A fantastic piece from Caitlin. By Caitlin Johnstone I was just watching a gaggle of blue-checkmarked narrative managers attack progressive commentators Katie Halper and Briahna Joy Gray on Twitter for platforming antiwar journalist Rania Khalek on the grounds that Khalek is an “Assadist”, which is imperialist for “someone […]
I’m not convinced there needs to be a “libertarian electoral strategy.” I generally support third parties, from libertarians to greens to communists to transhumanists, as chaos agents but that’s the only real value I see in them. Listen to Tom Woods host the debate here. David Stockman, who […]
By Jon Gambrell, AP News DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian scientist named by the West as the leader of the Islamic Republic’s disbanded military nuclear program was killed Friday in an ambush on the outskirts of Tehran, authorities said. Iran’s foreign minister alleged the killing […]
By Philip Ridley The World Economic Forum’s (WEF’s) self proclaimed “Great Reset” is shaping the way governments around the world have responded to Covid-19. It sets the precedent for a “New Normal” where our Human Rights can be arbitrarily suspended for temporary or permanent states of emergency that […]
By Peter R. Quinones Barack Obama is currently on tour for his new book, “A Promised Land,’ and as you would expect the interviews are nothing but fluff in which they bring up “hard-hitting” questions about his “historic presidency.” Uncle Hotep mentioned on the Thanksgiving episode of “Hoteps […]
Contra MSNBC, Trump has actually been more hawkish on Russia than Obama. Initially, there were some neo-realists in the administration like Rex Tillerson that wanted some kind of rapprochement with Russia, but they were soon superseded by the neocons. Host of ‘Pushback with Aaron Maté’ on The Grayzone […]
By Keith Preston The statement below from a social media post illustrates a problem that many people have when it comes to understanding the Trump regime’s approach to foreign policy. I wonder if Greenwald and the rest of the “Trump’s not as bad” galaxy brains remember his “fire […]
HOLISTIC DELOUSING 101 In the back row, from left: Ted Turner, Bill Gates Sr., George Soros, David Rockefeller. At the risk of coming across as a monomaniac, I’d propose that investigating the connections between these 4 would shed a lot of light on the current, and worsening state […]
One of the assholes behind the original Persian Gulf War in 1991. New York Time’s Chief White House Correspondent, Peter Baker, discusses his new book “The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III.”
This isn’t a bad overview of the history of US imperialism, although this author obviously has a very limited, caricatured understanding of Carl Schmitt. By Daniel Bessner, Substack For most of US history, the majority of Americans considered it inconceivable that their nation would attempt to become militarily […]
The Democrats and Republicans are both uber-imperialists although the Democrats have a wider range of ruling class interests to accommodate. Krystal and Saagar talk about Max Boot’s comments about President-Elect Joe Biden’s cabinet picks and whether they really are the “A-Team.”
David Pakman must constantly ask himself: “How milquetoast can I be?” In this segment, Pakman comes out as a full-blown stooge for liberal imperialism with the usual progressive caveats about “holding Biden accountable” blah, blah, blah. Joe Biden will select Anthony Blinken as his Secretary of State, Jake […]
By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams With the upper ranks of President-elect Joe Biden’s foreign policy team beginning to take shape after new reporting indicated he plans to nominate long-time adviser Antony Blinken as secretary of state, progressives raised alarm over Blinken’s support for the disastrous 2003 U.S. invasion […]
The Democrats and Republicans of the Middle East. Whenever I get asked why I don’t vote, I always respond “Because I don’t care who wins.” Often, the questioner will come back with “Why not?” and I will respond with something like “Well, what’s your position on the rivalry […]
I don’t know about this Great Reset idea itself but most of what he is saying is obvious. Power is increasingly being transferred to international financial institutions, transnational federations, and multinational corporations, and away from traditional countries. Political, economic, military, cultural, technological, legal, and media power is being […]
Kudos to Katie Halper and Brianha Joy Gray for being willing to be on a program with Rania Khalek, who is hated by anarcho-MSNBCer Alexander Reid-Ross. Rania, Brie and Katie talk about how much Biden sucks and how much his transition team sucks.
Imagine that. It really is a shame that these lame ass progressives and social democrats, not too mention anti-“big government” conservatives, do not recognize that the warfare state, welfare state, therapeutic state, police state, and corporate state are interconnected with and mutually supportive of each other.
The Biden administration will expand imperialism though they may be less hawkish on Iran because they will be less immediately in thrall to Israel and Saudi Arabia. But they are more directly in thrall to the arms merchants.
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 […]
By Elise Swan, The Intercept President-elect Joe Biden has maintained silence for years on the controversial and continued use of so-called targeted killings — lethal strikes by drones, cruise missiles, and occasionally military special operations raids. Biden has never publicly disavowed or criticized former President Barack Obama’s legacy […]
A genuine “multi-order world order” would probably look a lot like the world between 1500 and 1800 before the full consolidation of modern imperialism. Not any kind of anarchistic golden age to be sure, but one where there were distinctive civilizations and cultures with their own spheres of […]
I consider the most serious issue that currently faces humanity to be the ongoing concentration of power on an unprecedented level: political, economic, military, technological, cultural, medical, scientific, communicational, and legal, with the environment being the wild card in all of this. Anyone with libertarian values of any […]
By Fatima Arif The international system may be described as a complex system of social, scientific, political, military and technological systems. This dynamic structure is very difficult to evaluate and it is even more difficult to predict its future. The distribution of power potential in the international system […]
By Abdul Rasool Syed “Make America great again” – a slogan that formed the nucleus of Trump’s electoral campaign vividly suggests that America is no more a great country. It is, in fact, an implicit admission that U.S is gradually losing its clout in international politics and hence, […]
The full range of opinion among the ruling class and its functionaries is that the empire must never cede an inch. And 99% of Americans either agree or are indifferent as evidenced by the total rejection of Tulsi Gabbard by the Democrapic Party. Unipolarity will have to be […]
Trump’s worst flaw is his total subservience to Israel and Saudi Arabia and his wink and a nod to Turkey have been his worst flaws. Trump’s Iran policy seems to be mostly about pandering to the hawks while stopping short of actual war.
