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Imperial Decay: Trump’s Greenland and Canada Ambitions Hasten US Decline Like a Giant Red Star

January 22, 2026January 22, 2026

Imperial Decay: Is Trump’s Vision of America, Like a “Giant Red Star”? Late Stage Empire, Imperial Overreach Will Deplete, Not Revivify the USA What’s a Giant Red Star? I checked with Grok to confirm my understanding of what a Red Star Giant is: A red star giant is indeed a star in a late stage of its life cycle that has become very large due to expansion. Here’s a clear explanation of what’s happening: Stars like our Sun (low to intermediate mass, about 0.3–8 times the Sun’s mass) spend most of their lives on the “main sequence,” fusing hydrogen into helium in …

The War on Consciousness: Manufacturing Stupidity

January 25, 2026January 13, 2026

Updated from the original February 2024 article to January 25, 2026 Diplomacy for Dummies Recently, a stark example of the war on consciousness in the West was on full display: https://www.rt.com/russia/592298-polyansky-western-diplomacy-primitive/ Russians have had to dumb down their speeches at the UN so other countries can understand them, deputy representative Dmitry Polyansky has said I don’t know what media you consume for your news, but President Joe Biden, referred to President El-Sisi as the president of Mexico comes to mind. Mexico is on the US border. President El Sisi is the current leader of Egypt, which is what…5000 miles …

Trump Real Estate Geopolitics: Unpacking the One Important Factor in US Foreign Policy in Ukraine

December 31, 2025

Trump Real Estate Geopolitics Trump Real Estate Geopolitics is the core component of how he conducts diplomacy. https://ericarnow.substack.com/p/real-estate-geopolitics-and-the-ukraine?r=1iig8 My central argument is that American foreign policy, particularly regarding critical negotiations like those between the United States and Russia, is increasingly being conducted not by seasoned diplomats, but by real estate speculators. This isn’t just a recent phenomenon; it’s a thread that runs through American history. The Curious Case of Real Estate Diplomacy It’s astonishing to consider that negotiations between two global powers like the United States and Russia have been spearheaded by individuals primarily known for their real estate …

Continuity of Agenda Revisited: The Three Power Brokers Behind the Policies

November 24, 2025

Aaron Good’s Book, American Exception, Explains How Continuity of Agenda Works From the website: American Exception seeks to explain the breakdown of US democracy. In particular, how we can understand the uncanny continuity of American foreign policy, the breakdown of the rule of law, and the extreme concentration of wealth and power into an overworld of the corporate rich. To trace the evolution of the American state, the author takes a deep politics approach, shedding light on those political practices that are typically repressed in “mainstream” discourse. In its long history before World War II, the US had a deep political …

Continuity of Agenda: Unmasking The Real History of US Foreign Policy, War and Hegemony

November 15, 2025November 12, 2025

The Presidents of your country change, but the policy does not change–Vladimir Putin Continuity of Agenda Recently, I’ve been thinking about the work of Brian Berletic, whom I have followed for at least ten years. A former US Marine, he realized that his role as a Marine furthered US foreign policy goals which, if I understand him correctly, are based on hegemony over the entire world. He uses the term “Continuity of Agenda” to describe this. The Continuity of Agenda specifically describes the ongoing war against Russia, using Ukraine as a proxy. You can find his work at https://journal-neo.su/author/brian-berletic/ …

The Gaza Pseudo-Peace Plan Exposed: Trump’s Awful 20-Point Deal is a Colonial Sham for Palestinians

October 10, 2025

Introduction: A What Is Trump’s Gaza Pseudo Peace Plan? I want to talk about President Trumps’ so called ‘Gaza Peace Plan’—or, more accurately, the Gaza Pseudo-Peace Plan. There’s been a lot of confusion swirling around this, with news reports hailing it as a real breakthrough: prisoner and hostage exchanges, the first step toward resolving this terrible crisis. But after digging into articles and commentary from voices I trust, I see something far more sinister. Let me walk you through my thoughts, drawing from sources like Caitlin Johnstone and the World Socialist Web Site, without naming every specific outlet to keep …

The Key Ukraine War Origins: It All Started in the Minds of Western Leaders

October 6, 2025September 29, 2025

The Roots of the Ukraine War: It All Started in the Minds of Western Leaders The Ukraine conflict, and the Ukraine war origins, often portrayed as a response to Russian aggression, has deeper roots in the ideological and psychological framework of Western leadership. This essay explores how historical ambitions, economic missteps, and a refusal to acknowledge self-inflicted wounds have driven the crisis, aligning with Oswald Spengler’s 1921 prophecy in The Decline of the West, where he foresaw the West’s decline despite its apparent power. Early Symptoms: Energy Disputes and Economic Self-Sabotage Poland’s Energy Conflicts with Russia Tensions over energy resources …

Thinking People vs Philistines: Putin vs. Trump’s World View

September 20, 2025September 20, 2025

[Note: Regarding Post Soviet Union I misspoke. Boris Yeltsin showed alcoholic tendencies, not Vladimir Putin] What did President Putin mean when he talked about “Philistines”? An Example of a Typical Modern American Philistine. He Kind of Looks Like a Well Known Politician…in fact a lot of them! Here is another example of a Thinking Person compared with a philistine. This article was inspired by Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin, who referred to ‘Thinking people vs philistines’. Few people know the context of Putin’s remark, so I am writing about it. I think it gives a good idea of …

Academic Russophobes: Studies in Venality for Private Profit

August 28, 2025August 27, 2025

Introduction: A Comment on Larry Johnson’s article about ‘the sad state of US based Russian Scholars I am posting a comment I made on Larry Johnson’s excellent website, www.sonar21.com, the sad state of US based Russian scholars. See it further down in this article. Academic Russophobes are a whole segment of the Academic and Think Tank Media Complex. https://sonar21.com/the-sad-state-of-us-based-russian-scholars/ Robert Conquest: Historian or MI6 Propagandist? Coincidentally one of the greatest apparent students of the Goebbels school of black propaganda, Robert Conquest, an MI6 pervayor of lies and propaganda asset pretending to be an historian, who died in 2015, was …

My Trip to Russia, August, 2025: A Crazy Kafkaesque Adventure

August 27, 2025August 24, 2025

I’d Planned a 6 Week Trip Back to Russia I planned a 6 week trip to Russia from August 22, to September 30th, 2025 Two main reasons I thought I had an invitation to the International Buddhist Forum in the Buddhist province Kalmykia in Southern Russia. People there are mostly ethnic Mongolian, so they practice Tibetan Buddhism there, which in any case is closely related to Zen. Second, since I planned to go anyway, I thought to get my hernia operation done, which is supposed to be $700 cheaper than the cheapest Thailand private hospital, according to …

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