Articles by Koenraad Priels
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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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How KU Leuven Has Become a Laughing Stock: The Emperor Has No Clothes
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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