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Doug Casey on What the International Ruling Class Have Planned for You
Doug Casey on What the International Ruling Class Have Planned for You International Man: No matter the problem, the prescription of the Davos crowd is always more welfare, more warfare, more money printing, more taxes, and of course, more centralization of power into global institutions. What’s your take? Doug Casey: The people who attend Davos […]
The EU and the warning signs of Fascism
The EU and the warning signs of Fascism Image source – here. Things are spiralling out of control in Europe, faster than many predicted. Outside of Brexit, there is strong anti-EU feeling in Hungary, Spain, Italy, Greece and France. The EU is in danger of crumbling, and people afraid of losing power are prone to […]
Why I Remain Hopeful When Things Look Grim
Why I Remain Hopeful When Things Look Grim Hi. I’m sorry to my regular readers for not writing any articles in the last couple of days; I’ve just been staring transfixed at the fallout from the election of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, and the words which normally come bubbling up on their own just haven’t […]
Avoid the Slippery Slope
Avoid the Slippery Slope Everything government touches turns to crap. Ringo Starr Social media companies, search engines, and payments platforms are excising conservative, libertarian, and assorted anti-government voices. SLL argued in “The Friendly Faces of Fascism” that the largest and best known of these companies were essentially arms of the government. They are mechanisms for […]
Is the U.S. in a Pre-Fascist Period?
Is the U.S. in a Pre-Fascist Period? Photo Source Eden, Janine and Jim | CC BY 2.0 Since Pres. Donald Trump’s election, a variety of well-intentioned commentators have raised a chorus of concern that the U.S. was entering – or is in – a per-fascist period. If so, what is to be done? If not, what does […]
Crisis After Crisis: 10 Years After the Crash, There’s No ‘Reforming’ Global Capitalism
Crisis After Crisis: 10 Years After the Crash, There’s No ‘Reforming’ Global Capitalism The real battle is now between two post-globalization camps: democratic socialists… and fascists. Shutterstock It is now clear that financial crises are not discrete events but are linked phenomena that have been unleashed on the globe ever since the financial markets were […]
American Fascism
American Fascism Photo Source Alan Turkus | CC BY 2.0 From Whence ‘We’ Came Fascism is a loaded topic for Americans. The term is usually put forward as oppositional, as the flip side of representative democracy, e.g. authoritarian. Left unaddressed is whose interests’ American representative democracy represents. Twenty years of research by political scientist Thomas […]
Stripping Away Local Governmental Powers: a Global Rising Tide of Fascism
Stripping Away Local Governmental Powers: a Global Rising Tide of Fascism Fascists love strong central government control. On the other hand, local autonomy represents good governance, something that is anathema to fascists. Today, around the world, local governments at the municipal, provincial, and regional levels are finding themselves under siege by central governments exercising what […]
New California Bill Would ELIMINATE Free Speech, Require ‘Online Fact Checkers’
New California Bill Would ELIMINATE Free Speech, Require ‘Online Fact Checkers’ California Senator Richard Pan, the infamous fascist who forced a mandatory vaccination law through in order to rake in money from big pharma, has decided there should no longer be free speech for anyone other than the government. Pan’s new bill proposes to require […]
Trump Seeks Congressional Funding for 60,000-Man Army to Overthrow Assad
Trump Seeks Congressional Funding for 60,000-Man Army to Overthrow Assad ISIS, or ISIL, or Islamic State, has been almost completely defeated in Syria, but the U.S. Department of Defense is requesting an increase instead of a decrease in funding to support “Vetted Syrian Opposition,” or fighters in Syria against Syria’s Government, and it refers to […]
Prepare for War: Globalism, Socialism, and Communism vs. Freedom
Prepare for War: Globalism, Socialism, and Communism vs. Freedom “Peace Sells, But Who’s Buying?” – Megadeath “SI VIS PACEM PARA BELLVM.” (If you wish peace, prepare for war) PVBLIVS FLAVIVS VEGETIVS RENATVS (aka: “Vegetius”) “Peace through superior firepower.” – former President Ronald Reagan *** History: It repeats itself and is consistently ignored before it does so. Ignored are […]
An Introduction to Political Economy
An Introduction to Political Economy Last month, when I looked across the vast gray wasteland of the calendar page ahead and noted that there were five Wednesdays in November, I asked readers—in keeping with a newly minted but entertaining tradition here on Ecosophia—to suggest a theme for the fifth Wednesday post. This blog being the […]
The return of the peasant: or, the history of the world in 10½ blog posts. 10. The current impasse
The return of the peasant: or, the history of the world in 10½ blog posts. 10. The current impasse I’ve just returned from a short but fascinating meeting in Nicaragua on small-scale farming, which I plan to write about soon. But first I want to finish my history of the world. Apologies if the latter […]
