Written by ICE investigation team Published October 22nd, 2025 TUCSON, Ariz. — ICE Homeland Security Investigations special agents arrested a Phoenix man employed as a youth group leader and director for multiple religious organizations Oct. 16 for federal charges of allegedly attempting to produce child pornography and possession of child sexual abuse material. The arrest of Casey Goslin, 46, of Phoenix, stemmed from a joint HSI and Tucson Police Department investigation.

Written by Vanguard investigations desk Published October 22nd, 2025 YANGON, MYANMAR — The numbers were never supposed to surface. Not the 15.2 million facing acute hunger. Not the 3.5 million displaced. Not the encrypted field logs showing crop collapse in Sagaing and Rakhine. But when food security researchers began transmitting these figures to international bodies, the junta responded with a crackdown that felt less like censorship and more like a geopolitical manhunt.

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.