Forty days after the start of the war that was unlawfully imposed on the Islamic Republic of Iran, the unthinkable has happened. The United States has withdrawn without hesitation and Iran has declared a “historic victory,” thereby confirming its authority as a new world power. And the Epstein Empire,…
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The Biggest U.S. Defeat Since It Emerged as a Superpower
It’s not even close. The so-called ceasefire is already crumbling, but have no doubt: this is the biggest strategic defeat the US has suffered since it emerged as a superpower in 1945. It isn’t even close. The US and Israel went to war believing they could variously overthrow its…
Oracle and the Rise of the AI Surveillance State Under Trump
While Peter Thiel’s firm Palantir has rightfully gained the ire of the American public, Larry Ellison’s Oracle is also steadily becoming entangled with the US government—and that should worry all Americans. The month of March saw tech giant Oracle affirm its already tight relationship with the US government as it…
The Empire Backs Down, for Now
Trump has announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran after previously threatening to exterminate their “entire civilization”, citing “a 10 point proposal from Iran” as the reason for the climb-down. Trump and his cronies are spinning this as a colossal victory for the United States and framing Tehran’s 10-point plan as a major…
Israel Blows Up Lebanese Town of Naquora
Video footage reveals explosive charges exploding what appears to be the entire village. How does one justify laying explosive charges all over a town in southern Lebanon and detonating them at once, thereby destroying what appears to be the entire village? Naqoura was a coastal village on the border…
Why Might China Have Pressed Iran to Compromise With the U.S.?
The sequence that Trump threatened if no deal was reached before the expiry of his deadline would have cut China off from half of the oil that it imported by sea last year and likely set Afro-Eurasia aflame in resource wars for the indefinite future that would have derailed…
Barbaria Strategically Surrenders; Civilization Wins, for Now
This was always about Civilization. “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” History will register it with a gaze as pitiless as the Sun. An astonishing barbarian imprimatur, courtesy of the President of the United States, via a social media post. In a nutshell,…
Elon Musk’s Trillion Dollar Payday: What if Tesla Isn’t Really About Cars?
A speculative look at trillion-dollar incentives, robot soldiers, and the strangest email I ever received. Here’s something that has me scratching my head is disbelief. Tesla just announced an incentive package for Elon Musk worth a trillion dollars. You read that right. A trillion. With a T.
Our Post-Truth, Post-Trust World
That we inhabit a post-truth world seems to be accepted wisdom. But that’s only half of it. We also live in a post-trust world. In a post-truth world, everything is shaped by the implicit goals of the entity claiming to state the “truth,” as the entire point of claiming to state the “truth” is…
Trump Legitimacy Crisis Grows as Battered Gulf States Pull Back on U.S. Investment, Particularly AI
Most readers are likely up to date on the latest Trump cray-cray, but to make sure we are all on the same page, Trump is even more visibly losing his mind. I am providing it with the Marjorie Taylor Greene commentary. As we’ll discuss shortly, it shows that Trump’s…