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Are the World Elite Using a Rise in Nationalism to Reassert Globalisation?
Are the World Elite Using a Rise in Nationalism to Reassert Globalisation? Putting yourself in the mind of someone who commits an act of illegality is perhaps the only way we can begin to understand the motivation behind the transgression. A common reflex reaction to the most heinous of crimes is to simply call for the […]
The Third Wave Of Globalization Has Ended
The Third Wave Of Globalization Has Ended The global economy is certainly at crossroads. Protectionism and nationalism, a well-matched marriage of global chaos at the moment, has threatened to end the third wave of globalization that began in the late 1980s. Capital Economics has published a compelling research note, titled “The end of globalization,” specifying […]
Angela Merkel: Nation States Must “Give Up Sovereignty” To New World Order
Angela Merkel: Nation States Must “Give Up Sovereignty” To New World Order “Nation states must today be prepared to give up their sovereignty”, according to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who told an audience in Berlin that sovereign nation states must not listen to the will of their citizens when it comes to questions of immigration, borders, […]
‘New World Order’ Wine Pompoured into a Pro-‘Sovereignty’ Rhetorical Bottle
‘New World Order’ Wine Pompoured into a Pro-‘Sovereignty’ Rhetorical Bottle Secretary of State Mike Pompeo began his December 4 speech in Brussels at the German Marshall Fund with “a well-deserved tribute to America’s 41st president, George Herbert Walker Bush,” whom he praised as “an unyielding champion of freedom around the world.” It was fitting that he […]
Nationalists and Patriots
Nationalists and Patriots Ivan Kramskoy Christ in the desert 1920 If and when a former Rothschild banker starts telling us what the words in our respective languages actually mean, beware. Even if he has dozens of professional speech writers and spin doctors to do it for him. And even if the meaning and interpretation of […]
Three Reasons to Fear Another ‘Great War’ Today
Three Reasons to Fear Another ‘Great War’ Today Still think globalization will bring peace? They thought that in 1914, too. Things exploded quickly. Photographer: J. J. Marshall/Hulton Archive via Getty Images Last month, I traveled to Vienna, the former seat of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and a fitting place to contemplate the approaching 100th anniversary […]
There Is No Good Kind of Nationalism
There Is No Good Kind of Nationalism Trump is for nationalism. So the “Resistance” is predictably for . . . wait for it . . . the right kind of nationalism — or nationalism worn properly, as The Week advises. The problem isn’t nationalism, The Hill informs us, it’s phony nationalism and spurious nationalism, or […]
The Aftershocks of the Economic Collapse Are Still Being Felt
The Aftershocks of the Economic Collapse Are Still Being Felt The Real Confrontation Is Yet To Come There has been a spate of articles recently on the ten year anniversary of the financial collapse. We wrote about this anniversary two weeks ago, describing the cause of the collapse and the reasons why we are still at risk for another […]
Murder Incorporated
Murder Incorporated Murder Incorporated is a three-book series by Mumia Abu Jamal and Stephen Vittoria, which I can highly recommend based on the first book. The other two are not out yet. Book One, “Dreaming of Empire,” is a critique of U.S. imperialism, a debunking of U.S. nationalist myths, a corrective or alternative history of […]
Europe’s Nationalism and Trump’s Trade Policies Look Like WWI Prelude
Europe’s Nationalism and Trump’s Trade Policies Look Like WWI Prelude In conversations with friends, one thought the current political scene was like the prelude to WWII. Another said WWI. Tuesday evening I struck up a conversation with “Max”, a friend that I frequently see at a Tuesday karaoke bar. Max is not a reader of […]
DiEM25: Europe Without Nations or Religion
DiEM25: Europe Without Nations or Religion Fred Lyon Barbary Coast 1950A friend sent me a post from the DiEM25 website last week, entitled Critique of DiEM25 policy on immigrants and refugees. DiEM25 is a pan-European political movement of which former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis is a co-founder. I started writing some lines as a […]
A Political Hurricane is About to Sweep Across Europe
A Political Hurricane is About to Sweep Across Europe If you’ve been paying attention, you could see this coming a mile away. Although I’ve forecast huge political shifts in the West for years now, I made my strongest prediction on European changes late last year following the Paris terror attacks. In the post, A Message to Europe […]
Japan’s Finance Minister Accidentally Reveals How It All Ends: “War”
Japan’s Finance Minister Accidentally Reveals How It All Ends: “War” While this all started with a currency “war,” it seems – according to a stunningly candid transcript of Japan’s finance minister’s conversation with none other than Paul Krugman – that the real endgame here is actual war. Aso remarked that “a similar [deflationary mindset] had occurred in the […]
