Research brief by Alexandra Kitty The Argument in Plain Language This piece is not about conspiracy. No shadowy figure is…
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The Same Script, Two Mastheads
You can see the mirror at work in real time. On May 10, the New York Times warned that “China Is Becoming…
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The Mirror War That Isn’t About You
The story we keep being sold is simple: the United States is a fading empire, China is a patient challenger,…
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The Quiet Quash: How Canada Is Dismantling Press Freedom While the Press Watches
By Alexandra Kitty | A Forensic Breakdown Executive Summary Canada does not need to arrest journalists, seize printing presses, or…
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We are Still in a Global Game of Roulette and the Wheel is Still Spinning. The New York Times Never got the Memo.
The loudest thing in Yanzhong Huang’s column isn’t the warning about Chinese overconfidence. It’s the quiet assumption that the wheel…
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If You Don’t Win, You Don’t Play
Canada’s lottery system had a slogan that is almost poetic in its optimism: if you don’t play, you don’t win. The…
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The Charade Economy: An AK Roundtable
A Conversation on Micro-Scams, Mass Distraction, and Who Profits from the Performance What follows is a roundtable exploring an idea…
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The Cleanup Crew Calls It Strategy
There is a ritual that runs on a tight schedule. Day one: a fiasco. Contradictory orders, people making decisions they…
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Non-Verbal Propaganda Signals: A Typology of Aesthetic Trust Manipulation in Visual Media
Overview This dossier presents a working typology of non-verbal propaganda signals: the aesthetic, sensory, and relational mechanisms by which visual…
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Gaze Laundering: Euphoria, Petra Collins, and the Propaganda of Aesthetic Trust: A Dossier
Executive Summary This dossier introduces and examines the concept of gaze laundering: the deliberate appropriation of a female-coded visual language, built…