I’m indebted to bevin. Below my September 11 post on a former Swiss colonel, he alerted me to the likelihood that the Black Hole of Calcutta – its iconic status in that weighty leger of tales from the British Raj … Read More »
Over the decades since Reagan and Thatcher, Western economies have come to be dominated by finance, insurance and real estate (FIRE) sectors which, though highly profitable, create little new value. Rather these sectors, misleadingly counted as adding to GDP, recycle … Read More »
It’s coming from the silence on the dock of the bay From the brave, the bold, the battered heart of Chevrolet Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. Leonard Cohen Those who wrote trade deals to profit from unemployment and underemployment … Read More »
Everybody knows Vladimir Putin is a bad guy, easily comparable to Hitler. Likewise Bashar al-Assad, Kim Jong-un, Nicolás Maduro and pretty much all the leading lights in China’s CCP. These are things known, at a conservative estimate, to a couple … Read More »
Still from the Sophoclean drama, Oedipus the King, snapped on its opening night in Athens, 429 BC Amazing as it may seem, U.S. strategists did not anticipate the obvious response by countries finding themselves together in the crosshairs of US/NATO … Read More »
I just spent ten minutes watching a conversation, on a Youtube clip entitled “The Absurdity of Socialism”, between Dave Rubin and Jordan Peterson. Here it is: I’m going to assume, out of kindness and a degree of respect for Mr … Read More »
Modern imperialism, as distinct from direct rule colonialism, is defined by the export of monopoly capital from global north to global south, and repatriation of profits from south to north. This later form of exploitation came to prominence in the … Read More »
One nation is circling the planet with hundreds of military bases, continually working to destroy any nation who disobeys it, and has spent the 21st century killing people by the millions. It isn’t Russia. It isn’t China. You have to … Read More »
In a recent post – Who am I? (And why write?) – I put out as incontrovertible facts that: The single most salient aspect of Planet Guardian is that empire is invisible to its columnists and core readership alike. On … Read More »
As threatened sixteen days ago, I’ve resumed meditation – as a daily practice – after a gap of close to two decades. I sit for an hour each morning, very early, and let my thoughts – all with a greater … Read More »
