Tag: deindustrialization

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Shyam Sankar & Madeline Hart
Mobilize: How to Reboot the American Industrial Base & Stop World War III
New York: Bombardier Books, 2026

Sometime between the January 6, 2021 Capitol Hill protest and the point in 2021 where Biden’s cognitive decline was obvious to all but American liberals, America lost her ability to deter, and hard knocks have followed. The best way to prevent a war going forward is to be so militarily strong that no one dares to carry out an attack in the first place. (more…)

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Spencer Morrison
How Tariffs Will Bring Our Jobs Home & Revive the American Dream
Washington, D.C.: Calamo Press, 2025

“In 1721 Prime Minister Robert Walpole instituted a coherent trade policy which was explicitly designed to turn England into the world’s factory. This was based on Walpole’s observation – the same observation made by King Edward III or Queen Elizabeth I before him – that it was far more profitable to sell refined goods than raw goods. It was better to sell cloth than wool, ships than lumber, and swords than iron ingots.”

–Spencer Morrison (more…)

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Saleha Mohsin
Paper Soldiers: How the Weaponization of the Dollar Changed the World Order
New York: Portfolio, 2024

[. . . ] in April 2023, Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva drew loud applause from an audience of Chinese dignitaries in Shanghai when he heralded the demise of the dollar. “Every night I ask myself why all countries have to base their trade on the dollar. Who was it that decided that the dollar was the currency after the disappearance of the gold standard?” he asked the delighted crowd. (more…)

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George S. Takach
Cold War 2.0: Artificial Intelligence in the New Battle Between China, Russia, and America
New York: Pegasus Books, 2024

George S. Takach is a Canadian technologist who specializes in understanding the development and use of cutting edge products. His works in the field of technology law. Takach is also deeply concerned about the two most dangerous members of the BRICS coalition—China and Russia. (more…)

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“The directors, when they meet, hold private discussions. In the case of such a powerful body there is also a central body which lays down basic policy. The influence of that central body, to say the least, must be great in our economic life. Nobody knows, however, what they discuss there. In the course of his speeches, Mr. Oppenheimer, the leader, makes political statements; (more…)

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Harry Nelson
The United States of Opioids: A Prescription for Liberating a Nation in Pain
Charleston, S. C.: ForbesBooks, 2019

See also: “Work to be Such a Man,” “Kensington,” & “Opiates for America’s Heartland”

Opioid abuse is one of the major problems affecting Americans today, and it is also a factor in the Great Replacement. (more…)

Republican Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota.

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North Dakota’s newspaperman

Understanding how Americans were duped into entering the First World War while preventing America entering a second war became the life’s work of a North Dakota isolationist and politician named Gerald Prentice Nye (1892-1971). (more…)

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Norman Solomon
War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine
New York: The New Press, 2023

See also: The American Regime, here & here

Norman Solomon is one of those rare, honest, old-time liberals who genuinely questions the narratives of the mainstream media and the foreign policy establishment. He was a delegate for Bernie Sanders in 2016. (more…)

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See also, Senile Joe and the Loss of American Deterrence, A Jeremiad to the Empire of Nothing, The Deep State’s War on Russia, & Red Flags in Ukraine

What’s going on here is that the West is leading Ukraine down the primrose path and the end result is that Ukraine is going to get wrecked. — John Mearsheimer at a talk given on September 25, 2015 (more…)

Ted Kaczynski outside his Montana cabin in 1972.

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Rich Houck: There’s also other parts I find a small problem with. Ted Kaczynski seems to think that without these modern technologies, people cannot be controlled or subverted or treated poorly, but it seems to me that throughout history that’s not been the case. He talked about some of these movements. He mentioned Communism and Nazism in in the same line, as mass movements, but it seems to me that even if we can imagine a society where there’s no modern technology, you could still have a group of people come that is hostile to your interests for various reasons. (more…)

Christopher Miller

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Christopher C. Miller (with Ted Royer)
Soldier Secretary: Warnings from the Battlefield and the Pentagon about America’s Most Dangerous Enemies
Nashville & New York: Center Street, 2023

It is no secret that President Trump operated in the midst of a viper’s nest of traitorous officials throughout his valiant tenure in office, and the worst offenders were in the Department of Defense. Trump was elected on a policy of reducing America’s endless involvements in foreign quarrels in which America has no interests. (more…)

Christopher Lasch

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Christopher Lasch
The Revolt of the Elites & the Betrayal of Democracy
New York: W. W. Norton, 1995

Christopher Lasch (1932–1994) was an American historian who taught for many years at the University of Rochester, authored a number of important books, and spoke beyond academia to the broad, educated public. (more…)

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Colleen Doody
Detroit’s Cold War: The Origins of Postwar Conservatism
Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2013

In 1945, with the exception of the United States, Canada, and a few other places, the civilized world was in ruins. While the industrial centers of the United States were not burned-out husks pocked with bomb craters, the economy was not well-functioning. There was inflation and a shortage of consumer goods. (more…)