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The Manifest Archive
By Jerry
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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Inside the Global War on Truth
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Inside the Global War on Truth

How Dr. Steven Greer turned the sky into a battlefield of belief

Geopolitics Oct 9, 2025
How the West Destroyed Its Own Power
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How the West Destroyed Its Own Power

Inside the 2022 Russia sanctions that reshaped Europe’s economy, severed its energy lifeline, and revealed the limits of moral power

Geopolitics Oct 8, 2025
Why the Allies and Russia Turned from Friends to Enemies
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Why the Allies and Russia Turned from Friends to Enemies

They stood shoulder to shoulder against Hitler, then turned their backs on each other. This chapter traces how an alliance of necessity…

Geopolitics Oct 7, 2025
The Secret Origins of AI
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The Secret Origins of AI

The algorithm that changed intelligence, and the silent question it left behind.

Surveillance, Tech & Intelligence Oct 6, 2025
The Modern Alchemists Who Tried to Rewrite Matter
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The Modern Alchemists Who Tried to Rewrite Matter

What is really being sought beneath Geneva

Surveillance, Tech & Intelligence Oct 5, 2025
The Lost Civilization America Tried to Forget
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The Lost Civilization America Tried to Forget

How forgotten legends, sealed archives, and the hunger for mystery keep reshaping our idea of the past

The Erased Record Oct 4, 2025
Inside the CIA’s Secret Psychic Spy Program
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Inside the CIA’s Secret Psychic Spy Program

A US government program spent twenty years and tens of millions on psychic spying. The puzzle is not whether it worked. It is why a program with no reliable results survived two decades, then died in 1995 the moment the Cold War fear that funded it disappeared.

Surveillance, Tech & Intelligence Oct 3, 2025
Why a ‘Neutral’ Nation Is Always Armed
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Why a ‘Neutral’ Nation Is Always Armed

Beneath almost every Swiss house is a bunker; in every closet, a state rifle. Neutrality was never the absence of war but a bet on deterrence, and in 2023 and 2024 Finland and Sweden showed what happens when the bet stops paying.

Geopolitics Oct 2, 2025
Who Really Owns Our Food?
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Who Really Owns Our Food?

You can own every acre and still not own the food. Control of the food system sits not at the dispersed farm but at two narrow chokepoints: the seed and agrochemical oligopoly upstream, the grain traders downstream. The determining variable was never the land. It is the chokepoint.

Financial Architecture Oct 1, 2025
Why the Coldest Place on Earth Stays Peaceful: The Sovereignty Antarctica Agreed Not to Decide
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Why the Coldest Place on Earth Stays Peaceful: The Sovereignty Antarctica Agreed Not to Decide

Seven nations claim Antarctica, three of them the same ice, with resources rumored beneath. Yet no shot has been fired. The reason is not goodwill: the treaty froze the question of ownership instead of resolving it. A prize no one can win is a prize no one need fight for.

Geopolitics Sep 30, 2025
What’s Really Inside America’s Most Secret Vault?
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What’s Really Inside America’s Most Secret Vault?

No independent auditor has counted America's gold since 1953. After 1971 it stopped mattering whether the gold is there. The fortress now guards a question, not a hoard, and the unbroken seal has become the proof.

Financial Architecture Sep 30, 2025
The New Map of Power
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The New Map of Power

AI could reveal the hidden architecture of geopolitics like LiDAR scans a jungle. Yet empire bends the lens before the light returns.

Surveillance, Tech & Intelligence Sep 29, 2025