This article has been written mid-March 2026 in the immediate shadow of Operation Epic Fury. It continues the arc begun in the Nations Under Attack series on mindwars-ghosted.com: after Part 1 mapped the elite drivers and the rise of the transnational capitalist class, Part 2 dissected the US War
This article, first published in December 2023 as Part 5 of the Nations Under Attack series, has been revised and condensed for this March 2026 repost. It closes the arc of the series by shifting focus from the empire’s methods of attack—elite drivers, the US War Machine’s
This article was first posted in early 2023 as Part 4 of my Nations Under Attack series. It moved from theory to application by cataloguing the specific propaganda narratives the US-led West has recycled against its main geopolitical targets over the past two decades: China, Russia, Iran, Syria, Libya, Iraq,
This article, first posted in February 2023 as Part 3 of the Nations Under Attack series, examines narrative as one of the most powerful weapons in modern warfare. Building on Part 1’s overview of elite resource grabs and transnational capitalist dominance, and Part 2’s anatomy of the US
This part of the Nations Under Attack series was first posted in February 2019 and reflected my understanding at that point concerning how what I prefer to call the US War Machine works as an instrument of what I was then referring to as the “Transnational Capitalist Class.” This focus
I'm taking a break from the Personal Perspectives series I started a few weeks ago, to take stock of recent events in the middle east. I have to confess that the scenes of death and destruction have left me stunned and dismayed—much as I was only a
My first real awakening—that the world was not as orderly or benevolent as I had been taught—came not from books or distant headlines, but from living inside a place that proudly called itself a young democracy while quietly demonstrating what that word could mean under firm hands. In
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In my Mindwars article “Are System-Trusting Beliefs Harmless?”, I posed a thought experiment—a parody of a serious psychological study on conspiracy theories, in which academics use the Conspiracy Mentality Questionnaire (CMQ) to argue that significant harms stem from those who believe in conspiracy theories. I reverse the question: what
This post marks a deliberate shift in direction. For the past year, my weblog (at Substack and now at Ghost) has moved through distinct phases: beginning with an exploration of “estrangement ideology,” then transitioning into the Mindwars and Geopolitika series. This work extended to recount my understanding how global societies
The object on the table—Understanding and improving sanctions today—isn’t from a random journal. It comes out of Chatham House—heir to the old imperial Round Table networks (mapped by historians like John Kendle in his work on British federalism) and still one of the main switchboards where
In global politics, few obsessions have proven as enduring—or seemingly as bizarre—as Donald Trump’s fixation on Greenland. As of January 2026, the former president, now back in the White House, has escalated his campaign with a “framework” deal announced at Davos, aiming to secure U.S. access
If you’ve been following the headlines in early 2026—from Hong Kong’s national security trial against former vigil organisers, to Beijing brushing off UN concerns over forced labour in Xinjiang, to rescue ops near Scarborough Shoal and fresh U.S.–China friction over TikTok’s joint-venture workaround—you
Narratives are the scaffolding in the architecture of information warfare. They don't just report events—they script consent, naturalise alliances, and divert attention from material flows. To dismantle them, we need tools that cut through the spectacle to the power functions beneath. Enter the UNDP-FHA Fusion Protocol v1.
A decade of papers from one conspiracy theory theorist’s circle doesn’t just “explain” why people believe conspiracies—it builds a psychometric machine that traps political suspicion inside personality scores, ready for platforms, policymakers and “resilience” programmes. Over the last ten years, if you’ve seen a sober explainer
The raid that took Nicolás Maduro and his wife out of Caracas was over in hours. There were explosions, statements, grainy footage and angry press conferences. Depending on who you ask, it was either a precision rescue of Venezuelan democracy, a naked act of imperial violence, or something in between.
RUSI has already told us what it is. RUSI – Choreographing Legitimacy traced the institute back to its charter as an imperial war college and forward to its current role as a Crown-sanctioned narrative forge, where ex-generals, intelligence chiefs and legal officers rehearse the lines that turn coercive power into “rules-based
Thesis: QAnon and MINDSPACE are not ideological opposites. They are mirror architectures in the same belief-management system—one captures and demobilises distrust, the other steers compliance—with Conspiracy Theory Theory (CTT) acting as the bridge that harvests fallout from the first to justify expansion of the second. Earlier Mindwars pieces
Thesis: Conspiracy Theory Theorists (CTTs) don’t just “study false beliefs”; they build a repeating logical fallacy pipeline—definition → measurement → intervention—that lets institutions downgrade unapproved narratives without having to adjudicate them. In the evolving Mindwars series, we’ve mapped how Conspiracy Theory Theory (CTT)—the academic field that studies
Many thanks to everyone who has supported my work on Substack this year under Journeys by the Styx and welcome to everyone who has come across to the new weblog Mindwars Ghosted. It has been a journey since I started writing on the topic of Estrangement Ideology only 12 months