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James George Jatras — American Politics Is Now Just Civil War by Other Means

The de facto civil war in the US is obscuring two existential threats — climate change and nuclear war. Jatras mentions only the latter. Still, the US remains addicted to ever-increasing sanctions, and despite warnings from both Russia and China that they are prepared for war – warnings virtually ignored by the US media and political class – the US keeps pressing on all fronts: outer space, the Arctic, Europe (withdrawal from the INF treaty), Ukraine, the South China Sea, the Taiwan Strait,...

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Michael Vlahos — We Were Made for Civil War

Backgrounder. A historical view dissension, divisiveness and civil war in the US.The American ConservativeWe Were Made for Civil War Michael Vlahos | professor in the Strategy and Policy Department at the US Naval War College, adjunct faculty member, Global Security Studies program at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Arts and Sciences , former Director of the Security Studies Program at Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies, and formerly with Johns Hopkins University...

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Jeffrey D. Sachs — America’s Ongoing Civil War

Civil War 2.0 (along with Cold War 2). Racial politics in the United States, both before and after the end of slavery, has blocked the emergence of a class politics that would unite poor whites and poor blacks in a demand for more public services. So what will happen when, by around 2045, non-Hispanic whites become a minority of the total population?…. It's the demographics.Project SyndicateAmerica’s Ongoing Civil War Jeffrey D. Sachs | Professor of Sustainable Development and Professor of...

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Gordon Adams — Trump’s Velvet Coup

The Brett Kavanaugh battle is just the tip of the iceberg. I am watching my country going through a slow motion disintegration into civil war, conflict, and the rise of authoritarianism. It’s a velvet coup d’état that controls the means of enforcement: the police, the courts, the political assemblies, the reins of corporate power, advertising and public relations. In other words, the creeping fascism that Richard Nixon attempted but failed, and which G. W. Bush and Dick Cheney advanced post...

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