Trump seems to be working the hawks and doves against each other by claiming he wants to withdraw from Afghanistan while escalating hostilities against Iran. The former is popular with the isolationists and libertarians and the latter is popular with the neocons and Christian Zionists.
The system wants a Roman-style imperium. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to Mitch McConnell’s announcement that President Trump will issue an Executive Order to withdraw troops from Afghanistan.
The CEO of Mass Murder, Inc. Press TV Former US President Barack Obama has attempted to defend the unlawful use of assassination drones in his latest book. In an excerpt from the book, A Promised Land, published in the Sunday Times ahead of its release on Tuesday, Obama said the evolving face of warfare meant […]
The end of American unilateral hegemony will not be merely a return to the multi-polar order of the liberal era prior to the two world wars. Nor will it be the kind of multi-partner system envisioned by the liberal internationalists or the multicultural “global community” envisioned by the […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The news broke like a fever last Monday night. A deal had been signed by Armenia and Azerbaijan to end the bloody month long war in Nagorno-Karabakh which had claimed the lives of thousands on both sides. This […]
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston and Logos to discuss the near-total collapse of the anti-war movement. This is the Jason Unruhe video I referenced in this. This more or less explains why there is no constituency for anti-imperialism in the US,
By Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò Might we be witnessing but not heeding a historical moment that years hence, we wouldlookbackandretrospectivelychristenthetwilightofAmericanimperialism? DonaldTrumpstarted a trend the very first year of his presidency of withdrawing or threatening to withdraw from sundry international agreements that previous administrations had negotiated and signed on behalf of […]
This is a somewhat interesting analysis from a left-communist/an-com/Bordigist perspective. Listen here.
A ruling class unity regime is now in power without the distraction of Trump as a chaos agent. I’m sure Bill Kristol is overjoyed.
Caleb Maupin on the rising ruling class that is becoming dominant among the US power elite.
By Sarah Lazare, In These Times In July 2019, while campaigning for the Democratic nomination for president, Joe Biden declared in a foreign policy speech, “It’s past time to end the Forever Wars, which have cost us untold blood and treasure.” But the president-elect — who as vice president oversaw wars […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Well, you’ll be happy to know that the next US president and his crack team of ventriloquists are assembling a cabinet of mass murderers that’s as diverse, inclusive and intersectional as America herself. It’s been obvious for a long time that Joe Biden’s cabinet would […]
By Aryeh Botwinick,TELOS From a Machiavellian perspective, peace is war by other means. You can have a much greater watchful vigilance of your former (or future) opponent in times of peace than in a time of war. Israel as a sponsor (or co-sponsor) of a kind of Middle […]
There will be no “coup.” The ruling class and the global power elite of which it is a part have clearly spoken. Kissinger represents the very upper levels of the ruling class and is intricately connected to power elites in other nations and on an international level. His […]
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 […]
Trump’s biggest mistake may have been not to carry out a Saddam Hussein-like blood purge of these characters. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss how the term “endless wars” is being used in some places as political sloganeering rather than as a serious critique of continued U.S. involvement […]
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 […]
Their five years of pretend Trumpism aside, it’s obvious FOX can’t wait to be rid of Trump. The last thing the right-wing of the ruling class wants is a head of state that even mildly fakes isolationist/non-interventionist or anti-neoliberal views on foreign policy and economics, thereby popularizing and […]
One of the (predictably) neglected aspects of Trumpist foreign policy is the fact that Trump has farmed out the Syrian War to Erdogan. This is has been done for multiple reasons. First, it is a means of escalating the war against the Iranian-led Axis of Resistance as part […]
The bulk of the world system explained very nicely in a single Wikipedia entry. Is it merely a coincidence that the “cultural Marxist” revolution happened at the same time as the ascendence of the transnational capitalist class? Far too many Western radicals do not understand the degree to […]
By Alex Prichard Anarchist practice is localist and anarchist theory has generally followed in itsdisregard for the structures of global politics and the ways in which these underminethe possibility of the anarchist ideals. In this paper I set out one set of reasons as to why this state of […]
By Greg Shupak, The Nation This summer, Dave Calhoun, CEO of Boeing—builder of the intercontinental ballistic missile—declared himself cheerfully indifferent to the presidential election. “I think both candidates, at least in my view, appear globally oriented and interested in the defense of our country and I believe they’ll […]
By Murtaza Hussain, The Intercept In late January 2017, just weeks after Donald Trump was sworn in as commander-in-chief, U.S. troops carried out a raid in the southwestern Yemeni village of al-Ghayil that marked the start of his presidency with bloodshed. The raid, led by dozens of U.S. […]
By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange The global coronavirus pandemic has accelerated several troubling trends already in force. Among them are exponential debt growth, rising dependency on government, and scaled-up central bank interventions into markets and the economy. Central bankers now appear poised to embark on their biggest […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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