GEOPOLITICS

PO-FACED POKER & A JOKER WITH NOTHING TO LOSE

A Live Dispatch on the Clearing of the Global Energy Market.

A live dispatch from the table where nobody shows their cards. Two moves cleared the board, Caracas in January, Hormuz in February, and the same broker dealt himself the winning hand in both. Follow the molecules, not the headlines.

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PALANTROPIA

The Seeing-Stone State; Inside the Technological Republic.

The palantíri were seeing-stones that showed you everything and drove their watchers mad. The firm took the name on purpose. Inside the company quietly wiring the surveillance republic, and the true believers who call it the defence of the West.

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THE PERMANENT REVOLUTION

From the Jacobin Template to the Sorelian Synthesis.

There is a thread. It runs from the Committee of Public Safety in 1793 to the present institutional landscape without breaking. This is the progressive intellectual history they prefer you don't read as a continuous narrative.

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THE JESUITS: DOING GOD'S WORK WITH OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY

From the Black Papacy on Mons Vaticanus to a Pentagon Moonship.

From a Basque soldier's sickbed to a Pentagon moonship, the longest institutional thread in the West, and the dead goddess whose name still sits in the first syllable of the Vatican.

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THREE AMIGOS AT THE SANDS

A word on the company these three features keep.

Sinatra, Martin and Davis worked out that power is mostly stagecraft and the rest is who picks up the cheque. Grievance, surveillance, absolution: one stage, three turns, a single act, and you never needed them in a room together.

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