"Genesis Mission" is not a metaphor
How a Technofortress is being built in plain sight
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The Grey Zone's latest briefs
Each brief highlights patterns, inflection points, and developments worth watching before they become obvious.
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On war and humans who live in theory
Lauryn Hill once sang: "Adam lives in theory". In Hebrew, Adam means "the human being", all of us. And Queen Lauryn is right, most humans today
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How the LAW itself is part of the architecture of fraud
Modern crime is fast, distributed, and algorithmic... The law is not. And the gap between the two is now the most profitable space on Earth! The law was built to
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‘Fake it till you make it’ fails: a lesson from complexity theory
Collapse is a misunderstood word. Most people imagine fire and chaos, apocalypse! But collapse, as Tainter showed, is rarely violent. It's what happens when a system becomes too
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The future according to the elites (with Mehdi Nemri)
Conversation with Mehdi Nemri - Futurist, Mathematician
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When Peter Thiel's warning became reality
In 2020, Peter Thiel wrote an email that resurfaced last week, right after the election of democratic socialist Zoran Mamdani as mayor of New York. “If one has no stake
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Palantir's "Ontology": when data meets philosophy
On October 28, 2025, Palantir and NVIDIA announced a partnership: Palantir's Ontology framework will integrate NVIDIA's GPU-accelerated computing, CUDA-X libraries and Nemotron open models. Today is
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The return of the "sacred": an invisible operating system of modern power (about technomysticism)
In the Grey Zone, patterns reveal themselves loooong before they become obvious. And one of the most important (and misunderstood) patterns of the last decade is this: the sacred is
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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 (on the triad: intelligence, influence and leaks)
You think you want transparency? Try reading a real intelligence report... you would not sleep for a week!
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