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The Bulletin: January 2-8, 2025
The Bulletin: January 2-8, 2025 End Of An Era: Ukraine Halts Transit Of Russian Gas To Europe | ZeroHedge By Charles & Chris: Doomers Anonymous We need dramatic social and technological changes’: is societal collapse inevitable? | Climate crisis | The Guardian The System’s Self-Destruct Sequence Cannot Be Turned Off Seeing overshoot – by Elisabeth […]
Watch: Pelosi Dismantled In Real Time In Masterclass On Populism
Watch: Pelosi Dismantled In Real Time In Masterclass On Populism Two weeks ago, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was thoroughly savaged during a debate at Oxford University over the question of whether populism is a “threat to democracy.” In case you missed it, read on as it’s making the rounds. If you have 14 minutes to spare, […]
Global transformation: the precariat overcoming populism
Global transformation: the precariat overcoming populism A contribution to debate urging the mainstream left not to be distracted by populism. Aim instead for what we know about the near Future. Toulouse delivery men from Uber Eats or Deliveroo protest against precarity. December, 2020. Alain Pitton/PA. All rights reserved. Transformations tend to go through several preliminary […]
Market Commentary: Faux Statesmanship
Market Commentary: Faux Statesmanship April 5 – New York Times (Dealbook): “’It doesn’t take a genius’ to know capitalism needs fixing. Capitalism helped Ray Dalio build his investment empire. But in a lengthy LinkedIn post, the Bridgewater Associates founder says that it isn’t working anymore. Mr. Dalio writes that he has seen capitalism ‘evolve in […]
Poetic Justice For The Aristocracy
Poetic Justice For The Aristocracy Two points about today’s political economy – and then a prediction involving Illinois: Point One: What’s coming is poetic justice for the aristocracy. The wave of populism/socialism/proto-fascism that’s sweeping the US and Europe is a direct result of the breathtaking hubris of a ruling class that didn’t know when to quit […]
Wall Street, Banks and Angry Citizens
Wall Street, Banks and Angry Citizens A major question remains unanswered when it comes to the state of Main Street, not just here but across the planet. If the global economy really is booming, as many politicians claim, why are leaders and their parties around the world continuing to get booted out of office in […]
Localization: a strategic alternative to globalized authoritarianism
Localization: a strategic alternative to globalized authoritarianism For those who care about peace, equality and the future of the planet, the global political swing to the right over the past few years is deeply worrying. It has us asking ourselves, how did this happen? How did populism turn into such a divisive and destructive force? […]
The High Cost of Denying Class War
Matt Cards/Getty Images The High Cost of Denying Class War The rise of populism on both sides of the Atlantic is being investigated psychoanalytically, culturally, anthropologically, aesthetically, and of course in terms of identity politics. The only angle left unexplored is the one that holds the key to understanding what is going on: the […]
The Problem Isn’t Populism: the Problem Is the Status Quo Has Failed
The Problem Isn’t Populism: the Problem Is the Status Quo Has Failed The top 5% who have benefited so immensely from the consolidation of wealth and power cannot confess the status quo has failed the bottom 95%. The corporate/billionaires’ media would have us believe that the crisis we face is populism, a code word for […]
Canada: Risks of a Parliamentary Democracy
Canada: Risks of a Parliamentary Democracy A Vulnerable System Parliamentary democracy is vulnerable to the extremely dangerous possibility that someone with very little voter support can rise to the top layer of government. All one apparently has to do is to be enough of a populist to get elected by ghetto dwellers. Economist and philosopher […]
Populism In Our Time – “The Status Quo Is The Fundamental Problem”
Populism In Our Time – “The Status Quo Is The Fundamental Problem” “Be even more suspicious…of all those who employ the term we or us without your permission. This is another form of surreptitious conscription, designed to suggest that we are all agreed on our interests and identity.” – Christopher Hitchens Merriam-Webster defines populist as […]
The Future – Putting it All Together
The Future – Putting it All Together This is the year of political hell. The question is not about supporting one side or the other. This is a time that calls for us not to be small petty creatures but a case that requires rational human beings, which seems to be more impossible with each […]
The Deep State and the Dark Arts
The Deep State and the Dark Arts Photo by Nicolas Raymond | CC BY 2.0 Rejecting populism for hegemony There’s a superb scene in the movie Syriana where CIA bureaucrats distance themselves from one of their agents, Bob, played by George Clooney, who has become a troublesome asset for the agency. Terry, the pack leader, begins to extemporize […]
The IMF and All The Other Losers
The IMF and All The Other Losers Andre Kertesz Bumper cars at amusement park in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris 1930I read a lot, been doing it for years, about finance and affiliated topics (a wide horizon of them), which means I’ve inevitably seen a wholesale lot of nonsense fly by. But for some reason, and I think I […]
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 […]
