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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 […]
When Empire’s Die
When Empire’s Die When empires begin to die, their public acts–in sharp contrast to the ponderous, stately sobriety of their behavior while ascendant–tend to be marked by queer and pathetic eruptions of idiocy, bathos, and mania. Though it can’t be known when our last Imperial Clown will douse the last lights of The Exceptional Empire […]
‘Mother Jones’ Senior Reporter Asks Medium To Silence Antiwar Leftists
‘Mother Jones’ Senior Reporter Asks Medium To Silence Antiwar Leftists When news first broke that Medium, one of my primary blogging platforms, had closed the accounts of Trump-supporting pundits Mike Cernovich, Jack Posobiec and Laura Loomer, I tweeted the following in response: “The only people cheering for this are leftists who haven’t been paying attention and […]
US Aggression in Syria – an Imperialist Blueprint
US Aggression in Syria – an Imperialist Blueprint Syria’s prolonged conflict and misery going into its eighth year is no accident. It is by design. American imperialist design. First though, we note the increasing reprehensible absurdity in this conflict. Turkey, which invaded Syria nearly a month ago in violation of Syria’s sovereignty, this week accused […]
India Enters the Sovereign Debt Crisis
India Enters the Sovereign Debt Crisis I have warned continually that the Sovereign Debt Crisis will unfold not so much by people selling government debt, but by the lack of people buying new debt. The greatest peril is when there is NO BID for the new issues because all governments are operating a PONZI scheme. The sell […]
U.S. Empire Still Incoherent After All These Years
U.S. Empire Still Incoherent After All These Years Exclusive: Without solid economic, political and ideological bases, the U.S. lacks the legitimacy and authority it needs to operate beyond its borders, argues Nicolas J.S. Davies in this essay. I recently reread Michael Mann’s book, Incoherent Empire, which he wrote in 2003, soon after the U.S. invasion […]
The US-UK Deep State Empire Strikes Back: ‘It’s Russia! Russia! Russia!’
The US-UK Deep State Empire Strikes Back: ‘It’s Russia! Russia! Russia!’ There’s no defense like a good offense. For weeks the unfolding story in Washington has been how a cabal of conspirators in the heart of the American federal law enforcement and intelligence apparat colluded to ensure the election of Hillary Clinton and, when that failed, to […]
War Spending Will Bankrupt America
War Spending Will Bankrupt America “Why throw money at defense when everything is falling down around us? Do we need to spend more money on our military (about $600 billion this year) than the next seven countries combined? Do we need 1.4 million active military personnel and 850,000 reserves when the enemy at the moment — […]
Budget Woes Sign of a Dysfunctional Empire
Budget Woes Sign of a Dysfunctional Empire The bloated military budget is justified on the assumption that the United States can and should police the entire world, but this approach is fundamentally unsustainable, warns Jonathan Marshall. President Donald Trump’s latest $4.4 trillion budget proposal calls for boosting military spending by nearly $200 billion over the […]
Dutch Official Admits Lying About Meeting With Putin: Is Fake News Used by Russia or About Russia?
Photo: Alexander Utkin/AFP/Getty Images Dutch Official Admits Lying About Meeting With Putin: Is Fake News Used by Russia or About Russia? EVERY EMPIRE NEEDS a scary external threat, led by a singular menacing villain, to justify its massive military expenditures, consolidation of authoritarian powers, and endless wars. For the five decades after the end of […]
