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"But by the 1970s, the great proprietors had gotten tired of this arrangement. The generation with direct adult experience of how destabilized societies can explode into a worldwide slaughterhouse was retiring and dying."

America’s privileged technocrats are not ready for what’s about to happen to them.

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The best we can hope for is the U.S. and North Korea eventually come to an accord, and the Trump show is canceled before we stumble into nuclear war.

"The world is incredibly lucky that Trump has spun 180 degrees and spent the last year becoming bosom friends with Kim. Why he decided to do this is unknown; perhaps it’s just the natural instinct of a showman who believes that each new season of TV needs a shocking twist. What we do know is that Trump is extremely dangerous and has surrounded himself with people more dangerous still. The best we can hope for is that the U.S. and North Korea just keep talking and come to an agreement — again, almost any agreement — and this reality series is canceled before humanity stumbles into nuclear war."

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@tinyrevololution Who else besides Trump has made their son-in-law a top deputy? Well, there's Castro, Saddam Hussein, and Mussolini interc.pt/2jmEOlV

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“It's always disturbing how politics turns people into itty-bitty children who cannot bear hearing about reality.”

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On his podcast “Off Leash,” Erik Prince said the U.S. should “put the imperial hat back on” and take over and directly run huge swaths of th

Erik Prince has been many things in his 54 years on Earth: the wealthy heir to an auto supply company; a Navy SEAL; the founder of the mercenary firm Blackwater, which conducted a notorious 2007 massacre in the middle of Baghdad; the brother of Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump’s secretary of education; a shadow adviser to Trump; and the plaintiff in a lawsuit against The Intercept. Last November, Prince started a podcast called “Off Leash," which in its promotional copy says he “brings a unique and invaluable perspective to today’s increasingly volatile world.” On an episode last Tuesday, his unique and invaluable perspective turned out to be that the U.S. should “put the imperial hat back on” and take over and directly run huge swaths of the globe.

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Anyway here's another moderately in depth but very accessible text on the common thread between settler colonialism, genocide, NSDAP and today's Israeli crimes against humanity.

People across the globe are particularly appalled by Israel’s violence because it is a manifestation and symbol of European colonialism, plausibly the most terrifying and destructive ideology in human history. This is a difficult concept for most Americans and Europeans, especially the white ones, to get their minds around. To start with, there’s been an effort in the higher-toned areas of the U.S. media to deny that Israel has much to do with European colonialism in the first place. This is an extremely peculiar denial of reality and can be ignored. The founders of Zionism and Israel, from Theodor Herzl to Ze’ev Jabotinsky to David Ben-Gurion, stated clearly that they were engaged in settler colonialism. This is a specific form of colonialism in which settlers migrate to a territory and attempt to permanently take over the land from its present occupants. For instance: the United States of America. Everyone has to face this: The question of Israel is the question of whether European colonialism can make peace with the rest of the world without obliterating it.

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The fact that European Jewry were the greatest victims of the racism that was central to this worldview, which Zionism adopted, is one of the most bizarre twists of human history.

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However, history is not foreordained. It is still possible to imagine a future in which the Israeli version of European colonialism reconciles itself to living with the rest of humanity. That in turn could show the path toward other badly needed reconciliations across the world.

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“What the Debt Limit Fight is Actually All About” by Jon Schwarz writing for The Intercept.

Mr. Schwarz presents a summation of much of what I’ve read over these last 5+ years concerning the political economy of the United States: “It’s not about debt at all. It’s about turning back the political clock 100 years.”

Echoing what Kurt Andersen, Nancy MacLean and others have gone into depth about, Mr. Schwarz puts it this way:

“IT’S HARD TO believe I’m typing these words, but there’s a genuine chance Congress may fail to pass an increase in the debt limit...it almost certainly would be deeply unpleasant, with huge job losses, unpredictable bits of the economy imploding...

I’ve always believed that it would be impossible for it to actually happen, because the Republican Party’s funders on Wall Street and in corporate America understood how much damage it would do...However [reasonable GOP donors have] far less power than billionaires who are as glued to Fox News as the party’s rank-and-file are. And these billionaires are suffering from the same cognitive impairment Fox causes all of its devotees...

And this brain-damaged community has a coherent worldview: that for the survival of America, they must destroy the “administrative state” — aka the New Deal, aka everything people like about the federal government, such as Social Security or regulations that stop chemical companies from dumping poison in your drinking water. Meanwhile, normal Americans have no idea the right has this planned, or even what those words mean.” [emphasis added]

The goal, Mr. Schwarz and others have written, of the neoliberals is to turn the political economic-clock back 100+ years: before Franklin and Theodore Roosevelt (for example) helped usher in notions that the federal government should, in fact, optimize politics and the economy for the citizenry--but instead should get out of the way of business and “the 1%” and allow wealth to flow unrestrained to the very top.

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Also see: Kurt Andersen on Evil Geniuses

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