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Slavery and Collective Guilt

Much has been said about the role of slavery in the history of the United States, and while that history cannot be recounted in a brief article, it is important to clarify some of the ethical principles underpinning the institution of slavery in light of contemporary debates about reparations for slavery. A number of states have expressed an intention to pay slavery reparations. For example, the New York Times reports that,

Almost 200 years after slavery officially ended in New York, the City Co...

How Democrats Propelled the Rise of Donald Trump

It’s long been observed that the opposite of love is not indifference, but hate. I thought of this yesterday when someone sent me an essay titled I Hate Hate, by fellow Substack author Elliot Kirschner. What seems to have triggered Mr. Kirschner to write his essay were bad jokes told by Tony Hinchcliffe—one of thirty speakers at a recent Trump rally in Madison Square Garden. To be sure, Hinchcliffe’s joke about Puerto Rico wasn’t funny, and the comedian’s participation in the rally strikes me as...

Netanyahu’s ‘Imaginary War Narrative’ Strategy: ‘If It Works, Fine; if Not, No Big Deal. We’ll Try Something Else’

Of course, a victory narrative was too valuable to be foregone. Yet nonetheless, unexplained events matter.

On Saturday, an Israeli force of some 100 aircraft attacked Iran from a stand-off position in Iraq, some 70 kilometres outside the Iranian border.

A Wall Street Journal author, Walter Russell Meade, Distinguished Fellow at the Hudson Institute, wrote: “Israeli warplanes didn’t only cripple Iran’s air-defence systems and inflict painful blows on its missile-producing facilities. They also s...

Escape from Psychopathocracy

You thought Halloween was over, but somehow the horror show won’t stop, and it’s not so much fun anymore. Those oversized ghouls, werewolves, and dead souls you erected in the front yard, like shrines to wickedness, represent something truly roiling and moiling around the zeitgeist of this troubled land: the ruling Party of Chaos. Look at what they have done to you and what they are still doing. Hoaxing you, sucking the life-blood out of you, and lying about everything. Wrecking the country.

Why...

Will America Survive the 2024 Election Tomorrow?

The election is upon us.  It is an important election, because the result will determine whether America as we knew it will continue to exist.  

Trump represents America.  Kamala represents the forces attempting to overthrow America.  In the last few days leading Democrats, such as Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, have said that the First Amendment is in the way of their ability to impose their agendas on the American people and that censorship of truth is essential to their rule.  Democrat Law s...

The Mainstream Western Worldview Pretends the Global South Does Not Exist

Mainstream western politics and culture pretend the rest of the world does not exist. The mainstream western worldview shrinks the earth down to US-aligned countries and acts as though the billions of people who live in the global south do not share a planet with us.

You really see this illustrated in US presidential election season, when debates will feature five or six minutes on “foreign policy” with the remaining two hours dedicated to “domestic policy” and culture war wedge issues despite t...

The Election…

Don’t mean to bombard you with the obvious, but here goes. Re the American Prez election tomorrow.

The voters for Harris and her goofy running-mate will not actually be voting for them. They will be voting for the Democrat establishment, for the status quo. It will be a continuation of the maladministration of Joe Biden and Barack Obama.

In domestic affairs, a Harris win will mean more “woke” propaganda and open borders, obsession with abortion and “democracy” etcetera. Bromides and platitudes. ...

Post-Election Truths: The Things That Won’t Change (No Matter Who Wins)

“If voting could ever really change anything, it’d be illegal.”— Thorne, Land of the Blind (2006)

After months of handwringing and mud-slinging and fear-mongering, the votes have finally been cast and the outcome has been decided: the Deep State has won.

Despite the billions spent to create the illusion of choice culminating in the reassurance ritual of voting for Donald Trump or Kamala Harris, when it comes to most of the big issues that keep us in bondage to authoritarian overlords, not much w...

US Elections 2024: The Mechanism of Fraud

The Presidential Election System

1) The two major Republican and Democrat parties choose their presidential candidate through primary elections held in 50 states. They are organised in various ways from state to state.  In some states, candidates are selected through secret ballots, in other states through open meetings, called caucuses.  In some states, only registered members of the party that organises the caucus may participate in the caucus, in others, non-members of the party or members of...

The Racial Roots of China’s Rise

Challenging Nine Nobel Laureates in Economics

Although the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was not one of the awards originally established by Alfred Nobel, most of the world’s population and media treat it as such, with that impression strengthened because it is announced around the same time.

Just as with the Nobel Prizes in Physics or Medicine, the award in Economics is often shared between two or three recipients, and a couple of weeks ago the 2024 honors fell to Daron Acemoglu, Si...