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The Simulation of Democracy
The Simulation of Democracy One of the most complicated and frustrating aspects of operating a global capitalist empire is maintaining the fiction that it doesn’t exist. Virtually every action you take has to be carefully recontextualized or otherwise spun for public consumption. Every time you want to bomb or invade some country to further your […]
What’s Wrong With the United States?
What’s Wrong With the United States? Photo source jqpubliq | CC BY 2.0 Despite the myth perpetrated by United States spokespersons, the country is not, and never has been, a beacon of peace and freedom, the ‘land of the free and the home of the brave’, or a democracy that is the envy of the […]
Venezuela on the Eve of Presidential Elections: The US Empire Isn’t Sitting by Idly
Venezuela on the Eve of Presidential Elections: The US Empire Isn’t Sitting by Idly Photo by Joka Madruga | CC BY 2.0 “I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to […]
Introducing Empire Oil: A DeSmog UK Special Investigation
Introducing Empire Oil: A DeSmog UK Special Investigation The UK likes to brag about its credentials as a global climate leader. But a new DeSmog UK investigation reveals that beneath the green veneer lies some dirty business. At the centre of it all is the City of London and its junior stock exchange, the Alternative Investment […]
Europe: National Sovereignty vs. International Conquest, at Stake over Iran
Europe: National Sovereignty vs. International Conquest, at Stake over Iran Europe now faces its ultimate ideological fork-in-the-road, which it has thus far ignored but can no longer ignore: They need to decide whether they seek a world of nations that each is sovereign over its own territory but over no other (and this would not […]
Why The Empire Never Sleeps: The Indispensable Nation Folly
Why The Empire Never Sleeps: The Indispensable Nation Folly Like the case of Rome before it, the Empire is bankrupting America. The true fiscal cost is upwards of $1.o trillion per year (counting $200 billion for veterans and debt service for wars), but there is no way to pay for it. That’s because the 78-million strong Baby Boom is […]
How To Silence RT Forever
How To Silence RT Forever Loyalists of the western empire have been growing increasingly honest about their desire to use censorship and propaganda in order to win an “information war” against Russia. The other day we saw a Guardian article arguing for the necessity of a coordinated campaign by western governments to “combat Russian disinformation” due to […]
The End Of Our Empire Approaches
The End Of Our Empire Approaches History is clear on where we’re headed Do you have the nagging sense that our empire is in decline? If so, don’t be embarrassed by it. Historically speaking, we’re in very good company. Far larger and longer-lived empires than ours have come and gone over the millennia. This was hit […]
The Road to 2025 (Part 4) – A Very Bright Future If We Demand It
The Road to 2025 (Part 4) – A Very Bright Future If We Demand It Whenever all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and […]
Behind Theresa May’s ‘Humanitarian Hysterics’: The Ideology of Empire and Conquest
Behind Theresa May’s ‘Humanitarian Hysterics’: The Ideology of Empire and Conquest Photo by EU2017EE Estonian Presidency | CC BY 2.0 Until the 17th century, India was the richest country in the world and had controlled a third of global wealth. Political unity and military security helped evolve a uniform economic system, increased trade and enhanced agricultural […]
What If All the Cheap Stuff Goes Away?
What If All the Cheap Stuff Goes Away? Nothing stays the same in dynamic systems, and it’s inevitable that the current glut of low costs / cheap stuff will give way to scarcities that cannot be filled at current low prices. One of the books I just finished reading is The Fate of Rome: Climate, […]
US Doubles Down As Empire Declines
US Doubles Down As Empire Declines US empire is in decline. Reports of the end of the US being the unitary power in world affairs are common, as are predictions of the end of US empire. China surpassed the United States as the world economic leader according to Purchasing Power Parity Gross National Product, and […]
US Empire on Decline
US Empire on Decline US empire is in decline. Reports of the end of the US being the unitary power in world affairs are common, as are predictions of the end of US empire. China surpassed the United States as the world economic leader, according to Purchasing Power Parity Gross National Product, and Russia announced new weapons that […]
Currency Exchange Value Dynamics
CURRENCY EXCHANGE VALUE DYNAMICS In a recent article I postulated that the dollar could lose all its purchasing power with a rapidity that will come as an unpleasant bombshell, even to those who already see inflation as society’s greatest problem in the future. The key to understanding why this may be so lies in human […]
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 […]
