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The Manifest Archive

By Jerry

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The Index
How the ECB, Brussels and NATO Decide Your Life Without a Vote
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How the ECB, Brussels and NATO Decide Your Life Without a Vote

Power no longer needs a face. Only structure.

Geopolitics Feb 4 · 6 min read
The Oldest Experiment: Priests, Power, and the Shaping of the Human Genome
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The Oldest Experiment: Priests, Power, and the Shaping of the Human Genome

This chapter is part of a larger examination of how power structures shape human continuity, not through ideology, but through procedure.

Methodology & Meta-reflection Feb 3 · 6 min read
Chiquita: How a Corporation Learned to Rule Without Flags
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Chiquita: How a Corporation Learned to Rule Without Flags

A banana arrives with no trace of how it got there. The company that sells it once pleaded guilty to funding terrorists, and had paid both sides of a war. How a corporation learned to perform the functions of a state while bearing none of its accountability: rule without a flag.

Geopolitics Feb 2 · 19 min read
From Cosa Nostra to ’Ndrangheta: How Mafia and State Actors Converged
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From Cosa Nostra to ’Ndrangheta: How Mafia and State Actors Converged

How visible violence gave way to invisible procedure, and why power no longer needs a face

Surveillance, Tech & Intelligence Feb 1 · 5 min read
Whitney Houston: The Bodyguard Was Fiction
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Whitney Houston: The Bodyguard Was Fiction

In real life, no one stopped the machine.

Manufactured Culture Jan 31 · 5 min read