Economic Policy

When Sovereignty Becomes Extortion: The Anthropic Story Every Nation Needs to Read

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March 13, 2026Part of Ethical Technocrat Series  →   US company refused to enable mass surveillance. The government destroyed it. Zimbabwe saw the same playbook coming. So did Namibia. This is the pattern. I. The Ultimatum The Pentagon gave Anthropic a choice: remove safeguards against mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons, or lose access to […]

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Victory Used to Mean Winning the Battle. Now It Means Leaving the Drowning

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March 9, 2026Part of Governance, Democracy & Economic Policy Series → An Iranian warship was torpedoed in international waters. The US left. Sri Lanka came. The Pentagon called it a victory. I am not a war historian. I don’t pretend to know the classified briefings, the naval strategies, or the calculations made in the Pentagon’s war

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