Geopolitics, power, history, and the gap between what institutions claim and what they do.
"Drive north from Edmonton and you pass through Morinville. Turn east and you cross the North Saskatchewan near the hamlet of Lamoureux. These are not heritage labels. They are the fossilized residue of a history most Albertans have entirely forgotten."
"Norway started its sovereign wealth fund fourteen years after Alberta. With smaller reserves and a smaller population. Its fund is today worth approximately one hundred times more than Alberta's. The difference is not geology. It is a sustained series of political decisions."
Nine intelligence briefs on the Iran conflict and its global consequences. The scenario is constructed. The analysis is real.
How Christian evangelicals read only the parts that suit them — and built a political machine from the omissions.
Norway started its sovereign wealth fund in 1990 — fourteen years after Alberta, with smaller reserves and a smaller population. Today it is worth approximately $2.4 trillion. Alberta's Heritage Fund, after nearly fifty years, is worth approximately $22 billion. The difference is not geology.
Brief 002 identified Diego Garcia as the UK's most undervalued leverage point before events confirmed it. Starmer exercised conditionality, withheld base access for the initial Iran strikes, then reversed under Iranian retaliation pressure. The framework holds. The holding did not.
Operation Epic Fury is an analytical scenario — a structured exercise in geopolitical analysis that uses a constructed conflict as its vehicle. The scenario is invented. The legal frameworks, historical precedents, strategic dynamics, and moral arguments are real.