Cascading Elite Failures Are The Worst Part Of 2020
2020 is hardly the only year in which elites have “failed.” Krystal Ball highlights what she believes were the worst moments of 2020.
Why Are Americans So Distrustful of Each Other?
I remember people laughing 20 years ago when I said that eventually, the USA would more closely resemble Brazil. I guess I had the last laugh, kinda sorta. The Latin Americanization of the USA with the related class stratification, institutional corruption, social conflict, and high rates of violence […]
Peter Zeihan – Interview about Vaccines and the US Presidential Election
According to Zeihan, Democrats greatly improved their performance among the military, business interests, and fiscal conservatives, while the Republicans improved their performance among labor unions and Hispanics. If Obama was George McGovern’s revenge, can we say that Trump is Ross Perot’s and Pat Buchanan’s revenge? He also estimates […]
‘CIVIL WAR’? Democrats outraged at ONE-THIRD of US states challenging Biden election in Supreme Court
Let the Red and Blue go their own way. Russia Today A Texas-led motion to the US Supreme Court challenging the elections in four states that declared Joe Biden president has angered Democrats. Between that and a rant by CNN’s Chris Cuomo, ‘Civil War’ began trending on Twitter. […]
Five Ways the U.S. Could Disintegrate
By David Kotok, Financial Sense Note to readers. Yang Hu is the Director of Economics and Mortgage Market Analysis at Fannie Mae. He is also a serious student of history and a thoroughly skilled writer. He offered a rejoinder to my earlier commentary entitled “I’m worried.” What Kind […]
What REALLY Killed Tech Billionaire Tony Hsieh
Krystal on how you can be a billionaire and still be a loser.
Seasonal Depression and the Fallacy of White Guilt
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “And when the last Red Man shall have perished, and the memory of my tribe shall have become a myth among the White Men, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe, and when your […]
What Thucydides Knew About the US Today
By Edward Mendelson, The New York Review of Books On the morning after the 2016 presidential election I tried to distract myself by reading some pages of Thucydides that I had assigned for a class the next day, and found myself reading the clearest explanation I had seen […]
Is the Lebanese Civil War the Model for the Next American Civil War?
When looking for historical models for what the next US civil war would look like, there are a number of interesting examples to look at like India and Pakistan during the 1947 partition, Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, or Rwanda in 1994. But the one I keep coming […]
The State’s Crisis of Legitimacy Intensifies
By Bill Lind, Traditional Right As of this writing, the outcome of the Presidential election is uncertain although it appears Biden will “win”, thanks to questionable vote totals from urban areas. The Senate looks as if it will remain Republican, and the Democrats have held onto the House […]
The Next Decade Could Be Even Worse
By Graeme Wood, The Atlantic Peter Turchin, one of the world’s experts on pine beetles and possibly also on human beings, met me reluctantly this summer on the campus of the University of Connecticut at Storrs, where he teaches. Like many people during the pandemic, he preferred to […]
The Impending Crisis
By Peter Turchin Something happened in the United States during the 1970s. According to a number of indicators, well-being of the majority of Americans, which had been growing for many decades, entered a regime of stagnation and, eventually, decline. The trend towards greater equality in incomes and wealth […]
No Matter the Liberal Metric Chosen, the Bush/Cheney Administration Was Far Worse Than Trump.
By Glenn Greenwald, Subtack That the liberal belief in and fear of a Trump-led fascist dictatorship and violent coup is actually a fantasy — a longing, a desire, a craving — has long been obvious. The Democrats’ own actions proved that they never believed their own melodramatic and […]
The Task of ‘Sleepy Joe’ is to Put Liberal America Right Back to Sleep
By Jonathan Cook, Counterpunch At birth, all of us begin a journey that offers opportunities either to grow – not just physically, but mentally, emotionally and spiritually – or to stagnate. The journey we undertake lasts a lifetime, but there are dozens of moments each day when we […]
Dark Clouds of Uncertainty Hover over the American Society
This is an absolute must-read. By Randi Nord The United States is in for some dark times and I find it hard to be optimistic right now. Over the past four years, neoconservative and neoliberal factions of the ruling class previously at odds (at least publicly) have put […]
Against Atlanticist Hegemony
I generally consider 4PT to be more counter-imperialist than anti-imperialist but this is spot on. New Resistance Once again the American left proves it’s completely blinded by Eurocentric racism as it gleefully applauds the reassertion of American liberalism as the head of the modern, Eurocentric, world order. At […]
Americans must have a very high tolerance level for “indignity”
Democracy as Mental Illness: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Cross 2020
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It’s early November in the dark heart of my Rust Belt swing state and I am getting dangerously close to the end of a very short rope. Or maybe it’s a lit fuse. Attached to a dangerously explosive […]
Belief In ‘American Exceptionalism’ PLUMMETS As Young People Reject Endless Wars
Hopefully, these young people will retain such attitudes as they get older. Senior fellow at The Eurasia Group Foundation, Mark Hannah, explains why the belief in “American exceptionalism” is dwindling.
