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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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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
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Madagascar Bars Government Officials from Sending Their Children Abroad for Education
President Michael Randrianirina’s reported directive seeks to hold the political elite accountable for the state of the country’s education system, raising questions about equality, public investment and the limits of political coercion. General Article | October 2026 Madagascar’s President, Colonel Michael Randrianirina, has reportedly issued a directive prohibiting ministers and government officials from sending their… Continue reading
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Europe Is Being Made Poor on Purpose
Why your wages buy less, your factories are closing, and the talk of war keeps growing How a rentier oligarchy extracts wealth through the cost of financing, deindustrialises its own productive base, and prepares populations for conflict over the world’s resource-rich periphery Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The economic condition of the advanced capitalist states… Continue reading
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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
