So it’s been ten years since I started writing these essays. I don’t know how many I’ve written at this point, probably over two hundred. I’m not going to count. I started out publishing them on my blog, Consent Factory, and submitting them to CounterPunch back in 2016. Since then, they’ve been published (with and… Read More Situation Report
Chalk another one up for the ethno-nationalists! That’s right, as I’m sure you’ve heard by now, the Alternativ für Deutschland party (AfD) won an election last Sunday in Saxony-Anhalt, one of Germany’s sixteen federal states. They won it convincingly, overwhelmingly, despite (or maybe due to) the fact that the establishment parties have been maintaining a… Read More The Enemy of My Enemy
So I was going to write a column about a recent column Chris Hedges wrote about Delaney Hall, a private prison in New Jersey, operated by The GEO Group, Inc. under contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a subsidiary department of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which is currently being operated as a… Read More The Enemy Within
OK, here’s the first chapter of Strangers in a Strange Homeland, the USA road-trip book, which will be published by Arcade Publishing later this year, hopefully. I don’t usually publish drafts of work in progress, but, as my regular readers know, I’ve been more or less totally out of commission for the last four months… Read More The Map is Not the Territory
Has America been made great again enough for you yet? I asked that question back in May of last year in a column titled The Godzilla Window. It didn’t go over very well at the time, at least not with my conservative readers. Here are a couple excerpts … Personally, I don’t know how much… Read More The Golden Age of America Made Great Again
There are 33,334 of you. Probably even more by the time you read this. I do not ask much of you. I do not ask often. But I need to ask something of you now. I need to ask you to buy my novel. But, first, I want to say a few things about capitalism.… Read More Dear Substack Subscribers
And so the global-capitalist empire’s destabilization and restructuring of the Middle East continues. Yes, I’m referring to Israel’s “preemptive attack” on the Islamic Republic of Iran, or “World War III,” or whatever the establishment media and social media influencers are trying to get you to call it at the moment. You’ll forgive me if I… Read More World War III and Other Simulacra
I miss the old-school neo-Nazis. You know, the skinheads with the swastika tattoos and the big Nazi flags on the walls of their living rooms. The Aryan Brotherhood-type neo-Nazis. You don’t get neo-Nazis like that anymore. These days, it’s all about the crypto-fascism. Are you not familiar with crypto-fascism? All right, let me bring you… Read More Crypto-Fascism, Inc.
Has America been made great again enough for you yet? Personally, I don’t know how much more greatness I can handle. I mean, you got the Salvadoran gulag thing, the crackdown on free speech thing, the threats to suspend constitutional rights because of the latest “state of emergency” (i.e., the “invasion” of America by squads… Read More The Godzilla Window
One of the most effective thought-terminating clichés is “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” It is particularly effective because it works on both people who are, let’s say, not extraordinarily intelligent, and on more intelligent people, people who you wouldn’t expect to fall for such simplistic tricks. It is especially effective in hyper-polarized… Read More The Enemy of My Enemy
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