Category Archives: anti-imperialism
MIGA
Americans who voted for Trump must be wondering if MAGA meant MIGA, due to the president’s recent actions. Trump is arresting, sanctioning, censoring, threatening and bombing, all to advance Israel’s interests. What’s even more detestable is that Trump is doing … Continue reading
Techno-Feudalism
The outlines of America’s future are coming into focus and it’s not pretty. Welcome to techno-feudalism, a term coined by Yanis Varoufakis to describe the new economic reality where the tech-lords that control platforms like X, Amazon, Meta, and Google, stand … Continue reading
State Media
The US has long maintained a largely invisible, highly effective propaganda system, described by CIA official, Frank Wisner, as the mighty Wurlitzer,” on which he could play any propaganda tune. Back then the CIA maintained a network of writers, journalists … Continue reading
Authoritarian Conflict Management
Out of town. So here’s a important article by Mike Whitney, detailing the ways in which Trump is responsible for Hamas’s bust out of Gaza and Israel’s genocidal response. And a taste–“So, with a wave of his hand, Trump broke … Continue reading
Gangster State
The US is a gangster state, where foreign policies mirror organized criminal behavior. Any cursory examination of post-war history reveals that the US operates like the Mafia, maintaining its empire through unceasing violence. Liberals view Trump as a horrifying aberration … Continue reading
Blowback
Inquiring minds want to know if there’s a connection between the US’s weaponization of terrorist proxies in Syria to overthrow the Bashar Assad regime and the truck attack in New Orleans? Has the war of terror come home? A US … Continue reading
Hollow
I know I’m not the only one who feels that this years Christmas is hollow and artificial. We are supposed to celebrate Christ–the prince of peace–even as our elite make a mockery of that with their embrace of genocide, bombing … Continue reading
Six out of Seven
Wesley Clark, a former US Army general, recounted a visit to the Pentagon a few weeks after 9/11, where he was shown a classified document that set out how the US was going to “take out seven countries in five years, starting … Continue reading
Things behind things
We live in a interregnum, where everything, including reality itself, is in flux. The paranoia and distrust of institutions that has taken hold in America is not a function of Donald Trump’s rancid populism no matter what the liberal, intellectual … Continue reading