WWI? That was just a bunch of German royal cousins staging a fight, wasn’t it? Join James for this in-depth edition of Questions For Corbett where he gets to the bottom of the royals’ role in the WWI conspiracy.
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Death Gods and the Attack on President Trump
Have the powers of gods of death been unleashed in our relatively peaceable nation?
I’m in a hip, storied, deep-blue Catskills town; I was having a restful little writer’s retreat on my own, in a miniature cottage overlooking a small …
Will Debt Sink the American Empire?
Will Debt Sink the American Empire?
So asks the Wall Street Journal, in an uncharacteristically gloomy article for the bull market’s paper of record.
They kick off with the problem: America is “cruising” into an uncharted sea of federal debt, …
Can Iran resist collapse?
While Russia and China remain the biggest threats to America and its Western allies, there is a third unfriendly power that Western leaders should remain watchful of: the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Like Russia and China, Iran is directed by …
A Historical View of Today’s Political Theater
A few weeks ago, we woke to various bloviating regarding last night’s first presidential debate. Depending on which side you hold, your preferred candidate won. They may have had a disappointing performance, but the other candidate is a liar. One …
A Historical View of Today’s Political Theater
A few weeks ago, we woke to various bloviating regarding last night’s first presidential debate. Depending on which side you hold, your preferred candidate won. They may have had a disappointing performance, but the other candidate is a liar. One …
Russia and Richard Cobden 1836
Russia and America each seem “called by a secret design of Providence to hold the destinies of half the world one day.”
The words are from 1835. They come at the end of the first volume of Democracy in America …
The Fraught Relationship between Science and Power
I would like to start a conversation on the relationship between science and power. By “science” I mean the field of study (trying to figure out how the world works) and the people doing the studying (scientists, and, in an …
The Political Imprisonment of Steve Bannon
On July 1, 2024, the US detained its most prominent political prisoner; its most obvious political prisoner probably since the incarceration of Japanese-Americans in World War 2.
On July 1, 2024, podcaster, entrepreneur, former Navy officer, and political advisor to …
The History We Make Today
After a discussion of Western bourgeois confidence in work, the present and the future, as well as Henry Ford’s disdain for history and tradition in favour of the present (‘the history we make today’), Zygmunt Bauman (Liquid Modernity, p. 132) …
The Pandemic Excuse for a Corporatist Coup
We’ve just come across a document hosted by the Department of Homeland Security, posted March 2023, but written in 2007, that amounts to a full-blown corporatist imposition on the US, abolishing anything remotely resembling the Bill of Rights and Constitutional …
The German conspiracists yearning for a king
“The socks and cars wouldn’t stink / Every morning, champagne I’d drink / I’d be slicker than Schmidt, and fatter than Strauß / And my records would sell out!” In 1987, West Berlin punk singer Rio Reiser sang these words …
G3P: Global Public-Private Partnerships and the UN
Basically, the government leaders are bribed by business leaders to co-sign and fund imaginary threats that create policies that benefit connected businesses. Essentially, monopolies or oligopolies are formed where economic rents are extracted from unsuspecting populations. The connected business leaders …
How Joe Biden should abdicate
In times of crisis, a certain sort of cynicism tends to set in: a citizenry’s belief that, despite feeling dissatisfied with the state of affairs or the leadership of the country, none of it actually matters. Because surely, those who …
Albania Triumphs over Hoxha’s Tyranny
This year a popular US travel company organized an unusual trip to hike in the Albanian Alps, which are locally known by the forbidding name: The Accursed Mountains. These limestone mountains rise steeply from the lowlands, and the views from the …