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Sep 22 2025 
Slices of Life, #11
I can’t think of any country more disunited. So appropriately, it’s ruled or at least fronted by a master divider. The self-adoring psycho is enjoying every second.
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
MAGA Situation Report — Sep 08, 2025.
First off, I want to thank Ling Ding Dong for allowing me to come on here… Continue reading
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Sep 19 2025 
Slices of Life, #10
it’s all about sticking it to your political enemy even as your nation is imploded and you go bankrupt. Over a century of professional sports has conditioned the American mind for such fanaticism.
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
Images of America’s Golden Age — Sep 06, 2025.
The Smithsonian or any other major museum should… Continue reading
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Sep 17 2025 
Slices of Life, #9
I never thought I’d hobble into that sunset so limp.
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
Nuisances and Genociders’ Last Gasp — Sep 02, 2025.
In South Korea, American Ramsey Khalid Ismael, better known as Johnny Somali, has been stuck for a year, awaiting his conviction, after committing a series of crimes, including playing obscene audios near… Continue reading
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Sep 15 2025 
Slices of orange Kirks
musings on the ritual sacrifice of Captain Kirk … “.. rest now, Brother. We have the Watch and I’ll see you in Valhalla.”
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
World Leader in Political Violence — Sep 11, 2025.
On 9/5/25, so six days before he was shot, Charlie Kirk was the star speaker at Build Up Korea… Continue reading
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Sep 04 2025 
Slices of Life, #8
To the unseasoned or ignorant, image is everything. Trump’s grotesque media performances, though, will be cited as a turning point in how the USA is perceived.
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
Big Beautiful Faces — Aug 30, 2025.
In the New York Times on 9/11/23, there’s a photo of Joe Biden, standing with his head bowed, looking solemn.… Continue reading
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Sep 03 2025 
Slices of Life, #7
A long barefoot walk also helped. To recover your sanity, perhaps you should do the same each day?
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
Incontinent Cartoons Dying Unseen — Aug 27, 2025.
Straggling home, I stopped to buy ten eggs, five tomatoes and four cucumbers for $2.09. I could have bought them for even less, but I’m… Continue reading
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Jul 23 2025 
AI is the New Empire
Exploring the dystopian technofeudalism at heart of the western A.I. race
The unnamed book EMPIRE OF AI is mine, based on 300+ interviews, 7 yrs covering AI, & my time as the first reporter who got extensive access to OpenAI. I sought OpenAI’s perspective throughout. For months they said it was coming. It never did. Pre-order:… Continue reading
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Jun 28 2025 
The United States Cannot Defeat Iran
Those whose calculus of a US/Iran war assumes overwhelming American air superiority will abruptly find the parameters of their equations altered.
By William Schryver at imetatronink.
How soon people have forgotten that, earlier this year, the US dispatched two carrier strike groups and a half-dozen B-2s (and other USAF assets) to disarm the Yemeni and open the… Continue reading
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May 01 2025 
Pepe with Judge Napolitano
Thanks to Tariffs, China Ditching US Tech. Napolitano interviews geopolitician Pepe Escobar, April 30th, 2025.
“… in this wilderness of narrative mirrors, Trump should be perceived as all characters combined: the White Rabbit, Humpty Dumpty (“When I use a word, it means what I choose to mean, no more and no less”), the Mad Hatter, the… Continue reading
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Apr 25 2025 
China, Hong Kong and The Art of Blinking
Captain Chaos definitely does not have the cards – which as even South Pacific penguins know, are all made in China.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
SHANGHAI and HONG KONG – So, predictably, Captain Chaos did blink first. As much as he – and his sprawling media circus – could not possibly admit it.
It all… Continue reading
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Mar 14 2025 
Putin peels off the Masks of the Ceasefire Kabuki
Putin will never sacrifice Russia’s “indivisibility of security” demands posed to Washington in December 2021 – and met with a no-response response.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
The “ceasefire” announced with trademark bombast by Team Trump 2.0 should be seen as a tawdry kabuki inside a cheap matryoshka.
As we peel off the successive masks,… Continue reading
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Oct 04 2024 
They lie. They cheat. They steal. They bomb. And they spin
The Talmudic psychos not only obsessed on breathing fire against the Axis of Resistance but now also going after Russian national interests.
By Pepe Escobar at Strategic Culture Foundation.
A case could be made that Iran’s Ballistic Retaliation Night, a measured response to Israel’s serial provocations, is less consequential when it comes to the efficacy of the… Continue reading
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Sep 10 2024 
The War against Reality: Soft Power and Owning Narratives – a Western Obsession
And whoever ends up “owning the narrative” – a new trendy trope – is “the winner”… a winner who has attained a position of omnipotence…
By Nora Hoppe at Al Mayadeen.
In recent years “narratives” have become more sophisticated, devious… and compulsorily spurious, especially in the service of the Hegemon, to uphold its political, economic and especially… Continue reading
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