China and BRICS payment systems are already processing billions outside the dollar, weakening the financial privilege Americans took for granted.
China and BRICS payment systems are already processing billions outside the dollar, weakening the financial privilege Americans took for granted.
A reported CIA referral against Tucker Carlson illustrates how intelligence agencies recast contact with foreign officials as criminal dissent.
Debt, oil above one hundred dollars and frozen shipping lanes are testing dollar privilege as governments seek alternatives to Washington.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent publicly described sanctions intended to collapse Iran’s economy, exposing the economic campaign behind the bombs.
Washington demanded $350 billion from South Korea and $550 billion from Japan, showing how tariffs and alliances now function as extraction.
This article began as a letter to a friend and fellow analyst. As the evidence accumulated, it outgrew the envelope.
How networked technology closed the private gaps in American life, how a rentier class captured the government, and why American world power is ending anyway.
Palantir, Pax Silica and Silicon Valley allies use U.S. power against China and Iran to protect monopolies while America loses its industrial base.
Arms makers treat Ukraine as recurring revenue, with Iran and Taiwan next in line. Sanctions and trade controls prepare the market for escalation.
America forgot the difference between earning and extracting , but the economist, Michael Hudson, kept the receipts