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Are You Ready for the Coming Debt Revolution?
Are You Ready for the Coming Debt Revolution? Gualfin (“End of the Road”), Argentina Dear Diary, There is a specter haunting America… and all the developed nations of the world. It is the specter of a debt revolution. We left off yesterday talking about how the economy of the last 30 years – and especially that […]
Violent Conditions Generate Violent Revolts: The Logic of Rebellion
Violent Conditions Generate Violent Revolts: The Logic of Rebellion My eyes were glued to my television set as I watched civil unrest unfold in Baltimore. Yet, as a historian who has studied urban rebellions, I was not surprised. Since last August, the question for me has not been why, but when. I watched CNN’s and MSNBC’s […]
96 Percent Of Americans Expect More Civil Unrest In U.S. Cities This Summer
96 Percent Of Americans Expect More Civil Unrest In U.S. Cities This Summer Are you ready for rioting, looting and mindless violence in major U.S. cities all summer long? According to a brand new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, 96 percent of all Americans believe that there will be more civil unrest in America this summer. That leaves […]
High Levels of Youth Unemployment – and Runaway Inequality – Cause Riots
High Levels of Youth Unemployment – and Runaway Inequality – Cause Riots Recipe For Disaster We’ve known for 1,900 years that runaway inequality destroys societies. The great American historian Will Grant wrote in 1969: In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the […]
Turning America into a Battlefield: A Blueprint for Locking Down the Nation
Turning America into a Battlefield: A Blueprint for Locking Down the Nation In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this […]
Ready for the revolution?
Ready for the revolution? Once aggrandizers are given an inch of leeway under favorable resource conditions, they quickly stretch that inch into a mile and keep on going. — Brian Hayden Once upon a time, there lived the ancestral apes that gave rise to humans, chimpanzees and bonobos. In all likelihood, they lived in bands dominated […]
Logic of power II
Logic of power II We’re not trying to live like our ancestors, but to do something totally new: to preserve the most helpful complex technologies, while shifting to a political and economic system where power is fully shared. — Ran Prieur It seems like ages ago when I wrote about the logic of power. To sum […]
Paul Tudor Jones Warns This “Disastrous Market Mania” Will End “By Revolution, Taxes, Or War”
Paul Tudor Jones Warns This “Disastrous Market Mania” Will End “By Revolution, Taxes, Or War” “This gap between the 1% and the rest of America, and between the US and the rest of the world, cannot and will not persist,” warns renowned trader Paul Tudor Jones during his recent TED Talks speech, as he addressed the question […]
Snowden Calls for Disobedience Against the U.S. Government
Snowden Calls for Disobedience Against the U.S. Government In a question and answer session on Reddit earlier today, Edward Snowden wrote: The progress of Western civilization and human rights is actually founded on the violation of law. America was of course born out of a violent revolution that was an outrageous treason against the crown and […]
The Butlerian Carnival
The Butlerian Carnival Over the last week or so, I’ve heard from a remarkable number of people who feel that a major crisis is in the offing. The people in question don’t know each other, many of them have even less contact with the mass media than I do, and the sense they’ve tried to […]
Understanding The Fear Of Self-Defense And Revolution
Understanding The Fear Of Self-Defense And Revolution Our era is a strange one when considering how social attitudes have developed in such a contrary fashion to the rest of history. I think that our forefathers would look upon our current culture with bewilderment when confronted with the fact that our generation has all but abandoned […]
Even When the Sociopaths Lose They Win
Even When the Sociopaths Lose They Win How exactly do you cook a nutritious meal if all you have are spoiled ingredients? The answer depends upon your definition of nutritious and who is eating the meal……and, of course, your level of hunger and growing desperation. It is telling how much less discerning we become when […]
Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, Challenging the Divine Right of Big Energy | TomDispatch
Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, Challenging the Divine Right of Big Energy | TomDispatch. It was the most thrilling bureaucratic document I’ve ever seen for just one reason: it was dated the 21st day of the month of Thermidor in the Year Six. Written in sepia ink on heavy paper, it recorded an ordinary land auction in […]
The Great Change: Revolucíon
The Great Change: Revolucíon. We arrived to rural México in time for the 104th anniversary of Dia de la Revolucíon.The dirt streets of this small village whose central plaza we sit in to write this were lined with people waving flags and singing Cielito Lindo to their children, dressed as revolutionaries, on parade. Ay, ay, ay, ay, Canta […]
Guest Post: Why Monetizing Debt Could End In Revolutions | Zero Hedge
Guest Post: Why Monetizing Debt Could End In Revolutions | Zero Hedge. Much has been made of the decision by the Japanese government to inject another $700 billion into their ailing economy. While some may see this as an earnest attempt to save Japan from further stagnation and deflation, even some of the mainstream media (e.g. […]
