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How Democracies Turn Tyrannical
How Democracies Turn Tyrannical Both monarchs of the past and dictators more in the present have denied limits on their power to command and coerce those under their control. For most of the last three centuries, the ideas of liberty and democracy have been intertwined in the minds of both friends and foes of a […]
A New World Order: Brought to You by the Global-Industrial Deep State
A New World Order: Brought to You by the Global-Industrial Deep State “There are no nations. There are no peoples … There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the […]
A Failing Nation
A Failing Nation What are the necessary elements for the success of a modern nation state? According to one justifiably popular and well-written book, Why Nations Fail, it all has to do with inclusive political and economic institutions which foster technological change which in turn leads to increasing prosperity for the many. Two key aspects upholding […]
Caught in a Trap of Our Own Making: Climate Change, Blame, and Denial
Caught in a Trap of Our Own Making: Climate Change, Blame, and Denial Photo by Marco Verch | CC BY 2.0 Come morning, I throw my covers aside, throw my legs over the edge of the bed, turn on my bedside lamp, turn on my bedside radio for a first dose of the daily news, […]
The Eagle, the Dragon, and the Bear
The Eagle, the Dragon, and the Bear Does Trump recognize the limits of US power? Trump’s new world order comes straight from The Godfather. There are three global powers: the US, Russia, and China. None of these powers can militarily defeat either of the other two, and even an alliance among two of them would […]
Confronting the money-power elite
Confronting the money-power elite Those who control the creation and allocation of money are able to control every other aspect of society. Shouldn’t that be us? Credit: Flickr/Liz West. CC BY 2.0. The world today is controlled by a small elite group that has been increasingly concentrating power and wealth in their own hands. There […]
China’s Global Electricity Takeover
China’s Global Electricity Takeover Powered by low-cost state-funded capital There has been no shortage of stories recently about looming trade wars and foreign investments with questionable implications for national security. But the business press recently took notice of one particularly large investment number: $452 billion. This is the amount China’s state controlled power companies have […]
Twelve Tips For Making Sense Of The World
Twelve Tips For Making Sense Of The World In an environment that is saturated with mass media propaganda, it can be hard to figure out which way’s up, let alone get an accurate read on what’s going on in the world. Here are a few tips I’ve learned which have given me a lot of […]
Europe’s Nationalism and Trump’s Trade Policies Look Like WWI Prelude
Europe’s Nationalism and Trump’s Trade Policies Look Like WWI Prelude In conversations with friends, one thought the current political scene was like the prelude to WWII. Another said WWI. Tuesday evening I struck up a conversation with “Max”, a friend that I frequently see at a Tuesday karaoke bar. Max is not a reader of […]
Chris Hedges: U.S. citizens are living in an inverted totalitarian country
Chris Hedges: U.S. citizens are living in an inverted totalitarian country Chris Hedges The mainstream media deflects attention from where power resides: corporations, not with the leaders of the free world. The arguments posed by Chris Hedges, that the U.S. is neither a democracy nor a republic but a totalitarian state that can now assassinate […]
The US Empire Is Acting Like A Desperate, Cornered Animal, Because That’s What It Is
The US Empire Is Acting Like A Desperate, Cornered Animal, Because That’s What It Is I love Americans. I get friendly flak from some of my more jaded lefty readers whenever I say that, because having to deal with the flaws of one’s own countrymen is a very different experience than appreciating them from afar, but […]
The Exponent Problem
The Exponent Problem 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192… Most people find managing their own affairs sufficiently challenging. Earning a living, establishing a family, rearing children, saving for college and retirement, and dealing with illness and aging fill the days and leave little time, attention, or energy to […]
The Pie Is Shrinking So Much The 99% Are Beginning To Starve
Melissa E Dockstader/Shutterstock The Pie Is Shrinking So Much The 99% Are Beginning To Starve How much longer until the pitchforks come out? Social movements arise to solve problems of inequality, injustice, exploitation and oppression. In other words, they are solutions to society-wide problems plaguing the many but not the few (i.e. the elites at […]
Assange Keeps Warning Of AI Censorship, And It’s Time We Started List
Assange Keeps Warning Of AI Censorship, And It’s Time We Started Listening Throughout the near entirety of human history, a population’s understanding of what’s going on in the world has been controlled by those in power. The men in charge controlled what the people were told about rival populations, the history of their tribe and […]
