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The Belligerence of Empire
The Belligerence of Empire Photograph Source: Sgt. Ajenis Nunez – Public Domain “Capitalism’s gratuitous wars and sanctioned greed have jeopardized the planet and filled it with refugees. Much of the blame for this rests squarely on the shoulders of the government of the United States. Seventeen years after invading Afghanistan, after bombing it into the […]
The Origins of the Deep State in North America
The Origins of the Deep State in North America Part one: The Rise of the Round Table Movement and the Sad Case of Canada (1864-1945). “Two systems are before the world; the one looks to increasing the proportion of persons and of capital engaged in trade and transportation, and therefore to diminishing the proportion engaged […]
Assange Arrested, Brexit Squashed — Just Another Day in the Empire
Assange Arrested, Brexit Squashed — Just Another Day in the Empire And down goes Julian Assange, right beside Brexit. If there was ever any doubt that The Powers That Be are unrelenting in their cruelty just look at the 24 hours starting on Wednesday. First Theresa “The Snake Oil Lady” May kicks 17.4 million voters […]
How States/Empires Collapse in Four Easy Steps
How States/Empires Collapse in Four Easy Steps The promises cannot be met, and so society decays into warring elites and competing constituencies. There is a grand, majestic tragedy in the inevitable collapse of once-thriving states and empires: it all seemed so permanent at its peak, so godlike in its power, and then slowly but surely, too […]
Empire Unravelling: Will Huawei Become Washington’s Suez?
Empire Unravelling: Will Huawei Become Washington’s Suez? Photograph Source Brücke-Osteuropa America’s full-spectrum campaign against Chinese tech leader Huawei is coming spectacularly undone. Curtains are imminent for Washington’s tawdriest global offensive in recent memory – featuring open extortion, kidnapping, demonization and intimidation of both friends and foes. The signs were apparent as early as two months […]
Financial Imperialism: the Case of Venezuela
Financial Imperialism: the Case of Venezuela Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair Invasion of Venezuela by US and its proxies is just around the corner! This past week vice-president Pence flew to Colombia once again—for the fifth time in recent weeks—to provide final instructions to US local forces and proxy allies there for the next step […]
View From The Brextanic
View From The Brextanic Longtime Automatic Earth friend Alexander Aston talks about finding himself at Oxford at a point in time when the British themselves appear overcome by a combo of utter confusion and deadly lethargy, and one can only imagine what it must be like for ‘foreigners’ residing in Albion, who face large potential […]
The Empire: Now or Never
The Empire: Now or Never Many people I talk to seem to think American foreign policy has something to do with democracy, human rights, national security, or maybe terrorism or freedom, or niceness, or something. It is a curious belief, Washington being interested in all of them. Other people are simply puzzled, seeing no pattern […]
Oil, Agriculture and Imperialism: Averting the Fast-Track to Armageddon?
Oil, Agriculture and Imperialism: Averting the Fast-Track to Armageddon? Image source US National Security Advisor John Bolton has more or less admitted that the ongoing destabilisation of Venezuela is about grabbing its oil. He recently stated: We’re looking at the oil assets… We’re in conversation with major American companies now… It will make a big difference to […]
The Deep Hurt: Lessons From American Coups
The Deep Hurt: Lessons From American Coups As the world watches aghast at another US and allies’ attempt to engineer a coup in Venezuela, I would like to offer a few insights from Stephen Kinzer’ provocative chapter, “The deep hurt,” (pp. 227-250) in his book, The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of […]
The Price of Empire
The Price of Empire Why America and Britain Are Self-Destructing (And What the World Can Learn From it) It’s a striking fact of today’s world that the two rich societies in shocking, swift, sharp decline are America and Britain. Nowhere else in the world, for example, are real income, life expectancy, happiness, and trust all plummeting, apart […]
Trump’s Biggest Lie?
ERIC ZUESSE | 16.01.2019 | SECURITY / WAR AND CONFLICT| WORLD / MIDDLE EAST Trump’s Biggest Lie? INTRODUCTION (NOTE: Remarks from US President Donald Trump that will be considered as representing possibly his biggest lie will here be boldfaced, so that they will stand out from the context in which he stated them.) Trump escalated Bush’s […]
Re-Colonisation
Re-Colonisation The British Empire on which the sun never sets The French Empire For a decade we have been revealing the incongruity of the French desire to re-establish its authority over its old colonies. This was the logic behind the nomination by President Nicolas Sarkozy of Bernard Kouchner as Minister for Foreign Affairs. Kouchner replaced […]
Embarrassing Speeches: Signs of a Dying Empire
Embarrassing Speeches: Signs of a Dying Empire “What are you reading my lord?” — Polonius “Words.” — Hamlet Something has changed in U.S. politics. And it may finally signal something changing for the better. Since the announcement (but no real follow through) to end our military involvement in Syria what passes for our statesmen — […]
