White flags are being hoisted. Pirates are soon to be raising flags, too (American flags). If you want to understand what’s happening in Ukraine, at The Fed, with Bill Gates and the NGOs, in Washington DC, in the Military Industrial Complex, or in the debt markets, it’s time to take notice of these flags. Spoiler alert: Hollywood could not make up what’s going on in geopolitics right now. We are witnessing the renegotiation of the social contract.| Pippa's Pen & Podcast
I wanted to shift into a lighter, more hopeful subject – art. Mocha Mousse is Pantone's Colour of teh Year and Brown sugar has just been named T. Hasegawa’s 2025 Flavor of the Year. It's all brown. The color of shi*. The color of a swamp. The color of warzones. Here are some political poems, brown cocktails and brown fashion and food trends to help us navigate our way to new ideas about how the world should look. Shi* is fertilizer. That is the job of the artist – to turn shi*ty circums...| Pippa's Pen & Podcast
It's already been a whirlwind year, but here's where I am going to be for the rest of 2025.| Pippa's Pen & Podcast
If we get a Grand Bargain/peace dividend, which I think we will. The 3Si is going to be a huge beneficiary. Comments from the Adriatic...| Pippa's Pen & Podcast
It was eye-opening to be in Stockholm and Helsinki just as President Putin and President Trump met on a similar parallel in Alaska. Things are not what they seem. Secretary of the Treasury Bessent, Putin, and Trump are all hinting that the war you are watching in Ukraine is not as important as the war that's broken out in Washington. It's a level 5 Crossfire Cyclone that is touching all American allies. Are we looking at a case of possibly missing Bitcoins?| drpippa.substack.com
We are edging into a deal on Ukraine between the US and Russia when President Trump and Putin meet in Alaska (it's no accident they are meeting in the High North because we are in a Hot War in Cold Places). Here's what's at stake.| drpippa.substack.com
We now live in an era where problems are being solved at record speeds, where scarcity is rapidly morphing into abundance. Almost everything we need to live is becoming free. Does this mean we can prioritize our highest human needs instead of scrambling to meet our most basic, fundamental needs? Or, are we exchanging free things for our freedom? AI is changing the rhythm and music of our lives.| Pippa's Pen & Podcast
Juicy scandalous happenings tend to disappear, South Park style, in “and it's gone” moments. This week, I write about Epstein and Teufelsberg, a person who was the product of the Cold War system and a Cold War place that were both suddenly gone. But, but these disappearances shone a bright light on the system that created them. We are now feeling the pain of American Glasnost - an apocalyptic period in American history that involves the unveiling of multiple significant previously hidden ...| drpippa.substack.com
AI is bringing to life old stories about mountain tops. Peter Thiel and Palmer Luckey want us to go to Tolkien’s Erebor – a land where hobbits and dwarves find refuge and a land of treasures, beauty, and safety. But perhaps we are heading to Erewhon, the mountain-top land that Samuel Butler wrote about in 1871, in the first literary treatment of AI. Erewhonian worships beauty and nature and aims to keep AI and machines locked out because they have ravaged humanity. Which star is humanity ...| Pippa's Pen & Podcast
We are witnessing the creation of a new form of money and accounting: just as tally sticks once gave way to paper money, today's financial system is about to be completely transformed by the cleanup of the GFC zombie assets and the shift into stablecoins. The world is about to be tokenized, dollarized and rationalized. Stablecoins are the key.| drpippa.substack.com
Most will say WWIII just started. But maybe it is ending. The US now has Iran in an AI-led digital panopticon, which means Iran's leaders are already in a digital prison. There's no need for boots on the ground when you control both the airspace and the cloud. Could this ultimately lead to what the Islamic world has always sought? A Palestinian State? A people's revolution in Iran? The end of Israeli hostilities? It's time to consider how AI is shaping geopolitics.| Pippa's Pen & Podcast
The Iran-Israel War is just one front in a global fight over the future. Other fronts are Ukraine, Taiwan, and the No King's Movement. It may sound bananas but the situation today started with bananas. Really.| Pippa's Pen & Podcast
The Israel/Iran War may last about a hot minute before it comes to an end. It's binary. A nuclear flash or, more likely, a comprehensive deal between the superpowers and regional powers that will mark the start of a global peace dividend.| drpippa.substack.com
