Day: August 28, 2026

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Humanity At The Crossroads (II)

Part I Discussions about singularity often generate sensational headlines, particularly when connected to population growth. Some interpretations suggest that humanity is approaching a dramatic threshold around the late 2020s. The origins of this idea can be traced to mathematical models developed in the twentieth century. Researchers observed that for long […]

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The Democracy America Promised – And The Empire It Built

Every Independence Day, the United States returns to a familiar vocabulary: liberty, equality, popular sovereignty, resistance to tyranny. The words are so deeply embedded in the American national story that they can appear less like political principles than historical facts. Yet the founding of the United States contained a contradiction […]

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Might US Losing Hormuz End The US Empire Like Britain’s Losing The Suez Canal Ended The British Empire?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sCGF7gbwBc “The Suez Crisis stopped the British Empire. Will Hormuz defeat the US? | Laleh Khalili | Deja Vu” interview of Laleh Khalili, author of (2020) Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula and the even better (2025) Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy […]