Peter Heather and John Rapley’s Why Empires Fall: Rome, America, and the Future of the West takes on a topic that has fascinated the western imagination at least since Edward Gibbon published his magnum opus, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.[1] Why Empires Fall is not just about the fall of the Roman... Source| H-Diplo|RJISSF
Republished from the Radio War Nerd subscriber newsletter. Subscribe to the Radio War Nerd podcast hosted by Gary Brecher & Mark Ames for podcasts, newsletters and more! It’s a full-time job, keeping track of the US/NATO campaign to start a fire somewhere on China’s borders. It’s...| THE EXILED – MANKIND'S ONLY ALTERNATIVE
I was recently part of an online discussion that asked this question. People were talking about industry, democracy, civil society, world leadership, you name it. But nobody was asking the obvious question: when, in fact, will the sun set on the United States? Yes, I’m going there. As we all know, the continental United […]| Crooked Timber
The kerfuffle about the statistics lady sacking reminds me: Trump is not very smart. He has a genius in some areas – his tweets are works of art – but overall he’s unread, incurious, and unwilling to consider advice. Details wash off him like water from a duck’s back. To take the stats lady: on […]| SovietMen
La Première Guerre Mondiale est un moment crucial quant à l’immigration en France dans la première moitié du XXème siècle. Parmi les migrants, nombreux viennent des colonies françaises, et sont […] L’article « Signalé comme suspect ». Un extrait du livre de Vincent Bollenot est apparu en premier sur CONTRETEMPS.| CONTRETEMPS
In “Delivered Out of Empire: Pivotal Moments in the Book of Exodus,” Walter Brueggemann shows how Exodus consistently reveals a God in radical solidarity with the powerless.| Word&Way
Growing up in Venezuela and now living in the United States, I’ve always felt caught between two independence days: July 4th and July 5th. Two celebrations. Two flags. Two very different ideas of what it means to be free. In the U.S., the Fourth of July comes with fireworks, parades, and an almost unquestioned belief| Dissident Voice | a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social j...
Bryshere Gray has been accused of violently attacking an associate who claims the actor needs mental health support.| AllHipHop
Regan Boychuk British, American, and Russian elites planned global domination through one great war a century ago, but it did not quite work out. Instead, today we approach a third world war to avoid democracy and the rational conservation of resources on a finite planet. It appears imperial monarchs were colluding in 1914 to vanquish […] The post Easy Money and Eugenics vs. Conservation and Democracy on the Roads to World Wars I+II+III appeared first on Capital As Power.| Capital As Power
I look at the rise and fall of the British and US empires, measured in terms of their share of world energy consumption.| Economics from the Top Down
Tucker Carlson is catching heat for hosting Darryl Cooper of the Martyr Made Podcast. I’ve enjoyed Cooper’s takes on Jim Jones, Jeffery Epstein, and Dostoyevsky, but never had the attention span to tackle his multi-day lectures on the American Labor Movement or Slavery. None of those Martyr Made podcasts have landed Carlson in trouble, rather […]| Truth and Tolerance
The era of American energy dominance is coming to an end. And Trumpocracy 2.0's efforts to revive it through imperial hubris will accelerate the decline - because alternative facts can't trump biophysical reality.| Age of Transformation
30 December 2024 | PDF: https://issforum.org/to/jrt16-20 | Website: rjissf.org | Twitter: @HDiplo Editor: Diane Labrosse Commissioning Editor: Joshua Shifrinson Production Editor: Christopher Ball Pre…| H-Diplo|RJISSF
The Empire of Man is the largest human nation in the Old World, though it is divided by internal strife and accosted by multiple enemies across it’s borders. Still, the […]| Sprues & Brews
Some super exciting stuff up for preorder next Saturday from 10am! Finally I can start that Empire army I’ve wanted since the launch of the Old World! As always you […]| Sprues & Brews
"How can we avoid thinking that this nation is a danger to the survival of humanity?" Read Franco "Bifo" Berardi's "The American Unconscious and the Disintegration of the Western World" on the CI blog. … Continue reading →| In the Moment
From the article: Are Tibetans Indigenous? The Political Stakes and Potentiality of the Translation of Indigeneity How does settler-colonial imperialism operate in Asia, and what are the ways in wh…| lhakardiaries.com
The functioning of a globe-spanning empire is seen as too important to be left in the hands of the voting public — so it isn’t. Nothing that is critical to the empire’s operation is ever on the ballot.| TheAltWorld
Locusta of Gaul was a shadowy figure in the early Roman Empire. Was she a serial killer? A victim, or a murderer of emperors? Who was Nero’s poisoner?| Historic Mysteries
When Caligula was assassinated in AD41 it was done to restore the Roman Republic. Why instead did we get Emperor Claudius, and centuries of a Roman Empire?| Historic Mysteries
In an interview with The Root, award-winning producer, director and screenplay writer Lee Daniels tells us more about his relationship with Mo’Nique.| The Root
The rise and fall of America in one generation. Mine| indi.ca
Too many people are still seduced by the power of Empire. They don't want it to fall, they want to use it for good.| indi.ca
America does not deserve to be called The Empire any more. It belongs in the junkyard of colossal failures. By Paul Edwards Americans grow up—if they do—being told every Presidential election is critical to the survival of democracy, so they must vote as if their future depended on it. This is both completely fatuous and […]| Information Clearing House.info
On 26 July 2023, thanks to a connection made by Heather Lomas, MCC Museum Collections Officer, I was invited to join a panel to debate museums, heritage and 'culture wars' at Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood, London.Cricket? Culture wars and museums? This post will make sense if you read to the end.| Curatorial Research Centre
There is a lot of confusion around what the world is. Is it an evil place that we must escape from? Is it a system…| Rival Nations
Romans 13 is the absolute favorite chapter of the Bible for all rich and powerful empires since the 4th century. It is the ‘gotcha’ proof-text…| Rival Nations
Decades of steady economic and social decay… at what point can we call this a failed system? Earlier this month I visited the UK to speak at the Better Way Conference in the beautiful city of…| I-System Trend Following
Throughout 2023, the yields on Italian 10-year Treasury Bonds have been trading at above 4%. Only last summer, they were 0.6%. When they began approaching 4% last December, the financial markets th…| I-System Trend Following