<script data-pm-proxy="intercept"></script><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Bill’s End The Empire Newsletter]]></title><description><![CDATA[My altogether sane views on the danger of imperial hubris, and how to say "fuck you".]]></description><link>https://destroyempire.substack.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IqAg!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc469f953-5548-4e68-a0c7-87d70318275e_1180x916.png</url><title>Bill’s End The Empire Newsletter</title><link>https://destroyempire.substack.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 11:43:46 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="/__u/destroyempire.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Bill Gannett]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[destroyempire@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[destroyempire@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Bill Gannett]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Bill Gannett]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[destroyempire@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[destroyempire@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Bill Gannett]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[The ongoing collapse of Israel into psychosis]]></title><description><![CDATA[is coming home.]]></description><link>https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/the-ongoing-collapse-of-israel-into</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/the-ongoing-collapse-of-israel-into</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Gannett]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 15:18:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IqAg!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc469f953-5548-4e68-a0c7-87d70318275e_1180x916.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Unless one reads independent media sources, one would not know how degraded Israeli life has become due to collective psychosis. The US is experiencing a parallel psychosis as well, but it is a pale reflection of the Israeli horror. However, the Israeli psychosis is a premonition of what is developing in this nation.</p><p>Israelis have become convinced that the only way to deal with the &#8220;Palestinian problem&#8221; is to eradicate them. They canot be assimiliated because they are not Jewish, and because &#8220;they cause so much trouble&#8221;- they want their land and lives back, but at the expense of a purified Israel. </p><p>This is a fully developed collective psychosis led by Israel&#8217;s politicians, the Israeli Defense Forces, the settler movement and religious and racial demagoguery. Polls consistently reveal how deeply traumatized, defensive and violent the Israel public has become.</p><p>Not only is Gaza being completely obliterated, but the West Bank is being savaged as well by psychotic settlers protected by the IDF. Israel collectively wants to effect the Final Solution of the native Palestinian who number, by the way, about 6 million. Does that number sound familiar? </p><p>This is a massive, collective ongoing genocide that is hardly making the news here in the land of the free and the home of the brave. The support of Israel rationalized as &#8220;Never Again!&#8221;, has progresively embraced brutal systematic and transparent genocide. This has become the overwhelming bipartisan political consensus in Congress. <br><br>And it was a liberal, Joe Biden, and his vice-president, Kamala Harris, who initiated the tremendous political, financial and demagogic support for genocide. American genocidal psychosis is liberal in origin, just like the incubation of Covid in Wuhan. Anthony Fauci can lie repeatedly about his role in promoting and concealing gain-of-function research by taking the 5th, but everyone knows the truth. The same lie applies to the Palestinian genocide- and to the &#8220;unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine&#8221;, as well. </p><p>Israel regards the elimination of the Palestinian as its &#8220;final redemption&#8221;, which requires a Final Solution. This is nothing but roaring full-scale psychosis, and which is supported by the US and its allies. This psychosis has infected, like Covid, the world. </p><p>How doe the American, and especially the &#8220;good liberal&#8221;, resolve this? The genocide is getting worse and worse; it is not going away. It will not be forgotten. Politicians will have to answer fot it, and corporate media as well. That day is coming. The American will not abide turning an obliterated Gaza into a Trump/Kushner/Israeli casino sanctioned by the UN. This will not go down in the end. A massive revulsion is coming, and it will not be kind to fascists.<br><br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why liberal elites can’t call it a genocide]]></title><description><![CDATA[The American political experiment has long since become a militarized corporate state devoted to oligarchy but nonetheless can&#8217;t give up the fiction that it represents law and order promoting democracy.]]></description><link>https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/why-liberal-elites-cant-call-it-a</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/why-liberal-elites-cant-call-it-a</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Gannett]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 17:07:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IqAg!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc469f953-5548-4e68-a0c7-87d70318275e_1180x916.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The American political experiment has long since become a militarized corporate state devoted to oligarchy but nonetheless can&#8217;t give up the fiction that it represents law and order promoting democracy. And so the genocide, which the US has funded, provided the weaponry for and protected in the court of international opinion, doesn&#8217;t exist. Just like that.