Proxy war blues

Posted on February 23, 2026 by camelotkidd

It’s quite fitting that China and Russia are assisting Iran after the US/NATO have funded, armed, trained and provided surreptitious military assistance to Ukraine.

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, I believe the saying goes, and there’s no more deserving recipient of a proxy war than the US.

China, especially, has stepped up, sharing intelligence/surveillance/reconnaissance (ISR) data and BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) data to Iran, providing them with real-time intelligence. Just recently, Chinese satellites exposed that the US has deployed six E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft in Saudi Arabia from the US mainland. These aircraft are crucial for an attack on Iran, as they control the battlefield. There are also an additional 20 fuel tankers present at this Saudi airbase.

Russia is also deeply concerned about the US/Zionist campaign against Iran. The US and Israel have been busy stirring up trouble in the Caucus and losing Iran as bulwark would greatly hamper Russian security. Russian technicians helped thwart the recent CIA/Mossad linked violent civil unrest in Iran and were crucial to disabling the Starlink terminals smuggled into Iran. Russia has also provided fighter aircraft and attack helicopters as well as anti-aircraft missile systems to help defend Iran.

Thus any US/Israeli attack on Iran would also involve Russia and China who have clear interests in Iran’s survival. If either country provided cutting-edge weapons, such as hypersonic anti-ship missiles, an attack could backfire, with these weapons causing massive destruction and casualties to US warships and critical Israeli targets.

As I type these word the decision to attack Iran may have already been made with US forces moving to firing positions.

Stay tuned.

Update: Retired CIA analyst Larry Johnson explains the stakes. “Sunday marks the last day of limited moonlight. As I mentioned in my last article, the Air Force planners prefer to operate with the cover of darkness… Flying into a contested zone with a half-moon or full moon creates additional risks, at least in the minds of the planners. Now it is true that the kidnapping of Maduro was conducted with a full moon — very uncharacteristic for a Special Operations mission — however, US intelligence assets had secured the cooperation of the Venezuelan military to turn off the Venezuelan air defenses and to allow the kidnapping of Maduro to take place without any significant opposition.

Iran is a different animal. It fully expects to be attacked and has been preparing to fight back against any aerial assault… Plus it has had its air defense capabilities significantly enhanced by Russian and Chinese assets. Trump’s decision on Sunday will be whether to launch now or delay. There is always the possibility that Trump will ignore the warning from General Wilsbach about launching an attack without the cover of darkness. However, senior military and intelligence officials are telling Trump that Iranians can’t shoot for shit and that the US Air Force has high confidence it can effectively Suppress Enemy Air Defense aka SEAD.

If Trump decides to go, US Air Force and Navy assets are likely to start attacking Iran late Sunday night/early Monday morning Iran time.”

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On the way to collapse

Posted on February 20, 2026 by camelotkidd

In addition to all the other reveals, the Epstein Files have shone a light on the ongoing looting operation, where it’s much more lucrative to sabotage the US economy so that the billionaires can profit from the destruction.

The latest batch of Epstein emails includes an illuminating exchange between Epstein and Peter Thiel. The email is dated 26 Jun 2016, right after Brexit, and in it, Epstein writes: “return to tribalism counter to globalization. amazing new alliances. you and I both agreed zero interest rates were too high, as i said in your office. finding things on their way to collapse , was much easier than finding the next bargain.”

That really sounds like what Naomi Klein calls “disaster capitalism,” and it’s been this way since the crash of 2008, when bankers were bailed out while mortgage holders were evicted by the millions to “foam the runway” for the banks. The Wall Street crash converted a lot of homes into “distressed assets” that were purchased at bargain basement prices by hedge-funds, who turned around and rented those homes back to Americans at exorbitant rates thanks to algorithmic pricing.

Before the bailout there was decades of out-sourcing and plant closures, leading to millions of lost jobs, decimated communities and deaths of despair. The US has suffered from the endless privatizing, offshoring, contractorizing, and many other initiatives of the past forty years that have enriched the wealthiest while impoverishing everyone else, even the professional/managerial/class, who are now feeling the lash.

And now the looting is occurring at an industrial level in concert with the massively corrupt Trump Administration. That Trump and Epstein were partners in crime is illustrative of our milieu.

