In the spirit of the Geopolitika series, this article examines how think tanks shape US policy agendas and make the US’s actions seem logical and sensible to policymakers and politicians. As covered in a number of my articles, seemingly speculative reports from the likes of Brookings and RAND often
How New Zealand's official inquiry into COVID-19 documented devastating harms while protecting the power structures that produced them—despite having the two most comprehensive formal shadow submissions on its desk and sitting through the Commission’s hearings, which I dissected in at the time. Note: this article is
In March 2026, the RAND Corporation published a 61‑page report titled “A Typology of Economic Shocks and Applications for Macroeconomic Analysis”. The report carries the familiar trappings of establishment authority: the RAND name, a “robust and exacting quality‑assurance process,” and a stated mission to help the Treasury Department,
On March 6, 2026, with the Iran war entering its second week, Chatham House published its expert comment “How will the Iran war affect the global economy?” Neil Shearing opened with a single sentence acknowledging reality: “With the Iran war in its second week, the most immediate and tragic costs
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
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