Articles by Koenraad Priels
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Bankism and Militarism: The Twin Engines of Class Warfare and Crimes against Peace
Koenraad Priels – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2025
If you want to glimpse the strange, brutal logic that governs our world, don’t start with politicians or generals—start with the bank towers glittering above your city skyline and the endless parade of military hardware rolling across distant deserts.
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Complaint at the European Court of Human Rights: Systemic Ecocide and Genocide in the Global Financial System
Koenraad Priels – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2025
14 Jul 2025 -The legal action is rooted in extensive empirical, mathematical, and legal evidence demonstrating that the current global financial architecture—anchored in debt-driven, interest-bearing banking and rentier capitalism—generates large-scale harm and crises.
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Criminal Negligence in the Degrowth Movement? Why Transformative Criminology Matters for Systemic Change
Koenraad Priels – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2025
2 Jul 2025 – The degrowth movement has emerged as one of the most courageous and necessary responses to the ecological and social crises of our time. It dares to question the dogma of endless economic growth on a finite planet, and it offers a vision of sufficiency, solidarity, and ecological sanity.
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Raised in a Colonial Death Cult: 600 Years of KU Leuven and still…
Koenraad Priels – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
After six centuries, it’s time for KU Leuven to grow up—and to grow beyond its colonial roots.
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Academia at the Crossroads: Indoctrination, Systemic Violence, and the Security Risks of Rentier Capitalism
Koenraad Priels | TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
19 Jun 2025 – As the world faces an accelerating socio-ecological catastrophe, the role of academia has become both more crucial and more contested than ever before.
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The Source of Systemic Violence: How Our Money System Holds the World Hostage
Koenraad Priels – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2025
Systemic violence is not a law of nature, but a consequence of human choices and institutions. If we have the courage to change the system, we can build a world in which peace, justice and ecological balance are central.
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Koenraad Priels - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2025
26 May 2025 – When institutional arrogance and academic self-preservation become so blatant, the appropriate response is to expose them. KU Leuven, once a symbol of academic excellence, has now positioned itself as a textbook example of how not to respond to paradigm-shifting research in a time of escalating polycrisis.
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Eradicating Poverty beyond Growth: Reforming the Global Financial Architecture for Ecological and Social Justice
Koenraad Priels - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
This report presents a scientific case that the current monetary system—built on the misrepresentation of money as both a commodity and a unit of value—is mathematically unstable, ecologically catastrophic, and inherently exploitative.
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Architectura Socio-Ecologika: Evidence Base
Koenraad Priels – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
24 Dec 2024 – Empirical Evidence of Systemic Fraud and Deception – Can banks individually create money out of nothing? The theories and the empirical evidence.
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Psychopathy Incorporated
Koenraad Priels | Journal of Critical Realism in Socio-Economics - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
The purpose of this paper is to provide a qualitative structural analysis of capitalism to be defined as a “psychopathic system.” Its inherent structural dynamics violently centralize and concentrate wealth and ideological and political power in the hands of a “psychopathic ruling class.”
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