I hate it when people talk about the “American Experiment.” Experiments can fail, and I don’t like the idea of living in a test tube. No one ever talks about the Chinese experiment, or the French experiment, although the French have actually done a lot of experimenting. During the…
The results for the second round of the Chilean presidential election are in, and, to no one’s surprise, the victor is the right-wing candidate José Antonio Kast. Kast was the overwhelming favorite going into the second round, having prevailed over Evelyn Matthei and Johannes Kaiser in the contest to…
My old friend, Sy Hersh, is out with a new piece on Substack that reveals a staggering ignorance and delusional thinking on the part of Steven Witkoff, Jared Kushner and other advisors in the Trump administration. Sy is a reporter… He records what his sources tell him; he does not…
As the EU moves to crush protesting farmers demonstrating in Brussels, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán offered full backing to the farmers and their efforts to stop the EU’s Mercosur free trade deal, which threatens to destroy food security in Europe. “Farmers are 100 percent right,” said Orbán, who…
Thanks to decades of misreporting, unproven conspiracy theories about Jeffrey Epstein are the one thing uniting both camps of American politics. In expectation of a release of documents pertaining to the Jeffrey Epstein case, reporter Michael Tracey and I are putting out first entries in a series, dealing with…
The new National Security Strategy document is not a pivot from Empire; it does, nonetheless, conclude that the means to domination requires a ‘Trump corollary to the Monroe Doctrine’. In his speech in Riyadh in May, President Trump set out his rationale to his transactional mode of policy formulation…
And why movies are the way they are. I often read complaints about the failure of Hollywood to bring the life of Richard the Lionheart or Scanderbeg or Godfrey of Bouillon to the screen in a blockbuster epic.1 It certainly sounds like a grand idea—but always be careful what…
There is a civil war in Europe. It has already begun. The only power of support to EU are the globalists in US who succeeded until now to contend with the MAGA reforms of Trump. The rise of European Revolution: the farmers, Gillette Jauns, the populists (mostly right sometimes…
They don’t like it. It doesn’t like them right back. Why? Why? WHY? cry the usual suspects. Patriarchy! Sexism! Evil Patriarchal Capitalist Sexism! Corporations must do more! Bloomberg reported last week that the inclusion of women in the C-suite had stalled this past year, and so did that ghastly predatory outfit…
A rebalancing of the economy and society will ultimately prove very positive, but first we must navigate the model collapse of insane financial extremes. I’ve endeavored to explain how self-referential models veer into hallucinations that are accepted as accurate reflections of the real world. Models are by definition synthetic abstractions…
