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The Manifest Archive
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Jerry van der Laan
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Jerry van der Laan

Jerry van der Laan is an independent analyst and the author of The Manifest Archive. He reconstructs how energy, money and state power interact from public data and primary documents.

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Trump, Cuba, and the Panic of a Fading Empire
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Trump, Cuba, and the Panic of a Fading Empire

While war with Iran shakes oil routes, shipping, inflation, and alliances, Trump is still speaking about taking Cuba. That is not noise. It…

Geopolitics Mar 17, 2026
Black Nobility: The Roman Families Who Outlived the Papal State
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Black Nobility: The Roman Families Who Outlived the Papal State

For four and a half centuries, two Roman families held a hereditary right to stand beside the papal throne. One document ended it in 1968. What they were doing there is the story the cabal legend hides.

Black Nobility & Vatican Mar 16, 2026
Strait of Hormuz: The Chokepoint That Could Break the World Economy
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Strait of Hormuz: The Chokepoint That Could Break the World Economy

What one month, three months, and six months of disruption would mean for oil, food, jobs, financial markets, and ordinary life.

Geopolitics Mar 15, 2026
The Iran Escalation Is Bigger Than the Headlines
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The Iran Escalation Is Bigger Than the Headlines

Iran War Escalation: Oil, Diplomacy and the Risk of Wider War

Geopolitics Mar 15, 2026
The Jesuits and the Vatican: The Curriculum That Outlived the Order
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The Jesuits and the Vatican: The Curriculum That Outlived the Order

The Jesuits ran the largest school network on earth when a pope dissolved them in 1773. Forty-one years later they returned intact. Their power was never wealth or bloodline. It was a standardized curriculum, a method distributed across trained minds that no decree could confiscate.

Black Nobility & Vatican Mar 14, 2026
Epstein and the Seven Sins of Power
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Epstein and the Seven Sins of Power

How lust, pride, greed and silence made elite networks vulnerable to compromise

Surveillance, Tech & Intelligence Mar 13, 2026
The World's Chokepoints: Hormuz, Suez, and the Geography of Global Power
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The World's Chokepoints: Hormuz, Suez, and the Geography of Global Power

How two narrow passages hold the world economy hostage.

Geopolitics Mar 11, 2026
Europe’s Last Strategic Choice: Peace with Russia or Permanent Dependency
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Europe’s Last Strategic Choice: Peace with Russia or Permanent Dependency

The choice Europe kept avoiding.

Geopolitics Mar 10, 2026
The History of the Unthinkable Began with the U.S.-Israeli Attack on Iran
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The History of the Unthinkable Began with the U.S.-Israeli Attack on Iran

What was presented as a regional strike became the first visible fracture in a world that had already been living beyond its margin.

Geopolitics Mar 9, 2026
March 2026: The Early Stage of WW3
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March 2026: The Early Stage of WW3

Separate wars. One system.

Geopolitics Mar 8, 2026
The Growing Condemnation of the US-Israeli Attack on Iran
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The Growing Condemnation of the US-Israeli Attack on Iran

This is no longer only a war, but a global rupture.

Geopolitics Mar 7, 2026
Russia Warns of World War: Iran and the Logic of Escalation
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Russia Warns of World War: Iran and the Logic of Escalation

Russia’s warning is not just rhetoric. The war with Iran is already pressuring diplomacy, energy, law, NATO and the nuclear order at once.

Geopolitics Mar 6, 2026