The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Psychos in Charge of Sinking USS America 2.0 Only the blackest of hearts need apply Donald Jeffries The old line about “truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne” comes to mind regularly now, as I observe the dying throes of the American Republic. It’s probably fitting that we’ve closed most of the mental institutions, since the entire country has largely devolved into the largest insane asylum the world has ever seen. Now, I understand that, being mere peasants and all, we don’t have the pleasure of seeing who our  real  rulers are. So I can only assess the leaders we  can  see, and they are the most pathetic lot imaginable. Not only is America 2.0 the antithesis of a meritocracy, we have accomplished the very difficult feat of elevating the wrong people into the wrong jobs in all the wrong places. There is no bright spot in this decaying civilization, not even a single small district somewhere, with decent and honorable people in charge. Not...

  War with Iran: The Outcome is Predictable—but It Remains to be Seen just How Deep the Blood Will be Through Which the World Will Be Wading. by  Peter Haenseler   The consequences of the war with Iran will break Western hegemony and place significant resources and power into the hands of the Global South much more quickly than would have been the case under peaceful scenarios. Trump is merely deciding how deeply the world will be drenched in blood along the way. President Trump is wading through the bloodbath he has caused. Introduction It is truly staggering to realize that the Western media still have not recognized that this war against Iran—which Israel and the United States are waging in a manner that defies every legal and moral standard—is already lost, and that the consequences are already written in bold letters on the wall: Western hegemony is a thing of the past; the fate of the EU and NATO hangs by a thread; West Asia will have new masters; and Iran, as one o...