by Chris Black And they don’t die without wars in which they try in vain to militarily secure their dominance. Make no mistake, the American empire has failed. Western capitalism has failed. Spectacularly. So badly that it has led to …
Via Sovereign Man On June 17, 1631, the 38-year old chief consort of Shah Jahan, head of the Mughal Empire, was giving birth to their 14th child in the central Indian city of Burhanpur. It had been a long and …
by Chris Black Afghanistan was not just a military defeat for Washington, but a cultural one as well. A 20 year occupation that did not change a single mind. Even collaborators were just doing it for money. 0 ideological conviction. …
by Charles Hugh-Smith When the state / empire loses the ability to recognize and solve core problems of security and fairness, it will be replaced by another arrangement that is more adaptable and adept at solving problems. From a systems …
Via International Man International Man: After almost 20 years, the US government announced it is officially leaving Afghanistan and is pulling its troops out of the country soon. What’s your take on this? Did the US government accomplish anything? Doug …
by Jeff Thomas via International Man “Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.” – Thomas Jefferson Histories are generally written by academics. They, …
by Martin Armstrong COMMENT: Marty: I was re-reading Herodotus and saw early in his book a reference to the rise and fall of civilizations pertinent to the concept of capital flows: Herodotus, Histories 1:5 “For many states that were once great …
by Charles Hugh-Smith There is a name for this institutionalized, commoditized fraud: moral decay. Moral decay is an interesting phenomenon: we spot it easily in our partisan-politics opponents and BAU (business as usual) government/private-sector dealings (are those $3,000 Pentagon hammers now $5,000 each …
by Charles Hugh-Smith The promises cannot be met, and so society decays into warring elites and competing constituencies. There is a grand, majestic tragedy in the inevitable collapse of once-thriving states and empires: it all seemed so permanent at its peak, …
by Thinker Reader r. writes and sends us: ===== Remember Hunter Biden appointed to Ukraine Government to set up Bogus Business well PAY to Play is even bigger with China. Government circles. New Book reveals entire Obama administration total corruption. …