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The Days of Democracy Are Over
Paul Craig Roberts
For decades I have been watching American democracy unravel as it became increasingly dysfunctional. US democracy murdered President John F. Kennedy and followed up by murdering his brother, Robert F. Kennedy. Then President Nixon was murdered politically by democracy with the CIA/Washington Post orchestration of Watergate.
Democracy attempted to frame, indict, and prosecute President Trump for Russiagate, documents gate, insurrection gate, lying on mortgage loan applications, and twice tried to impeach him on false charges.
Democracy and accountable government lied to us about Vietnam, about the USS Liberty, about 9/11, Afghanistan, Saddam Hussein, Ghaddafi, Assad, Sudan, Somalia, Ukraine, South Ossetia, Iran, Russia, China, and Venezuela.
The accumulated failures of democracy eroded its foundations, thereby permitting the executive branch to encroach on the separation of powers and violate the US Constitution. The US has been in many wars since the last time Congress declared war in December 1941. The president has simply taken war out of Congress’ hands.
The Crisis Carousel of Americanism: The Shadow Horses We Do Not See
Kaitlin Harper
A Study of America’s Milquetoast Media’s Sanitized Mythologies and the Unseen Horses of Power Galloping Beneath the Carousel of Consent.
The media is the bleach for the sins of governments, militaries, and corporations
Each morning, the news resets. Another set of crises parades before the public: wars, political scandals, corporate collapses, and social upheavals. The headlines are bright, the faces are fresh, the indignation is newly minted. However, the horses spinning on the carousel are familiar. They remain almost identical in shape, gait, and direction. They are painted in new colors, assigned new riders, but the ride itself remains immutable.
What the public rarely perceives are the horses left in shadow. These silent beasts carry the weight of structural violence, entrenched inequality, systemic omission, and unchecked power. In the sanitized cult of Americanism-the veneer of freedom, diversity, and exceptionalism-these hidden horses are systematically pruned. Public discourse presents a carousel of repainted horses: vivid, visible, and selectable. The horses capable of challenging the carousel's track, its axis, and its very architecture are deliberately excluded. They are like homogenized milk and Wonder Bread: stripped of flavor, texture, and substance, engineered to be shelf-stable, digestible, and unthreatening.
The Rare Earth and Lithium Paradox: Powering the Future, Poisoning the Planet
By Louise Hamilton
Is your new Tesla saving or destroying the Planet? We cannot electrify our way out of extraction; we can only change where the holes are dug.
The world’s “green transition” runs on a dirty paradox. The metals and minerals that underpin renewable energy—rare earth elements (REEs) and Lithium—are indispensable for wind turbines, solar panels, and electric vehicles. Yet behind the sleek marketing hubris of “zero emissions” lies an extractive reality as old as industry itself: toxic tailings, groundwater contamination, and displaced communities. In short, we are electrifying our guilt rather than erasing it.
The New Extractive Colonialist Empire: Nations and Corporations
Control of rare earths is as concentrated as oil once was. China dominates both mining and refining, producing roughly 70 percent of global supply and refining close to 90 percent of the world’s REEs (Deng & Kendall, in Schreiber et al., 2022). The United States, despite its rhetoric of “critical mineral independence,” still ships ore from its Mountain Pass mine in California to China for processing. Meanwhile, Australia’s Lynas Rare Earths and MP Materials in the U.S. struggle to challenge this monopoly, constrained by environmental costs and decades of Western outsourcing (Novikova, 2023).
Abolition Is the Way
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War
Opening remarks of #NoWar2025
Good morning, afternoon, and evening. Thank you to everyone who is here and to all of the wonderful speakers and participants we are about to hear from over the next three days and to all of our staff and volunteers, especially Greta Zarro our Organizing Director, who have planned this conference. We expect over 500 registrants from at least 42 countries to hear from at least 33 speakers. We have 22 endorsers and 10 sponsors. Those sponsors include our top or War Abolisher sponsors Dr. Michael D. Knox and the U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation, and our Peace Champion sponsors, Community Peacemaker Teams, Conscience Canada, RootsAction Education Fund, and the War Prevention Initiative, and our Peacemaker sponsors, Just Peace Advocates, Monterey Peace and Justice Center, Movement for the Abolition of War, and Womens International League for Peace and Freedom U.S. I know everyone is muted, but if you’re inclined to applaud, just go ahead and then explain to anyone near you what you’re applauding.
This will be an unusual NoWar conference in that it will address both war and other topics, through examination of various abolition movements. Whether or not we all agree with each abolition project we discuss, I expect we will all learn from it. Abolition is a tricky thing that we are all continuously learning about.
Disillusioned Democrats Abandon Party, Progressive Anger Hits Breaking Point
Mark Powell
The Democratic Party is hemorrhaging its base. Progressive disillusionment is now a measurable, systemic crisis. The Democrats offered up Kamala Harris in 2024 as a “Mommy State” to counter Donald Trump’s Daddy State. A cold-blooded heartless Prosecutor/Feminist vs a Flaming Narcissist, Harris offered absolutely nothing appealing to voters except a focus-group/consultant-driven ideological nightmare.