William Gibson’s 1984 science fiction novel Neuromancer, had a great bit of dialogue–“the street finds its own uses for things.” With the Epstein Class, we can extrapolate that insight into how our system of capitalism will always bring the greatest benefits to the worst sorts of sociopaths. Epstein and Trump are simply the end result of late capitalism’s perverse incentives.

Update: Even though Epstein and Trump were confidants, the contrast in attire suggests a power disparity, where Trump has on a suit and tie while Epstein wears a button down over jeans. Make of it what you will.

Update 2: Serendipitously, Rob Urie, posted this account of Obama’s culpability at Naked Capitalism.

“A recent series of interviews with former US President Barack Obama and his associates reveal that Mr. Obama ‘didn’t see Donald Trump coming.’ As with most quotes of this sort, it reveals more about the speaker than the subject. Within three or four months of Mr. Obama taking office, a reasonable number us were warning not of Mr. Trump per se, but of a fascist response to Mr. Obama bailing out Wall Street while leaving tens of millions of unemployed citizens to their own devices.

That Mr. Obama didn’t see this coming makes him, and the people that he surrounded himself with, fools. A clearer historical analogy could hardly have been possible. Wall Street had been freed to create new types and classes of financial instruments based on their never having failed before— because they had never existed, before. A financial crash in 1929 set off a chain reaction in the heavily financialized Western economy. The resulting Great Depression set in motion a series of fascist uprisings across Europe.

In the 2010s, as with the 1930s, it was the failed liberal response that did most of the social damage. In the 2010s as with the 1930s, liberals used austerity to punish poor and working people for mismanagement by the ruling class. The Nazis were brought to power to fix the mess that self-dealing liberals had created. By 1933, wealth was still heavily concentrated through financialization in the hands of a few self-dealing oligarchs.”

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A world turned upside down

Posted on February 18, 2026 by camelotkidd

I can’t let it go. Every time I think about writing about something different, there’s another Epstein reveal that shows just how corrupted, depraved and controlled our government has become.

Besides demonstrating that our feral elite are complete sleaze-balls, the Epstein Files call into question the control Israel maintains over a certain Donald Trump. The Libertarian Institute noted that “Trump’s approval rating is higher in Israel than in the US,” capturing a fundamental dynamic in U.S.-Israel relations. The roughly 30-point gap between Israeli and American assessments reflects the fact that Trump has taken positions that directly serve Israeli security priorities while betraying Americans. He’s not making America great but the Israeli’s certainly think he’s making Israel great.

The Zionists also maintain ironclad control over Congress. According to Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie, every Republican in Congress has an AIPAC babysitter. Certain members of Congress take their fealty to Israel to extremes. During a Monday press conference in Tel Aviv after a meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, Senator Lindsey Graham said that “I’ve been coming here every two weeks whether I need to or not, because…the wars of the future are being planned here in Israel.”  Graham advocated an attack on Iran, acknowledging that such a war could absolutely result in American troops in the region being struck by Iranian missiles but saying the US should go to war anyway.

Too bad we can’t parachute Lindsey into Iran to lead the attack.

What’s clear is that the Epstein Files show just how key Epstein was to ensuring Zionist control over America. Whether by financial largess or blackmail, our leaders have been reduced to servants in Epstein’s world, where a convicted child sex trafficker with ties to foreign intelligence–Mossad–accumulated material that could be used to blackmail American political and financial elites across the entire political spectrum.

We need to know to what extent US politics were manipulated by a foreign sexual blackmail ring. The unsaid story is that Epstein’s operation set the Middle East on fire, where the US, at the behest of Israel, invaded or overthrew 6 out of 7 enemies of Israel, and thereby helping fulfill the Zionist Yinon Plan. Only Iran remains on the hit list.

Epstein was a Jewish-American working with and for Zionists. He maintained a long term relationship with Ehud Barak, former Israeli Defense Minister, Foreign Minister, and Prime Minister. Epstein’s long-time co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, was the daughter of Robert Maxwell, whose services to Israel merited a state funeral attended by the President Chaim Herzog (who delivered the eulogy), Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Housing Minister Ariel Sharon, and six serving and former heads of Mossad. Those foreign intelligence connections point to Israel.

