The Post-Partisan Emporium

Biden's Reckless Words Underscore the Dangers of the U.S.'s Use of Ukraine As a Proxy War As grave of a threat as deliberate war is, unintended escalation from miscommunication and misperception can be as bad. Biden is the perfect vessel for such risks. Glenn Greenwald Three long-range cruise missiles are launched from a Russian submarine in the Black Sea on Saturday, striking targets near the Ukrainian border with Poland, following President Biden's apparent declaration of regime change on Saturday (Credit: 7NEWS Melbourne, Twitter) The central question for Americans  from the start of the war in Ukraine was what role, if any, should the U.S. government play in that war? A necessarily related question: if the U.S. is going to involve itself in this war, what objectives should drive that involvement? Prior to the U.S.'s jumping directly into this war, those questions were never meaningfully considered. Instead, the emotions deliberately stoked by the relentless media at...

Springtime for GloboCap CJ Hopkins Warm up the Wagnerian orchestra and call in the goose-stepping chorus girls, because … yes, that’s right, it’s Springtime for GloboCap!  “The Winter of Severe Illness and Death”  is over! The big Black Sun is shining again! God’s in his heaven, all’s right with the world! OK, sure, the vast majority of humanity are suffering from post-traumatic stress, having been terrorized, gaslighted, threatened, bullied, and otherwise systematically mindfucked by their governments, the media, and “health authorities” on a daily basis for the past two years, and we’re all exhausted and at each other’s throats, and many of our businesses and incomes have been ruined, and inflation is spiraling out of control, and a lot of us are still being gratuitously demonized, segregated from society, banned from traveling, and forced to submit to invasive procedures and wear medically-pointless symbols of ideological conformity on our faces, so we’re not quite in the s...

The author goes with  "The Community Economy Needs Its Own Money"! The solutions will come not from those profiting from inequality and scarcity but from relocalizing "money" and production to create degrowth community economies. We think we understand "money"--we don't. We think the current versions of "money" are the final versions--they aren't. Understanding "money" requires some heavy-lifting, but it's important, so let's dig in. The most accurate description of "money" (in quotes because it's not what we think it is) is Art Berman's shorthand: Energy is the economy. Money is a call on energy, the capacity to do work. Debt is a lien on future energy. We think that creating more "money" can solve all problems. It can't. Creating more "money" only adds another crisis to the fundamental crisis, a scarcity of affordsable energy and resources. In my new book,...