Six of the most powerful people in American tech at one table, Xi Jinping's first White House visit in ten years — and exactly one thing got settled. Joseph Soares on what it was. ▶️ Full dispatch: link follows when the episode goes live 📩 The Corridor Brief, free every
Twenty-five years on, the durable legacy of 9/11 is not the wars or the airports. It is a routine Treasury power to cut any bank out of the dollar system, and a U.S. energy position that inverted over the same quarter-century. Neither was announced. Full analysis on the Corridor Intelligence channel on YouTube
A state that discovers a capability under emergency conditions keeps it after the emergency ends, and then finds new uses for it. That is not an American characteristic. It is an institutional one. ▶️ The full Dispatch: The written version: Free, every weekday morning:
5.9 million barrels a day in 2001. A record 13.6 million in 2025, and a net exporter since 2020. A state that imports its oil and a state that exports it do not behave the same way. ▶️ The full Dispatch: The written version: Free, every
Canadian firms stripped from $50 billion a year in US procurement. An import ban under a tariff act written in 1930. None of it is counter-terrorism — but it is the same machinery. ▶️ The full Dispatch: The written version: Free, every weekday morning: #Tariffs#Sanctions
Section 311 seizes nothing and requires no court. It makes the rest of the banking system unwilling to touch you. In a dollar-settled world, that is closer to being unplugged. ▶️ The full Dispatch: The written version: Free, every weekday morning: #Banking#NationalSecurity
The post-9/11 wars carry an $8 trillion price tag. More than $1 trillion of it has already gone to interest alone, because the whole thing was funded with debt. ▶️ The full Dispatch: The written version: Free, every weekday morning: post-9/11 wars cost $8 trillion, but interest
About 103 million Americans were born after that morning — more than a quarter of the country. For them the eleventh of September is not a memory. It is an inheritance. ▶️ The full Dispatch: The written version: Free, every weekday morning: 103 million Americans, September 11
2001 produced the power. 2004 gave it a permanent home, a budget line and a career path. Powers that get an office do not get handed back. ▶️ The full Dispatch: The written version: Free, every weekday morning: a national security power establishes an office, it rarely
A three-way toss-up became a landslide in 13 months — same riding, same rules. Quebec's done this five times since 1958. 🎥 Full dispatch: Read the article: J. Soares #Quebec#CanadianPolitics#Shorts
Ahead of BC Premier David Eby's pro-Canada rally in Victoria, someone changed all the words to Party in the USA to Party in Canada, Eh and sang it for the crowd #cdnpoli
Ce n'est pas un problème conservateur ni une occasion libérale : c'est un modèle québécois, documenté depuis 1958. Chaque parti au pouvoir de l'ère moderne s'est retrouvé des deux côtés du basculement — et aucun premier ministre, celui-ci ou un autre, n'a le droit de tenir un
A three-way toss-up became a landslide in 13 months — same riding, same rules. Quebec's done this five times since 1958. 🎥 Full dispatch: Read the article: J. Soares #Quebec#CanadianPolitics#Shorts
Septembre 2024 : LaSalle–Émard–Verdun, bastion libéral de Montréal jugé incontournable, perd 15,6 points et tombe aux mains du Bloc québécois. Toute la couverture y voit une défaite retentissante pour le gouvernement. Sept mois plus tard, à l'élection générale de 2025, les
A three-way toss-up became a landslide in 13 months — same riding, same rules. Quebec's done this five times since 1958. 🎥 Full dispatch: Read the article: J. Soares #Quebec#CanadianPolitics#Shorts
En 2011, le NPD espérait trois ou quatre sièges au Québec. Il en a remporté 59, l'essentiel dans les deux dernières semaines de campagne — et le Bloc québécois, qui dominait la province depuis deux décennies, est tombé de 49 sièges à quatre. ▶️ L'analyse complète (7 min) :
En 1993, le Bloc québécois n'a jamais présenté de candidat à une élection fédérale. Il remporte 54 sièges et devient l'opposition officielle. Le même soir, les progressistes-conservateurs au pouvoir passent de 169 sièges à deux — la pire défaite d'un parti au pouvoir de toute
A three-way toss-up became a landslide in 13 months — same riding, same rules. Quebec's done this five times since 1958. 🎥 Full dispatch: Read the article: J. Soares #Quebec#CanadianPolitics#Shorts