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The Collapse of the Modern Western Empire. What Future for Humankind?

December 31, 2019

The Collapse of the Modern Western Empire. What Future for Humankind? These notes are not supposed to disparage nor to exalt an entity that has a history that goes back to at least a couple of millennia ago. Like all Empires, past and present, the Modern World Empire went through its parable of growth and […]

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“Good Guys” And “Bad Guys” Are A Hollywood Illusion

July 5, 2019

“Good Guys” And “Bad Guys” Are A Hollywood Illusion If you have spent literally any time arguing against western imperialism in any public forum, you have had the experience of being accused of “supporting” one of said imperialism’s targets. If you argue against regime change interventionism in Syria, you’ll get accused of being an “Assadist” […]

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The Orientalism of Western Russophobia

March 11, 2019

The Orientalism of Western Russophobia An illustration from a Wall Street Journal article entitled “Russia’s Turn to its Asian Past” depicting Vladimir Putin as Genghis Khan. Last year marked the 40th anniversary of the publication of Edward W. Said’s pioneering book, Orientalism, as well as fifteen years since the Palestinian-American intellectual’s passing. To bid farewell to […]

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Every Position On The Spectrum Supports The Government’s Propaganda — Paul Craig Roberts

November 17, 2015

Every Position On The Spectrum Supports The Government’s Propaganda — Paul Craig Roberts This excellent article by Glenn Greenwald — http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43438.htm — reminded me that I have meant to write about how every sort of interest attaches to the government’s propaganda in order to make its point. Greenwald shows how the Snowden haters in the US media […]

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Revolution and American Empire

May 30, 2015

Revolution and American Empire When the Left Promotes the Political Economy of the Far-Right The American preference for ideological, or ideologically based, explanations of world events frames them as both self-generated and inexplicable— self-generated because causal relations recover history and thereby clutter ideology and inexplicable in that ideology didn’t exist until it did, again recovering […]

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