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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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Everyone Is Watching the AI Rules. Nobody Is Watching the $16,000 Graphics Card.
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Everyone Is Watching the AI Rules. Nobody Is Watching the $16,000 Graphics Card.

How the money that made AI cheap to rent made it expensive to own.

Surveillance, Tech & Intelligence Sep 17, 2026
Everyone Sees Conspiracy Theorists. Nobody Reads the Source.
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Everyone Sees Conspiracy Theorists. Nobody Reads the Source.

The mechanism that permits the question while making an answer unnecessary.

Surveillance, Tech & Intelligence Sep 12, 2026
The CIA Stopped One Cable in 2000. The 9/11 Files Still Cannot Say Why.
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The CIA Stopped One Cable in 2000. The 9/11 Files Still Cannot Say Why.

Disclosure filled the record of what was done and left the record of why almost empty.

Surveillance, Tech & Intelligence Sep 11, 2026
Everyone Is Watching Hormuz. Nobody Is Watching the Seven Weeks After December 18.
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Everyone Is Watching Hormuz. Nobody Is Watching the Seven Weeks After December 18.

How a crisis running on six clocks reaches the winter of 2026 between the last decision and the next.

Geopolitics Sep 11, 2026
Europe's Far Right: The 1930s Parallel That Actually Holds
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Europe's Far Right: The 1930s Parallel That Actually Holds

The institutions survived. Their political function did not.

Geopolitics Sep 9, 2026
The Oil Panic Ended in Shandong, Not Hormuz
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The Oil Panic Ended in Shandong, Not Hormuz

China bought time from its own tanks all spring. By August the buffer forced it back to the market.

Geopolitics Sep 8, 2026
Europe Holds Russia's EUR 210 Billion. Washington Negotiates the Exit.
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Europe Holds Russia's EUR 210 Billion. Washington Negotiates the Exit.

How ownership, custody, war financing, sanctions relief, and settlement authority ended up in different hands, and why that arrangement holds.

Geopolitics Sep 7, 2026
Russia Threatened Britain. The CIA Arrived in Moscow the Next Day.
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Russia Threatened Britain. The CIA Arrived in Moscow the Next Day.

How sabotage, missile technology, Iran, and a secret CIA visit converged into one escalation architecture.

Geopolitics Aug 31, 2026
Operation Economic Outcast: The Escalation Trap in Five Cases
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Operation Economic Outcast: The Escalation Trap in Five Cases

How four campaigns of maximum economic pressure produced the same structural pattern, and why Iran may be the fifth

Geopolitics Aug 30, 2026
Oil Falls While Hormuz Stays Closed: The Arithmetic
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Oil Falls While Hormuz Stays Closed: The Arithmetic

Day 172. Emergency reserves at 43 days of coverage. The price says improving. The structure does not.

Geopolitics Aug 18, 2026
North Korea Sent Troops to Russia. History Shows What Comes Next.
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North Korea Sent Troops to Russia. History Shows What Comes Next.

How the Angola template explains the deal, the price, and what North Korea becomes.

Geopolitics Aug 15, 2026
The Iran Deal That Exists Only in Speeches
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The Iran Deal That Exists Only in Speeches

How long can inventories, reserves, and markets keep absorbing a reality that political language refuses to acknowledge?

Geopolitics Aug 9, 2026