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In June 2025, this series examined the Carnegie Endowment's institutional architecture—its founding mythology, personnel circuits, funding streams, and function as a narrative relay node within Atlanticist security infrastructure. That piece, “Carnegie: A Legacy of Peace, or Something Else?", traced an organisation that presents itself as a
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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—