The Zionists are panicking now because along with Gaza, nothing has been more corrosive to Israeli control over the US than the Epstein scandal, and the clock is ticking. I saw a couple commercials watching the Olympics that scream damage control. One shows a Jewish boy being bullied in high school, but luckily a black youth comes to the rescue, while another features a teacher explaining how TikTok is moderating content to “protect the children”, after being purchased by Larry Ellison to halt those TikTok video’s exposing the horrors of Israel’s Gaza genocide.

Then there’s the recent treatment of Carrie Prejean Boller. The former Miss California USA, a recent convert to Catholicism appointed by President Trump to his White House Religious Liberty Commission, was removed from the panel after she challenged witnesses at a Museum of the Bible hearing about whether criticizing Israeli policy in Gaza constituted anti-Semitism. What got her in trouble was when she used her questioning time to challenge the premise of the hearing itself. She asked witnesses whether “speaking out about what many Americans view as a genocide in Gaza should be treated as anti-Semitic.”

The message was unmistakable. In an era when Jewish power over American discourse on Israel has reached unprecedented consolidation, even asking the wrong questions can be detrimental to one’s career and social/political standing. What happened to Prejean is not an isolated incident. Her expulsion exemplifies organized Jewry’s commitment to policing all forms of criticism directed against Israel or any other Jewish-dominated entity.

The pressure will only increase now the US is preparing another attack on Iran–at the behest of Israel and Netanyahu, who apparently made Trump an offer he couldn’t refuse last week in his visit to the White House. The Israeli kompromat apparently involves further Epstein exposes that implicates Trump.

It’s important in this climate of censorship and propaganda to insist that critique of Israel is not anti-semitism. Especially when Israel is conducting a live-streamed genocide in Gaza, where the IDF is bombing hospitals and universities, murdering journalists and raping prisoners. We’ve seen the worst horrors that anyone’s ever seen in living memory, committed by the IDF. Going further, no-one has done more to fuel anti-semitism than the Zionists who conflated criticism of Israel with hatred of Jews.

It’s a world turned upside down where I align with conservatives like Carrie Prejean Boller, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Tucker Carlson over Zionist control of my country.

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Layers of Reality

Posted on February 13, 2026 by camelotkidd

I will never be the same after researching and writing about the Epstein files.

I read this today, and it was like–yeah, that’s me.

“I realized this morning that I made the crossover.

It’s permanent. You don’t go back.

While getting ready for work, my wife asked me what I thought about the story of Savannah Guffrey and her mother being kidnapped.

Without hesitation, I said, “It’s a psyop.”

She stopped and looked at me sideways. Why? What are you talking about? Where’s your empathy?

And in that moment, I realized how far apart our operating systems now are.

In my head, possibilities started stacking immediately. Maybe it’s a cover story. Maybe it’s meant to pull attention away from the Epstein files resurfacing. Maybe it’s tied to power struggles around the Trump administration. Maybe it’s a distraction from financial instability or rising geopolitical tensions. There are a dozen overlapping crises right now. Pick your explanation.

To her, that sounded unhinged.

When I said, “If you don’t think the Epstein story matters, you have another thing coming,” I could feel the gap widen further. To me, that story represents a line that should never have been crossed and proof that something is deeply broken. To her, it’s noise. Old news. Something better left alone.

That’s when it hit me. We’re not disagreeing on facts. We’re living in different layers of reality.”

Americans are mostly like the authors wife in that they’ve been propagandized for decades to trust authority, believing that America is basically “just and decent,” and that we don’t need to concern ourselves with the domestic or foreign policies because we’ve got highly qualified leaders working hard at fixing them.

Caitlin Johnstone relates: “Believing our society is just and decent allows one to relax under the assumption that they deserve all the comforts they have in life and that the system will never turn against them. If someone is killed by police, or is impoverished or imprisoned or homeless, then it’s because they did something wrong and immoral, and all you need to do to avoid the same fate is follow the rules and make ethical choices.”