</p><p>Now, King Baby Trump has complicated things because he is such an ogre whereas Genocide Joe was- before the dementia took over, a smooth-talker. GJ and Lethal Princess could just politely lie about the whole thing, but KBT has vowed to destroy Iranian civilization; he will send it back to the Stone Age, so he says, and turn Gaza into a Trump/ Israeli casino. This is a shift in public rhetoric.</p><p>Liberals have had their cover blown. They know they started the genocide and kept it going for 15 months, and that Lethal Princess lost her bid for the presidency because she vowed to support the status quo. But they still can&#8217;t admit to genocide. </p><p>How could they admit to genocide? This is the problem; it would destroy the fiction that they nonetheless support law and order, as opposed to fascism. Liberals have no problem calling Trump a fascist, but how could they ever admit to being fascists themselves? This would sadly destroy their liberal credentials. </p><p>But meanwhile, everyone knows that fascism is the elephant trumpeting in the room.</p><p>What this means is that a reckoning has yet to come. What this means is that the American political experiment is in limbo and cannot be fundamentally addressed unless and until the genocide becomes a national discussion. This obviously requires an honest discussion of the role Israel plays in the transformation of our democracy into fascism. </p><p>An honest discussion of Israel and what represent antisemitism is the key to waking up from limbo, addressing the bipartisan complicity in genocide and rescuing, if possible, the US from further descending into the black hole of fascism. </p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top Ten reasons why the US hates Iran:]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is for real!]]></description><link>https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/top-ten-reasons-why-the-us-hates</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/top-ten-reasons-why-the-us-hates</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Gannett]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IqAg!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc469f953-5548-4e68-a0c7-87d70318275e_1180x916.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<ol><li><p>Iran is a great civilization, whereas the US is an empire based on slavery, genocide and predatory capitalism.<br></p><p>This is too much for the average American brought up on the opiate of &#8220;Progress&#8221; to digest. The average American (O God) thinks that his nation represents an unparalleled improvement on the history of man and bitterly resents the truth. </p></li><li><p>Iran is not Anglo/ American and thus is inferior.</p></li></ol><p>       &#8220;Persians aren&#8217;t white enough for good Americans&#8221;, despite the fact that the  <br>       Persian is the original Aryan.  </p><p>   3. Islamophobia. </p><p>       &#8220;Islam is a dangerous religion and opposed to real civilizational values&#8221;, especially <br>       as represented by Bible thumpers, Jewish and Christian, whose favorite charity is <br>       the NRA and AIPAC. </p><p>   4. Persians are violent and don&#8217;t play by the rules.</p><p>      &#8220;They can&#8217;t beat us fair and square and take diplomats hostage&#8221;, as in the 1979 <br>      Teheran embassy takeover. (All 52 of whom survived captivity to return home.) </p><p>      &#8220;They are fanatic as well. They argue too much and won&#8217;t compromise, as in they    <br>      are unwilling to roll over and die when Israel or the US commands them to do so.&#8221; </p><p>   5. &#8220;They are crazy about poetry, and this makes them wild. Because Americans <br>         don&#8217;t get poetry, and don&#8217;t understand why anyone else should. And why do they <br>         treat their greatest poet&#8217;s divan as an oracle? What kind of person and culture <br>         does that?&#8221; </p><p>   6. Iran has the best food in the world- Anthony Bourdain said so, whereas the US <br>       has the worst food in the world- and everyone says so.</p><p>   7. Persian women have beautiful noses gifted by the Islamic state when a women <br>       reaches 18, and bent-nose Americans have to pay out of pocket. This is un-<br>       forgivable and enraging as Persian women are the most beautiful women in the <br>       world.</p><p>   8. &#8220;Persians don&#8217;t have a proper military, but win anyway.&#8221;</p><p>        (This is more enraging than the &#8220;Persian beautiful nose&#8221; entry which so <br>        decisively beats up the American nose.) <br><br>        And how can the Persian military defeat the 1.5 trillion dollar annual US War <br>        Budget-  the greatest mother f*cking War Machine the world has ever seen?</p><p>  9. &#8220;Persians are so polite&#8221;!</p><p>      Persians are masters of diplomacy- Cyrus the Great invented diplomacy, and the <br>      US is so infinitely vulgar: &#8220;why are you so humilating us?&#8221; &#8220;We can never forgive <br>      you!&#8221;</p><ol start="10"><li><p>&#8220;We hate the Ayatollah.&#8221; <br><br>&#8221;You have a religious leader who is actually intelligent, spiritual and relevant to the needs of present day Iran beseiged by the Satanic West as represented by genocidal fascism that lies up and through the wazoo with murderous pleasure.&#8221;<br><br> <br><br>              </p></li></ol>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conundrum and brilliance of Iran]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 1953 the conundrum of Iran began in earnest.]]