Tag Archives: United States

Dmitry Orlov made the point that the United States is walking along the path of the Soviet Union 16 years ago in his article “Post-Soviet Lessons for a Post-American Century” returning to the US after observing the Soviet collapse. He wrote back then: “A decade and a half ago the world went from bipolar to unipolar, because one of the …

  War in Europe U.S. Strategy: In the broad policy statement that was in its final drafting stage when released, the Defense Department asserted that America’s political and military mission in the post-cold-war era will be to insure that no rival superpower is allowed to emerge in Western Europe, Asia or the territory of the former Soviet Union. A 46-page …

  Herland Report: The United States Could Easily Lose: Since the United States seems serious about confronting China in an extended contest for global supremacy, it had better start getting its own house in order. Other countries will not want to ally themselves with a power that rests on increasingly uncertain economic, social, and political foundations. In seeking the world’s …

  Herland Report: The Western New World Order: Clearly, America is not leading the “green” new world order, and Biden seems to have no meaningful plan for how to get us there other than radical disruptions to our lifestyle and a heightened reliance on China. When it comes to oil and gas, it seems Biden’s new world order would continue …

  The Left has sadly and misguidedly implemented the Neo-Marxist Jacques Derrida Racist Deconstruction Theory that does not permit equal treatment regardless of race and ethnic origin. Rather, it seems to automatically prescribe the role of the victim to anyone with darker skin colors. This form for racism (racism: the evaluation of a person only based on the person’s ethnic …

  Herland Report: Atheism creates Communist Holocaust: When Communism reigned with its iron fist in Russia, it was bent on destroying all religion. The very essence of the Communist ideology, which developed from Marxist theory, was to uproot traditional faith in God and its worldview, claiming that a godless, classless society would emerge once Conservative religious values were exterminated. As …

  Herland Report: The Collapsing American Military: Dan Goure and David T. Pyne have raised valid questions about how well the US would fare in a military conflict with Russia and China. Not well they conclude. See here and here. Possibly the articles by Dan Goure and David T. Pyne are sincere concerns of military analysts worried about Washinton’s unrealistic hubris. …

  Herland Report: The American Prison Industrial Complex: There’s no two ways about it: The United States of America and its 50 state governments love putting people in prison. The U.S. has both the highest number of prisoners and the highest per capita incarceration rate in the modern world at 655 adults per 100,000. That’s more than 2.2 million Americans in …

  Herland Report: The recent escalation U.S. sanctions blocking Europe, Asia and other countries from trade and investment with Russia, Iran and China has imposed enormous opportunity costs – the cost of lost opportunities – on U.S. allies. And the recent confiscation of the gold and foreign reserves of Venezuela, Afghanistan and now Russia, along the targeted grabbing of bank …

  Herland Report: State Power and Totalitarianism:  There are two ways of getting things done: persuasion or coercion. You either convince someone of the value of your ideas or you hold a (literal or metaphorical) gun to their head. The latter has been the norm throughout human history. Most of what we value about the contemporary West is a shift toward the former …