Who destroyed American education? In a recent article, “The Zionist Destruction of American Higher Education,” Ron Unz blames it on the Jews. https://www.unz.com/runz/the-zionist-destruction-of-american-higher-education/ Clearly they had a hand in it, but was it intentional or a product of intellectual ideas German Jewish Cultural Marxists brought to the US in the 1930s?…
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Is Racial Discrimination Illegal or Not?
Is racial discrimination in hiring legal? The Civil Rights Act of 1964 says no. You can’t “refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual” based on “race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.” And yet, 61 years later,…
Essential Violence
In 19th century America, it was popular to argue that there are four boxes for maintaining political liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and cartridge. There is also a version that has just three boxes, which drops the jury box from the model. The soap box is public speech used to…
The Global Trade Game: Jokers Are Wild
Okay, players: jokers are wild, but with a twist: the entire deck is jokers. Since everyone at the table will have five Aces, nobody wins.Welcome to the Trade War Poker Table: nobody wins, as everyone has the same hand of jokers.This is not to say that exploitive, mercantilist “free trade” (no…
Prophets, Nomads, and a Fourth Turning Accelerating Towards a Bloody Climax
“In retrospect, the spark might seem as ominous as a financial crash, as ordinary as a national election, or as trivial as a Tea Party. The catalyst will unfold according to a basic Crisis dynamic that underlies all of these scenarios: An initial spark will trigger a chain reaction…
Transactional Weakness Tips the Balance of Power
A U.S. economic ‘re-balancing’ is coming. Putin is right. The post-WWII economic order ‘is gone’ The post-WWII geo-political outcome effectively determined the post-war global economic structure. Both are now undergoing huge change. What remains stuck fast however, is the general (Western) weltanschauung that everything must ‘change’ only for it…
Suicide of Europe Watch: Germany to Station 5,000 Troops in Lithuania as Latest Escalation Against ‘Russian Threat’
Unifier of Germany and its first Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck once famously said: “The great questions of our time will not be settled by resolutions and by majority votes […] but by blood and iron.” Ever since the days of the ‘Iron Chancellor’, and especially after World War 2, German…
No Peace
After a flurry of peace talks in Saudi Arabia, the Trump peace initiative regarding the war in Ukraine seems to have run out of steam. The last round of talks stalled over the conditions required to create a Black Sea ceasefire. The Russians laid out the conditions they would…
USAID and the Architecture of Perception
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has long portrayed itself as America’s humanitarian aid organization, delivering assistance to developing nations. With an annual budget of nearly $40 billion and operations in over 100 countries, it represents one of the largest foreign aid institutions in the world. But…
Reflections on the Counter-Revolution in America
When Donald Trump entered office, he faced a number of choices that had confronted the last three Republican presidents, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush. They all had the choice to either shrink government and reduce deficits or slow government growth while cutting taxes. They had the…