Category: Empire and Decline

Not This Time: Why the Global South Refused to Play Its Assigned Role in Washington’s War Against Russia

Washington Weaponized the Dollar, Validated Every Colonial Grievance, and Built the Multipolar World It Feared

Buzzkill America: The Republic Nobody Kept

A Fourth of July Meditation on Hegemony Lost, Rentiers, and the Harder World Waiting on the Other Side

Hey World: Give Peace a Chance

The Neocons, Atlanticists, and the Military-Industrial Complex Turned Ukraine Into a Demographic Catastrophe and Called It Democracy

The G7’s Relevance Problem: How Russia, China, India, and South Korea See the Club They’re Not In

Russia, China, India, and South Korea see a G7 whose shrinking GDP share and closed membership no longer match global power or demographics.

American Empire in Ruins: The Unprovoked, Unconstitutional, and Catastrophic US-Israeli War on Iran

A political and geopolitical indictment from the perspective of international law, historical conscience, and geopolitical fact.

What American Media Won’t Tell You About the Iran War and the End of the American Century in Asia

A deep dive into a remarkable conversation between Warwick Powell and Glenn Diesen, and why its insights are nowhere to be found on cable news.

Why Russia’s Future Looks Less Precarious Than Washington’s

A polemic on media capture, imperial overreach, and the per-capita math the West cannot afford its citizens to do.

The West on Trial: Five Charges Against a Failing Empire

Von der Leyen, Stoltenberg, Pompeo and the Atlantic Council invoke law and history while accelerating an order that blockades itself.

How the Tehran and Delhi Settlements Expose a Petrodollar Already Gone, Gone, Gone, Taking the Bellicose American Empire With It.

Tehran and Delhi settlements expose payment systems built outside the dollar, as sanctions, war premiums, and bond markets erode U.S. leverage.

Trump’s Iran War, China Trip and the Vanishing Empire

Trump’s China visit with technology oligarchs turned an intended display of U.S. strength into evidence of a captured state and fraying hegemony.