I am writing this on the back of a talk I gave at this year’s Harvest Festival in Turkey last week about heartware. We are seeing record innovation in AI/Tech/science. We are brilliant at making hardware, software and shardware (the two combined), but we still cannot solve the biggest problems of all? Such as how to avoid another war or how to create a world economy that can protect and preserve our human haecceity, our quiddity, our “isness”. We need to upgrade our human iOS - heartw...| drpippa.substack.com
The Fall of the Berlin Wall brought about a valuable peace dividend because it reunified humanity. Today Trump has surrounded himself with religious leaders who are all intent on reconciling their differences and preventing war. The new knife fight is no longer in the Middle East. It's in Washington with American Warlords.| drpippa.substack.com
(Continued from Part One) Are we as blind as a hunting falcon? The geopolitics of The Indian Ocean are full of surprises, confessions and intrigue. Enter here...| Pippa's Pen & Podcast
We may want to dive into India’s newfound manufacturing prowess, but the geopolitics in this region reflect a division in Washington that has huge implications for the whole Indian Ocean area. This is an unfinished tale of intrigue, hunting falcons, dark money, and tricky questions. Please enter the Wilderness of Mirrors here.| drpippa.substack.com
Much happened over Easter that you may have missed. Ancient schisms are being mended, and modern schisms are materializing. Read here for an unorthodox view about why much of the negotiation process for the White House, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Ukraine, Iran, and even China centers on the Vatican. The moral of the story is that you need to know your schisms, be surer of your chosen catechisms, and hold onto some gold.| Pippa's Pen & Podcast
I have had a slew of requests lately from institutions asking me to brief their teams on a regular and ongoing basis. I am now going to take on a few institutional clients, as a result, for quarterly briefings/jam sessions. We are at a critical moment for institutional leadership, given the complexities of geopolitics, politics, and rapidly advancing technologies. I will direct institutional investors to the ideas, thinkers, content, and subjects that I think will be materially important for ...| Pippa's Pen & Podcast
Ghosts are popping up everywhere: the Chinese workers who make handbags on the graveyard shift, the invisible assassins who take out Presidents and firefighters, and the spectre of past inflation. If you want to understand the world, you need to look through the looking glass more darkly. The nature of reality in geopolitics, monetary policy, and science is morphing into a new para-normal. The world economy and geopolitics will never be the same.| Pippa's Pen & Podcast
Is there evidence that psychadelics turned JFK into a peacenik? Find out what he did when he found out he was being lied to by his own military leaders. The outcome save the world. We can thank Daniel Ellsberg and Harald Malmgren, two long time friends who suddenly found themselves in a position to prevent an all out nuclear war.| drpippa.substack.com
My father did an extraordinary interview with Jesse Michael on American Alchemy about his experience working for JFK as the youngest of the famous Whiz Kids. This article explains why we need to consider some possibilities that might change what we are looking for in those files. What we may find and what he shares with us in his interview changes the course of history. May he rest in Peace.| drpippa.substack.com
Will the President fall down or step down? Either way, the focus on one man is making us blind to the larger situation, which is an avalanche of global and exo-geopolitics. Seemingly unrelated events are now combining to create an entirely reconstructed landscape. The Chevron decision probably means no more bank bailouts. Presidential Immunity probably means agents within the government have greater latitude to do darker things in his name. Bird flu may interfere with the US election. Double ...| drpippa.substack.com
It seems crazy, but could we be only 37 Electoral College Votes away from a hung Electoral College, a contingent election and a President you never imagined possible? If true, we are witnessing the beginning of the end of the 6th Party System and the rise of the 7th Party System in America.| drpippa.substack.com
Only nine months ago, President Xi and Putin were taped coming out of a dinner speaking of “changes not seen in 100 Years”. Well, we are now seeing what they meant. Ecuador's violence has implications for political stability in the US. Here's why. Swarm geopolitics.| drpippa.substack.com