></description><link>https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/the-conundrum-and-brilliance-of-iran</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/the-conundrum-and-brilliance-of-iran</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Gannett]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:51:35 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IqAg!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc469f953-5548-4e68-a0c7-87d70318275e_1180x916.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In 1953 the conundrum of Iran began in earnest. In this year the CIA led a coup of the democratically elected prime minister, Mossadegh. He was placed under house arrest and the US installed the puppet shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, as Iran&#8217;s despotic ruler.</p><p>In 1979, the Ayatollah Khomeini led a revolution against the pathetic puppet shah which resulted in the Islamic Republic of Iran that endures to this day. </p><p>Since the Islamic revolution, the US promoted the Iraqi war against Iran which lasted 8 years from 1980 to 1988, and which resulted in horrendous suffering, and a cascade of sanctions against Iran since that time, which inflicted yet more vicious suffering, and which persists to this day, and yet another vicious war against Iran in collusion with Israel in the recent past, which is ongoing. </p><p>This is why Iranians hate the American government. One has to be a total political idiot to not grok these serial transgressions against Iran. There is no excuse for not grokking the sordid history of US imperial aggression against Iran.</p><p>However, US corporate media is completely oblivious of this history in accounting for the ongoing war against Iran. US corporate media and politicians are brain-and-heart-dead: they are fascists.</p><p>So, why is King Baby Trump dicking around with Iran? Why can he not punch his way out of the paper bag he himself placed over his ugly head? </p><p>The answer is that the US is at its wit&#8217;s end over Iran and the bigger problem of imperial hegemony. King Baby is the culmination and climax of imperial dysfunction, and he has no idea what is going down. But neither does Congress. </p><p>The entire American political experimant is timing out. The president, his cabinet, Congress, corporate media and virtually all political elites are clueless as to what&#8217;s going down. And we have Iran to thank for this; Iran is the one nation in the world that is actively defying US imperial fascism, and doing so brilliantly. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>  </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[America, reinvent yourself!]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the waning days of empire, all is not lost.]]></description><link>https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/america-reinvent-yourself</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/america-reinvent-yourself</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Gannett]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 03:46:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IqAg!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc469f953-5548-4e68-a0c7-87d70318275e_1180x916.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the waning days of empire, all is not lost. We can still cry out for love and justice to rule the land. As the American political experiment degrades more and more into fascist blather, we can still cry out that truth and beauty will triumph. </p><p>We can do this by supporting truth and beauty, and abjuring falsity and ugliness. </p><p>Good Americans desperately need to grok the historical facts of settler colonialism, genocide and slavery, and a nation erected on white supremacy, to properly identify why we have so fucked up. </p><p>This is not that hard to grok. </p><p>The all important requirement is the ability to frame a historical context for what we have become: a militarized fascist corporate state. The corporation rules America as the definition of capitalism. This triumph of the corporate state is the triumph of greed supported by centuries of genocide and slavery. The corporation is an artifact of victorious racism. </p><p>The corporation is the basis of empire. </p><p>The very quaint idea of a republic based on land-owning violent white males suppressing the native American and Black African to create an imperial nation that would now colonize and militarize space sums it all up. </p><p>Notice that CEOs and oligarchs are white or support a white agenda that would dominate the world through technology wedded to government. Silicon Valley completely supports imperial hegemony and California leads the nation&#8217;s War Machine.</p><p>America, reinvent yourself as something other than fascist white trash. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The allure of the machine that replaces labor and thinking]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI can do it all.]]></description><link>https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/the-allure-of-the-machine-that-replaces</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/the-allure-of-the-machine-that-replaces</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Gannett]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:39:35 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IqAg!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc469f953-5548-4e68-a0c7-87d70318275e_1180x916.