The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The Mechanism: How the “order” Based on Made-Up Rules Is Descending Into Savagery PEPE ESCOBAR   The Europeans will never be able to replicate the time-tested Hegemon money laundering machine The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats tho’ unseen amongst us, -visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep from flower to flower.- Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower, It visits with inconstant glance Each human heart and countenance; Like hues and harmonies of evening,- Like clouds in starlight widely spread,- Like memory of music fled,- Like aught that for its grace may be Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery. Shelley,  Hymn to Intellectual Beauty As the de facto North Atlantic Terror Organization  celebrates its 75th birthday , taking Lord Ismay’s motto to ever soaring heights (“keep the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down”), that thick slab of Norwegian wood posing as Secretary-General came up with a merry “initiativ

 Such naivety...   And he did it!

  Harvesting Discontent: The Global Farmer’s Revolt  An agricultural revolution, farmers uprising worldwide, seeking to seed change… Kristian James 21st Century Wire When the ancestors of modern humans began to observe the cycles of plants, understanding the rhythm of the environment, and started utilizing the seed to plant the next crop. This knowledge solidified the formation of the beginning of agriculture. The end of roaming and hunting for food, the decision to gather together, and to prepare and wait for the success of good crops. Thus, farming developed as a skill integral to the development of all worldwide societies, defined by thousands of years of learned cultivation under the belts of countless generations, the ability to feed yourself and grow abundance, and also the ability to sell and trade. This is the very basis and crux of the world economy.  As we enter 2024, the year of the Dragon, Earth’s population has surpassed 8 billion, and the vital role of farming in sustaini

  Poland and the Demon in Democracy Liberal authoritarianism’s tusks have been bared across the West N.S. LYONS “Democracy has won” in Poland following the election of a new government in October – or at least so  declared  the country’s new prime minister, Donald Tusk. The former top European Union official’s party only won 30% of the vote compared to the 36% of his incumbent conservative, EU-skeptical rivals, the Law and Justice (PiS) party, but was nonetheless able to assemble a coalition of leftists to take power. Since entering office, Tusk has moved quickly to prove his particular commitment to “democracy.” Which is to say that, in a particularly striking example of what all of us can now increasingly anticipate whenever “democracy” wins elections in the West these days, he immediately began trampling the constitution in order to jail his political opponents. First, on January 9, he  dispatched police  to storm the presidential palace and arrest two opposition lawmakers seeking r