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By Jerry

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US Strikes Iran While Talks Continue: Energy, Law and the Architecture of Escalation
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US Strikes Iran While Talks Continue: Energy, Law and the Architecture of Escalation

Why the timing of a US attack on Iran during active diplomacy reshapes energy markets, international law, alliances and global power competition. The Room Where Diplomacy Was Still

Geopolitics Mar 1 · 7 min read
Spyware Industry: The Zero-Click Empire
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Spyware Industry: The Zero-Click Empire

State-grade surveillance was once the monopoly of a few superpower agencies. Now it is a commercial product, sold under export license to any government that can pay. This is not a hacking story but a procurement story: the verdicts shrink, the sanctions reverse, the blacklisted firm is bought by t

Surveillance, Tech & Intelligence Feb 28 · 17 min read
Trump’s Tariffs: Power, Courts and the Fragile World Order
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Trump’s Tariffs: Power, Courts and the Fragile World Order

When “national security” becomes elastic, constitutional boundaries shift, and allies learn to price in American unpredictability.

Geopolitics Feb 27 · 7 min read
The Financial Architecture of Power: How Debt Defines the Limits of Modern States
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The Financial Architecture of Power: How Debt Defines the Limits of Modern States

A structural analysis of how modern power is stabilized, constrained and extended through debt, liquidity and financial hierarchy.

Financial Architecture Feb 26 · 22 min read
Operation Ajax: How the CIA, BP and MI6 Took Iran’s Oil
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Operation Ajax: How the CIA, BP and MI6 Took Iran’s Oil

The 1953 coup is argued over its oil and the size of the CIA's role. Its lasting product was neither. It was a template: the first proof that an elected government could be removed covertly, cheaply, and deniably, and gotten away with. How an event becomes a method.

Geopolitics Feb 25 · 18 min read