Hero of the Week: June 8, 2026: Elze van Hamelen
With her prodigious intellect and research talent, Dutch consultant and reporter Elze van Hamelen has made many valuable contributions at Solari in the form of interviews (both as interviewer and interviewee), must-read reports (Dutch Farmers and Fishermen and Pharma Food), and book reviews. Though the themes she covers—including food, farming, land grabs, international treaties, energy, and neurowarfare, to name only a handful—might at first glance seem unrelated, Elze’s uncanny ability to see the big picture and then decipher it for the rest of us has shown that we silo these topics at our peril.
And now Elze has done it again. With data centers, surveillance cameras, and other invasive instruments of the “Omniwar” insinuating themselves into every last local nook and cranny—galvanizing a growing number of local residents into action—Elze’s new knockout report, Mr. Global in Your Street: Local Politics and Money Are the Last Line of Defense, could not be more timely, offering compelling reasons—and a practical handbook and roadmap—for “getting off the couch” and taking action.
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