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The Great Economic Destruction & COMPLEXITY
The Great Economic Destruction & COMPLEXITY COMMENT #1: OK Marty, it is now becoming obvious that not only Trump reads your stuff but so does Obama. Trump bought a $19 million remote island and Obama bought one for $15 million. This is not a coincidence. Your war cycle goes nuts next year and we have […]
World War III Has Already Started, and It’s an Economic War
World War III Has Already Started, and It’s an Economic War Image © Chekov_UA. All rights reserved. In an article I published in April of 2018, World War III Will Be An Economic War, I outlined a number of factors that portend a large scale conflict between East and West and why this war would be mainly […]
A Global Monetary & Commodity Inferno of Nuclear Proportions
A GLOBAL MONETARY & COMMODITY INFERNO OF NUCLEAR PROPORTIONS When the sh-t hits the global fan, it often does it at the optimal time for the maximum amount of damage and with the worst kind of sh-t to soil the world. For years I have been clear that the world is reaching the end of […]
This War Marks the End of Cheap Resources
This War Marks the End of Cheap Resources Image credit: Miguel Bruna via Unsplash It’s time to bust some myths. Ones, like “we have all the natural resources we want” and “we live in an a world of abundance”. Or if something does become unavailable, then surely a replacement will come online and magically scale up […]
Loss of Russian Oil Leaves a Void Not Easily Filled, Straining Market
Loss of Russian Oil Leaves a Void Not Easily Filled, Straining Market Global production will take time to ramp up, so the U.S. and other buyers will chase limited supplies, creating upheaval unseen in decades. A Rosneft refinery. Russia is the world’s No. 3 oil producer, after the United States and Saudi Arabia.Credit…Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg HOUSTON […]
The Revolt of the Imagination, Part Three: Co-Creating the Future
The Revolt of the Imagination, Part Three: Co-Creating the Future As I write these words, the Russo-Ukrainian war has raged for a week. To a great many people, crises like these make the theme of my recent posts here—the potential of the human imagination—seem wholly irrelevant. That’s a common mistake, but it’s still a mistake. […]
The American Empire Self-Destructs, But Nobody Thought That It Would Happen This Fast
The American Empire Self-Destructs, But Nobody Thought That It Would Happen This Fast Photograph Source: Phil Dolby – CC BY 2.0 Empires often follow the course of a Greek tragedy, bringing about precisely the fate that they sought to avoid. That certainly is the case with the American Empire as it dismantles itself in not-so-slow motion. […]
The Inflation Blame Game
The Inflation Blame Game Now inflation is Russia’s fault. Or is it greedy businesses pushing up prices? Maybe a combination of the two. It seems that government officials and central bankers are looking everywhere for a place to pin the blame for inflation except the one place they need to look — in the mirror. […]
#223. Trading with the (common) enemy
#223. Trading with the (common) enemy THE SHARED CONSEQUENCES OF RESOURCE CONSTRAINTThe tragedy unfolding in Ukraine, as well as being horrific in itself, has brought us face-to-face with a brutal fact whose reality we’ve always, hitherto, managed to ignore. This fact is that the world has become accustomed to a standard of living that its energy resources […]
How To Prepare For and Prevent Cyberattacks
How To Prepare For and Prevent Cyberattacks The United States Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency has issued an unusual warning to businesses due to the concerns occurring from the Russia/Ukrainian conflict. “Every organization—large and small—must be prepared to respond to disruptive cyber activity,” the agency says in its warning. The United States Cybersecurity & Infrastructure […]
Thirteen Days of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Thirteen Days of the Cuban Missile Crisis Why Putin Invaded Ukraine – and what’s really going on 1) Truth is the First Casualty of War. And War is Permanent Truth is the first casualty of war, and the Ukraine conflict has been no exception. Online commentary has kept up where corporatist media has failed. Leaving […]
Condemn the invasion, but retain your critical faculties
Condemn the invasion, but retain your critical faculties Moscow’s bombing and invasion of Ukraine must be condemned by all those who believe in a rules-based international order and peaceful solutions to world problems. Hopefully Russian internationalists can come together to create a peace movement powerful enough to pressure their government. While criticizing Russian imperialism, however, […]
Is This Russian Propaganda? Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Is This Russian Propaganda? Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ We’re risking a very fast, very radioactive World War 3 to defend the “democracy” of a nation whose government bans opposition parties, imprisons political opponents, shuts down opposition media, and takes all its orders from […]
Ukraine Is A Sacrificial Pawn On The Imperial Chessboard
Ukraine Is A Sacrificial Pawn On The Imperial Chessboard Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The war is not going well for Kyiv, and it would be unreasonable to expect that to change. As a vastly superior military force overwhelms the US client state, reality is in the process of crashing down hard in the face of western […]
