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Roman Carnival
Imagine, if you will, a moment in time when an American president takes to the airwaves to reassure the public that the government is in fact not producing massive hurricanes and flinging them at its
Markets, Allies, and the Quiet Death of Truth
The digital age, for all its connectivity, has made it easier than ever to curate belief bubbles. Algorithms don’t care if something is true. They care if it’s sticky.
The American Industrial Surge
The American Industrial Surge: Growth, Structural Constraints, and Systemic Fragility
Bitcoin, GPT-5, and the Russian Bear: A Dance Tune
The world is changing, which is exactly what the world has always done when the adults aren’t looking.
The Tollbooth Society
The tollbooth is now the governing economic model of the West. Democracy, environment, and trust are not being attacked by outsiders. They are being quietly metered, monetised, and degraded from within.
Roman Circus
The American digital asset world is having a moment — the kind of moment where Wall Street, Washington, and Crypto Twitter all stumble into the same dive bar and drunkenly pretend
Previously On: The United States of Bullshit
You thought we’d wrapped up the Epstein arc. You thought Russiagate was cancelled mid-season. You thought the Democrats would fake party unity for at least one election cycle. Adorable.
What If the Flamingos Win?
I have a rule for traveling: don’t discuss the host country’s politics. In Istanbul I kept it without effort, because I had nothing to offer a country living under a regime I’d never had to survive. I
Flamingo Update
the question is whether Albania’s institutions serve the public or a rotating cast of foreign oligarchs and their local enablers. The pink flamingo stands as a symbol of refusal
Rewiring Global Defense
This is a compendium of articles and analyses that I have run through NotebookLLM. See the bibliography below.
Spyware: Making Assassination Cool Again
The U.S. used to frown on assassination, back when we thought “international law” was a thing. Then 9/11 happened...
It's All About the Minerals
Forget oil, forget AI. The future of power is rocks. Shiny rocks, gray rocks, even billion-ton rocks in space. The names alone tell the story: U.S. Antimony. 16 Psyche. TransAstra. It’s geopolitics by