E.M. Burlingame Mar 20 2026 https://emburlingame.substack.com/p/a-warning-from-the-blood/comments? —— 1100 words —— A Warning from the Blood —— Postscript to: The Final Crisis Phase of the 400-Year English Civil War at https://emburlingame.substack.com/p/a-warning-from-the-blood/comments?

>>The 400 Year English Civil War series has been read by some as a historical exercise, by others as a political argument, by a few as a prophecy. Let me be clear: it’s none of those things. It’s a warning.

>>The 1688 Financialist Regime has now ruled the English-speaking world for 338 years. It’s changed its costumes many times—Dutch merchant, London banker, Wall Street asset manager—but its face remains the same. It’s the face of extraction without production, of debt without redemption, of power without responsibility. It’s the face that looked at the common lands of England and saw enclosure, at the industries of America and saw offshoring, at the blood of our soldiers and saw a revenue stream. It’s never built anything. It’s only taken. <<

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“The Architecture of Belief” by The Duke Report: 7300 words plus illustrations at https://thedukereport.substack.com/p/the-architecture-of-belief

“How a Century of Linguistic Revelations Exposed the Mechanisms by Which Words Manage Human Perception” —— “the map is not the territory” —— “Generalization, Deletion, and Distortion”

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“How to Turn Oligarchs’ Own Tools Into an Instrument of Accountability” —— “Amendment XXVIII to the US Constitution”:

The Duke Report™️ Mar 07, 2026 https://thedukereport.substack.com/p/how-to-turn-oligarchs-own-tools-into

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Defining the Enemy Within — The "Financialist" as a Ruling Class Type

E.M. Burlingame Mar 03, 2026

https://emburlingame.substack.com/p/defining-the-enemy-within-the-financialist?

Article 3 of 7 in The Final Crisis Phase of the 400-Year English Civil War —— Identifying the Hidden Belligerent in a 400-Year War

>> Article 2 traced this struggle to its genesis: the “capture” of the English Crown by continental financial interests in the inGlorious Revolution of 1688. That event wasn’t a simple dynastic shift or religious realignment. It was, in the most literal sense, the first hostile corporate takeover of a state—a Dutch-led financial coup that installed a new ruling class whose power derived not from land or production, but from the manipulation of debt and currency.

>> The opposing force in this civil war are the “Financialists” —a transnational ruling class whose power derives not from producing value, but from extracting it through financial engineering, debt manipulation, and rent-seeking. This isn’t a secret cabal meeting in Swiss chalets. It’s a sociological type: a grouping of like-minded humans sharing material interests, institutional homes, educational backgrounds, and a coherent worldview that transcends national borders. To understand the war, we must first understand the belligerent. <<

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https://substack.com/@michaelmyrick2/note/p-191839644?

The Dutch East India Company (VOC) 1700 words —— “First True Multinational Corporation and the Architecture of Global Trade Power”

Michael Myrick has produced so far (March 2026) about two hundred highly original analyses of exceptionally high standard. This link only by way of example. A great variety of topics. Under two names.

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