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The Next 30 Years of American Politics 3
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The Next 30 Years of American Politics
October 13, 2013
Keith Preston discusses how American political culture will likely develop over the next few decades.
Topics include:
- Why the American Empire will continue to implode due to loss of legitimacy and fiscal constraints.
- Why American society will become more diverse and integrated than ever before due to demographic change.
- How more and more previously marginalized social groups will begin to demand recognition.
- Why the Republican Party has no future.
- How the war on drugs and the prison-industrial have leveled off and started to gradually recede.
- How the Right will shrink in size but develop a more militant and oppositional stance over time.
- How the Left will become more fractured and divided as its various constituent groups come into conflict with each other.
- How Political Correctness and the nanny state will continue to grow and then level off.
- The cyclical nature of American partisan politics and periods of repression.
- Why social rebellion of the kind that occurred in the early 20th century will reappear in the United States in the decades ahead.
- How anti-state movements are growing and working their way into the mainstream and must ultimately strive to replace the current center-left establishment.
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Is Red State America Seceding? Reply
In the last decade of the 20th century, as the Soviet Empire disintegrated so, too, did that prison house of nations, the USSR.
Out of the decomposing carcass came Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Moldova, all in Europe; Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Caucasus; and Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan in Central Asia.
Transnistria then broke free of Moldova, and Abkhazia and South Ossetia fought free of Georgia.
Yugoslavia dissolved far more violently into the nations of Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Macedonia and Kosovo.
The Slovaks seceded from Czechoslovakia. Yet a Europe that plunged straight to war after the last breakup of Czechoslovakia in 1938 and 1939 this time only yawned. Let them go, all agreed.
The spirit of secession, the desire of peoples to sever ties to nations to which they have belonged for generations, sometimes for centuries, and to seek out their own kind, is a spreading phenomenon.
NBC/WSJ Poll: GOP Approval Rating At All Time Low 1
AP Photo / Harry Hamburg
Just 24 percent of Americans have a positive opinion of the Republican party, according to a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released Thursday.
The survey reflects a record low in approval for the GOP for NBC/WSJ poll, which dates back to 1989.
The tea party is giving anarchism a bad name 1
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OPINION |
In a recent impassioned speech, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren used the word “anarchy” repeatedly to describe the tea party’s role in the ongoing government shutdown. So did Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who said on the Senate floor that “anarchists have taken over.”
If only that were true.
California’s Model for 21st Century American Feudalism 1
California has been the source of much innovation, from agribusiness and oil to fashion and the digital world. Historically much richer than the rest of the country, it was also the birthplace, along with Levittown, of the mass-produced suburb, freeways, much of our modern entrepreneurial culture, and of course mass entertainment. For most of a century, for both better and worse, California has defined progress, not only for America but for the world.
Why Golden Dawn is the only Anti-Fascist Party in Greece 1
Excellent article by Greg Palast. I agree with every word.
On September 18, hip-hop artist Pavlos Fyssas, a.k.a. Killah P, was stabbed outside a bar in Keratsini, Greece. Larry Summers has an air-tight alibi. But I don’t believe it. Larry didn’t hold the knife: The confessed killer is some twisted member of Golden Dawn, a political party made up of skin-head freaks, anti-immigrant fear-mongers, anti-Muslim/ anti-Semitic/ anti-Albanian sociopaths and ultra-patriot fruitcakes. Think of it as the Tea Party goes Greek.
Libertarian Populism vs Totalitarian Humanism: The Battle for the 21st Century 2
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Libertarian Populism vs Totalitarian Humanism: The Battle for the 21st Century
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Keith Preston discusses the dynamics of political conflict as it will unfold over the coming century.
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2.3 Million Americans Rot in Prison — Meet the Corporations Exploiting Them for Profit 1
“Global Tel* Link. You have a collect call from: ‘Tim.’ An inmate in Shelby County Correctional Facility…. If you wish to accept and pay for this call, dial zero now.”
I don’t know how many times I heard the same robotic voice speak these words since last fall. I was researching the story of Timothy McKinney, a Memphis man facing his third death-penalty trial for the killing of an off-duty police officer in 1997. Tim would call from Shelby County Jail, to answer my questions and to do what anyone facing trial would want to do: air concerns about his case, vent. Sometimes he would call multiple times a week. Because the phone calls were limited to fifteen minutes at a time, a couple of times he hung up and called right back, so we could keep talking.
Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapatista Movement: Land, Nationhood, and Autonomy Reply
By Jamie O’Hara and Craig Fitzgerald
This essay is included in the recently released NATIONAL-ANARCHISM: HEROES AND VILLAINS, edited by Troy Southgate and available from Black Front Press.
By Jamie O’Hara and Craig FitzGerald
In order for decentralized autonomy to flourish, independent communities must be internally cohesive. This tribal unity is the essence of nationalism, and indigenous groups have lived in accordance with the principle for millennia. However, people who are products of a globalized corporate state easily misunderstand this organic nationalism and therefore attack it. But this comes from the confusion of nations with states. The distinction between these two entities cannot be emphasized enough. Ward Churchill successfully expresses this difference, and the indigenous perspective within which he contextualizes his point only elucidates things further:
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U.S. Senator: “We Are Not a Country of Anarchists” 2
We Are Not a Country of Anarchists
By Elizabeth Warren, Reader Supported News
04 October 13
f you watch the anarchist tirades coming from extremist Republicans in the House, you’d think they believe that the government that governs best is a government that doesn’t exist at all.
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The True State of the U.S. Economy Reply
“Slumping asset prices show a recession is probably on its way. … Stocks tend to fall more frequently and further than property values, so they are better recession-predictors.” – IMF research paper by economists John C. Bluedorn, Joerg Decressin and Marco E. Terrones.
The fact that stock prices have been drifting lower, doesn’t prove that the economy is headed for recession. Nor does political dysfunction (government shutdown), droopy home sales, plunging confidence, chronic high unemployment, rising levels of extreme poverty, unprecedented public dependence of food stamps, weak personal consumption, stagnant wages, falling middle class incomes, or gaping inequality. They may show a country that is on the wrong track and has its priorities mixed-up, but they don’t show that another recession is immanent. Even so, it’s easy to wonder how bad things have to get before the economy more closely reflects the mood of the country which is relentlessly pessimistic. To say that no one believes in Obama’s recovery would be a gross understatement. Obama supporters feel duped, misled, and despondent. Obama is not the agent of change they’d hoped for. He’s expanded the wars, slashed vital safety net programs, exonerated Wall Street criminals, and continued the vicious attack on civil liberties. He’s done everything in his power to boost the profits of the big corporations and banks, but hasn’t lifted a finger to help ordinary working people. More…
Leopold Kohr: The first anarcho-pluralist/pan-secessionist? Reply
Illustration by Andrzej Krauze
Living through a collapse is a curious experience. Perhaps the most curious part is that nobody wants to admit it’s a collapse. The results of half a century of debt-fuelled “growth” are becoming impossible to convincingly deny, but even as economies and certainties crumble, our appointed leaders bravely hold the line. No one wants to be the first to say the dam is cracked beyond repair.