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Sublime News #2
1. In response to Gregor’s surprise over my lack of mention of the Dubai assassination – don’t think it’s important or that anything substantial will come out of it. Britain may make a media ruckus over the faking of their citizens’ passports, but in the end analysis, the UK is closely aligned with the US, [...]
Posted in Sublime News Also tagged belarus, china, climate change, demography, economy, energy, georgia, global warming, Humor, israel, me, middle east, military, politics, rant, Russia Resources, russophobes, terrorism, turkey, ukraine 6 Comments
Sublime News #1
I am beginning a new post category, Sublime News, in which I collate and comment on news bits and pieces that I find interesting over the past week. Whatever I write over the week will be automatically published every Saturday, 12pm (California time). This first post will be exceptional in that it will cover a [...]
Posted in Sublime News Also tagged britain, china, climate change, corruption, demography, geopolitics, hi-tech, Humor, latin america, liberasm, military, morale, news 2010, peak oil, politics, resource depletion, Russia Resources, russophobes, turkey, ukraine, war 11 Comments
SSR #8: On Future War
This is the fourth post in my series of Sublime Strategic Reports (SSRs) covering global trends, regions, and geopolitics. In this issue I am going to look at the future of military technology and war strategy in a world of informatization, resource scarcity, and renewed ideological turbulence. Be forewarned: while some of what I write here [...]
Posted in Sublime Oblivion Also tagged chaos, china, collapse, energy, geoengineering, hi-tech, history, imperialism, military, Russia Resources, technology, war 12 Comments
The Endgame Begins
A year ago I predicted that there will be a “decoupling from the unwinding“, as “emerging markets” by and large ride out the temporary shocks of declining Western demand for their exports (China) and the interruption of Western credit intermediation (Russia) before resuming growth. This is one aspect of the trends leading to the imminent demise [...]
Posted in Coffee House, Sublime Oblivion Also tagged authoritarianism, corruption, economy, energy, finance, geopolitics, germany, iran, japan, peak oil, politics, rant, vision 22 Comments
SSR #13: China, The Last Superpower
This is the third of my Sublime Strategic Reports (SSRs) covering global trends, regions, and geopolitics. After two hundred years of global ascendancy, the West is in rapid relative decline to (re)emerging Asia, which is mounting a steady “Great Reconvergence”. Likewise, the legitimacy of today’s “neoliberal internationalist” order promoted by the West is being questioned by the more [...]
Posted in Coffee House, Sublime Oblivion Also tagged agriculture, authoritarianism, china, climate change, coal, culture, energy, environment, finance, geopolitics, imperialism, international relations, japan, military, morale, politics, resource depletion, ssr, vision, water 10 Comments
Ecotechnic Dictatorship is Our Last Hope of Averting Collapse
As a follow-up to my article on the historical necessity of Green Communism, I would like to 1) refute some common myths and misconceptions about limits to growth-induced collapse, 2) clarify the concept of Green Communism, and 3) elucidate why the only realistic way to prevent collapse now is to force through a “sustainable retreat” [...]
Posted in Sublime Oblivion Also tagged apocalypse, authoritarianism, chaos, china, climate change, collapse, communism, corruption, culture, economy, education, energy, environment, ethics, fantasy, geoengineering, geopolitics, history, human rights, imperialism, matrix, peak oil, politics, singularity, technology, vision, war 31 Comments
Philosophical Musings #2
4. Freedom from fear, the only real freedom.
Political scientists try to rank countries based on their levels of “freedom”, frequently arbitrarily defined and applied (Freedom House, Economist Democracy Index, Polity IV, etc). Yet despite the inconsistencies and difficulties with quantifying something as abstract and intangible as freedom across cultural and civilization borders, for all but [...]
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Sublime News #3