What If We Collapsed Like Rome?
In this video, we explore what might happen in the short and long term if our civilization met the same fate as Ancient Rome.
Broken Economy, Broken Society, and the Prospects for Liberty
By Stratton J. Davis Looking at the daily news these past couples of weeks one may have the pessimistic opinion that what was left of liberty will soon be gone. Even before the recent riots, which has President Trump and his GOP goons threatening the US people with […]
Western Civilization has low self-esteem. What can raise its spirits?
Western civilization doesn’t really exist anymore. It died during the two world wars. “The West” today is basically just the American Empire, and it’s not the America of Nathaniel Hawthorne or Mark Twain. It’s the America of McDonald’s, Wal-Mart, and Amazon. Western Europe is the most far gone, […]
Ingraham: Democrats cancel America
I totally disagree with Laura here, but not for the usual reasons. So far I have actually seen very little “canceling America” going on in the present uprising. Unlike Berkeley or Charlottesville, which were low-grade sports riots carried out by rookie-league middle-class gangs, the present uprising is a […]
A Message Written in Fire: In Defense of Social Upheaval
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It always ends this way, you can almost set your watch to it. A glamorous soirée rambling into the wee hours of the morning in an opulent townhouse on a tony tree lined street of any given international […]
We Are Living in a Failed State?
I might be inclined to take this article more seriously if it wasn’t written by George Packer, a “liberal hawk” idiot who supported the Iraq War. The US is a long way from being a “failed state.” The current pandemic is very similar to the Spanish flu of […]
America Has No President
They say that like it’s a bad thing. If only it were true. One of the reasons the Swiss system (which is theoretically similar) has been more successful than ours is because it doesn’t have a presidential system. Their executive branch is merely a council appointed by the […]
Stock market soars as America burns
As I said in the previous post, current events are no skin off the ass of the ruling class whatsoever. If the stock market is soaring, they’re happy. My guess is that the power elite probably sees the insurrection as an exaggerated sports riot, as opposed to a […]
The New New Cold War is Pretty Much the Old New Cold War
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Remember when the Russians were coming? It seems like just last week Vladimir Putin was whistling the Soviet National Anthem just around every corner of main street. After the colossal clusterfuck of Hillary 2016, you couldn’t swing a […]
Tucker: America is splitting into two before our eyes
If only it were true. Localized quarantines are what we should have been doing all along. It’s ridiculous to expect rural counties to abide by the same rules as New York and Los Angeles. Some states are using science to guide their decisions and cautiously beginning to relax […]
The Collapse of the American Empire?
Some pretty good economic analysis from Chris Hedges from 2018. Much of what he describes will be amped up on a mega-level following the present Great Depression Two. Hedges is a lot like Chomsky in the sense of offering a lot of succinct and astute analysis combined with […]
Democracy 2020!: Pick Your Favorite Pussy Grabber
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Good morning dearest motherfuckers, it is spring time in this the plague besotted year of our lord Satan, twenty-hundred-and-twenty, and both major party candidates for the highest office of the greatest democracy imperialism can buy are confirmed geriatric […]
Most “Radicals” Do Not Really Oppose “the System”
At present, the United States (the mother country of a world empire that is the most expansive and powerful in history) is in a position that might be considered a very minor league version of what the Europeans faced in the early modern period. From the fourth century […]
Anarcho-Populism: Not Economically Left/Culturally Right
In recent times, I have seen a number of commentators calling for one or another kind of left/right hybrid populism. Some years ago, Ralph Nader was pushing this idea (obviously unsuccessfully). More recently, Krystal Ball (social democrat) and Saager Enjeti (economic nationalist) of The Hill’s Rising have promoted […]
Meth America
Peter Zeihan Explains The Geopolitical Landscape
Peter Zeihan provides a refreshing alternative to the China-love and/or China-hate that’s going on nowadays from the left and right. No, China is not going to replace the US as the global hegemon. Instead, China is likely to either implode or revert into neo-Maoism (which is already happening […]
Fear and Loathing in Coronaville Volume 7: What Rough Beast Slouches Towards Washington and Beijing?