Heretics like myself know that the idea of ethical world is a diabolical lie, one that the Epstein Files has confirmed. Meanwhile, I can’t unsee the patterns, incentives, and repeated evidence of a deep state that advances its murderous policies while protecting itself thru seduction and blackmail. Instead of competent, just and moral leaders we have, instead, a powerful class of depraved individuals committing what would be criminal acts, excused by the powers that be.

These different layers of reality are why I can’t have real conversations with most Americans. When I try to talk about any of the crazy-shit that’s happening it gets uncomfortable real fast. And if the conversation somehow survives first contact eventually people will ask me why I care about things that don’t affect me. And then I have to explain why it does affect us. That as Americans we all live in a “Second Gilded Age,” where deregulation, financialization, and elite impunity has produced a feral elite capable of the abuses seen in the Epstein files.

Even worse, Epstein is a preview of what they have in mind for the rest of us.

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Now or Never

Posted on February 10, 2026 by camelotkidd

Why is Trump preparing to attack Iran?

Maybe it’s because America is a dying empire, that’s secretly controlled by a parasitical oligarchy whose most profound loyalty is to a foreign country–Israel.

The Zionist’s realize that they are  hemorrhaging support in America, especially among young people, due to the Gaza Genocide and the ongoing Epstein Affair. So Israel is bringing unbearable pressure upon Trump in order to get him to strike Iran. Indeed Benjamin Netanyahu is flying to the US for another meeting Wednesday, almost assuredly to petition for an attack, and to discuss details.

The unbearable pressure most certainly involves Epstein and further damaging instances of Trump’s involvement. The new Epstein files release includes FBI witness reports that Trump was involved in murdering three girls who were buried at Mar-a-Lago and threatening the witness with a similar fate. Witnesses also told the FBI that Trump auctioned underage girls from his swimsuit contests, measuring their vulvas and rating them for tightness. Trump is also accused of forcing oral sex and other abuses against 13 and 14 year old girls.

Everything I read points to a an attack sooner than later. Both Iranians and Israelis expect war.

Even at the ski resort where I instruct there is talk of war. One of the investment bankers for a large hedge fund came back from a phone call looking like he’d seen a ghost, and later the groups gossip revealed that he was told that the decision to strike Iran had been confirmed.

But attacking Iran is madness, and Trump and Netanyahu are delusional about their chances. Do they not remember how Iran overcame Israeli air defenses and began inflicting serious damage to high value targets? Or maybe they’ve come to believe their own propaganda descriptions of the 12-day exchange last June?

Iran was not defeated. It withstood the initial attacks. Its senior military commanders were quickly replaced, and it’s nuclear material from the three facilities were moved to other locations, then it overwhelmed Israel with drones and missiles that caused a lot of damage with conservative estimate of $3 Billion, with casualties of 33 killed and 3,500 wounded. Iran had also retaliated to the American attack in what they called “Operation Glad Tidings of Victory” with missiles hitting the large American Al-Udeid Air Base and Central Command headquarters in Qatar across the Gulf inflicting yet undeclared damages. A truce was quickly struck ending a twelve-day war between the two parties.

Iran maintains a potent drone and missile arsenal, and has threatened to retaliate against any neighboring country from which the US attacks it, and these threats are being taken seriously. The entire region is counseling peace because they know that Iran can cause enormous damage to oil and natural gas facilities, power plants, airports, and harbors, throwing their economies into chaos and perhaps sparking political unrest.

Yves Smith, at Naked Capitalism, warns of the consequences of a US attack on Iran. “On an interview with Danny Haipong, Justin Podhur clarified that Iran does not have “proxies” but its allies Ansar Allah, Hezbollah, and Shia militias in Iraq have all said they will respond if the US attacks Iran. Podhur further notes that during the 12 Day War, Jordan and the Saudis fired missiles against Iran, but Iran only hit Israel. Iran has warned that any country that attacks Iran will be targeted this time. Iran could easily turn Saudi Arabia into an economic and environmental disaster zone if it struck its oil fields.

Even more important, Alastair Crooke has stated that if Iran is attacked, the Supreme Leader will issue a fatwa. Shia have substantial representation across the Middle East, such as 13% of Saudis. Crooke claims that the resulting uprisings would make Arab Spring look like a walk in the park.

