Chomsky & Herman — Manufacturing Consent: The Media as a Propaganda Machine
How mass media manufacture public consent according to Chomsky and Herman’s propaganda model. The five filters explained.
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Michel Foucault: Biopolitics, Governmentality, and the Control of Life
Michel Foucault revolutionized political philosophy by showing that modern power does not prohibit or punish: it administers life. Biopower, neoliberal governmentality, and population control are the keys to understanding 21st-century domination.
Brzezinski and Mackinder — The Grand Chessboard: The Geopolitics That Designed the Global Order
Mackindera Heartland theory and Brzezinskia The Grand Chessboard: two visions that explain the geopolitics of Eurasia and the struggle for global dominance.
Galeano and Quijano — Open Veins and the Coloniality of Power, Two Sides of the Same Plunder
The history of Latin America is the history of continuous plunder. Eduardo Galeano narrated it in blood and ink in Open Veins of Latin America, and Aníbal Quijano gave it theoretical framework with his concept of coloniality of power.
Pedro Baños and the 7 Levers of Domination — The Complete Map of Global Control
Six articles dissecting power and debt as tools of control. But the complete map was missing. Pedro Baños, colonel and strategist, drew it: 7 levers through which the world is dominated.
Nkrumah and Sankara — Neocolonialism Does Not Forgive Those Who Denounce Debt
Two Africans, two decades, one destiny. Nkrumah wrote the book that defined neocolonialism; Sankara gave the speech calling for debt refusal. Both were eliminated. This is what they do not want you to know.
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man — John Perkins and the Debt Traps of the Third World
John Perkins was an economic hit man who worked to indebt entire countries. His book “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” exposed the most sophisticated system of modern imperialism: debt as a tool of global domination.
The Indebted Man — Maurizio Lazzarato and the Making of the Docile Subject
Maurizio Lazzarato analyzes how neoliberalism created a new subject: the indebted man. Not just an economic category, but a form of subjectivity that shapes our psychology, morality, and docility.
Markets Are Founded on Violence — David Graeber and the 5,000 Years of Debt
David Graeber revolutionized economic anthropology: barter never existed, debt predates money, and states invented coinage to pay armies. Second article of the Geopolitics of Control series.
Power Expands by Nature — Bertrand de Jouvenel, the Thinker Who Saw It All
Bertrand de Jouvenel (1903–1987) was the political philosopher who discovered that power expands by nature. First installment of the Geopolitics of Control series: from Jouvenel to the 7 levers of domination.