Sugar slaves and the Silver ghosts of Potosí

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The history of South America is a sprawling ledger of appetites, where the continent’s geography has been treated less as a sovereign home and more as a biological vending machine for the North. At the macro level, we see a global economy built on the assumption of an infinite southern supply; at the micro level, we find that every American convenience—from the morning coffee to the smartphone battery—is a needle drawing life from a landscape that is never allowed to heal. This is the chronicle of a continent forced to provide the world’s luxury and its medicine, its energy and its vice, while the people tilling the soil remain tethered to a poverty that is manufactured in the boardrooms of the North. Continue reading

Miller’s Algorithmic White Supremacy

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The descent of Stephen Miller begins not with a shout but with the quiet, rhythmic clicking of a keyboard in a windowless room, a Macro-to-Micro Pivot where the sprawling, jagged anxieties of a fading century are distilled into the sterile precision of a legal brief. He is the architect who looked upon the chaotic architecture of the state and realized that the foundation is not made of stone but of syntax, moving with a cold, singular focus from the grand stage of national grievance to the microscopic manipulation of the visa, the quota, and the clause. Continue reading