We explained long-form in a recent post how the US forces then in theater were insufficient for the US to achieve regime change or meaningfully advance the the Israeli goal of breaking up Iran, even before getting to the costs Iran could inflict by closing the Strait of Hormuz and bombing Israel and US bases. Independent experts continue to be skeptical even with the US further bulking up its forces. Larry Johnson and former Royal Navy Commodore Steve Jermy have both argues that the most the US could do with its naval assets would be a short campaign, of say 5 days as very high intensity or at most two weeks at a less aggressive tempo. More recent takes on what the US could do from its airbases point to a similar ability to sustain a painful campaign. A critical limit is that the US cannot bring in its B-2s (which can drop super heavy bombs) without undue risk; recall Iran allowed them in to hit nuclear sites at the end of the 12 Day War, which is has said clearly it will not permit again.”

The tremendous pressure to attack Iran is having an effect on Trump’s mental state. In recent days he has come under attack from several directions. The president has been issuing fumbling excuses for tweeting an AI video depicting the Obamas as apes . His aides have denied that he defecated in his pants while signing an executive order. They likewise deny that Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico “expressed concerns about Trump’s psychological state” which seemed “dangerous” when they met in Florida January 17.

The slow drip of damaging Epstein revelations only tightens the screws. Meanwhile the corporate media continues to proclaim: “President Trump has not been accused of wrongdoing.” Obviously they will do a 180 and suddenly discover the FBI files, if Trump stops following Israel’s orders.

And Israel wants Trump to attack Iran.

Update: Col. Larry Wilkerson: The U.S. Just Hit a Point of No Return . Dialogue Works, YouTube. “Wilkerson confirms a scenario we had warned about, starting at 2:20. He has heard from reliable sources that Netanyahu is bringing Epstein documents to his meeting with Trump to blackmail him to force an attack Iran. If Trump were sufficiently ruthless, he could record the Bibi threat and have him arrested and incarcerated. Blackmail is a crime, after all. But Trump beats up only on parties he regards as weak.”

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Rothschild’s Man

Posted on February 7, 2026 by camelotkidd

While the corporate media pretends that Epstein was Putin’s secret Russian agent, there’s increasing evidence that he was working for the Rothschilds.

The writer who goes by Simplicus, makes an explosive observation–“Truth be told, it’s far more likely that Epstein was not a Mossad asset but rather a direct Rothschild asset being used to gain leverage over everyone including Mossad; why else would he need to compromise Israeli politicians like Ehud Barak along with the “goyim”, as he popularly termed them?”

In an email exchange between the pair in 2018, ahead of a meeting with a Qatari investment fund, Epstein asks Barak to allay potential concerns about their relationship: “you should make clear that i dont work for mossad. :)” Then there’s an email exchange with Peter Thiel, where Epstein admits who he works for. “As you probably know. I represent the Rothschilds.”

Simplicus again–“Why would the world’s most powerful compromiser be Mossad when he can work directly for the people who created Israel and the Mossad itself?”

The question answers itself.

Epstein has inadvertently confirmed one of the most dangerous conspiracy theories imaginable–that of wealthy Jewish banking families who secretly rule the world behind the pretense of governance. You will search in vain for this expose in the New York Times, Washington Post or Wall Street Journal. Predictably, these revelations are gaining almost no traction in the establishment media. But isn’t another one of more outlandish conspiracy theories the idea that the corporate media is controlled by powerful Jewish elites?

I know. Even posing these questions could get me on the Hasbara hit list.

But what the fuck! Our country started out in rebellion against an unjust overlord and maybe it’s time for a modern version.

I’ve always wondered why Epstein made connections with MIT, Harvard, Stanford and Silicon Valley but the released documents reveal the Rothschilds interest in investing in tech because their other investments were flatlining. Then there are the darker possibilities. Control of tech and AI infrastructure should be thought of as a form of neo-imperial control. There’s also the urgent need for a digital panopticon to control the citizens who have been getting uppity.

