
Policy and Critique


The Edible Idol of Empire – Part 2: The Machinery Behind the Moral Language
·1075 words·6 mins
Institutions at the edge of force

The Edible Idol of Empire
·255 words·2 mins
This three-part series examines how the United States turned democracy from a political principle into the moral packaging of imperial power. It traces the machinery beneath that language—institutions, law, finance, and force—and shows how these structures sustained hierarchy while preserving the image of universal order. It concludes by arguing that Trump did not create this contradiction, but exposed it by openly consuming the very myth America once sold to the world.


The Invisible Hegemon: Deciphering the Architecture of Global Control
·464 words·3 mins
Deciphering the Architecture of Global Control, provides a critical investigation into how the concepts of development and globalization have been utilized as strategic tools for United States hegemony and world domination. Drawing from the analytical framework of Henry Veltmeyer, the series challenges the conventional narrative of global progress, framing it instead as a sophisticated system of imperial extraction and political containment

On the Feeding of the State
·1677 words·8 mins
A satirical exercise in the tradition of Machiavelli's* The Prince *— examining the mechanics of state capture through the eyes of those who would engineer it.

The Invisible Hegemon – Part 2: From Market Orthodoxy to the Iron Fist
·747 words·4 mins
The transition from economic policy to military force.


The Persistence of Power - Part 5: Automation and the End of Labor's Bargaining Power
·684 words·4 mins
How automation threatens to eliminate the last constraint on elite power: human labor's negotiating leverage.

The Entropic Mirage - Part 4: Beyond the Extractivist Sleepwalk
·478 words·3 mins
Moving beyond technical fixes to imagine regenerative futures grounded in degrowth, slow science, and resistance to systemic inertia.
