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Who Owns Your Country?
How privatisation and tax cuts turned public assets into private fortunes, and taxpayers into interest-payers for a creditor class Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The fiscal position of the advanced capitalist state has undergone a transformation whose distributional consequences are rarely stated in the terms they require. World Inequality Lab data record that net public… Continue reading
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The 2023 Ukraine Peace Deal That Was Derailed
A proposed agreement reportedly accepted by Putin as a basis for negotiations offered Russian troop withdrawals, security guarantees for Ukraine and $300 billion for reconstruction. But the initiative was derailed after Zelensky’s government rejected territorial concessions and the Biden administration declined to back the backchannel effort. General Article | October 2026 Reports concerning a proposed… Continue reading
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Why Europe Blinked: The Russian Billions It Cannot Touch
The European Union Cannot Seize Russian Assets Without Destroying Its Own Financial Order Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The European Union entered the final months of 2025 with an apparent consensus that Russian sovereign assets immobilised within its jurisdiction should be converted into financial support for Ukraine. Approximately €210 billion in Russian central bank reserves… Continue reading
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AI is The Largest Theft of Knowledge and Information in History
BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street sit on both sides of the copyright bargain, which makes voluntary consent an accounting entry rather than a settlement with creators. Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The New York Times Company filed suit against Microsoft and OpenAI in December 2023 alleging that its journalism had been reproduced without licence or… Continue reading
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The Trillion-Dollar Reset: How Covid Pandemic Money Moved from Main Street to Wall Street
An independent reading of Catherine Austin Fitts’s account of central bank injections, small business closures, and the new billionaires Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The interview with Catherine Austin Fitts constructs a single integrated argument about monetary power rather than a collection of separate observations. Fitts begins from the claim that central bankers met at… Continue reading
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The Decline of Europe is Not a Failure of The Plan. It is The Plan.
The structural decline of Europe and the broader Western order constitutes a deliberate operational blueprint rather than a mere policy failure, executed by a transnational financial oligarchy to force a centralized, programmable monetary reset. Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The interconnected crises enveloping Europe and the broader Western world represent not a series of catastrophic… Continue reading
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A Burning Republic and the Fiscal Tyranny of the Euro
How the French state deploys troops to defend Saudi oil in the Middle East while enforcing brutal austerity and police repression against its own citizens at home. Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The French Republic is currently witnessing an unprecedented convergence of domestic social combustion and quiet, lethal imperialist military deployment into the Middle East.… Continue reading
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Yemen’s Counter-Blockade Brought the House of Saud to the Brink
The Yemeni Armed Forces have struck the heart of Saudi Arabia’s energy infrastructure, paralysed its airports, and seized the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait, exposing the terminal vulnerability of a petro-state that can no longer export its oil or defend its skies. General Article | October 2026 The strategic equation in West Asia has undergone a… Continue reading
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The Economic D-Day That Never Came
Washington promised to drive Iranian oil exports to zero and ground Iran’s airlines by late September. Nearly fifty days later, the oil is still moving, the planes are still landing, and the political and monetary costs are landing squarely on the United States. Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The “Economic D-Day” was presented as the… Continue reading
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Iran’s Engine-Room Strategy Is Testing the Limits of American Power
The Islamic Republic has shifted from warning shots to the systematic disabling of commercial vessels, driving tanker rates to $80 million per voyage, draining diesel inventories to critical lows, and exposing the material foundations upon which the petrodollar system ultimately rests Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The Strait of Hormuz has been transformed from a… Continue reading
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