T. Denoyo
Research & Advocacy
Independent Research

Dispatches on war,
power, and who pays the price

A collection of research pieces on geopolitics, immigration rights, and political accountability — exploring the human cost of conflict, the machinery of disinformation, and the stories that mainstream narratives leave out.

17 pieces  ·
Research collated with Claude (Anthropic)  ·
Last updated April 2026
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2026 Elections & Voter Guides
Voter Guide
MD-6 Democratic Primary 2026 — Who's running and where do they stand?
A full breakdown of all 8 Democratic candidates competing for Maryland's 6th Congressional District on June 23, 2026 — rated on immigration, Palestine, women's rights, education equity, and AIPAC ties. Includes a progressive voter recommendation.
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Voter Guide
MD-6
June 23
A farmworker kneels in a misty field, carrying produce boxes.

A farmworker harvests in a field at dawn — one of the millions of people the immigration debate reduces to a political abstraction.

Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash

Immigration & Civil Rights
Featured
The Laken Riley Act — Who it really affects
Signed into law January 2025, this law mandates detention of non-citizens based solely on arrest — no conviction, no bond hearing, no due process. Including the story of an 18-year-old abuse survivor locked up for two months over an unproven shoplifting charge.
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Immigration
Civil Rights
US Law
 Explainer
DACA Under Siege — What's happening to America's Dreamers
505,000 people who grew up American are losing their protections — quietly, methodically, without Congress formally ending the program. The April 2026 BIA ruling, the case of Xóchitl Santiago, and a decade of systematic dismantling.
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Surveillance
The Blacklist — Canary Mission, the DHS Pipeline, and the Silencing of Dissent
An anonymous Israel-linked doxing website built profiles on 5,000 students. ICE testified under oath it used them to build deportation cases. A PhD student was detained for 6 weeks for co-authoring a college newspaper op-ed. The funders may be breaking federal law. Nobody has been charged.
Children stand amid the rubble of destroyed buildings in Gaza, giving peace signs.

Children stand amid the rubble of their destroyed neighbourhood in Gaza, giving peace signs.

Photo by Mohammed Ibrahim on Unsplash

⚠ Content Notice

The section below contains documented research and analysis on Israeli state policy, the occupation of Palestine, and the conflict's historical context. This content is grounded in international law, court rulings, and sourced historical record — but it addresses one of the most contested political topics in current discourse.

This site uses a pen name in part because pro-Israel doxing operations — including the Israel-based Canary Mission, which has been used by the US Department of Homeland Security to target and deport advocates — systematically target individuals who publish criticism of Israeli state policy. That is not paranoia. It is a documented, court-confirmed reality. Read with that context in mind.

Israel, Palestine & The Occupied Territories
Analysis
Countering the Rhetorical Trap
How the accusation of antisemitism is weaponized to shut down legitimate criticism of Israeli state policy — and how to respond to each rhetorical maneuver clearly and honestly.
 Documented Record
Not the Fringe — Dehumanizing Language in Mainstream Israeli Discourse
Defense Minister Gallant called Palestinians "human animals." Netanyahu invoked the biblical command to exterminate Amalek. Channel 14 broadcast 50+ statements calling for genocide. These are not fringe figures. South Africa's ICJ lawyer said it plainly: "Genocidal utterances are not out in the fringes. They are embodied in state policy."
 Media Analysis
The Language of Bias — Media Coverage of Israel/Palestine
How Western outlets use asymmetric language when covering Israel and Palestine — "clashes," "incidents," "escalation" — and what those word choices conceal about power, occupation, and civilian harm.
Traders at the Indonesia Stock Exchange watching a falling market display board.

Traders at the Indonesia Stock Exchange watch a market display board — one of dozens of markets rattled globally by the 2026 Iran war oil shock.

Photo by Ruben Sukatendel on Unsplash

Economy & Markets
Economics
The Price of War — Economic Impact of the 2026 Iran Conflict
Oil up 75% from $72 to $126. S&P 500 down 5% in five consecutive losing weeks. LNG up 60%. Goldman Sachs raises recession probability to 30%. And someone placed $580M in bets on falling oil — 15 minutes before Trump's ceasefire announcement. The IEA called it the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market.
Economy
Markets
Energy
 Philippines
₱55 to ₱154 — How the Iran War Tripled the Price of Diesel in the Philippines
The Philippines was the first country in the world to declare a national energy emergency. The peso hit a record low yesterday. 2.4 million OFWs (Overseas Filipino Workers) are in the Gulf. Romeo Esmenda has driven the same jeepney route for 29 years and is now wondering if he should go out at all.
War, Geopolitics & Political Accountability
Media Analysis
The Media's Invisible War — Western Coverage and the Global South
59 active conflicts globally, Western media covers 2. Less than 3% of Iran war coverage mentions Sudan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka or Somalia. WFP said Sudan "dropped off the news cycle." Here is why — and what it costs.
 Fact Check
What They Said vs. What Was True — Fact-Checking the Iran War's Leaders
Trump: 5 false, 1 misleading, 0 true. Netanyahu: 3 false, 1 misleading, 1 true. Iran's leaders: 1 false, 1 misleading, 3 true. The documented public statements of every leader — and what the evidence actually shows.
 Accountability
No One's Hands Are Clean — Violations by the US, Israel, and Iran
Today: Israel intercepted 22 aid ships in international waters near Crete, arresting 211 activists. Plus: double-tap strikes on rescue workers, 270+ journalists killed, UNIFIL attacked, Minab school. All three parties documented — same standard applied to all.
 Military Doctrine
The Dahiya Doctrine — Civilian punishment as official strategy
Israel's military strategy of deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure is not collateral damage — it is the objective. Formulated in 2006, named, approved, and applied across Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran for nearly two decades.
 Fact Check
Iran, Israel & the Nuclear Question — Fact-checking the official narrative
Was Iran "weeks away" from a bomb? Who controls the Strait of Hormuz? What happened to the nuclear deal? Why does Israel face no scrutiny for its 90–400 undeclared warheads? Five claims, five verdicts, sourced and documented.
 Data
The Human Cost — Five Wars, April 2026
A data visualization of casualties across five active and recent conflicts — putting numbers, proportionality, and media attention into comparative perspective.
 Accountability
The Record — Trump Administration False Claims 2026
A sourced, searchable tracker of false and misleading claims made by the Trump administration in 2026 — across economy, immigration, the Iran war, NATO, elections, and personal statements.
 Geopolitics
Countering the NATO Freeloading Myth
Fact-checking the claim that European allies don't pay their fair share — examining defense spending data, in-kind contributions, and what burden-sharing actually means.
About the Author
T. Denoyo
T. Denoyo
Independent Researcher & Writer
Independent researcher and writer on geopolitics, immigration rights, and political accountability. Passionate about humanizing the people behind policy debates — informed by personal relationships with immigrants across the Philippines, Canada, Australia, the UK, and the United States. Research collated with the assistance of Claude (Anthropic). All sources are publicly available government, legal, and nonprofit data.

A pen name is used on this site. Pro-Israel doxing operations including Canary Mission — which has been used by US DHS to target advocates for deportation — systematically target individuals who publish criticism of Israeli state policy. That is not paranoia. It is a documented, court-confirmed reality.
All pieces on this site are for informational and advocacy purposes. Statistics reflect publicly available sources including ACLU, USCIS, Migration Policy Institute, USAFacts, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, ICC, and major news organizations. Research was collated by T. Denoyo with the assistance of Claude (Anthropic). This site does not represent the views of any employer or institution.