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>AI is the machine that can replace both the intellect and the hands. It can do it all. Just give it the right commands, and presto, the job is done. It&#8217;s like the most capable and clever servant, and it doesn&#8217;t have to be paid! </p><p>All that is required is to feed it data, lots of data, as much data as possible, and it will learn how to do anything, think and make anything, almost instantly. When AI is allied with robotics, 3-D printing, nano technology, data farms and corporate funding and control, it is like God. </p><p>But God requires obedience, and in this case that means the corporation. The corporation is God, didn&#8217;t you know? That&#8217;s how it is. AI is created by and owned by the corporation, the for-profit corporation, that can now think and create better than Homo Faber; the machine can do it better- and faster! The machine is like God, and you are now its servant.</p><p>Our job is to service the machine, the machine that is now our God, because we have forgotten how to think, and how to use our hands, except to praise the machine that is God. The machine is now our master, our powerful master, and those who service the machine and keep it happy will be well rewarded. Everyone else, not so much. </p><p>This is called progress, and is the apotheosis of the Machine Age, the age in which the machine becomes God. </p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who gives a shit?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is fascism so pass&#233;?]]></description><link>https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/who-gives-a-shit</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/who-gives-a-shit</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Gannett]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 05:34:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IqAg!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc469f953-5548-4e68-a0c7-87d70318275e_1180x916.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is impossible for the US government, NATO and most Americans to view the Ukraine war from the Russian perspective. There is simply no valid reason, so the West thinks, why Russia would invade Ukraine, a sovereign nation.</p><p>A principal reason given by Russia for the invasion is the elimination of UKR neo-Nazi nationalism which the US has long supported, especially since the 2014 Maidan Coup. Of course, the US denies that it supported neo-Nazis in the coup, or that it was invloved in any way in the coup, or that there was even a coup, and that after the coup the US supported the neo-Nazi shelling of the Donbass, yet anyone who has followed the matter knows this is a pack of lies. All of this is well documented, even if suppressed by corporate media. </p><p>Now, the interesting thing is that the US also denies that it supports Israeli fascism and genocide in Gaza which is even better documented as a live-streamed genocide. This is interesting for the simple reason that it confirms a theme, namely that the US government and corporate state media cannot admit that the US is itself a militarized fascist corporate state. The US and its media shills pathologically lie about US foreign policy objectives, and how these objectives subvert domestic policies as well. </p><p>And when the US publically kidnaps the leader of Venezuela and installs a puppet regime, and commands its oil economy,  does corporate media connect the dots that the government has gone fascist?</p><p>And when the government places a total embargo on Cuba, and attempts to starve the nation to death, does the media wake up and cry foul?</p><p>When the US government threatens to seize Greenland and annex it as a US possession, does the light bulb brighten?</p><p>What does it take for corporate media and the good American public to connect the dots and figure out what is going on? I mean, really, what does it take?</p><p>The best, so far, is for good liberals to march a bit and cry out, &#8220;No Kings&#8221;, as if the problem were simply about royal abuse, and not about a government that has plunged into vicious fascism.</p><p>The inability of media and the public- including good liberals, to register the nature, the magnitude and severity of what&#8217;s happening is frightening. This is more frightening than the foreign policy fiascoes themselves. </p><p>By now, Genocide Joe and his cabinet should be in Le Hague, King Baby and his cabinet likewise, or strung up like Mussolini. But of course most of Congress likewise is culpable, and should answer for their complicity in genocide and war crimes as well. That would include just about the entire government. </p><p>Maybe this explains why nothing at all has happened, and will not happen, until the public gives a shit and can do something more than march a bit and whine a lot. Will that day ever come? </p><p> </p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The importance of groking political and social reality, and speaking/acting out]]></title><description><![CDATA[against the Death Cult.]]></description><link>https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/the-importance-of-groking-political</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/the-importance-of-groking-political</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Gannett]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:39:47 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IqAg!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc469f953-5548-4e68-a0c7-87d70318275e_1180x916.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s important to not live in a bubble, especially an archly delusional and destructive bubble: it is important to not live in a death cult. We live in a time when many are confused by the manipulations of the corporate state in its efforts to maintain empire. </p><p>It is easy to retreat into an attitude that one is helpless and can do nothing about despotic machinations that include an AI assisted police state waging genocide. The first and most important step is to recognize that the problem is bipartisan, and that it is rooted in predatory corporate based capitalism.