Check out Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, and Part 6. By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley As the smoke slowly settles on the bucolic hills of my farmland community and many others, the Coronavirus nightmare may be far from […]
Who Wins Or Loses When Global Order Breaks Down?
As the US Empire recedes due to overextension and internal implosion, it seems the emerging multipolar world order will look something like this: In North America, the US will obviously be the hegemon with Canada and Mexico as its satellites. In South America, the richest country, Argentina, will […]
Declinists Be Damned: Bet On America?
This is an interesting debate about the degree to which the US will remain the world’s leading power in the future. The participants are all far more establishmentarian than I am (who isn’t?). What I think the actual trends show on this question is that while the US […]
Biden literally INCOMPREHENSIBLE live on CNN
Fear and Loathing in Coronaville Volume 4: Insanity is a Virtue in a Mad World
Check out Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley As I scrawl the sloppy copy for my latest manifesto on a window pane between my thoughts on string theory and Kevin Bacon’s connection to 9/11 (Madoff made him […]
These Are the Conditions in Which Revolution Becomes Thinkable
Twenty years ago, I was arguing that the anti-globalization/anarchist left should cultivate the anti-globalist right as its natural allies, and that the cultural differences between the two were largely irrelevant because of those, you know, classic anarchist principles of anti-statism, free association, decentralization, federalism, etc. I continued making […]
Today’s America: No place for its founders?
Paul Gottfried provides a pretty good overview of US political history at the beginning of this. I don’t entirely agree with Halsey English’s paleonconnish/paleolibertarianish interpretation of US political history, but he’s correct with his observation that the traditional US republic is largely moving toward integration as province into […]
But What About the Whiskey Rebellion, George?
Actually, George was a lot more authoritarian than his historic reputation.
Decline of the Republic?
Todd Lewis joined by Keith Preston, Right Ruminations and Swithun Dobson to discuss the similarities between the late Roman Republic and the current US political system and the lesson to be learned from the comparison.
“THE GENTLELADY IS OUT OF ORDER!’ – Democrat refuses to yield floor
LOL.
America Is a Sham
By Dan Kois Slate Maybe it will be the hand sanitizer that finally exposes the sham. The Transportation Security Administration announced Friday that due to the coronavirus outbreak, it’s waiving the familiar 3.4-ounce limit for liquids and gels—for hand sanitizer only.* You may now bring a bottle of […]
The Great Purge: The Deformation of the Conservative Movement
I have a chapter in this book where I argued that the postwar conservative movement was nothing other than a front for the military-industrial complex and right-wing of the US ruling class (the Sunbelt industries that were in conflict with the “northeastern establishment”). The other authors were all […]
Coronavirus memes for the populist uprising
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Noam Chomsky: Requiem for the American Dream
America’s Great Divide: Steve Bannon
Krystal Ball: Why MSNBC is to blame for Joe Biden
Dennis Kucinich, Tulsi Gabbard and the Slow Death of the Democratic Delusion
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley As a practice, I despise both major parties with a passion usually reserved for religious zealotry. But I’m not ashamed, even as a lifelong leftist, to admit that I hate the Democrats most of all. In fact, it’s […]
The Conservative Anarchist Solution
This is the transcript of a talk I gave to the H.L. Mencken Club on November 9, 2019. By Keith Preston When it comes to questions of strategy, it is important to base one’s approach on a reasonable estimation of the probable circumstances one will be facing in […]
Are these viable predictions for the future?
