The Post-Partisan Emporium

India: The Next Front in the War on the BRICS   There is far more to the current multi-modal geopolitical war than just what’s happening in Ukraine. This conflict has led to a myriad of downstream effects and moves which are just as important as what the encirclement of Bakhmut means. For years the wildcard in the BRICS Alliance has been India. India’s rivalry with China as well as its complicated relationships with both Russia and the West have always served as wedge issues to drive the alliance apart. During the Trump years the “I” in BRICS, India, was slowly working its way under Prime Minister Narendra Modi back into the West’s orbit. It led to me thinking that that “I” had been replaced by Iran, especially pre-COVID-19. Today with the ascendence of Lula to the presidency in Brazil, the BRICS have, for now, lost the “B” in their alliance. So, with all of the talk about the BRICS coming into their own as a global economic and political force the situation is far from settled because

Tips on How to Start the Final World War By  L. Reichard White The bureaucrats in charge after WWII, fearing a return to the banker/government-caused  Great Depression , made a fatal decision. Since it had apparently finally gotten the U.S. out of that disaster, enshrined in  National Security Council Report 68  (NSC-68), signed by president  Harry S Truman  on September 30, 1950, they decided to continue using the manufacture of military materials to pump the economy. Ten years later, President and Five-star General  Dwight Eisenhower  caught a glimpse of the result and warned us like this – – – “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial -congressional  complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. “We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only