The three-headed cartel: Fixing the prices for global security
Why a secret superpower condominium could be “rational” in the age of WMD—and what it would buy compared to confrontation or World War We are...
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Viral copy&paste nonsense vs. real investigative reporting
On the unoriginality economy of Alex Jones, Candace Owens, and Tucker Carlson—and what Julie K. Brown’s Epstein reporting shows by contrast It was not Alex...
Cartel de los Soles: What we can responsibly say about a “state-embedded” trafficking network in Venezuela
The phrase Cartel de los Soles (Cartel of the Suns) sits in an awkward category: it is widely used, politically explosive, and partly “real” in...
Friends & Enemies: C*caine commie captured
Venezuela’s president was captured by a US special operation. Image: Kremlin.ru...
Theoretical “pie in the sky” socialism vs. the real socialist regime
The Council in the Sky and the State on the Ground 1) Two different things called “socialism” People argue past each other because the word...
The difference between common egotism and pathological narcissism
How often these days do you hear statements like “my ex was a narcissist” or “ALL my exes were narcissists” or “my boss was gaslighting...
Aristocratic-Dynastic intelligence vs. bureaucratic intelligence
Image: Lorna Roberts / Shutterstock.com 1) The problem that historians (and many intelligence historians) keep stepping around Most readers can understand that rulers in every...
Operation TRUST-2: How the KGB may have fabricated a large-scale conservative rebellion in the USSR
The original operation TRUST was a massive success for early Soviet intelligence: Faking a vast network of anticommunist circles to entrap the real domestic opposition...
Forging the anticommunist illusion everyone desired: Operation TRUST
Introduction: A fake opposition that became the real battlefield Between roughly 1921 and 1927, the Soviet security service (Cheka → GPU/OGPU) ran one of the...
The vast size of the aristocratic supercluster that defined our modern world
Empires have existed for about 10,000 years. Their leadership structures sufered from three main points of failure: You needed to step over other people to...