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The Rutherford Institute :: The Game Is Rigged: Why Americans Keep Losing to the Police State
The Rutherford Institute :: The Game Is Rigged: Why Americans Keep Losing to the Police State. “The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens.”—Leo Tolstoy My 7-year-old granddaughter has suddenly developed a keen interest in card games: Go Fish, Crazy Eights, Old […]
ClubOrlov: The Only Way to Stop the Empire
ClubOrlov: The Only Way to Stop the Empire. Dear friends, The final days of US empire are fast approaching. Perhaps its end will pass slowly and gradually, or perhaps the event will unfold rapidly and catastrophically. Maybe chaos will break loose, or maybe its demise will be organized well and proceed smoothly. This nobody knows, […]
The Need to Escape Collapsing Empires | International Man
The Need to Escape Collapsing Empires | International Man. Jeff Thomas: What is your present residential/citizenship situation worldwide? Ron Holland: I’m an American citizen, living, working, and playing in Canada and elsewhere. Jeff: What countries have you previously lived or spent significant time in? Ron: I’m adopted, but I think I was born in North Carolina. I’ve lived in […]
BREAD, CIRCUSES & BOMBS – DECLINE OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE – PART TWO « The Burning Platform
BREAD, CIRCUSES & BOMBS – DECLINE OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE – PART TWO « The Burning Platform. In Part One of this article I discussed the similarities between the Roman Empire and the American Empire at a high level. In this article I’ll delve into some specific similarities and rhymes between the fall of the Roman Empire […]
ClubOrlov: Peak Empire, Take Two
ClubOrlov: Peak Empire, Take Two. Based on the lessons of history, all empires collapse eventually; thus, the probability that the US empire will collapse can be set at 100% with a great deal of confidence. The question is, When? (Everyone keeps asking that annoying question.) Of course, all you have to do is leave the […]
The Daily Bell – Are We Ready for the Fall of Baghdad?
The Daily Bell – Are We Ready for the Fall of Baghdad?. I recently was in Vietnam and spent some time in prosperous, capitalist Saigon, now called Ho Chi Minh City, and toured the American War Museum. I believe there are a number of parallels between the Vietnam and Iraq War and that history could […]
The Challenges of Defending Your Child’s Mind from Propaganda | Liberty Blitzkrieg
The Challenges of Defending Your Child’s Mind from Propaganda | Liberty Blitzkrieg. In great empires the people who live in the capital, and in the provinces remote from the scene of action, feel, many of them, scarce any inconveniency from the war; but enjoy, at their ease, the amusement of reading in the newspapers the […]
The US Can’t Outsource Warfighting | The Diplomat
The US Can’t Outsource Warfighting | The Diplomat. America has hung out a shingle: HELP WANTED. Offshore powers — powers beset by few if any overland threats — habitually do. But good help doesn’t come cheap, in world politics as in private industry. One hopes Washington gets this as it tries to accomplish big things […]
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Will the U.S. Go to “War” Against Ebola? | TomDispatch
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Will the U.S. Go to “War” Against Ebola? | TomDispatch. Sometimes, if you want to catch the essence of a moment, however, grim, you need to turn tohumor. Recently, the New Yorker’s resident satirist Andy Borowitz produced one of his patented fake news stories that began this way: “The president of CNN Worldwide, Jeff Zucker, […]
ClubOrlov: How to start a war and lose an empire
ClubOrlov: How to start a war and lose an empire. A year and a half I wrote an essay on how the US chooses to view Russia, titled The Image of the Enemy. I was living in Russia at the time, and, after observing the American anti-Russian rhetoric and the Russian reaction to it, I made some observations […]
