Michael Tremain

Michael Tremain writes long form investigative features examining power structures, corporate influence, and hidden financial interests.

Latest articles

Data Ownership & Digital Property Rights: Who Owns Your Data?

22 April 2026

We peel back leaked memos, filings and expert testimony to ask who really owns your digital life and why it matters.

Infrastructure Control: Who Holds the Telecom Backbone?

8 April 2026

I explore how control of undersea cables, fibre backbones and routing points creates strategic chokepoints with surveillance and economic consequences.

Global Water Control: The Privatisation Agenda

10 March 2026

I trace how policy, profit and secrecy have pushed public water into private hands and what that means for communities worldwide.

Privatised Space Agendas: Secrecy via Proprietary Tech

2 March 2026

I investigate how private space firms use proprietary technology and classified contracts to build secrecy, and what that means for public oversight.

Just-in-Time Fragility: How Global Logistics Bent But Did Not Break

20 February 2026

I investigate how lean logistics turned into leverage, why ports and data matter, and what the gaps in evidence really leave us wondering.

Automation, Labour and the Gig Economy Trap

5 February 2026

We investigate how automation and corporate strategy funnel displaced workers into precarious gig work and what leaked files and financial records really reveal.

Cultural Engineering and the Influencer Incentive Machine

28 January 2026

We map how platforms, advertisers and agencies steer social narratives through monetary and algorithmic incentives that shape influencers and publics.

Corporate Capture of Regulation: Industry Self-Policing

22 January 2026

We investigate how industries police themselves, the revolving door into regulators, and the evidence from leaks, books and investigations that suggest regulatory capture.

Inside the Data Dragnet: How Agencies Gather Our Lives

5 January 2026

We trace leaked files, books and financial trails to reveal how intelligence agencies collect data and who profits from it.

Disappearances and the Gaps They Leave Behind

17 December 2025

We examine patterns, leaked documents and financial threads behind unexplained disappearances and why so many questions remain unanswered.