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In an age of curated headlines, viral soundbites, and algorithm-driven truths, it's easy to mistake repetition for reality.
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Beyond MKULTRA: The Unabomber’s Other Cold War Connections (opens the original)
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PART TWO — FROM BCCI TO 9/11 (opens the original)
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Part One followed the political transformation of post-Soviet Russia from Yeltsin’s selection of Vladimir Putin to the offshore financial architecture surrounding Bank Menatep, Yukos, Valmet and Riggs Bank.But Riggs had another side.While its offshore-services business intersected with one of the most powerful financial empires emerging from post-Soviet Russia, the Washington bank was simultaneously handling enormous amounts of money belonging to the Saudi government and royal family.<a class="i
PART ONE — THE ROAD TO PUTIN (opens the original)
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There is a tendency to tell the history of the 1990s as a collection of separate stories.Russia’s chaotic transition from communism.The rise of Vladimir Putin.The emergence of al-Qaeda.Russian oligarchs moving fortunes offshore.China stealing American nuclear secrets.Jeffrey Epstein cultivating relationships with the rich and powerful.The collapse of BCCI.And eventually, September 11.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8lsu!,f_auto,q_auto:go
Stalin, Zionism and the Strange Alliances That Created Israel (opens the original)
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To understand the politics of the present, sometimes you have to go much further back than the last election or even the last war.Modern alliances can look contradictory when viewed in isolation. Benjamin Netanyahu has maintained a relationship with Vladimir Putin even as Russia built close relationships with Iran and, more recently, Hamas. His government cultivated relationships with nationalist and populist political parties in Europe despite antisemitism within parts of the European far right
Cambridge Analytica, Wirecard and the Vienna Connection (opens the original)
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Following the Network Through ViennaThe Wirecard scandal is usually remembered as one of the largest accounting frauds in modern European history: €1.9 billion supposedly sitting in trustee accounts did not exist, the company collapsed in June 2020, and COO Jan Marsalek disappeared.But the missing money may be only the beginning of the story.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-wdb!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubst
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