Welcome to Season 6! In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad dissects a harsh reality: the American empire is falling and the signs of its decline are everywhere. High divorce rates, low wages and high unemployment, mass shootings, shortened lifespan, election denials, price gouging, and war […]
PharmaHeretic 20 hr ago Have you ever wondered if there is a quick and easy way for identifying the weak points and deficits of any given society? Well.. here is one. Any given society will always lack whichever qualities, resources or attributes it constantly claims to have in […]
By Keith Preston December 29, 2022 While I agree that American/Atlanticist/unipolar/whatever hegemony is receding, I don’t think we will return to the bipolar world of the Cold War. Instead, we are moving toward a multipolar order like in the late 19th/early 20th centuries, where there were multiple great […]
If only we knew how bad things are Ed West Dec 13 You’re a time travelling visitor from 40 years ago, or you’ve been frozen in ice like Captain America. You turn on the television, to see an advert by a trendy fashion house, and a woman’s voice […]
A US study of social breakdown due to the wrong kinds of development and ‘progress’, with Ireland its ‘lab rat’, vindicates warnings in my 1997 book, ‘An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Modern Ireland’. John Waters Nov 28 Reaping the Whirlwind of ‘Progress’ When we hear talk of ‘the […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley If you’re reading this now, chances are you’ve already saved democracy by voting for some asshole and chances are you were probably guilted into it on the fear of semi-fascism by a relentless campaign of 24/7 multimedia harassment. […]
By Tom Woods It’s difficult to know exactly when it happened, but not long ago many Americans suddenly looked around and discovered that they and their neighbors inhabited completely different moral universes. Whether it’s Black Lives Matter, or teaching gender theory to children, or the usefulness or otherwise of […]
PharmaHeretic Oct 26 Here is a series I first contemplated writing over five years ago, though the core idea occurred a bit before that and in an unexpected place. See.. spending too much time on the less frequented parts of the internet often helps me notice correlations, trends […]
Todd Lewis will be joined by Keith Preston, Swithun Dobson, and Terminal Philosophy to discuss the substack article by Richard Hanania: The Year of Fukuyama: https://richardhanania.substack.com/p… Locals: https://praiseoffolly.locals.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PoFPodcast Telegram: t.me/PraiseOfFolly_1511 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PraiseOfFoll…
Richard Hanania Bashing Fukuyama is the pastime of midwits. In the Twitter version of events, he’s understood to be the guy who said nothing will ever happen again, and then things in the news happen, and so he’s always being proved wrong. People who actually read and understood […]
By Jose Nino The United States is reaching a breaking point. There are some knuckleheads out here who have bought into the American exceptionalism meme. They think that the country can’t descend into chaos and that it will be around for centuries to come. This type of conceit […]
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PharmaHeretic Some of you might have noticed an interesting trend, if you can call it that, which has been especially prominent in western countries over the past ten years. To be fair, this trend was becoming increasingly visible since the 1970s, but started becoming a major force in […]
PharmaHeretic Since the start of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war in late February of this year, I have noticed something which is simultaneously interesting and comical. As noted in the title of this post, you also might have noticed that western fanboys of Ukraine are.. a bit detached from […]
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By Joel Kotkin For much of the 20th century, Los Angeles symbolised the future. Over the course of the century, the population grew 40-fold to nearly four million people. But now, for the first time in its history, the population of Los Angeles is in decline, falling by […]
Ep. 2201 The American Ruling Class, and Its Intensifying Evils Commentator Auron MacIntyre joins me to discuss the rapidly increasing evil of the American ruling class. Read the original article at TomWoods.com. http://tomwoods.com/ep-2201-the-american-ruling-class-and-its-intensifying-evils/
Leaf Box Golden Cicada in Jersey City, New Jersey on 7-6-14 Linh Dinh is a Vietnamese-American poet, fiction writer, translator, and photographer who I first discovered watching an interview with Chris Hedges discussing the plight of the underclass. Linh’s lastest collection on the US, Post Cards from […]
By Jose Nino Most people realize that something bad is in the air. The America they once grew up in or at least read about is not the same. From the rising levels of inflation to the alarming levels of crime sweeping cities nationwide, America is clearly deteriorating […]
By James Reinl, Social Affairs Correspondent, For Dailymail.Com 56 percent of Americans now say inflation is causing them financial hardship A worrying 12 percent said they were experiencing ‘severe hardship’ as their standard of living tanked Republicans say inflation is biting into their paychecks more so than Democrats […]
Ep. 2188 Is National Divorce Anti-Liberty?
