Triple Edge Resources

Accessible demolition of free market orthodoxy — each chapter dismantles a received truth about capitalism and its supposed benefits.

Argues the state has been the primary driver of innovation and risk-taking in modern economies — directly challenges the ideological basis for privatisation and deregulation.

Challenges the economic narrative of value creation — argues financial sector extracts rather than creates value, with implications for how corporate governance is assessed.

Argues that contemporary capitalism is not free market failure but a designed system of corporate extraction — relevant to the “greed economy” dossier strand.

Investigation into corporate tax avoidance in Britain — documents HMRC’s systematic failure to enforce tax law against major corporations and their advisers.

History of how the accountancy profession captured corporate governance — documents the Big Four’s role in legitimising tax avoidance and financial misconduct.

Trump administration withdrawal from the UN Global Compact on Migration negotiations — the first of a series of multilateral exits that characterised the first and second Trump terms.

Trump’s second-term executive orders withdrawing the US from WHO and the Paris Climate Agreement on Day 1 — documents the systematic US withdrawal from multilateral governance architecture.

US withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council in June 2018 — the Trump administration cited bias against Israel and structural failures. Documents America’s episodic engagement with multilateral human rights mechanisms.

Documents the US pattern of withdrawing from UNESCO — first in 1984 (Reagan), returning 2003 (Bush), withdrawing again 2017 (Trump), rejoining 2023 (Biden). Illustrates the instrumental US relationship with multilateralism.

MIT Press journal article on the Congress for Cultural Freedom — the CIA-funded cultural offensive in France and Italy that funded writers, journals and exhibitions as part of the ideological Cold War.

Time Magazine cover feature on Eurocommunism — documents Western anxiety about the Italian and French Communist parties’ move toward electoral respectability and the US strategic response.

H-Diplo review of Perlman’s study of US intelligence and communist plots in postwar France — extends the CIA covert action framework from Italy to France.

Opening chapter of Bandeira’s study of the Second Cold War — argues neoliberal economic ideology was deployed as a weapon in the ideological struggle, with government and NGO actors as agents of American neoliberalism.

Academic survey of Italian foreign and security policy from 1945 — covers the US-Italian strategic relationship, Gladio, and Italy’s Cold War positioning within NATO.

Declassified CIA assessment of Bettino Craxi — documents US intelligence monitoring of the Italian Socialist Party leader who was central to the Tangentopoli scandal.

Report on US intelligence training programme for Ukrainian spies — documents the CIA’s decade-long investment in Ukrainian intelligence infrastructure.

A US institute with Trump administration ties and an Iran regime-change agenda gifted over £70,000 to Boris Johnson and three cabinet ministers — documents the funding of British politicians by American foreign policy interests.

Documents the scale and depth of UK-Israel military cooperation — £46m in equipment purchases and British troops stationed in Israel; raises questions about UK complicity in Israeli military operations.

Declassified files show Whitehall has long assessed Israel as having a nuclear arsenal — while ministers deny knowledge in Parliament. Documents systematic official dishonesty on non-proliferation.

Declassified files show UK privately assessed Israel as the main obstacle to containing Iran’s nuclear programme — in contradiction of public UK-Israel alignment.

Pilger on the media and institutional gatekeepers who protect elite power — relevant to the media concentration and disinformation clusters.

Pilger analysis of Tony Blair’s doctrine of humanitarian intervention as cover for geopolitical and financial interests — directly relevant to the Butler Britain and Blair-Berlusconi threads.

ABA Journal report on EU Parliamentary renewal of investigation into secret CIA detention sites in European member states.