The Post-Partisan Emporium

Latin America On Edge As Venezuela's Maduro Holds Referendum Whether To Invade Oil-Rich Neighbor Guyana   In a move that has prompted many to wonder which is the bigger banana republic, Venezuela or the US, Joe Biden's new BFF, Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro ( who has promised to export a few barrels of oil to the US president - now that draining the SPR is no longer an option - to keep gas prices low ahead of the 2024 presidential election in exchange for sanction relaxation and defacto recognition by the White House that Maduro is   the   dictatorially   "democratically" elected president of Venezuela, making a mockery of a decade of Western virtue-signaling sanctions) , on Sunday   Caracas is set to hold a referendum among Venezuelans on annexing (i.e., invading and taking over) a whopping 160,000 sq km of extremely oil-rich land in neighbouring Guyana. Why now? Why   only now   when Caracas has for more than 200 years claimed rights over Essequ...

  Shane McGowan: The Intimate Outsider In tribute to the incomparable Shane McGowan, who has died, I present this chapter from my 2010 book 'Feckers: 50 People Who Fecked Up Ireland.' Shane was one such, though not for any usual reason. JOHN WATERS Shane McGowan, ‘Fecker!’ The last thing any of us had imagined was that the leaden, desperate ejaculations of our drunken uncles might be turned into gold. Perhaps nobody, in all the history of traffic between  the two islands controversially known as ‘the British Isles’, has done as much to make the native Irish feel inadequate as a shambling songster called Shane McGowan. With his band, The Pogues, McGowan, a young London-Irishman claiming connections to County Tipperary, did something with Irish music that was unforgiveable. In fairness, McGowan did his best to camouflage himself in a way that would undersell his arrival, and avoid provoking the congenital ire and resentment of the native. His gap-tooth grin and incoherent speech...

  Hamas is a Figment of Your Imagination What is Hamas? Fuck if you know. Yes, it’s true. Hamas is a figment of your imagination. I understand that your impulse is to ask about decapitated babies and mass rape and bearded men hiding in the treetops, but it will do no good. Those are also figments of your imagination. Now, I don’t necessarily blame you for these fever dreams. Hamas is all you hear about from aggrieved Zionists and corporate media (two groups with no meaningful distinction). Of course you’re fixated on Hamas. That’s the point. The fixation stops you from thinking about everything else. (“Everything else” includes wholesale slaughter of civilians, shelling of schools and hospitals, arrest and murder of medical personnel, chemical warfare, ethnic cleansing, homicidal rhetoric, forced starvation, and systematic dehumanization. In short, a genocide.) I’m not here to explain what Hamas is or how Hamas operates. I can tell you that it is in fact real even as it is ...

  Rothschild Wants Merger Between Corporations, Governments And AI To “Save Capitalism” By Brandon Smith If you’re not familiar with a little organization called the “Council For Inclusive Capitalism,” don’t worry, most people have never heard of it. The group was formed at the height of the covid pandemic; as fear instilled by government officials and the media propagated the news feeds, the majority of the public was rather distracted. The CIC is essentially everything that conspiracy theorists have been warning about for years packaged into a single Orwellian entity, complete with dramatic piano music and a mask of humanitarian philanthropy. The basic root function of the council is to centralize most or all major corporations (corporations with global influence) and join them with governments into a network that places ideology over profit motive. Some people might argue that corporations need to adopt a shared value system instead of simply roaming around like sharks devouring...