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License to Kill
License to Kill Jakub Rozalski [This post is, once again, a rerun, but its subject seems quite timely. As you watch the political establishment in the US go through its usual antics, ask yourself: are they even capable of understanding the fact that they have already lost the empire?] The story is the same every […]
The Decline of the West Revisited
The Decline of the West Revisited LONDON – The terrorist slaughter in Paris has once again brought into sharp relief the storm clouds gathering over the twenty-first century, dimming the bright promise for Europe and the West that the fall of communism opened up. Given dangers that seemingly grow by the day, it is worth […]
Liam Fox’s Speech to the IEA on Honest Money
Liam Fox’s Speech to the IEA on Honest Money Dr Fox gave his speech on honest money to the IEA last week. The video can also be viewed here: http://www.iea.org.uk/multimedia/video/rt-hon-liam-fox-on-honest-money It is almost universally accepted that the first duty of government is the protection of its citizens. As a former Secretary of State for Defence I […]
Untangling America from the American Empire
Untangling America from the American Empire Those calling for an end of the Empire don’t seem to realize that the federal state’s vast entitlement programs are ultimately funded by the Empire. The Status Quo would have us believe that America and its Empire are one entity. This is handy for those with Imperial designs but […]
The Bond Crisis & 2015.75
The Bond Crisis & 2015.75 Some people have wrongly expected a crash in the long bonds. What has actually happened is that China and others have sold into the high, liquidating their long bonds, and moving short-term. This is why rates are negative on the short-end. The CRASH comes in the opposite direction this time. […]
The Real Trouble Begins When Rising Inequality Splinters the Elites
The Real Trouble Begins When Rising Inequality Splinters the Elites If others in our class are still rising while we’re stagnating, we sense a great disturbance in the financial and political Force. Rising economic inequality tends to generate political instability for all the obvious reasons: the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, the rich say let […]
The Syrian terror trap
The Syrian terror trap The US, Russia and Iran are fracturing the Levant Leaked US diplomatic cables show that the US sought to undermine the Assad regime nearly a decade ago. But that’s not the whole story. In 2011, as peaceful protestors rallied across Syria, Assad was courted by the Obama administration as a potential […]
Twenty-First-Century Fascism
Twenty-First-Century Fascism Globalization of trade and central banking has propelled private corporations to positions of power and control never before seen in human history. Under advanced capitalism, the structural demands for a return on investment require an unending expansion of centralized capital in the hands of fewer and fewer people. The financial center of global […]
Junior Partner of Empire: Why Canada’s Foreign Policy Isn’t What You Think
Junior Partner of Empire: Why Canada’s Foreign Policy Isn’t What You Think Canada is not what it appears to outsiders. It is not what it seems even to Canadians. The idea that middle-power Canada is a strong, upright guy who steps into the fight hesitantly and defends the little man is a myth of grandiose […]
When the Aristocracy Leaves the Commoners in the Dust, The Empire Is Doomed
When the Aristocracy Leaves the Commoners in the Dust, The Empire Is Doomed We all know the barriers between the commoners and the Elite rise higher every year, despite the claims of the corporate media and the Power Elite aristocracy. Historian Peter Turchin identified “the degree of solidarity felt between the commons and aristocracy” as […]
Yes, There is an Imperialist Ruling Class
Yes, There is an Imperialist Ruling Class Contemporary history is neither a series of random occurrences nor the predetermined plaything of a small cabal of super-empowered conspirators. The truth is somewhere in-between. A sizeable cadre of class- and system-conscious deep-state and imperial planners from the heights of concentrated private and governmental power join together to […]
The World’s Silliest Empire
The World’s Silliest Empire I couldn’t help but notice that over the past few weeks the Empire has become extremely silly—so silly that I believe it deserves the title of the World’s Silliest Empire. One could claim that it has been silly before, but recent developments seem to signal a quantum leap in its silliness […]
Lawrence Wilkerson: “The American ‘Empire’ Is In Deep, Deep Trouble”
Lawrence Wilkerson: “The American ‘Empire’ Is In Deep, Deep Trouble” Former US army colonel and Chief of Staff for Colin Powell, Lawrence Wilkerson unleashed a most prescient speech on the demise of the United States Empire. As Naked Capitalism’s Yves Smith notes, Wilkerson describes the path of empires in decline and shows how the US is following […]
You Can’t Separate Empire, the State, Financialization and Crony Capitalism: It’s One Indivisible System
You Can’t Separate Empire, the State, Financialization and Crony Capitalism: It’s One Indivisible System The great irony is what’s unsustainable melts into thin air no matter how many people want it to keep going. Disagreement is part of discourse, and pursuing differing views of the best way forward is the heart of democracy. Disagreement is abundant, […]
U.S. Bombs Somehow Keep Falling in the Places Where Obama “Ended Two Wars”
U.S. Bombs Somehow Keep Falling in the Places Where Obama “Ended Two Wars” “We’ve ended two wars.” — Barack Obama, July 21, 2015, at a DSCC fundraiser held at a “private residence” “Now that we have ended two wars responsibly, and brought home hundreds of American troops, we salute this new generation of veterans.” — National Security Adviser […]
