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Following in Ancient Rome’s Footsteps: Moral Decay, Rising Wealth Inequality
Following in Ancient Rome’s Footsteps: Moral Decay, Rising Wealth Inequality If you want to understand why Rome declined, look no further than the moral decay of ruling Elites. There are many reasons why Imperial Rome declined, but two primary causes that get relatively little attention are moral decay and soaring wealth inequality. The two are of […]
The Real Enemy Is Within
The Real Enemy Is Within Steve Mann / Shutterstock If you are not dedicated to the destruction of empire and the dismantling of American militarism, then you cannot count yourself as a member of the left. It is not a side issue. It is the issue. It is why I refuse to give a pass in this presidential […]
Eventual Consequences
Eventual Consequences Mark Bryan The US empire has murdered some 40 million people since World War II (according to John Stockwell), has suppressed popular social change in dozens of countries, has overthrown and assassinated their leaders and has organized and trained right-wing death squads that murdered and tortured their citizens. Both Al Qaeda and ISIS […]
Lawrence Wilkerson: Travails of Empire – Oil, Debt, Gold and the Imperial Dollar
Lawrence Wilkerson: Travails of Empire – Oil, Debt, Gold and the Imperial Dollar “We are imperial, and we are in decline… People are losing confidence in the Empire.” This is the key theme of Larry Wilkerson’s presentation. He never really questions whether empire is good or bad, sustainable or not, and at what costs. At […]
Leveling the Playing Field of Death
Leveling the Playing Field of Death In April 2015, the Washington DC-based Physicians for Social Responsibility released a landmark study concluding that the death toll from 10 years of the “War on Terror” since the 9/11 attacks is at least 1.3 million, and could be as high as two million. However, Nafeez Ahmed begs to differ, writing that western […]
Let’s Talk About Solutions, Not Fake Fixes
Let’s Talk About Solutions, Not Fake Fixes Since the status quo has no workable Plan B to “growth” in an economy in which household incomes have declined 8.5% in a supposedly expanding economy, real solutions must arise outside the status quo. It’s a lot easier to talk about what’s wrong with the status quo and […]
The Anglo-American empire is preparing for resource war
The Anglo-American empire is preparing for resource war The control of resources remains a core factor in US considerations for sustaining global US hegemony in the face of rising geopolitical influence of its major rivals Last week, the US Joint Chiefs of Staff released the new National Military Strategy of the United States of America, 2015. The […]
Recession time bomb ticking faster, louder
Recession time bomb ticking faster, louder Americans are unprepared for the trillions they will lose again America is its own enemy, trapped in new irrational exuberance What’s even more disturbing than the near certainty of Grantham, Cook and the Economist in the dark predictions is what’s driving them, America’s self-delusional narcissism, overoptimism and irrational exuberance […]
An Affirming Flame
An Affirming Flame According to an assortment of recent news stories, this Thursday, June 18, is the make-or-break date by which a compromise has to be reached between Greece and the EU if a Greek default, with the ensuing risk of a potential Greek exit from the Eurozone, is to be avoided. If that’s more […]
The Empire Was Temporarily Defeated In Macedonia
The Empire Was Temporarily Defeated In Macedonia Global Research has made available an English translation of Andrew Korybko’s interview with the Macedonian NetPress. Washington’s color revolution for Macedonia has failed for now. Korybko describes how Washington-funded NGOs are used as Fifth Columns to destabilize and to overthrow governments in order to bring countries under Washington’s […]
The senility of elites: coal mining must continue, no matter what the human costs
The senility of elites: coal mining must continue, no matter what the human costs The coal mine of Bihar, India. Photo by Nitin Kirloskar This post was inspired by a recent article about coal mining in India by David Rose in the Guardian about coal mining. In India, people are dying in the streets because of excessive heat […]
Superpower in Distress
Superpower in Distress Think of this as a little imperial folly update — and here’s the backstory. In the years after invading Iraq and disbanding Saddam Hussein’s military, the U.S. sunk about $25 billion into “standing up” a new Iraqi army. By June 2014, however, that army, filled with at least 50,000 “ghost soldiers,” was only standing in […]
Revolution and American Empire
Revolution and American Empire When the Left Promotes the Political Economy of the Far-Right The American preference for ideological, or ideologically based, explanations of world events frames them as both self-generated and inexplicable— self-generated because causal relations recover history and thereby clutter ideology and inexplicable in that ideology didn’t exist until it did, again recovering […]
The US and China can avoid a collision course – if the US gives up its empire
The US and China can avoid a collision course – if the US gives up its empire The problem isn’t China’s rise, but rather America’s insistence on maintaining military and economic dominance right in China’s backyard To avoid a violent militaristic clash with China, or another cold war rivalry, the United States should pursue a simple […]
