Via TBP “The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, […]
by Pepe Escobar FLORENCE – It’s a dazzling Tuscan winter morning, and I am inside the legendary Dominican church of Santa Maria Novella, founded in the early 13th century and finally consecrated in 1420, in a very […]
by Michael Someone needs to call Jack Bauer, because it appears that we definitely could use him right about now. Our “new” golden era of “peace and safety” has been very rudely interrupted by the “old” […]
by David Stockman If there was ever a moment that laid bare the utter stupidity and futility of Washington’s Empire First policy it surely emerged in the smoking ruins of Syria. The latter was the desultory […]
by Michael All over America, our core urban areas are teeming with tent cities, hordes of homeless drug addicts, and vast throngs of newly arrived migrants that don’t have anywhere to go. When I wrote about […]
by W. James Antle III President-elect Donald Trump has a real opportunity to reshape American foreign policy, beyond what he did in his first term. He has already expanded the discourse on the subject among Republicans […]
by Jim Kunstler “A core reflex in these decades of postmodern insanity was constant rejection of things we thought we knew in favor of New, Improved Beliefs packaged from above.” — Matt Taibbi, Racket News I would […]
by Michael We have come to accept that we are permanently trapped in an endless cycle of debt and money creation. But the only reason why debt and money grow at an exponential rate is because […]
by Timofey Bordachev Western Europe is falling behind rapidly, but its elites appear to be in denial Only a few years ago, most of Western Europe seemed like a fortress of stability in international politics. With […]
by Rob Branson Introduction. I wrote this article after a hot July 2024 trip down the Southern half of the Great River Road Scenic Byway, having done the Northern trek a year earlier (it’s better). […]
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