The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance…In principle, the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its […]
The USA is a dying imperial power: corrupt to the core, hollowed-out, lacking a soul and empty within. We are a brutal, overbearing nation filled with violent, desperate, shamelessly ignorant people. The Enlightenment (c.1680-1780) brought some hope of redemption to society following the Dark Ages. Applying the concept of humanism, philosophers recognized our innate capacity […]
The Bayeux Tapestry is one of the supreme achievements of Norman culture. Indeed, it is a monument to all of Western Civilization. The fact that it has survived nearly intact over nine centuries is nothing short of miraculous. Its exceptional length, the vibrancy of its colors, its exquisite workmanship, and the genius of its creation […]
President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 marked a turning point in US foreign policy away from peace and collaboration with the Soviet Union on nuclear disarmament and cooperation in outer space – and toward escalation of US involvement in Vietnam, the Cold War and ultimately, perpetual war. Who sought this? Cuba? Certainly not. JFK […]
Espionage, counterintelligence, and covert action are essential components in the military arsenal of every great civilization. This was especially true for the United States and the former Soviet Union during the Cold War. The need for high-quality intelligence on the enemy’s capabilities was even more critical back then. Effective counterintelligence operations have played a pivotal […]
In Federalist Paper #30, Alexander Hamilton argues that the new American government must possess unrestrained power to impose taxes to support all the basic functions of that government – particularly the power to raise and supply an army or militia. He mentions building fleets and paying debts, but most of his examples deal with the […]
Historians have argued that New Journalism “degenerated” into Yellow Journalism because the lofty, idealistic goals of New Journalism were quickly subsumed into sensationalistic pabulum as newspapers tried to out-do each other for advertising revenue. With so much competition between the newspapers, stories were over-dramatized and altered to correspond to ideas that publishers and editors thought […]
The USA was one of the world’s greatest mass social experiments; the only country to come into existence as a fully-fledged democracy, “By the People, for the People.” America was the land of the free, home of the brave; a beacon of hope for the rest of the world, blah, blah, blah… Sadly, America isn’t […]
The US century of American economic and political hegemony is collapsing right before our very eyes. Like so many of history’s past empires, petty idiocies and hubris appear to be accelerating this inevitable decline. The real winner in all this chaos is China. Xi Jinping only has to follow Napoleon’s famous advice: “Never interfere with […]
Former president Jimmy Carter recently died at the ripe old age of 100. Proof that only the good DON’T die young… He was the last truly good man to be President of the United States. Carter was only denied a second term due to the treasonous intrigues and machinations of a virtual parallel government run […]
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