Do Not Vote!
The Ax, National Reformation The problem Once again, the quadrennial dog and pony show under the rubric of “elections” rolls out 3 November 2020 demonstrating the fraud of democracy. It is fraudulent because to work as intended, democracy assumes the equal ability of the voters to make decisions. […]
10 Reasons Why You Should NEVER Move to the United States
How Could Everyday People Stop a Coup?
My take on the present situation is both presidential tickets are (roughly) equally dangerous. Trump is a narcissist and a megalomaniac but so are most politicians. What is most dangerous about him is his complete fealty to the KSA, UAE, and the state with whom the US has […]
Is Civil War on the Way?
It seems inconceivable that some people are actually preparing for civil war over Donald Trump.
The New Jacobinism: America as Revolutionary State
A must-read for those who want to understand the ideological framework of US foreign policy. A primary reason why the “woke” ideology is so easily co-opted by the US state and its junior partners. “This strongly and lucidly argued book gave early warning of a political-intellectual movement that […]
America the Virtuous: The Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for Empire
Claes Ryn on the enemies of mankind, some of whom and their proteges and offspring are still around. The neocons have recolonized the Democratic Party at this point, continued to control the Republican Party in every essential area, embedded themselves in the Trump administration, and co-opted the Left […]
America Does Not Tolerate Losers
This is one of the best critiques of American culture I’ve seen to date. The problem with ruling classes that adopt a “Let them eat cake” attitude is that they tend to not come to a happy ending. Ask the Bourbons and the Romanovs. By Alex Bash (academiccomposition@gmail.com), […]
Chris Hedges: ‘This Is The Unraveling Of The US Empire’
Idiocracy Is Here
From a post on social media: “The issue of war is mostly a non-issue for most voters these days. I even talked to one guy on here who rabidly hates Trump and when I brought up the issue of neoconservative/neoliberal warmongering, his answer was basically “what’s with your […]
AMERIKA!: The Horror Story
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley No one seems to be quite sure where this creature first lurked from. What foul crypt lays claim to the title of the beast’s cradle? Most trembling fingers point towards Europe, to the land of Caligula and Vlad […]
An Assessment of the Gelderloos/Crimethinc Analysis
This is my assessment of the recent piece by Peter Gelderloos at Crimethinc, “Preparing for Electoral Unrest and a Right-Wing Power Grab.” The Crimethinc article is a great companion piece to the recent commentary by It’s Going Down (which I critique here) and Three-Way Fight (which I had […]
Fourth Generation War Comes to a Theater Near You
A comprehensive fourth-generation warfare analysis of the present situation from a paleoconservative perspective. By William S. Lind Chronicles Mobs loot, burn, and vandalize while politicians advocate defunding the police. A commune was established in Seattle and turned into Lord of the Flies while government did nothing. Blacks demand equal treatment from […]
Joe Biden, Multiple Miggs, and the Horrors of Lesser Evilism
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley As surely as the moon wanes and the dead leaves tumble, once every fourth October, it becomes downright chilling to be an American. That’s because every four years, like clockwork, Americans prove every flamboyant third world boogeyman we’ve […]
The Congealed Sludge of Human Ignorance
By Troy Southgate If I had a penny for each time that I’ve been forced to roll up my trouser legs and wade through the congealed sludge of human ignorance, I’d have accumulated a small fortune by now. Yesterday I had the unfortunate pleasure to witness a clip […]
Russia Could Never Discredit The US Empire The Way These Guys Just Did
By Caitlin Johnstone Medium Well. Wow. I mean, wow. So in case you missed it, the first US presidential debate was everything the US empire deserves and a fair reflection of everything the US empire is. If Vladimir Putin were every bit the election-meddling demon the Democrats say […]
The Ugly Truth Is That Trump Is As American As Apple Pie
This is pretty good. Krystal Ball discusses the impacts of late-stage capitalism and how Donald Trump is not cut from the same cloth as dictators.
