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New Calculus

What’s going on with the billionaires that control our country? Late-stage capitalism has made them richer than Croesus, but the lucre has only made them more greedy, where they seem unwilling to offer even modest reforms that would be pocket … Continue reading

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The Merger

The US House of Representatives just passed a bill merging the US military with Israel’s. The House on Wednesday passed its version of the massive $1.15 trillion 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which includes Section 219 (formerly Section 224), … Continue reading

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The Dilemma

The Netanyahu Administration is happy that the US is again attacking Iran. That doesn’t mean that they want to participate. Israel’s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, has described the renewed US war on Iran as the ideal outcome for Israel, provided Israelis … Continue reading

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Dirty War

Having effectively lost the broader geopolitical war against Iran and realizing that conventional military force cannot crush the Axis of Resistance, the United States and Israel are transitioning from direct confrontation to a dirty war. The core of this strategy … Continue reading

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Post Neoliberalism

If you thought neoliberalism was bad, just wait. Neoliberalism was the owners of the country rebelling against the New Deal class compromise between capital and labor. Back when the US maintained a manufacturing economy workers possessed more power and the … Continue reading

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Operation Epic Fail

Trump’s attack on Iran is turning into the biggest military disaster in US history. Even the neocons are saying it, and the corporate media is reporting it. On May 10, Robert Kagan, arch-neocon who’s married to Maidan cookie-monster Victoria Nuland, lamented in The … Continue reading

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Mapping the Deep State

Federalist Papers author and first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, John Jay, presciently described the deep state: “The people who own the country ought to govern it.” And so they have. America is not really a country. It’s … Continue reading

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The Hamptons are not a defensible position

Skimming Karp’s screed it stuck me once again that our feral elite would kill us off without a thought as they transform the US government from being run by humans to being run by algorithmic computations. And they don’t seem to … Continue reading

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Birth Pangs

In July 2006, following the the US’s invasion and occupation of Iraq, Condoleezza Rice stated: “What we’re seeing here in a sense is the birth pangs of a new Middle East and whatever we do, we have to be certain … Continue reading

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King Croesus

Trump’s Iran adventure is going so swimmingly that he could be our first anti-imperialist president by destroying the American empire. In a way that history doesn’t repeat but rhymes, Trump is behaving like Croesus, ruler of the Lydian Empire. According … Continue reading

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