</p><p>It is important to realize that virtually no politician or corporate media outlet will provide an accurate description of the problem. Instead, the analysis of our time will be couched as a partisan problem, as either a Democrat or Republican problem, or the problem of an ouside actor, such as Islam, Russia or China.</p><p>The US is responsible for the bankrolling and promotion of 25 years of continuous gratuitous wars to preserve imperial hegemony. No other nation can remotely compare to the depredations of US foreign policy. </p><p>To put it simply, the US has gone berserk, and largely because of Islamaphobia and Zionism on the one hand, and Russophobia on the other hand.  There is scarcely a recognition by our elites that we have a problem with psychosis, and there is every likelihood that we will plunge, like Israel, into total viciousness.</p><p>It is vitally important that people talk about and become informed about how utterly vicious US domestic policy has become as a direct result of its foreign policy. The chickens are coming home to roost with a vegenance. No one will be spared. There is no way to gloss what&#8217;s happening with a defense of Israel, that it has the right to defend itself with apartheid, war crimes and genocide because of the Holocaust, etc. This is completely obscene. </p><p>For nearly 3 years an unbelievable horror has been inflicted on the Palestinian as a justification of Jewish state supremacy; this horror now extends into Lebanon, and has caused a completely illegal and unjust war against Iran that threatens to destroy the world economy. This is utter madness. This is psychosis.</p><p>It is long past time for everyone to wake up, call out and put an end to the US/ Israeli death cult. And it is long past time to stop the utter destruction of Ukraine by refusing to negotiate a diplomatic solution to end it. The nuclear genie will be loosed otherwise, and the death cult will have triumphed with finality.</p><p>What will we have to say when the Final Solution arrives?</p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thinking machine]]></title><description><![CDATA[What is it good for?]]></description><link>https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/the-thinking-machine</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/the-thinking-machine</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Gannett]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 06:02:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IqAg!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc469f953-5548-4e68-a0c7-87d70318275e_1180x916.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>AI is hell-bent on creating a thinking machine, a machine that parodies the human intellect. AI of course does not have consciousness, it does not have a soul, and this is why it can only parody the intellect. It can act like it is intelligent, but it is simply algorithms computing at super fast speed accessing tons of data. </p><p>AI is like the image reflected in water that Narcissus falls in love with: &#8220;AI is so smart! It is unbelievably smart and beautiful, and so useful and capable! I love it!&#8221; This response is both vanity and alienation from spirit; we would all like to be super smart, super capable and think cogently very, very fast. Life would be so much easier! But this worship of the super fast mind alienates one from spirit, which is only revealed in silence. The super fast mind is the very opposite of spirit. </p><p>Spirit is what elevates consciousness into a higher dimension of creativity and inspiration, but this bypasses the intellect.  Spirit is actually based more on feeling than it is on intellect; but I don&#8217;t mean emotion. Purified feeling is contemplative, and in the case of saints attains a spiritual passion such as St. Francis exemplified. </p><p>AI is celebrated largely because it can organize and mimic thinking in applications that make money. AI is above all mercantile. In fact, the only reason AI is funded with billions of dollars is because of the expectation that it will pay back trillions of dollars. And it is also celebrated for the fact that it represents power, the power to collect and analyze data, and use that data to gain dominance over individuals, collectives and nations. AI is about money and power. </p><p>The single most important patron and customer of AI is the War Machine and the National Security State. If an individual is impressed by the capability of AI, how does the Department of War assess it? The answer is obvious.</p><p>Israel and the US are at the forefront of developing the military applications of AI, which are devoted to genocide in the case of the Palestinian. The super fast mind is all about gaining advantage over the slower and more human mind. This is the history of the colonial West in fact. The longstanding Anglo-American prejudice is that they are the smartest and most capable lords of the universe, and that they should remain so. </p><p>And this is why they love AI, this is why they support AI and this is why you should be afraid, very afraid of AI. </p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stating the obvious]]></title><description><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani and Abdul El-Sayed illustrate that one has to have skin in the game to be politically effective in countering extreme racism and demagoguery.]]></description><link>https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/stating-the-obvious</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/stating-the-obvious</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Gannett]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:38:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IqAg!