The On-Going Decline of the US Empire

The very public on-going meltdown in Washington DC around President Trump is symptomatic of something more serious for the future of the Republic. The modern US has often been called an “Empire” like the Roman Empire, which rose and then declined and fell. This comparison is far from perfect, but at least in form Washington now reminds of late Rome. As Edward Gibbon wrote in The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire: “In the dissolute days of the empire, every sense of honor and virtue had been lost in the general profligacy of manners.”

US Foreign Policy Is Like a Mafia Racket

It’s time to call a spade a spade. Australian independent Journalist Caitlin johnstone recently wrote an important truth:

"The US empire is responsible for most of our world’s problems. It says so much about the strength of the imperial propaganda machine that this isn’t more obvious to more people."

Because of this propaganda that Western audiences have been subjected to for so long, here is a reminder of numbers that speak for themselves:

"America has been in 19 wars since World War II, but we will list the death toll from three of the bloodiest conflicts: The Korean War, The Vietnam War and wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. The total death toll of people killed by American troops in all these wars put together is over 12 million."

The Forces of Centralization and the Struggle for Freedom

The concept of centralization is generally seen as a consequence of certain political decisions or as the cause of certain societal structures. But the centralization and its opposite, decentralization, can also be interpreted as opposing historical processes that should be taken into account in the long struggle for liberty.

Forces of Centralization

Centralization is a historical process that is “centripetal” in nature; it is the totality of forces in society that move economic wealth and political power towards one or a few centers. This process should be thought of not only in the geographical but also organizational sense. Indeed, as means of communication improve, centralization may even conceivably be mainly institutional.

The EU Wants to Use War as an Excuse for More Debt

The European political and financial elite knows that the war in Ukraine is lost but wants to use it as an opportunity to reach strategy independence from the United States. As the future chancellor of Germany Friedrich Merz said right after his electoral win on Feb 23rd: “It will be an absolute priority for me to strengthen Europe as soon as possible so much that it gradually really achieves independence from the United States.”

The US is Being Pulled, Kicking and Screaming, into the Multipolar World

It must be repeated; momentous political changes are taking place in the world. As Lenin is said to have said, “there are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” Not since the years 1944-1946 and 1989-1991 has the world been going through a more significant geopolitical shift: the multipolar world is being now hesitatingly adopted by the United States, but clearly against its will.

Indeed, the Trump foreign policy, as mad as it may seem to some, has method in it, in the sense that the new administration acts as it does because US power is declining in relation to others. Specifically with regard to the watershed crisis now - the conflict in Ukraine - it has become obvious that the West cannot win and that the war is already decided in favor of Russia. Trump has understood this and accepted it. As VP J.D. Vance wrote on X, “President Trump is dealing with reality, which means dealing with facts.”

The US is "Agreement-Incapable"

In view of what will probably be a year of negotiations - attempted at least - between the United Stated and Russia over the fate of Ukraine and Europe, it is worth remembering that the Americans political leadership is considered today by the Russians as not capable of making agreements.

The Russians have a long but useful word for the incapability of sticking to agreement : “недоговороспособность”, i.e. agreement-incapable. This trait may become a liability for the United States, in possible upcoming negotiation with Russia regarding Ukraine and Europe’s security architecture. It is well known that the Russians’ approach to international relations is “trust but verify” (доверяй, но проверяй). But how is that possible when a duplicitous and false Uncle Sam simply cannot be trusted?

How the USA Became So Dysfunctional, Oligarchic and Corrupt

Why has the United States’ government become so politically dysfunctional? How can it be that the nation founded on John Locke's principles of liberty and Montesquieu’s concept of separation of powers, today has such a corrupt and oligarchic federal government ? This article will attempt to answer these questions.

The Suffering Beyond Our Horizon

It must be said bluntly – a genocide has been going on in Palestine. Already destitute lives are destroyed by bombs. Innocent children are getting their short lives brutally ended, while wailing women are blown to pieces with tears in their eyes. There is currently no peace and no hope for the Palestinian people.

Yet, in the West we live on as if this reality didn’t exist. We were taught “Never again”, but “Never again is now”.

Real Democracy Can Only Be Freedom

With the advent of representative democracy over a century ago in most of the West, the popular belief was that the “rule of the few” would be relegated to the dustbin of History. This never happened of course, as has become clearer to the “many” over the decades. Indeed, the ruling Western oligarchy has become more visible than before, too brazen in its attempts to ram through its globalist agenda on the world.

The illusion of representative democracy has also been fading as social and economic conditions in the West worsen.

The Limits to Public Opinion and the Failure of Democracy

It is not so often admitted, but it is nevertheless the case, that the people can never be successfully represented politically. However, public opinion influences politics, at times even strongly. In all political systems, the ruling minority must take into account, to varying degrees, the public mood as expressed in town halls, polls, elections, demonstrations, and now, social media.

Why Democracy Has Such Staying Power

As has often been noted, « majority rule » in the political sense does not exist in the way it is presented by the dominant institutions of Western so-called “democracies”. The Western public’s resistance to criticism of democracy is therefore remarkable. 

The staying power of representative democracy in the West can be explained as follows. 

Smashing the Western Illusion of Democracy

In these politically turbulent times, the ”illusion of democracy is fading worldwide” as one pundit wrote recently. There is a growing sense, in the West, that democracy is not working well, but there is not yet a full and clear recognition of that fact.

Michel Maffesoli, honorary professor at the Sorbonne in Paris, has been saying already for several years, that “the end of the democratic ideal is manifesting itself”. Signs of this can be seen in the problematic elections that have taken place in his native France and other Western countries.