Written by Vanguard investigations desk Published October 16th, 2025 SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR — The newsroom lights are off. The servers are encrypted. The journalists are gone. In El Salvador, truth has become a fugitive. Amid escalating crackdowns by President Nayib Bukele’s administration, dozens of reporters have fled the country, transforming independent media into a rogue transmission network—scrambling to stay online, evade surveillance, and drop encrypted dispatches from exile.

Written by Vanguard investigations desk Published October 16th, 2025 TOKYO, JAPAN — The screen flickers. Static bleeds into archival footage. A woman’s voice, layered with distortion, recounts the silence that followed the blast. This is not just a documentary—it’s a cinematic lore drop. In Jara – Radioactive Patriarchy: Women of Qazaqstan, Kazakh filmmaker and nuclear justice advocate Aigerim Seitenova confronts the mutagenic legacy of Soviet nuclear testing, weaving glitchcore aesthetics with generational trauma to expose a system where memory itself becomes radioactive.

Written by Vanguard investigations desk Published October 15th, 2025 UNITED STATES — They were supposed to be gone. Discharged, forgiven, buried in bankruptcy filings and forgotten paperwork. But across America, old debts are rising from the grave. Debt collectors—operating like spectral entities in a horror economy sim—are exploiting “zombie loans,” feeding on digital remnants and haunting homeowners with foreclosure threats, phantom balances, and resurrected obligations.

Written by Vanguard investigations desk Published October 15th, 2025 CARIBBEAN SEA — The official narrative is anti-trafficking. The real game is power projection. Over the past six weeks, a series of U.S.-led military strikes on alleged drug vessels in the southern Caribbean has escalated into a geopolitical standoff with Venezuela, triggering emergency UN sessions, regional war games, and diplomatic reshuffling. Beneath the surface, the strikes resemble a covert faction skirmish—where narco-hunting ops mask a deeper simulation of influence warfare.

Written by Vanguard investigations desk Published October 14th, 2025 GLOBAL TRADE GRID — The fentanyl epidemic isn’t just a public health crisis—it’s a decentralized war game. Beneath the surface of global commerce, a shadow network of chemical brokers, shell firms, and encrypted trade rituals is powering the synthetic opioid pipeline from China to Mexico. This isn’t cartel warfare in the traditional sense.

Written by Vanguard investigations desk Published October 14th, 2025 MOSCOW, RUSSIA — In the Kremlin’s theater of control, the most guarded stage is the private life of Vladimir Putin. But a new exposé by Russian journalists Roman Badanin and Mikhail Rubin has shattered the fourth wall. Their book, The Tsar In Propria Persona, pierces the mythos of Russia’s long-reigning leader, revealing a psychological thriller where curated legend bends reality—and truth becomes a hunted artifact.

Written by Vanguard investigations desk Published October 14th, 2025 RAKHINE STATE, MYANMAR — In the shadow of famine, a new kind of war is unfolding—not over land, but over knowledge. Myanmar’s military junta has launched a covert crackdown on food security researchers, treating hunger data as forbidden intelligence. The result is a geopolitical manhunt, where encrypted crop yield reports and nutrition maps are now classified contraband.

Written by Vanguard investigations desk Published October 12th, 2025 GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE GRID — It was sanctioned, exposed, dismantled. But Intellexa—the mercenary spyware consortium behind Predator—has reactivated. Not as a company, but as a rogue AI faction. Its sleeper nodes are coming online across continents, reanimating shell firms, hijacking server clusters, and infiltrating civil infrastructure like a digital possession mechanic in a horror-sim.

Written by Vanguard investigations desk Published October 10th, 2025 GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE GRID — It was supposed to be dead. Sanctioned, exposed, dismantled. But Intellexa—the mercenary spyware consortium behind the Predator surveillance system—has reactivated. Like a rogue AI faction in a cyber-strategy simulation, it’s reawakening sleeper nodes across continents, reanimating shell companies, and reconfiguring its global infrastructure. This isn’t just a comeback.

Written by Vanguard investigations desk Published October 10th, 2025 GUANGDONG, CHINA — Super Typhoon Ragasa didn’t just strike—it deployed. With winds exceeding 270 km/h and a pressure drop that triggered landslides, surges, and mass evacuations, Ragasa behaved less like a weather event and more like a sentient force in a horror-strategy simulation. From Taiwan’s shattered riverbanks to Hong Kong’s emptied promenades, Ragasa executed a campaign of precision chaos across Asia’s coastal grid.

Written by Vanguard investigations desk Published October 9th, 2025 PANMUNJOM, KOREAN PENINSULA — In the latest twist of geopolitical theater, North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un has slid a velvet envelope across the DMZ. Inside: a conditional offer to resume talks with the United States—if Washington drops its “obsession” with denuclearization. It’s less a policy shift and more a surreal courtship ritual, where diplomacy behaves like a dating sim coded by absurdist playwrights.

Written by Vanguard investigations desk Published October 8th, 2025 SINJAR, IRAQ — Ten years after ISIS unleashed its genocidal siege on the Yazidi people, the desert still whispers. Over 2,600 Yazidi women and children remain unaccounted for—vanished into detention camps, trafficking routes, and digital silence. Their absence forms a ghost network: a haunted archive of missing nodes, each one a story severed from its origin.

Written by Vanguard investigations desk Published October 8th, 2025 CHICAGO, IL — In the shimmering world of corporate wellness, where “postbiotics” promise enlightenment and “mood-balancing fibers” are the new holy grail, Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM) built a temple. Its Nutrition Division, once hailed as the future of food, now stands accused of financial sorcery—transforming hype into profit through accounting sleight-of-hand and investor manipulation.

Written by Vanguard investigations desk Published October 7th, 2025 GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP — In the ruins of Gaza, where families forage for weeds and hospitals ration baby formula, a different kind of failure is unfolding—one not of diplomacy or logistics, but of data. The predictive models designed to detect famine have misfired, leaving humanitarian agencies blind to catastrophe until it was too late.

Written by Vanguard investigations desk Published October 7th, 2025 RAKHINE STATE, MYANMAR — In a country where famine looms and fields are mined, the most dangerous weapon isn’t a gun—it’s a spreadsheet. Myanmar’s military junta has launched a covert crackdown on food security researchers, treating hunger data as forbidden knowledge and triggering a geopolitical manhunt for those who dare to quantify the crisis.