Geopolitics
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A Union Built on Smoke and Mirrors
How the European Union constructed a substitute political project around the defence of Ukraine, financed it through budget headroom and loan guarantees rather than transparent appropriation, and now confronts a fiscal and legitimacy crisis that its ruling class cannot resolve without either abandoning the war or dismantling the financial architecture of liberal Europe. Editorial Analysis… Continue reading
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Digital Money is a Form of Behavioural Control
The technical specifications for retail digital currency establish that the power to condition, cap and suspend payment is a design choice rather than an unavoidable consequence of digitisation Editorial Analysis | November 2026 Project Rosalind was a collaboration between the Bank for International Settlements Innovation Hub and the Bank of England, and its stated purpose… Continue reading
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AI Promise is “The Old Company Town” in New Clothes
The old logic of scrip, company provision and administrative grants is returning under the language of technological plenty. The coal operators discovered that paying workers in tokens redeemable only at the company store was more profitable than paying them in money, and the architects of programmable settlement have rediscovered the same principle Editorial Analysis |… Continue reading
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Why Zimbabweans Pay the Most for Mobile Data in Africa
A comparative investigation of concentrated ownership, regulatory failure and the selective use of sovereignty arguments to protect a rent-extracting telecommunications system. Editorial Analysis | November 2026 Zimbabwe’s telecommunications pricing deserves investigation as an economic and institutional problem rather than another routine discussion about national infrastructure deficiencies. The persistent affordability question concerns the distribution of economic… Continue reading
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China’s Crackdown on Wealth-Obsessed Dramas: A Warning About the Erosion of Society’s Values
Why Beijing is targeting entertainment that glorifies money, distorts love and marriage, and threatens the social values underpinning a coherent society. General Article | October 2026 China’s decision to crack down on fantasy micro-dramas depicting wealthy business executives falling in love with impoverished women reflects a broader concern about the cultural and social consequences of… Continue reading
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They Signed the Rules in Secret – How Public Services Got Handed Over in Contracts Nobody Reads
Why the systems that decide who gets healthcare, benefits and payments are now governed by private agreements rather than laws you can Editorial Analysis | October 2026 ‘The “Contract” is now the “Constitution” as the architecture of identity, allocation and payment is being settled in commercial agreements that legislatures rarely examine and courts are reluctant… Continue reading
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The Abundance is a Dependence Trap Concealing the Architecture of Administrative Control
Wage abolition, programmable money, digital identity and the private ownership of allocation together constitute a transfer of sovereignty that no abundance narrative can disguise. Editorial Analysis | October 2026 At a White House AI event on September 29, 2026, Elon Musk predicted an “age of abundance” where AI and robots deliver “universal high income,” not… Continue reading
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Iran’s Gas Capacity Claim and the Politics of Self-Sufficiency
Pezeshkian’s Moscow figures reveal a production system built under pressure, yet the distinction between capacity and output complicates the strategic picture General Article | October 2026 The Gas Exporting Countries Forum convened in Moscow during late October 2026, bringing together states that collectively hold the majority of the world’s natural gas reserves, and the Iranian… Continue reading