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc469f953-5548-4e68-a0c7-87d70318275e_1180x916.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Zohran Mamdani and Abdul El-Sayed illustrate that one has to have skin in the game to be politically effective in countering extreme racism and demagoguery. Nothing counts as much as sincere and honest representation of the facts by those who can cogently articulate them. And white people, even liberal white people, don&#8217;t have the mojo. </p><p>US politics is essentially selling out to corporate, neo-con and Zionist lobbying, except for those few politicians who identify the militarized corporate state as  destructive of democracy.  The few politicians, like Bernie Sanders and AOC, who are now anti-genocide, sat on the fence for years before changing their rhetoric. And even so, their critique of the full depravity of US politics remains tepid. Rashida Tlaib of Palestianian heritage was the only politician to openly protest the arch fascist Netanyahu&#8217;s joyous reception by Congress in July, 2024.</p><p>Noam Chomsky made the observation that the Palestinian suffers interminably for the simply reason he has no political representation. But that is slowly changing as Muslim voices gain prominence and create the possibility for a sea-change.</p><p>Republican apostates like Tucker Carlson, MTG, Thomas Massie and Joe Kent are a more significant opposition to the militarized corporate state as American Firsters than the feckless good liberal, until perhaps now with the advent of Muslim fighters for truth and justice in American politics. </p><p>We will see how sincere the good liberal proves to be in  supporting truth and justice by countering the massively entrenched  devotion to fascsim in Congress. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American empire is crashing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thank God!]]></description><link>https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/the-american-empire-is-crashing</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/the-american-empire-is-crashing</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Gannett]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:22:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IqAg!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc469f953-5548-4e68-a0c7-87d70318275e_1180x916.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks to Iran and Russia, the American empire is crashing. The present phase of imperial hubris is the climactic denouement of 25 years of Terror Wars and the US proxy war against Russia in which Ukraine is being destroyed. Both Russia and the Near East have a long sordid history of suffering US aggression in its quest for imperial global hegemony. But that effort is failing and collapsing.</p><p>Putin said enough is enough, and that Russia will not tolerate the humiliation of a great power by the US again and again breaking its promoise to not advance NATO membership toward Russia&#8217;s borders. UKR was a redline for Russia which the US deliberaltely violated in the effort to degrade Russian power within its own sphere of influence. </p><p>The US has been at war with Iranian nationalism since 1953, almost as long as it has traumatized itself and the world with combating &#8220;godless&#8221; communism. Russia and Iran represent the last standing resistance against US and Israeli aggression and their bid for ever greater fascist hegemony.</p><p>It is utterly pathetic to have to repeat that it is transparently obvious that the US and Israel both want to seize and control natural resources that don&#8217;t belong to them, and that this is what they have in common and to which the US pledges eternal loyalty, under the guise of defending the persecuted Jew and Ukrainian. This is the militarized corporate state in action. It has nothing at all to do with high sounding liberal principles of free trade and democracy. </p><p>But why do so many buy into this Orwellian cant? Because all main-stream media is owned and controlled by the very same corporate state that relentlessly wages war to command natural resources, and the American public is forever witless. </p><p>Here is one gigantic tragic irony to this colossal debacle: the US and Israel claim the high holy righteous ground from which to lambast the godless infidel. Russia and Iran are essentially godless barbarians, in their telling, while the US and Israel are shining examples of religious and political rectitude. All this, while Russia and Iran simply want geopolitical justice. They do not want to become vassal states of a greater US and Israeli hegemony. </p><p>The problem is really this simple. </p><p>This geopolitical nightmare is all about the crashing American empire and the utter vacuity of vassal states such as Israel and Ukraine, which are the most unfortunate and tragic examples proving the murderous insincerity of American foreign policy. </p><p>The entire world gets this, even if the blinkered American public doesn&#8217;t. But one day soon, the good American will wake up to find out he and she has been snookered up the wazoo. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consumerism is the opiate of democracy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Americans get fat, and cease to think.]]></description><link>https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/consumerism-is-the-opiate-of-democracy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/consumerism-is-the-opiate-of-democracy</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Gannett]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:57:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IqAg!