I’ve also wondered how Jeffery got around the way he did but Epstein was an agent of neoliberal globalization moving within elite circles to exploit power for profit transnationally. Epstein manipulated people, policies and events in ways that would allow for the Rothschilds to profit from economic and national security decision-making. But he was also acting as the point man for the Rothschilds at a time when the world was transitioning from neoliberalism to something much worse. For the Rothschilds, Epstein was their pathway to new investment opportunities in the modern version of primitive accumulation. Epstein was, in many ways, pioneering this transition. The Shock Doctrine, written by Naomi Klein, presciently describes Epstein’s disaster capitalism.

Epstein was the key enabler of a system where rich people have to be kept rich. A tiny financial elite, epitomized by the Rothschilds, needs absolute freedom to amass more wealth and power to transition to the techno-feudalism of their dreams. The rest of us are simply an impediment to their machinations.

Update: Whitney Webb, author of One Nation Under Blackmail, says –“They don’t… need blackmail anymore… Palantir… [is] the new Jeffrey Epstein… if they want to blackmail [you]… they… access… your search history… your finances, tweets you’ve liked… you don’t really need Epstein in the Surveillance Era.”

I’m willing to bet that the ultimate owners of Palantir are the Rothschilds and that they are planning on using the dystopian surveillance tech to maintain control of their massive wealth in the face of an unruly population. And while the Epstein scandal has exposed the rot at the heart of the political, business and media establishment, it also reveals why they are so desperate to build an AI-powered surveillance and control grid.

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There be monsters

Posted on February 4, 2026 by camelotkidd

The United States is a country defined by yawning inequality, institutional decay, and a feral elite that operates a vast criminogenic enterprise featuring corruption, rape, torture, sexual deprivation and apparently cannibalism, as evidenced by the latest Epstein drop. Indeed, the stories coming out are horrible and sickening, confirming some of the most outlandish conspiracy theories you might imagine.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the department was releasing more than 3 million pages of documents in the latest Epstein disclosure, as well as more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images. The files, posted to the department’s website, include some of the several million pages of records that officials said were withheld from an initial release of documents in December.

The revelations point to elite class of monsters who have abandoned any fig leaf of morality or respectability. It is not merely cultural degeneration or a loss of values. It is something darker: an elite that operates outside any recognizable moral limits and yet continues to govern. It’s an elite composed of pedophiles, satanists, murderers and cannibals.

And, of course the list of monsters is bi-partisan, with Democrats and liberals featured just as extensively as Republicans and conservatives. There’s Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Bill Gates and Noam Chomsky, but also Musk, Dershowitz, Bannon, Trump and even the creator and past owner of 4chan, Chris Poole. Poole, known as Moot, was in contact with Epstein, and possibly opened up the board /pol/ after meeting with him.

Perhaps that’s why the Biden Administration refused to release the vast trove of incriminating documents, emails and texts. That, and for a lot of insiders on both sides there’s a reluctance to acknowledge the role of a secret network of elite wielding power, that would disprove their pretense of meritocracy.

Future historians will ponder the timeline for elite lawlessness and impunity but I’m sure that Watergate, Iran Contra and the Wall Street bailout will feature prominently. Indeed, there are some indications that Epstein’s fortune originated in the nexus of bad actors involved in 80’s scandals like BCCI and Iran Contra.

Matt Stoller has been on a tear, connecting Epstein to the larger transformation of American life. “While all the specifics of Epstein’s network are not known, and while conspiracy theorists often have crazy views, they have correctly fingered that the world of meritocracy and formalized systems is increasingly a fraud. And that the real government lies elsewhere…Epstein was an entrepreneurial broker across multiple public and private bureaucracies, helping organize ‘under-the-table’ deals among the legal, business, intelligence, and political elites to allow them to escape the rule of law and traditional conflict of interest restrictions. It’s statecraft to allow a superclass to systemically escape the formalized rules.”

It’s important to ask how did we get to such a state?

Look in the mirror.

Americans have largely acquiesced to the sadism of our oligarchical monsters. Epstein simply followed the logic and morality of neoliberalism, where government has been hallowed out so that a new order, epitomized by an apex predator like Epstein, could emerge.

