Notice who gets all the most desirable (and expensive) property. There are the areas that pay most of the taxes based on income and wealth distribution. See the post for other "strange maps" and stats. Big Think How to split the USA into two countries: Red and Blue Frank Jacobs
Read More »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,...
Read More »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...
Read More »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...
Read More »WJ Astore — American Fascism: No Longer Misleading
Civil War 2.0. Where some see nationalist populism, others see incipient fascism. Irreconcilable differences?Bracing ViewsAmerican Fascism: No Longer Misleading WJ Astore | Lt. Col. USAF (retired)
Read More »Zero Hedge Kunstler: Civil War Two Looms As Deep State Circles The Wagons
The meme spreads, mostly coming from the right.Zero HedgeKunstler: Civil War Two Looms As Deep State Circles The WagonsAuthored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.co
Read More »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...
Read More »Sabena Siddiqui — Could the road from Charlottesville lead America toward civil war?
Considering all this information, it seems unlikely that the United States can remain a liberal country much longer. The paradoxes of liberalism are coming to a head. Asia TimesCould the road from Charlottesville lead America toward civil war?Sabena Siddiqui
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