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc469f953-5548-4e68-a0c7-87d70318275e_1180x916.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Americans get fat, and cease to think. Hungry hordes from abroad arrive and revitalize the nation&#8217;s economy with a superior work ethic. Repeat, ad nauseam. </p><p>The American Dream is a potent narcotic, indeed. It is a &#8220;land of opportunity&#8221;, where opportunity means to become a slave to the militarized and racist corporate state. The service sector pays shit, but the corporate sector pays well. And so the enterprising immigrant begins to climb the ladder of success. And he and she then inevitably become complacent and fat.</p><p>The underlying mythos to the American political experiment is that the &#8220;melting pot&#8221; creates democracy, when the opposite is the truth. The melting pot creates homogenized assent to the militarized corporate state as its noble benefactor, when the fact is that the very notion of American democracy is to always sacrifice labor for capital.</p><p>America was a land of opportunity only on the basis of resources up for grab; California was settled only because of the 1849 Gold Rush. Now, 175 years later, CA is a corporate based oligarchy par excellence, kept alive by hungry Hispanics.</p><p>In CA, virtually every service sector job from landscaping to child care to resaturant, construction and agricultural work is done by Hispanics. They are the workers who make CA thrive. But to succeed in corporate America, they must give up their identity as laborers and endorse capital, which is always exploitive and racist.</p><p>To get health care in America, you need a stable corporate sector job. To get good social security at retirement, you need a corporate sector job. To become a socialized and sucessful American, you need a corporate sector job. </p><p>Labor, in America, is always abjectly inferior in its benefits to capital.</p><p>This is the sickness and degradation of the American political and economic system. It is potently anti-worker, anti-labor and anti-democratic. It promotes corporate based oligarchy that is always racist and exploitive. This is called American empire.</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p>  </p><p> </p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in late Kali Yuga, which coincides with the machine and AI age]]></title><description><![CDATA[According to Indian tradition, the Kali Yuga began with the advent of Lord Krishna, some 5,000 years ago.]]></description><link>https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/we-are-in-late-kali-yuga-which-coincides</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/we-are-in-late-kali-yuga-which-coincides</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Gannett]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:06:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IqAg!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc469f953-5548-4e68-a0c7-87d70318275e_1180x916.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>According to Indian tradition, the Kali Yuga began with the advent of Lord Krishna, some 5,000 years ago. The Kali Yuga is when the bull of Dharma (righteousness) teeters on one foot, the bull having lost one foot during each of the two previous ages, the Bronze and Silver Ages. In the Golden Age, the bull was secure on all four feet. </p><p>The Kali Yuga is also known as the Iron Age, and the latter part of it is the Machine Age, which is now progressing into a new phase of AI, algorithms and data farms weaponized by the National Security State.</p><p>At this time, everything is being turned upside down. The bull of Dharma is collapsing which means that chaos is becoming fully normalized, largely through the technological and militarized corporate state devoted to godless, infernal and weaponized religion, aka faux Judaism and Christianity. </p><p>These two religions are the dominant religions of the imperial West responsible for the past 5 centuries of exploitive colonialism in which racism, genocide, slavery and resource extraction have been self-righteously rationalized and which have become the definition of civilzational greatness. </p><p>Judaism, the oldest of the Abrahamic religions (although Zoroastrians would challenge this notion), has been diabolically usurped and enshrined as the state of Israel in the single greatest act of (ironic) antisemitism since the Holocaust. The conflation of the Jew with politicized and genocidal Judaism is the defining betrayal of all world religions. </p><p>The betrayal of Judaism by apartheid and genocidal Israel and the betrayal of Christianity by the imperial West in service to endless war-mongering is now entering a new heightened technological phase based on high speed computing drawing upon   data mining. This requires innumerable enormous &#8220;data farms&#8221; to store data to be analysed by algorithms so that the digital machine can finally rule the Earth. These data farms consume enormous amounts of water to cool the super hot servers humming with stolen data- data farms mine any and all data without permission, and they consume enormous amouts of energy: they have a massive carbon footprint. </p><p>Israel has fully implemented AI in its murderous erasurse of Palestine. It is developing the most advanced terrorist applications of AI in collaboration with the US. The future of hi-tech dystopia has arrived, and it loves, absolutely loves, fascism.</p><p>In the late Kali Yuga, the digital machine in the hands of corporate oligarchs increasingly comes to rule the world. It gives rise to the Surveillance State and the National Security State; it disempowers labor and empowers an elite class of managers and technologists to promote corporate state control of the world.