The Medici Business Model: How Renaissance Bankers Invented Venture Capital
bTV Business Team22.08.2026 10:10They funded Michelangelo for less than some startups spend on office snacks When we hear “venture capital” today, we imagine funds, startups, and investors looking for the…
50 Survival Lessons From The Great Depression: The Horrifying Things Americans Did When Money, Jobs, & Hope Disappeared
Authored by John Walter via John Walter, We publish this piece in the August of 2026, as the machinery of global commerce groans and sputters, as hollow men in expensive…
Iran prepares for permanent disconnection from global internet
Online connection to the rest of the world will become a privilege for the most loyal Stoyan Gogov Iran is preparing a permanent and almost complete disconnection from the global…
Broken Currency: The Mechanics of Regime Change
by The Macro Butler Throughout history, empires have proudly marched under flags and slogans, but they usually tripped over their own printing presses. While textbooks blame wars or bad leaders,…
Viral everywhere: the face of urban politics
New York, the city that never sleeps, is used to historic moments — but never before has a mayoral candidate used TikTok and Instagram to garner attention and support like…
Domestically produced anti-drone systems: Can Bulgaria become a leader?
The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is developing anti-drone systems in partnership with international companies and the International Association for Combating Drones. Can our country become a leader in production and…
Welcome to PSYOP Season
They Gave You a Script. You Called It Conviction. Joshua Stylman They’re not selling you beliefs. They’re selling you identity. And you’re buying. After this week’s chaotic scenes in the…
Hidden Bear: The GRU hackers of Russia’s most notorious kill squad
Christo Grozev,Roman Dobrokhotov,Michael Weiss Russian GRU Unit 29155 is best known for its long list of murder and sabotage ops, which include the Salisbury poisonings in England, arms depot explosions…
The Russian civilization
A.D. Kharichev In the last month, several very interesting texts have been published concerning the definition of the paths of further development of Russia. And this is not accidental –…
The CIA’s complicity in the Mexican Drug Cartels (including military training at Fort Bragg)
Cynthia Chung The following is an except from Paul L. William’s book “Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia”: When the US military occupation…