The Anatomy of a Disaffected Democrat
“I’ve given them my vote for a decade, and nothing changes. I’m done,” says a 28-year-old ex-Democratic voter. This sentiment is far from isolated. Deep structural Democratic voter disillusionment is spreading, particularly among progressives, even establishment data shows public burnout (AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 2025a; Pew Research Center, 2023). Over 60% of Democrats now describe their party as “weak” or “ineffective” (AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 2025).
Trump’s Authoritarian Revival: The Final Phase of the American Empire
Ann McFee
The Empire Turns Inward
The American empire, once draped in the language of freedom, is devouring itself. What began as a project of global domination under the banner of democracy has turned its machinery inward — the surveillance, propaganda, and militarization once reserved for distant battlefields now directed at the domestic population. The ascendance of Donald Trump is not an aberration; it is the culmination of a long decay in democratic institutions and civic life.
As D.K. Renton writes in “Trump, Fascism, and the Authoritarian Turn”, the new authoritarianism “emerges from the exhaustion of neoliberal capitalism and the crisis of political representation.” Trumpism, Renton argues, fuses “the populist rhetoric of anti-elitism with the oligarchic practice of class power.” The billionaire demagogue becomes the voice of the forgotten, while serving the same forces that engineered their ruin.
Algorithmic Censorship & the Rise of the Obama Biden Trump Oligarchy
Terry Lawrence
Prologue: Free Speech As Corporate Property
Financial corruption, political corruption, censorship, algorithmic censorship, and curtailed free speech are now the geo-political and economic engines of global society. From George W. Bush through to Donald J. Trump, pay-to-play is the “National Trust and Endowment” of the hollowed-out shell of America. We are living in the five days after Thanksgiving moldering carcass of what was once America. Free Speech is a Disney ABC Brand.
Threats to democracy, oligarchy, and oligarchs are interlocking with income inequality, rising cost of living, and economic justice movements. The Trump Homo-Erotic fascination with Global Dictators has surpassed and usurped the now empty and void former ideals Google and Bing label this article “fake news;” ironically, the AI premise that this article is fake news is Google’s and Bing’s AI-driven FAKE NEWS.
Trump and His Money Men Are Repeating 1929 Crash in 2025 Real Time
Mark Powell
The Billionaire Junta
In 1928, Herbert Hoover inherited a market swollen by illusion, a public intoxicated by speculation, and a Cabinet that mistook its own avarice for intelligence. In 2025, Donald Trump presides over an eerily similar stage-his gilded retinue composed not of engineers and economists but of charlatan technocrats, speculators, and disciples of self-interest.
At his side were Elon Musk, the mercurial impresario of algorithmic fortune; Howard Lutnick, the financial tactician who treats catastrophe as a marketplace; and Russell Vought, the ideological bookkeeper tasked with converting policy into profit. Together, they form the Billionaire Junta-a regime where capital masquerades as patriotism and governance functions as a subsidiary of personal dynastic enterprise.
The resemblance to Hoover’s America is not theatrical coincidence. It is structural déjà vu. Then, as now, speculative wealth masqueraded as national health, propaganda displaced arithmetic, and the President’s cronies amassed fortunes while the nation’s balance sheet smoldered beneath them. The difference is velocity. Hoover’s collapse unfolded over years; Trump’s, if it comes, will occur at the speed of code-a digital implosion rather than a dust-bowl decline.
The Manufacture of Consent: Western Media, Zionist Influence, and the Erasure of Palestine
Rick Foster
The story of Palestine has never been merely a story-it has been an argument over who gets to speak. In the modern newsroom, that struggle unfolds not only in the language of dispatches and headlines, but in the deeper architecture of meaning: what is shown, what is named, and what is omitted. Across Western journalism, the Palestinian narrative has been continuously rewritten to fit frames that favor power, not truth.
As The New Arab observed, even using the word “Palestine” remains prohibited by editorial policies in some international newsrooms (The New Arab, 2024). Such linguistic erasure is not accidental; it is the calculated product of decades of political influence, ideological conditioning, and corporate compliance masquerading as neutrality.
The Ancient History Of Socialism In North America
By David Swanson
Monday was Indigenous People’s Day, when much of the United States celebrates a murdering, enslaving, profiteering, imperialist Italian sailor mercenary and missionary who couldn’t tell one continent from another, wisdom from ignorance, or value from waste.
I was born and raised and have mostly lived in the eastern United States, and yet when I hear someone here refer to “how people lived several hundred years ago,” they almost always mean how people lived in Europe several hundred years ago. I see great value in studying European history and that of the whole globe. But I have no particular connection to or heritage from medieval Europe to the exclusion of connection with the people who lived on the same land I do.
