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Meet J. P. Morgan, Bankster-in-Chief

If you had met him as a boy, you might not have expected John Pierpont Morgan to amount to much. He was a sickly child, for starters, constantly beset by rashes, headaches, rheumatism, scarlet fever and a panoply of other ailments. What's more, growing up in the...

The Revolt of the Pawns

In early 1980, as the diplomatic fallout from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan began to play itself out on the grand chessboard, then-US President Jimmy Carter sent his National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, to Pakistan to rally the mujahideen fighters...

Your Guide to the Grand Chessboard’s Pawns

The observation that the great geopolitical struggle between nations is akin to a grand game of chess is hardly a novel one. After all, Khosrau II, the ancient Sasanian king, saw the connection over 1,400 years ago: "If a ruler does not understand chess, how can he...

August Open Thread (2022)

It's the first weekend of August, so you know the drill . . . . . . unless you're new to the site, in which case you might not know the drill! This is the monthly open thread for members to discuss whatever might be on their mind, any stray or off-topic thought, any...

Technocracy is Insane, Anti-Human and it WILL Fail

It's almost impossible to browse the news anymore without giving up all hope for the future of humanity. We're all going to be fed into the maw of the technocratic slave system and have our fingers broken by our new chess-playing robot overlords and there's nothing we...

We’re All Sri Lankan Farmers Now

Last week I wrote about how "We're All Dutch Farmers Now." As you'll recall from that editorial, there is a battle taking place right now between farmers in the Netherlands and the technocrats in their government who are seeking to put them out of work and close up...

The Media Matrix

Media. It surrounds us. We live our lives in it and through it. We structure our lives around it. But it wasn't always this way. So how did we get here? And where is the media technology that increasingly governs our lives taking us? This is the story of The Media...

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