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First World War and Imperialism. Dr. Jacques Pauwels
First World War and Imperialism. Dr. Jacques Pauwels Imperialism, the worldwide expansion of capitalism, motivated by the lust for raw materials such as petroleum, markets and cheap labour, involved fierce competition among great powers such as the British Empire, czarist Russia, and the German Reich, and thus led to the Great War of 1914–1918, later […]
David Stockman on Why Washington DC is the War Capital Of The World
David Stockman on Why Washington DC is the War Capital Of The World Ultimately, there is no mystery as to why the Forever Wars go on endlessly. Or why at a time when Uncle Sam is hemorrhaging red ink a large bipartisan majority saw fit to authorize $95 billion of foreign aid boondoggles that do […]
The Age of Hyper-Imperialism
The Age of Hyper-Imperialism A new report redraws the terrifying lines of global power. Global events sometimes seem like a lethal chaos — violent, intermittently explosive, but without pattern or shape. Western forces seem more like terrified tank crews in the nighttime jungle, high on hallucinogens and firing blindly at anything that moves. Even to […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXIX–Geopolitics: It’s About Wealth Extraction and Generation For the Ruling Class
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXIX October 2, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico (1986). Photo by author. Geopolitics: It’s About Wealth Extraction and Generation For the Ruling Class My very short contemplation today is my comment on an article that was posted in a Facebook group (Peak Oil) that I belong to. It is preceded by […]
Imperialism in bright green
Imperialism in bright green The human ability to disconnect from and deny geopolitical reality lies at the heart of the “green” net-zero project. Most obviously, those – like the current UK Prime Minister – who claim victories along the road to the Nirvana of net-zero must maintain blindness to the way in which the UK […]
Blueprints for impossible futures
Blueprints for impossible futures “A People’s Green New Deal” demands a different kind of impossible Over the past two decades, a proliferation of “Green New Deal” literature has promoted various strategies for changing the structure of the global energy system to combat climate change. While the term was first coined by the neoliberal economist Thomas Friedman, […]
The Next European War
The Next European War The notion that history has nothing to teach us is one of the most pervasive beliefs in modern industrial society. It’s also one of the most misguided. Sure, we’ve got all these shiny new technological trinkets, and we love to insist to ourselves that this means we’re constantly breaking new ground […]
Divide And Brainwash: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Divide And Brainwash: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ In 2016 the most corrupt and murderous government on earth dealt with public discontent by selling a sociopathic billionaire as the anti-establishment presidential candidate, then in 2020 sold a lifelong empire lackey as the revolutionary people’s […]
US Presidents Are Always Evil Because The US Empire Is Evil: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
US Presidents Are Always Evil Because The US Empire Is Evil: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to this article: ❖ Joe Biden is a corrupt, murderous empire lackey. He is also a very normal US president. The same was true of Trump. The same was true of Obama. The same was […]
It’s The Media’s Job To Normalize War: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
It’s The Media’s Job To Normalize War: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Exactly zero percent of the world’s worst criminals are in prison. Imperialists. War profiteers. Ecocide profiteers. The very worst of thieves are financial elites. The system isn’t designed to protect us from society’s worst, it’s designed to protect society’s worst […]
War Is A Rich Man’s Game: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
War Is A Rich Man’s Game: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix War is always powerful people making up fake reasons for poor people to kill each other. ❖ Capitalism is working great if you ignore how it’s about to destroy our ecosystem and kill everything. ❖ Socialism is the collective’s best self-defense […]
Americans Only Care About America. Their Rulers Only Care About World Domination.
Americans Only Care About America. Their Rulers Only Care About World Domination. Ever since November third the American political/media class have been keeping Democrats fixated on Trump’s post-election shenanigans with garment-rending urgency, now going so far as to call for yet another oxygen-sucking impeachment as he’s on his way out the door while millions of Americans are […]
The militarization of the Western Empire: How the COVID pandemic accelerated the process
The militarization of the Western Empire: How the COVID pandemic accelerated the process Donald Trump may not have been not such a warlike emperor as previous Western Emperors have been (and probably will be). But, even assuming that Trump is trying to avoid wars, he cannot oppose the militarization trends of the Western economy that […]
Imperialism on Trial: 8th September 2020 ‘The Phone Hacking Scandal and the Case of Assange: a Comparison’
Imperialism on Trial: 8th September 2020 ‘The Phone Hacking Scandal and the Case of Assange: a Comparison’ The event was held on the second day of the extradition trial of Julian Assange at the Old Bailey. I gave a short talk comparing the phone hacking scandal with the Assange case. For anyone unfamiliar with the […]
