Join us as we journey through the great events and personalities who have shaped America into what it is from Foundation to Today.
Based on a longer, more detailed book which will be available on our Patreon page, each part of this ongoing audio series looks at a specific event and what it tells us of the systemic reality behind it.
It is not a pretty story but well worth hearing as we reveal the truth behind the myths and propaganda of the country that is the complete opposite of what it claims to be.
This is important not as an intellectual exercise but because what America really is impacts us all, not just the American people, in a world it largely still controls.
Musn’t Grumble?
So, here we are where two major power blocs, the West lead by America, and the Global South with China, Russia and others (including a desperately unsure India) are gearing up to face each other.
Thi…
Have you seen the film Snowpiercer? If you haven’t, the basic premise is that in a climate collapsed world, the survivors are on a train that continuously rides through the snow and ice. It’s like a …
The best analogy for the surreal world we in America and Britain are in, is this.
It is 2008 and the financial crash has happened.
The elite are having dinner at the most expensive restaurant in the…
Is America the best of Western Civilisation or its worst?
There are two ways to look at it when deciding.
If you base it on economic and political power, then it is. If you base the judgment on civic…
One of the great unasked questions of American politics and society is whom does the president represent and work for?
More important is the fact that as the holder of the only political office which…
A paradox of capitalism, especially how it works both in practice and rewards, is that it is the antithesis of democracy.
Therefore, in America, where capitalism parades in its most naked form, it h…
What happens to a a people when the identity of a country is so inextricably linked to one group - a small white Anglo-Saxon elite - so that all others are excluded from sharing it? You get a country…
What was the objective of the American Civil War? Look at the results. It creates one country, one identity, one system. What is this system? Aggressive capitalism. This basically imposes the corpora…
How did America know what to do with the issue of slavery? Surely, they did what they did was right. Wrong. They followed the British template of thirty years previously - present it as a moral imper…
Contrary to what we have been told the American Civil War's key aim, and the reason it was fought, was not to abolish slavery but to impose a new economic system in the country. In the industrial age…
It is the 17th of September 1787, a monumental day in American history.
Drafted in secret by delegates to the Constitutional Convention during the summer of 1787, this four-page document, the Constit…