The following three sets of international treaties for arms control, disarmament, the control of emerging technologies, and international security are absolutely essential to reverse the covert drive for war, even world war, that is taking place at every level in human society, that has accelerated over the last twenty years, …
Read More »Engineering a Crisis: How Political Theater Helps the Deep State Stay in Power
“The two ‘sides’ of mainstream politics are not fighting against one another, they’re only fighting against you. Their only job is to keep you clapping along with the two-handed puppet show as they rob you blind and tighten your chains while your gaze is fixed on the performance.”—Caitlin Johnstone A failed …
Read More »The Global South, Latin America, and the U.S. Interest
The idea of a “Global South” is quickly gaining purchase in America’s own backyard. The Russo-Ukrainian War and the Gaza-Israel conflict have brought an uneasy reawakening of the differing strategic interests of the “Global South” and “Global North.” Although the term “Global South” is an ill-defined, twenty-first-century conceptual re-imagining of the Cold …
Read More »In the US, Violence Has Always Been the Answer
From guns to militarism, the national religion is the religion of us vs. them. Every bullet fired into a crowd penetrates the national soul—or so it seems to me, as I continue to grapple emotionally with the Trump rally shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, which left one attendee …
Read More »The True Purpose of NATO Remains US Hegemony
NATO’s new focus on China harkens back to the belligerent alliance’s early days. At the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s 75th anniversary summit in Washington, DC, last week China was a big part of the agenda. The NATO summit’s final declaration mentioned the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) 14 times. It noted that …
Read More »American Democracy’s Theater of the Absurd
Since the end of the Cold War and the Clinton administration coming to power in 1992, the United States has undergone a systemic decay in its political body. Policies increasingly favor the interests of an oligarchic and powerful elite more often than not at the expense of the public. The …
Read More »The 2024 Election and the End of the American Century
It would be hard to get a more striking sense of just how deeply the century has aged than by watching two elderly men once again running for president in an American world that distinctly seems on the downhill slope. It’s not a happenstance or some sad mistake that, barring …
Read More »Three possible fates for the U.S. in a multipolar world
Preserving hegemony is no longer a possibility for Washington. Given the unstable situation in the U.S., it is worth analyzing the possible impacts of geopolitical changes on American foreign policy. Amid the elections and rising domestic social tensions, the future of the U.S. appears extremely uncertain – largely because American …
Read More »The USA is The Only Country Where There Are More Firearms Than People. Why Curbing Gun Violence Is Not Succeeding
The USA in the only country in the world where there are more firearms than people. 46% of all households have a firearm. This is the average. In some places this can be over 60%. About 48,000 people die in gun-violence in a year, the majority of this being suicide …
Read More »US WAR GAMES IN PACIFIC SEEK GLOBAL PARTICIPATION IN IMPERIALIST MANEUVERS
Hawaiian Activists Call On Nations Who Condemn The Genocide In Gaza To Withdraw From Rim Of The Pacific War Games. The games are organized by the US military and illegally hosted on Hawaiian land. Every two years, the Indo-Pacific Command Center of the United States convenes the largest maritime war …
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