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Suppose you had the revolution you are talking and dreaming about. Suppose your side had won, and you had the kind of society you wanted. How would you live, you personally, in that society? Start living that way […]
The long-term decline of trust in government indicates that our political system has been struggling to meet the public’s expectations for over half a century. Matthew Thomas Many people are saying that the United States is in the grip of a legitimacy crisis. In the social sciences, legitimacy […]
Ep. 2185 Jeff Deist on Trump, the FBI, and National Divorce
By Tom Nichols, The Atlantic I’ve been thinking about the threats against law enforcement and Trump’s barely veiled warning to Attorney General Merrick Garland about a “country on fire.” We should no longer wonder if we can avert a new era of political violence in the United States. […]
By Nusaiba Mizan Politifact The Texas Republican Convention on June 18 called for the state Legislature to approve a measure asking voters whether they favor “Texas Independence.” That is, a referendum on secession. The GOP platform committee wrote, “We urge the Texas Legislature to pass bill [sic] in its next session […]
by David Freddoso, Online Opinion Editor Washington Examiner Do you think your state would be better off or worse off if it left the United States and became an independent country?” That question, asked of 1,672 adults in the latest Yahoo!/YouGov poll, is certainly provocative. So are the […]
By JEFFREY FRENKIEWICH Concord Monitor Jeff Frenkiewich is a Milford Middle School social studies teacher and a UNH adjunct professor In recent years, the idea of secession as a solution for America’s political divide has gained increased popularity, particularly on the Right. After Donald Trump’s loss in the […]
By Beau Yarbrough The Press-Enterprise The man who first proposed San Bernardino County secede from California says voters are ready to do so — and he says he has the survey data to prove it. “I think it’s going to be a super-majority,” real estate developer Jeff Burum […]
By Andrew Bjelland | Salt Lake City Tribune Two national polls indicate current tensions have again triggered secessionist impulses. The poll results are perhaps less significant than the pollsters’ decisions to address this issue. According to a Bright Line Watch survey, within the Intermountain West 43% of […]
By Andrew Romano Yahoo News! West Coast Correspondent Red-state Donald Trump voters are now more likely to say they’d be personally “better off” (33%) than “worse off” (29%) if their state seceded from the U.S. and “became an independent country,” according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll. It’s […]
By Bonnie Kristian “Tomorrow is war,” right-wing media personality Steven Crowder tweeted Monday night after news broke of the FBI’s search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property. Bright and early the next morning, Crowder was back—with details. “Today is war. That is all you will get on […]
By Clyde Williamson, Chronicles For several decades before his death in 2005, Samuel T. Francis was a major voice of Chronicles and paleoconservatism in America. He was widely admired as an outstanding public commentator, winning awards for his incisive and eloquent writing. Unfortunately, he was attacked by neoconservative […]
Balaji Srinivasan is an investor, founder, and Former CTO of Coinbase and GP at a16z and author of The Network State, which will be the main focus of the podcast today. The Network State explores ideas surrounding digital communities and the future of how we coordinate as a […]
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By Alan Bickley, Free Life In 2003, most opposition to the Iraq War was confined to the argument that intervention there would do no good to the people of Iraq or in the intervening countries. This soon turned out to be a true argument, and those of us […]
I have written about many topics here at Attack the System over the past 22 years, with a focus on outlining a predictive narrative of how world geopolitics and domestic US politics would likely evolve in the future. The core emphasis has been to develop a theoretical framework […]
By PharmaHeretic In an older post, I wrote about how the current generation of political “leaders” in western countries are parasitic PMC-types without any redeeming qualities. What makes this phenomenon especially interesting is that other institutions and areas in the west have seen an identical degradation in their […]
By Matt Taibbi The FBI really better have something “pulverizing” on Trump, because otherwise we’ve just witnessed one of the dumbest moves in the history of politics. Secret service outside Mar-a-Lago Monday [The Justice Department] must immediately explain the reason for its raid and it must be […]
By Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Science Findings suggest rising gun violence will spill into the political sphere, driven by conspiracy theories Violence can seem to be everywhere in the United States, and political violence is in the spotlight, with the 6 January 2021 insurrection as exhibit A. Now, a […]
By Erin Snodgrass Business Insider An expert in political violence says extremists could be leading the US toward a modern-day civil war. Barbara F. Walter, a political science professor at the University of California at San Diego, spoke to The Washington Post earlier this year about the perilous […]
By Doug Bandow, The American Conservatism How long can the bankrupt American republic attempt to run the world? President Joe Biden is the foreign policy equivalent of an alcoholic. He can’t get enough of U.S. meddling around the world. Although he withdrew American forces from the endless Afghan […]
In the post-2020 world, Americans, having faced the controversies of the 2020 election and the January 6 insurrection, may be tempted to do their best to forget these events and move on — yet to bestselling author Malcolm Nance, this is the worst thing they can do. As […]
Factors that include soaring real estate prices across the country, an increasingly strong dollar, and political strife at home are combining to drive an increasing number of Americans to flee the country and purchase homes in Europe, specifically countries of southern Europe like Italy, Spain and Portugal. A […]
Jose Alberto Nino LISTEN HERE Candid conversation with Dmitry Orlov about the potential for an economic collapse in the United States. Subscribe now Share Could the United States experience a systemic collapse in the next few decades? Russian-American engineer and collapse researcher Dmitry Orlov makes the case […]
Journalist Ben Norton discusses why U.S. Imperialism is in profound crisis right now and what a multipolar world could look like. Ben Norton is a journalist, the editor of Multipolarista (https://multipolarista.com/) and a former editor at The Grayzone.
The geographically non-contiguous fragmentations we see today might well be a prelude to something like Balaji Srinivasan’s concept of the “network state,” which itself is only a few steps removed from the “panarchic” concept of non-territorial governments of Paul Emile de Puydt, Gustave Molinari, Max Nettlau, and John […]
In his recent Harper’s cover piece, “Empire Burlesque,” Daniel Bessner traced the evolution of the foreign policy vision that defined the so-called American century and how it has been reshaped by failures and a changing world order, including a new multipolarity and the rise of China. He draws […]
Krystal combs through the civil war discourse on the right and left particularly with partisan media viewers that represents deep fissures among the American people
Associate editor at Reason, Liz Wolfe, discusses a new poll that shows nearly one in three Americans feel it may be necessary to take up arms against the government.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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