The Rift
Giacomo LagonaIndependent geopolitical analysis from Italy
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The Credential and the Machine
For two and a half centuries, technology and labor have advanced locked together, and every innovation has revived the same fear: that the machine will strip skill and worth from the people who work. AI, with the job losses already under de...
A Race Without Rules
On 4 and 5 February 2026, eighty-five delegations gathered in A Coruña for the third summit on responsible artificial intelligence in the military domain, and when it closed the outcome document, Pathways to Action, carried barely thirty si...
Room 9582
To announce the investigation he had chased for years, Kash Patel chose Joe Rogan’s podcast over a court filing. In a black hoodie, cigar lit, in June 2025 he described finding a secret room inside FBI headquarters, full of documents a caba...
Washington's StratCom Surrender
On 16 April 2025 Marco Rubio chose a friendly broadcaster to announce the closure of a small office inside the State Department. It was called R/FIMI, the unit tasked with countering information manipulation and interference originating abr...
Trump powers down the anti-Russia cyber task force
In the spring of 2018 the first Trump administration assembled a small joint task force inside the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command and called it the Russia Small Group. It had one purpose: to keep the Internet Research Agenc...
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Sono Giacomo Lagona. Mi occupo di geopolitica e politica americana. Dopo “Il ritorno di Donald Trump alla Casa Bianca”, il 19 dicembre è uscito “Il decennio che ha rotto il mondo”, dedicato alle faglie dell’ordine globale.
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