Turbo capitalism is driven by cheap fossil fuel energy. The rise of global capitalism coincided neatly with the discovery of fossil fuels: coal, then oil…
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Category: Politics
False Economics as the West Runs Short on Energy
Capitalism is driven, not by money, but by energy. The powerhouse of turbo capitalism was unleashed in the late 19th century, first by coal, then…
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Palestinian Delights
Support an oppressed people in style The savage genocide of the Palestinian people is a stain on the world. All the more reason to support…
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Breaking Britain – Come Friendly Psychopaths and Fall on Albion
Blundering fool Chancellor Rachel Reeves has just dropped her budget on Britain. It is completely inadequate to the task of repairing the UK’s failing economy…
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Feed the People
Since 2020 Peckham Pantry has provided cheap but healthy food to people on low incomes The vision was to trial and test a new way…
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The Crash of 2024
Is the convergence of multiple financial storms going to produce an economic crisis? The modern Imperial system has been undergoing a severe buffeting: Ukraine and…
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Private Islands and Corporate States
Let’s say you had a civil dispute with someone over money. Eventually you have to take them to public court and a legal system with…
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2023 – The Tipping Point for the US Empire?
Suez: 1956, the French and British attempt to seize the Suez Canal. The United States says, no. The two ailing empires back down, and they…
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Casino – A Metaphor for the Corruption of the USA?
Nicholas Pileggi’s book Casino, later made into a powerful film by Martin Scorsese, seems on re-reading to be a metaphor for the corruption of the…
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Will Britain Become a Failed State?
A corrupt oligarchical state, riven with factions with irreconcilable differences, led by a comedian. Its economy in tatters, a deceitful media, trade with its greatest…
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