Thinking for generations, not elections
Reflections on identity, modernity, and the art of coherence.
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Oriane Cohen
ex-journalist in Israel and the West Bank ex-intelligence operative (HUMINT) Reconverted: entrepreneur. FR/EN/HE/IT/PT Expert in Strategic Intelligence and communication, human behavior, the Grey Zone
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If it's not filmed, it didn't happen (the observer effect of our time)
When I was a journalist, I noticed something strange. I was in places where every action could mean life or death - yet what people feared most was being unseen.
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Why radical slogans recruit better than truth
In the last months, as part of my work monitoring radical groups, I've focused less on events and more on language. Because language ALWAYS moves first. And what
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Global Perception: the report
Weeks ago, I published a global perception questionnaire. I didn't want to study what people think. I wanted to understand what they sense. The method: intentionally raw No
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Why intelligence never reaches the public
You think you want transparency? Try reading a real intelligence report... you would not sleep for a week!
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Lucidity as a wound: the hidden cost of seeing what others burry in denial
I once revealed to a group what I had seen while infiltrating radical networks. I expected concern, and taking action, together! Instead, I was met with silence, nervosity and hostility.
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The woman who hacked New York's elite
How Anna Delvey infiltrated elite networks by manipulating narrative, status, and the architecture of belief.
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Let's talk about fascism... and anti-fascism.
We throw these words around so much that they start losing meaning... Everything is "fascist" now: a boss, a law, a politician. If everything is fascist, then nothing
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The manipulative power of the "third party": Grey Zone and triangulation
Every conflict looks, at first glance, like a confrontation between two poles... Husband VS wife. Employer VS employee. State VS insurgent. We instinctively read it as binary: one versus the
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The day a new currency (euro) stole my candy
When I was a kid, buying the baguette was my favorite adventure! I'd go to the closest boulangerie with a few coins in francs. The baguette was cheap
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How to talk across frames: dialogue beyond worldviews
"What you describe is nothing less than a war between spiritual forces!" A subscriber recently sent me this message. He continued and explained me his theory based on
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Are we living in a permanent state of "Black Swans"?
Short answer: NO. It feels like every week we face a new "Black Swan". A drone attack, an assassination, a war, a financial scare, a pandemic, a political
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