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Into the Fire
Vastly unequal empires never end well. In his 2017 book The Great Leveler, Stanford historian Walter Scheidel, demonstrates how extreme inequality has been “resolved” throughout history. Unfortunately, Scheidel found that so far the only thing that has undone such inequality—the only … Continue reading
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Tagged Donald Trump, inequality, Luigi Mangione, neoliberalism, Wall Street
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Won’t Get Fooled Again
Lots of friends went to the Bernie/AOC rally, and wondered why the one with the most radical politics, did not join. Anyone who has read this blog and contemplated what I write about already knows but, in a nutshell, the … Continue reading
Posted in feral elite, neofeudalism, propaganda
Tagged AOC, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, neocons, neoliberalism
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Pyrrhic
The billionaires who own our country hated the New Deal and they set out to undo it. They won and here we are. Over the past 47 years, according to the Rand Corporation, $50 Trillion in wealth has been redistributed … Continue reading
Posted in anti-imperialism, deep state, feral elite, neoliberalism
Tagged Donald Trump, neoliberalism, tariffs, Wall Street
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Now They Tell Us
As the Trump Administration embarks on a campaign of domestic rendition to silence critics of Israel’s genocide it’s important to acknowledge that the Biden Administration and corporate media lied to us about the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. Now … Continue reading
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Tagged deep state, Donald Trump, new york times, propaganda, Russia, Russia-gate, Ukraine
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The Yeltsin Years
I’ve recently discovered that the DOGE-bags have a plan, and it’s not simply to move fast and break things. It’s called the Dark Enlightenment, and “seeks to implement authoritarianism with a combination of elite technocrats (as in the IT type, … Continue reading
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Tagged DOGE, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, neoliberalism, Wall Street
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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
Posted in anti-imperialism, deep state, neoconservatives, propaganda
Tagged Biden, Donald Trump, Gaza, Iran, Israel, Mahmoud Khalil, Palestinians
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Mangione Moment
How long before we have another Mangione moment, when someone opens fire on a CEO, banker or politician? How soon before some poor, desperate American, with nothing to lose, attacks one of the sociopaths who rule our country? The Sackler … Continue reading
Posted in feral elite, neofeudalism, neoliberalism
Tagged DOGE, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Luigi Mangione, second Gilded Age
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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
Posted in anti-imperialism, feral elite, neoliberalism, propaganda
Tagged deep state, DOGE, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Ian Welsh, neoliberalism, propaganda, Ukraine
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Give War a Chance
The US political and media elite are having a meltdown now that Trump is poised to bring the US proxy war against Russia in Ukraine to a close. Everyone from Rachel Maddow to Bernie Sanders is freaking out over the Trump administration’s moves toward ending the war … Continue reading
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Tagged deep state, Donald Trump, neocons, propaganda, Russia, Russia-gate, Ukraine
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