Joe Rogan World Vs. NPR World
Of all the political conflicts I have ever studied, anywhere in the world, or from any time in history, there are none which I have found to be nearly as ridiculous as the American “culture wars.” Culture warriors, whether red, blue, white, black, pink, green, or purple, generally […]
America is the Holy Roman Empire of the 21st century
This is an insult to the memory of the Holy Roman Empire. By Ryan Cooper The Week Germany is today a first-rank power: rich, strong, and efficiently governed. But just over 200 years ago, most of its current territory was a shambolic mess — part of the Holy […]
Revenge of the Tribes: How the American Empire Could Fall
Unity 2020: Why the Lesser Evil?
If I had to identify any way in which my views have shifted over the years, it would probably be that I have largely moved away from the idea of a far-left/far-right “third position” type of tactical framework toward more of a revolutionary centrist one. The far-right and […]
The Plastic Hypocrites of the American Left
By Troy Southgate None of us should be surprised to see the plastic hypocrites of the American Left mourn the recent passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Whilst this female equivalent of Judge Roughneck is being celebrated for having implemented a series of laws designed to provide the misleading […]
The Ruling Class Strikes Back
I disagree with aspects of the ideological flavor reflected in this article. But its core thesis seems to be cogent enough. A multi-dimensional insurrection (consisting of distinct but overlapping sectors such as the lumpenproletariat, middle-class radicals, ordinary hooligans, the far left, and sectors of the far right) is […]
Fighting Anarcho-Capitalism’s Final Boss (Ft. NonCompete)
Athens can be an-cap and Sparta can be an-com. Not a problem at all. In which Playwright, Journalist and Ringo-Nominated Comic Creator Brenton Lengel teams up with Emerican Johnson of NonCompete for an EPIC live debate against Dr. David D. Friedman (The son of economist Milton Friedman) and […]
BLM Block Hospital Road Yelling “We hope They Die” After Two Cops AMBUSHED And SHOT Nearly Dying
It is never a good thing when people in a society start killing each other with a greater degree of frequency. But incidents of this type are the natural consequence of 50 years of economic and social policies that have turned the USA into a Third World society […]
The Unraveling of America: Is This the End of the American Empire?
The way this writer describes how each century seems to give rise to a major empire which then expires during the following century is interesting. Since the rise of Western hegemony, it was Portugal, followed by Spain, then Holland, France, England, and now America.
The Ugly Americans
Americans: “North Koreans are so brainwashed. They don’t know any other country except their own.” Also Americans:
Noam Chomsky EXCLUSIVE: Is America A Failed State?
Professor Noam Chomsky gives his thoughts on the future of the left and weighs in on the current state of the media landscape.
America Is A Powder Keg As Social Fabric UNRAVELS
Kanye West sues to get on Wisconsin ballot after being rejected
Go, Kanye, go. This is exactly what we need. More and more unhinged lunatics coming out of the woodwork to make the system look as ridiculous as possible. By Tal Axelrod The Hill Rapper Kanye West is suing the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) to get his name on […]
Donald Trump plugs Ivanka as the first female president claiming Kamala Harris is ‘not competent’ enough for the top job
A new royal dynasty is formed? This stuff just keeps getting better. At least she’d be a PILF. By Sophie Ankel Business Insider Speaking at a New Hampshire campaign rally on Friday night, President Trump said Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris is “not competent” enough to become […]
The Continuing American Soap Opera
By Troy Southgate One thing people always seem to overlook with regard to the continuing soap opera taking place in America, something I am doing my utmost to ignore, is that the rest of the world is being irrevocably dragged into the same orbit. As I explained in […]
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