Prelude to Military DictatorshipThe โenemy withinโ and the militarization of American politicsJames B. Greenberg on Substack โ Oct 01, 2025 I watched the CBS coverage in stunned silence. Trump stood before a room of military officers, invoking โthe enemy withinโ and proposing that American cities be repurposed as training grounds for domestic combat. The words... Continue Reading →
Andrew Coyne on the dictatorship of Donald Trump
Andrew Coyne in the Globe and Mail, updated By now it should be clear that the subjection of the United States to the dictatorship of Donald Trump is no longer a theoretical possibility or even a distant probability. It is an imminent reality. It is not here, quite โ critics of the President remain at... Continue Reading →
Competition: Who is worse? Trump or Vance? โ A horrible competition
[Ken Gray โ One way or another; Trump wonโt be around forever; this means J D Vance could assume the presidency. Eileen Workman probes this horrible possibility below.] [Eileen Workman] For all my friends who fear that JD Vance would make an even worse leader than Trump, I say: follow the energy thatโs already in... Continue Reading →
Forget the midterms โ Too little; Too late?
I continue to appreciate the US political analysis of by James B. Greenberg, a โpolitical ecologist.โ Such people donโt just report WHAT is happening; they explain WHY such things are happening and for how long. I have not altered Greenbergโs text in any way but have added emphasis in bold. I have also provided links... Continue Reading →
How to stop the ruthless men who play with our lives and the life of the world
In a recent op-ed in the New York Times, David Brooks gave an answer to a question we are all asking: When will the political chaos in the United States end, and how will that come about? Some place their hope in the 2026 mid-term elections. By that time however congress itself may be so... Continue Reading →
Alligator Alcatraz โ Dachau 2.0 is here
Reposted from The Resistance, Charlie Angus originally titled American Dachau -- Trump Takes the Next Step Jul 05, 2025 โ Edited for length and clarity KJG Six months. That's all it took for the Trump regime to make the move from kidnapping people on the street, to threatening to strip political enemies of citizenship, to... Continue Reading →
A visit to the grocery store โ How Canadian is that?
"Where are the Canadian carrots?โ Kathie asks. โTheyโre still in the groundโ I reply. As for lettuce, we can access local supply from Okanagan Falls back home, while on holiday options were more limited. We snatched some American cucumbers from the stalls by the store entrance but later exchanged them for some Canadian veg we... Continue Reading →
Neoliberalismโs End Game: Accumulation by Another Name
Reposted from James Greenberg on Substack. Jun 27, 2025 -- As always, excellent and timely analysis from James Greenberg, Anthropologist and Social Ecologist How Market Logic, Structural Scarcity, and Political Abandonment Are Hollowing Out the Future The old promises are collapsing. Growth no longer lifts all boatsโit lifts yachts. Progress no longer means shared prosperityโit... Continue Reading →
Timothy Snyder one week after marching in Philadelphia
This is a repost from Timothy Snyder's Substack post published Thursday June 19, 2025 It was a thrill to march at the No Kings Rally in Philadelphia on Saturday with friends and about a hundred thousand people. On the stage, I led a chant of "no kings -- freedom," and I tried to explain three... Continue Reading →
A letter to Robin Hood concerning The Largest Upward Transfer of Wealth in American History
Dear Robin Hood, It has been some time since we last communicated. Come to think of it, we may never have exchanged greetings, until now. Greetings from the modern era, one marked by many of the same malevolence typical of your own generation โ greedy tyrants, weak-spined sycophants, and no shortage of narcissistic sociopaths. We... Continue Reading →