Juan Cole For Informed Comment \Although Asian economies have been the first to feel the cut-off in petroleum from the Strait of Hormuz, China has so far weathered the resultant energy crisis. In fact, China’s economy grew at an annualized rate of 5% in January – March, and industry hummed along even more vigorously in April than […]
America’s suicidal march began long before Donald Trump. Trump and the buffoons around him are the inevitable final chapter of the decaying empire. Chris Hedges Civilizations, as the historian Arnold J. Toynbee famously argued, “die from suicide, not by murder.” They collapse from within. They fall prey to moral, social and spiritual decay. They are […]
When the FBI showed up at a warehouse in Fulton County, Georgia, to seize hundreds of boxes of 2020 election records this past January, County Commissioner Dana Barrett thought it looked less like a criminal investigation and more like political theater. It’s been more than five years since the election, the results already had been […]