-North, Central, and South America will become increasingly integrated into a Schengen-like borderless trade zone. -US international hegemony will begin to recede due to imperial overstretch with international power increasingly being ceded to transnational institutions. -Class relations in the US will increasingly resemble the “Third World” (traditional) model, […]
The Gap Between Rich and Poor Americans’ Health Is Widening
NPR by Susie Neilson Researchers compared Americans’ health status today with that of 25 years ago and found that health is worsening among lower-income Americans. Orbon Alija/Getty Images Income inequality in the U.S. has grown over the past several decades. And as the gap between rich and poor yawns, […]
Rising US Inequality: How We Got Here, Where We’re Going
Stanford Business Shana Lynch An economist and a business advisor discuss what might happen if the gap between rich and poor continues to grow. Inequality is on the rise in the United States. Stanford experts discuss possible solutions. | Reuters/Lucy Nicholson The U.S. economy hit a historic high […]
Towards a Third World Class System
A fan created a montage of audio clips from Kick the Puppy Season One showing how we are moving towards a third world model class system.
Pledging Allegiance to the Divided States of America
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will-Antonio Gramsci When the individual’s behavior and consciousness get hooked to a routine sequence of external actions, he is a dead robot, and it is time for […]
Getting It
This piece by Lind could almost be a left-libertarian or left-anarchist analysis EXCEPT the cultural divide is so vast as to be unbridgeable. By William S. Lind Traditional Right The Left has adopted the word “woke” to describe people who have accepted the ideology of cultural Marxism and […]
A False God Fails
Apparently, Bill Lind has become an anarcho-Monarchist in the tradition of Tolkien, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, or Hans Hermann Hoppe. By William S. Lind Traditional Right As Great Britain moves towards its independence day, i.e., Brexit, a false god is failing: the god named “democracy”. Prime Minister Theresa May, […]
The American Victim Complex: An age-old tradition
A great takedown of victimology and the oppression olympics, Left and Right.
Studying the demise of historic civilizations
Must read. ** By Luke Kemp 19 February 2019 Studying the demise of historic civilisations can tell us how much risk we face today, says collapse expert Luke Kemp. Worryingly, the signs are worsening. Great civilisations are not murdered. Instead, they take their own lives. DEEP CIVILISATION This […]
The United City-States of America, Mapped
The future infrastructure of pan-anarchism? The city-states should only be the meta-structures for thousands of local communities, intentional communites, neighborhoods, districts, and autonomous zones. And why only 100? Ancient Greece was comprised of nearly 1100 autonomous cities. The Holy Roman Empire included hundreds of kingdoms intersecting with many […]
The End of Our World Order Is Imminent
A writer at The Nation points out how more than 200 empires have risen and fallen in world history, and the US empire will eventually fall as well. I think this author likely overstates the prospects for future Chinese dominance, and his environmental alarmism may be overstated as […]
Slavoj Žižek: Trump’s rise is a symptom of a dark and subtle force
For 25-30 years, I have said that the main political issues in the USA are imperialism, widening class divisions, and use of the wars on drugs, crime, and (later) terrorism to create a domestic police state. Regrettably, most of liberal and left opinion during this time has been […]
How the System Works
“It’s interesting how figures like Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez are labelled as “communists” for wanting the economic policies of the 1950s (when a third of the US labor force was unionized and the top income tax bracket was 91%), and the Trumpians/MAGA hats are considered “fascists” for wanting immigration […]
Dancing On America’s Grave
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Washington is a fucking zoo. The entire town seems to be teeming with an almost demonic energy that’s usually reserved for Third World capitals hours before the fall of some CIA funded cannibal despot. We have had fucked […]
Robert Stark interviews Nicolas Hausdorf
The Stark Truth. Listen here. Robert Stark talks to Nicolas Hausdorf. Nicolas is a German editor, analyst, and essayist based in Melbourne. You can read his essays at Jacobite. Topics:
George H.W. Bush, Icon of the WASP Establishment—and of Brutal US Repression in the Third World
By Greg Grandin The Nation Obituaries have transformed the terror that Bush inflicted, depicting it as heroism. George H.W. Bush is sworn in as director of the CIA on January 30, 1976. (dpa via AP Photo) George Herbert Walker Bush represented a ruling class in decay. His WASP […]
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