The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Empire: Issues Large Enough to Make Mindwar Cost Effective The Mindwar Chronicles, Part 3 MATHEW CRAWFORD The Mindwar Chronicles articles are organized  here . The RTE Locals community is  here . Years ago, in what seems like a past life at this point, I worked for the largest stock option trading firm at the Chicago Board of Options Exchange. One of the senior staff was world backgammon champion (1998) Howard Ring. His playing group was the strongest in the world, and included at least two other world champions. Howard had a reputation as an exceptional gambler and gamesman. Once in a while he would sit down at the poker table that sat in the corner of the office where young traders and trainers would practice the art of reading opponents and making rapid decisions. When he did, he was more interested in radiating his skill than whatever he might win in a pot. But he would never play in a way that the probabilities, to his understanding, did not dictate as optimal. One...

  Is Gaza genocide being used to push fake “multipolar world” as a “solution”? Catte Black This  comment  by a reader calling himself “Théophile Gautier” appeared on OffG last week. We find the take interesting and worthy of discussion (our emphasis) “I see more people now saying the point is division and distraction and I agree and it’s gratifying to see people waking to new realities.  However I think it may be even one step more cynical and diabolical. I believe from what I see that  we may soon witness a “flip of the script”. I believe Israel may soon be dropped by everyone but the so-called “alt right” who will elect to go down with her ship. I believe the majority of the media will fall behind the so-called “silent majority” of ordinary people and  begin more and more to condemn Israel. Eventually the politicians will “reluctantly” follow suit, Israel will be condemned in the UN and there will be promises of punishment, war crime trials etc. I believe...