Since at least Reagan, US elites have financialized the economy, blowing giant asset bubbles, crushing workers and destroying the middle class, while Americans have been distracted and diverted with identity politics. A bi-partisan elite collaborating with the wealthy, offshored and outsourced US manufacturing. This increased profits by financializing the economy: you could have the profits without the production and without dealing with unions. American elites, basically looted the productive economy, while destroying any countervailing worker power. In exchange they destroyed their empire, because the real basis of the American empire was industry and technology rather than financial flimflammery. Offshoring and outsourcing made American elites filthy rich but it set the stage for Trump and the acceleration of American fascism. 

Epstein simply took full advantage of the depravity of our feral elite, but in the process he has forced us to confront the monsters who rule us.

Update: It been obvious for a while that Epstein was an Israeli agent running a Mossad honeypot operation to blackmail US politicians, economists and businessmen. In the latest FBI report documents of Epstein files, we learn that “Trump has been compromised by Israel” and “Kushner is the real brains” behind the presidency.”

But now the corporate media is claiming that he was really a Russian agent working for Vladimir Putin.

Remember kids, it’s always Russia-gate.

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ICE wouldn’t last 5 minutes in Fallujah

Posted on January 31, 2026 by camelotkidd

I’ve been reading some analysis of ICE’s behavior and it resurrected memories from my military service and the counterinsurgency training we received. It struck me that ICE is acting in a way that would get them killed in a hurry if they were operating in a city filled with insurgents instead of protestors.

There are two ways to go about pacification: 1) win over the hearts and minds of the civilian population, or 2) murder everyone and burn the city to the ground. But ICE is stuck in the middle, where they are alienating the population with their brutality without fully pacifying them with extreme violence. By doing a mixture of the two, ICE is actually putting their personal in grave danger. A lot of ICE personnel are a bunch of barely trained yahoos dressing up like Delta Force, yet armed to the teeth and kidnapping, beating, injuring and murdering innocent civilians. But Americans are heavily-armed too and ICE, by roaming around in plain sight in small groups, routinely surrounded by residents, is setting themselves up for an ambush or attack.

Meanwhile, the Trump administration is failing to hold the officers accountable for their blatant murders and thereby signaling that the only way there will be any punishment for what happened is if someone takes the law into their own hands.

And that raises the possibility that ICE is seeding the ground for a red/blue conflict that gives the Trump Administration, and advisers like Stephen Miller, the pretext to cancel the 2026 elections. I think the Trump administration is intentionally sending in their paramilitary goons to create chaos, manufacture a few martyrs, and ideally touch off a riot, to provide an excuse for further violent escalation: Invoking the Insurrection Act, attempting to federalize the National Guard, and eventually moving up to installing Trump as president-for-life.

There’s every reason to expect an acceleration of violence up to the November midterms. Maintaining our humanity through resistance in the face of such threats will require fortitude from both leaders and ordinary people. 

Update: The threatened attack on Iran demonstrates that ICE’s para-military rampages are simply one aspect of the crazy-pants Trump administration.

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Let them eat AI

Posted on January 28, 2026 by camelotkidd

We are fast approaching a Marie Antonette moment in the US largely because the rich and poor live in entirely different worlds with entirely different realities.

Indeed, our milieu is marked by the working class’s intensifying rage in a society being pillaged by corporate interests and their billionaire owners. Whether medical bankruptcies, foreclosures, lower life spans, spikes in prices, mountains of paperwork, or endless junk fees attached to everything–life in America keeps getting more difficult, annoying, inhumane, painful, and seemingly impossible.

While poor Americans struggle to afford the necessities of life, at the World Economic Forum in Davos billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin complained about the “oppression” he felt during the Biden administration during its “regulatory onslaught.”

Imagine the tyranny.

What’s ironic is that the allocation of resources towards policing is so drastically skewed towards controlling the plebs while virtually nothing is allocated towards punishing elite crime.

Matt Stoller calls it white-collar policing and blue-collar policing in a new article analyzing ICE’s murderous rampage. In Why ICE Polices in Minnesota, and Not the Corporate Board Room, Stoller writes–“Law enforcement budgets show we defunded those who police corporate America, while ramping up coercion on working people.”

Of course there has always existed a bifurcated rule of law in the US, where the rich are to be constrained simply by tort law while the poor require the full measure of criminal law to keep them in check, In An Economic Theory of the Criminal Law, 7th Circuit Judge Richard Posner states that the poor require criminal law to keep them within the confines of the “market.” “The major function of criminal law in a capitalist society is to prevent people from bypassing the system of voluntary, compensated exchange-the “market,” explicit or implicit-in situations where, because transaction costs are low, the market is a more efficient method of allocating resources than forced exchange.”

And while capitalism in the US has always been unfair, the disparity hasn’t been this obvious since the first Gilded Age where the Robber Barrons wielded the Pinkerton’s and other para-militaries to intimidate, infiltrate, and break up labor unions. The 1892 Homestead Strike saw 300 armed agents hired by Henry Clay Frick (for Carnegie) fight strikers, resulting in deaths. The Pinkertons served as a crucial and often violent, tool for industrial capitalists during the rise of the American labor movement, enabling the maintenance of low wages and dangerous working conditions. 

Under our current system the easiest way to become a billionaire, the new Robber Barrons, is to exploit workers, monopolize your industry, plunder resources from the global south, push all the externalities onto society, capture government with legal bribery via campaign donations, collaborate with the CIA and Mossad, and propagandize Americans into thinking all of this is normal.

Recently deceased Marxist scholar, Michael Parenti, well described the absurdity of our system–“The free market mythology argues that the most ruthless, selfish, opportunistic, greedy, calculating plunderers, applying the most heartless measures in cold blooded pursuit of corporate interests and wealth accumulation, will produce the best results for all of us through something called the invisible hand.”

The problem we face is that the oligarchs have captured and repurposed the state. Certain features of the fascist state have long been in place. The unity of the state and major economic structures is an obvious case. One has not been able to tell for many years where the federal government ends and the most powerful American companies begin. Remember that Benito Mussolini stated that “fascism should more properly be called ‘corporatism’ because it is the merger of the state and corporate power.”

The oligarchs appear to believe that they are untouchable and I believe that the actions of ICE are a test run for how they believe they can govern, where they don’t require consent as long as they have overwhelming force and terror.

The question is what are we going to do about it?

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Tin Soldiers

Posted on January 26, 2026 by camelotkidd

Tin soldiers and ICE are coming, we’re finally on our own…

It started in earnest after 9/11 when the US took the gloves off in the war of terror, but now the terror has returned to the homeland. Remember the John Yoo torture memos written for George W. Bush and the “Dark Lord” Dick Cheney to justify US military treatment of prisoners in places like Abu Ghraib, where people were extrajudicially rendered, disappeared, and without due process? That sounds a lot like what ICE is doing.

Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism, sums up the dystopia. “I don’t know how America survives this level of willful, institutionalized savagery. By most counts, ICE pumped ten bullets into a ICU nurse, Alex Pretti, for the crime of filming them and trying to intercede on behalf of a woman they had shoved to the pavement. The evidence of the execution is clear cut. ICE has not just gunned down an innocent man, but is also successfully terminating what remained of the rule of law in the US.”

It’s been obvious for a while that ICE’s rampage has nothing to do with enforcing immigration laws and everything to do with intimidating and murdering enemies of MAGA.

Speaking of which, where are all the 2nd Amendment zealots protesting the victims right to carry a licensed firearm? Imagine for a moment the reaction if Mr. Pretti had been part of a militia protesting Obama imposing healthcare on them, or the Covid mask restrictions?

But fascists are fine when the state violence is aimed at socialists and the left. That’s why when push comes to shove the oligarchs and corporate owners and officers prefer right-wing violence to the left-wing kind that threatens their property and status.

It’s urgent that we remember how Jay Gould boasted that he could hire half of the working-class men to murder the other half, because it sure appears that we’re headed back to an earlier period of American history where the shotgun calls the tune.

Update: Yves again with the final word: “I hope this outrage rouses enough people to stand up to this violence. Trump targeted Minneapolis out of pique (Mike Walz), perhaps a desire to punish the city for its effective George Floyd protests, but most of all, that its police force is small enough that he could muster enough ICE goons to outnumber them. ICE is not yet big enough to subdue the US. There is a window for action that is closing. Can enough citizens muster the courage and organization to thwart Trump’s clear intent to use brutality to mow down all opposition?”

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