The Western world has slowly been forced to realize that the old cornerstones of society are no longer a given. Liberal market economy, representative democracy and the shift of influence away from citizens up to a global and unreachable level makes for a drop in confidence.
The Paris-based bureaucracy, the OECD, just released a new publication as part of its so-called “Bridging the Gap” project. Their new report reads as if it was taken from the campaign speeches of Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn, proposing more taxes and more spending for the American economy.
It is no mistake that culture is becoming increasingly fragmented and imitative at the same time that the most authoritative pundits are obsessing over our fractured and partisan public life.
There is something off about this center-left tendency. Commentators are driven to wild apoplexy by Trump, but not for the reasons I would normally cite. They seem to object to the very existence of Trump, his every utterance, his actions no matter what they are, and everything related to this new administration. It finally struck me why.
In the twenty-first century, as capitalism enters an epoch of unprecedented crisis, it is time to reconsider the Marxist theory of proletarian revolution. More precisely, it is time to critically reconsider it, to determine if it has to be revised in order to speak more directly to our own time and our own struggles. It was, after all, conceived in the mid-nineteenth century, in a political and social context very different from the present. Given the 160-year span from then to now, one might expect it to require a bit of updating.
When the gullible and insouciant American public and the presstitutes who participate in the deceptions permitted the Deep State to get away with the fairy tale that a few Saudi Arabians under the direction of Osama bin Laden, but without the support of any government or intelligence agency, were able to outwit the entirety of the Western Alliance and Israel’s Mossad and deliver the greatest humiliation in history to “the world’s only superpower” by making the entirety of the US government dysfunctional on September 11, 2001, Washington learned that it could get away with anything, any ille
God help us should we ever face a situation in our own lives when we need to act in the interest of human rights and in the same way – or need others to act on our behalf. This is why films like The Zookeeper’s Wife exist: the point the way to heroic actions and inspire the same in us.
The title of this post is a sentence from Matt Ridley's recent speech at the Association for Private Enterprise Education in Maui, Hawaii. The statement is a good reminder that the most destructive and murderous actions in history were carried out by governments. Government use of force against ethnic groups is far more effective than private use of force against these same groups.
In this lecture we come to the Catholic version of Tragedy and Hope the overlooked geopolitical tome of Malachi Martin, Keys of This Blood: John Paul II Versus Russia and the West for Control of the New World Order. Almost as revelatory as Dr. Quigley’s magnum opus, this angle looks at the Vatican’s role in 20th century geopolitics and its infiltration by Satanic and Masonic Groups.
