything said in Parts Eleven through Thirteen by naming the single premise that produces all of it. Every trait — the grammar of love as violence, the ranking reflex, the materialist blindness…

This is the full talk addressing so-called White people, descendants of Europe. Taken from the Middle Nation ongoing series "Us and Them"

This talk is taken from Parts Nine and Ten of the "Us and Them" series from Middle Nation; primarily addressing Muslims in the Western Diaspora

The Islamabad MoU is signed. Hormuz is reopening. The IRGC hardliners are gone. Netanyahu wasn't even in the room. Shahid Bolsen breaks down the 14 points of the US-Iran agreement, traces it back to the controlled demolition framework he's been laying out…

Shahid breaks down why Zionism is not a religious movement, not a homecoming, and not a belief system anyone is going to die for. Jews had 1,400 years of open access to Palestine under Muslim rule — and stayed in Europe by choice. The Wandering Jew is a European…