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Notes on Stormtrooper Syndrome
Notes on Stormtrooper Syndrome For some time now I’ve been looking for a way to talk about one of the most common bad habits of thought in the modern industrial world. Habits like this are far more important that a casual glance might suggest. Plenty of pragmatic factors are piling up crises for our civilization […]
Desperation Creeps In
Desperation Creeps In “There is only one way to explain this shambles: Every one of these crises traces back to the Democratic Party’s obsession with taking and holding power more or less indefinitely to suit its hubristic, end-of-history “narrative” of righteous liberal triumph.” — Patrick Lawrence That silence you hear these dog days of a […]
Lebanon caretaker PM warns of total collapse if reforms not implemented
Lebanon caretaker PM warns of total collapse if reforms not implemented The caretaker PM’s warning comes as the Central Bank is considering completely halting its funding of the Lebanese state (Photo credit: Dalati Nohra/Handout via Reuters) Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, warned on 3 August that the country’s total economic collapse will be imminent in the […]
Storm clouds gathering in the Black Sea
Storm clouds gathering in the Black Sea Turkish President Recep Erdogan (L) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (R) with President Biden & NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg (C), NATO Summit, Vilnius,July 11, 2023 The NATO Summit in Vilnius (July 11-12) signalled that there is absolutely no possibility of talks to settle the Ukraine war in a […]
Lesson of the Day: If You Weaponize the Dollar and Confiscate Assets, Expect Retaliation
Lesson of the Day: If You Weaponize the Dollar and Confiscate Assets, Expect Retaliation Russia seized the local assets of Carlsberg beer and yogurt maker Danone. It now threatens Austria’s Raiffeisen bank. Russia Seizes Western Yogurt and Beer As backdrop to the Raiffeisen bank story, consider the Bloomberg report, Russia Seizes Western Yogurt and Beer. President Vladimir […]
Experts Warn Renewable Energy Creates ‘New Opportunities’ for Chinese Grid Attacks
Experts Warn Renewable Energy Creates ‘New Opportunities’ for Chinese Grid Attacks Wind turbines are viewed at a wind farm in Colorado City, Texas, on Jan. 21, 2016. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) America’s increasing reliance on intermittent power sources and batteries is creating novel risks, according to grid specialists who testified before Congress on July 18. Many […]
Biden Mobilizes 3,000 Reservists To Europe To Augment ‘Operation Atlantic Resolve’
Biden Mobilizes 3,000 Reservists To Europe To Augment ‘Operation Atlantic Resolve’ President Joe Biden today issued an executive order approving the mobilization of select reserve forces with up to 3,000 personnel, augmenting the armed forces in support of Operation Atlantic Resolve. By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the […]
Chris Hedges: They Lied About Afghanistan. They Lied About Iraq. And They Are Lying About Ukraine.
Chris Hedges: They Lied About Afghanistan. They Lied About Iraq. And They Are Lying About Ukraine. The U.S. public has been conned, once again, into pouring billions into another endless war. Preying for Peace – by Mr. Fish The playbook the pimps of war use to lure us into one military fiasco after another, including […]
Failures of an Economic Hitman in Turkey: Erdogan Re-elected
Failures of an Economic Hitman in Turkey: Erdogan Re-elected President Erdogan’s re-election in Turkey is a monumental failure of Western pressure. Because of it, it’s time to take our eyes off Ukraine and look at a different theater of World War III with equal if not bigger implications. Turkey is another in a now long […]
War of the Worlds
War of the Worlds Photo by Benjamin Behre on Unsplash In parallel with – but perhaps not entirely unrelated to – the many technical aspects of the long decline of industrial civilization, my attention is increasingly captured by the massive global geopolitical shift precipitated by the war in Eastern Europe. I incline to believe that this battle is […]
America’s empire is bankrupt
America’s empire is bankrupt The dollar is finally being dethroned Let’s start with the basics. Roughly 5% of the human race currently live in the United States of America. That very small fraction of humanity, until quite recently, enjoyed about a third of the world’s energy resources and manufactured products and about a quarter of […]
World War Three Chronicles, Part 2
World War Three Chronicles, Part 2 As World War Three progresses with the proxy war in Ukraine grinding the nation and its war weary people into dust, we need to pay close attention to the second front. The systematic demolition of US Dollar Hegemony. Part one of this series is embedded here: World War Three Chronicles, Part1 We […]
