United States will either devolve into civil war or secession by the year 2030, saysSimplicius the thinker

 Seems a bit far fetched to me.On secession and civil war. The are also predictions by Peter Turchin and others.

The World Doesn’t Work That Way Anymore

From Alaistar Crooke Excerpt:

“ The Anglo-American approach is premised on the basis that the ultimate measure of a society is its level of consumption. In the long run however, List argued, a society's well-being and its overall wealth are determined not by what the society can buy, but by what it can make (i.e. value arising from a real, self-sufficient economy). The German school argued that emphasizing consumption would eventually be self-defeating; it would bias the system away from wealth creation, and ultimately make it impossible to consume as much, or to employ so many.

List was prescient. This is the flaw so clearly now exposed in the Anglo model: the original failing now aggravated by massive financialization -- a process that has led to the building of an inverted pyramid of derivative financial ‘products’ which has sucked the oxygen from the manufacture of real output.  Self-reliance erodes, and a shrinking base of real wealth creation supports ever-smaller numbers in adequately-paid employment.”

Yeltsin first meeting with Putin

 When we met for the first time, why did Putin conquer Yeltsin? "This man must go to Moscow!"

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 Supreme EUCOM Commander Gives Eye-Opening

A brief review of ‘Underground Empire’

 Farrell and Newman are experts in their field, but this book will fail to convince many readers.

I think that is what we have been seeing in the recent conflicts.

A review of a book by Cory Doctorow

“Red Team Blues” and the As-You-Know-Bob problem

Yalavarthi Nayudamma

 

The above in Telugu. Here is one Englsh https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/reso/019/10/0887-0899

I saw him oncevon the main road of Pedapulivarru. He already was well known in those parts.

Conversation with Alastair Crooke

 

Biden announces re-election bid

 

Update in indo-Russian relations from Bhadrakumar

 Pivotal moment in India-Russia relations

A discussion of lack of political parties in Europe with Václav Klaus

 

S.Janaki about her career

 She is now 85.

Craig Roberts on Ukraine, a different view from Scott Ritter

 

The collapse of antiquity, anew book by Michael Hudson

 Danny Haiphong and Michael Hudson Discuss The Collapse of Antiquity, the Bank Panic,

Next China?

 

Neocons seem to have given up on Ukraine, tried a bit in Sudan but the main goal seems to be to tame China.

Update from Simplicius the thinker

 He expects that the Ukraine war may go on until 2030.

SITREP 4/18/23: Dark Clouds Roll In, As Things Heat Up

How do planes fly?

 No One Can Explain Why Planes Stay in the Air

Debt of poor countries

How China Is Breaking The Colonial Effects Of Western LendingBased on this discussion Of Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson

Russia-India Strategic Partnership w/ Ambassador Venkatesh Varma, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen

 

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