</p><p>Corporate state oligarchy has become normalized, and in alliance with the digital machine will seek to increasingly dominate the world. Racism, oligarchy and technology are combining to ceate the New Colonialism, the despotic rule of the hi-tech exploitive super rich. The moto of our late Kali Yuga is, POWER IS EVERYTHING, as the bull of Dharma finally collapses.</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fascism doesn't have to make sense!]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is what good liberals need to grok.]]></description><link>https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/fascism-doesnt-have-to-make-sense</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/fascism-doesnt-have-to-make-sense</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Gannett]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:58:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IqAg!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc469f953-5548-4e68-a0c7-87d70318275e_1180x916.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The thing about fascism is that it is always ridiculous. It doesn&#8217;t have to make sense. If you are laughing at King Baby Trump because he doesn&#8217;t make sense, your laugh is wasted. The point about fascism is that it never makes sense. Don&#8217;t waste your time ridiculing KBT for his inanities. They are infinite in number, and you will ever enumerate them all. </p><p>Ridiculing King Baby is avoiding the point that fascism is bipartisan. Fascism describes what we call the US government. Fascism is not solely about a given president&#8217;s heinous antics, but about what created presidential heinous antics as a bipartisan fact. </p><p>Genocide Joe initiated the Gaza genocide; for 15 months he supported the Gaza genocide. Only then did King Baby continue the genocide and war crimes.  He did so on the basis that the Dims had already sanctioned genocide and war crimes. This is like, duh, duh, so obvious. </p><p>But good liberals, so very righteous good liberals, who want to feel so very good about being good liberals, forget that the Dims initated the genocide. And continue to support the genocide, even as they blame KB for the entire horrid catastrophe. </p><p>What the propagandized American needs, desperately needs to grok, is that the entire government, aka the Deep State, is completely vicious and fascist. </p><p>But the sad, the very sad thing is that the good liberal will then have to abdicate self-righteousness. And this the good liberal will never, never do. </p><p> </p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics may suck, but veracity counts!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Politics is a rigged horse race and deserves its reputation as wretched banality.]]></description><link>https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/politics-may-suck-but-veracity-counts</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/politics-may-suck-but-veracity-counts</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Gannett]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:38:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IqAg!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc469f953-5548-4e68-a0c7-87d70318275e_1180x916.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Politics is a rigged horse race and deserves its reputation as wretched banality. But veracity still counts. The truth still counts. <br><br>The primary responsibility of the good citizen is to witness truth, and not support the lie. Go ahead, don&#8217;t vote, but nonetheless witness truth. Demand that any politician you support represent the truth, or decline to su&#8230;</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason for American and English disconnection from egalitarian politics]]></title><description><![CDATA[Both England and the US are functionally islands.]]></description><link>https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/the-reason-for-american-and-english</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/the-reason-for-american-and-english</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Gannett]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:38:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IqAg!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc469f953-5548-4e68-a0c7-87d70318275e_1180x916.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Both England and the US are functionally islands. Both nations act as if they are islands that need not answer to contiguous problems, because they live and move and have their being in floating space. </p><p>This allows both nations to project imperial power with relative psychological impunity as they are insulated from the fallout that represents the violen&#8230;</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The total insincerity of Western politics]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is a very weird time.]]></description><link>https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/the-total-insincerity-of-western</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/the-total-insincerity-of-western</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Gannett]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 03:13:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IqAg!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc469f953-5548-4e68-a0c7-87d70318275e_1180x916.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a very weird time. A very Orwellian time. Orwellian politics is all about the deliberate false framing of political and social reality. </p><p>The point to remember is that political and social reality is largely constructed and contrived on the basis of power. That is, who controls and directs public narrative. </p><p>Here, in the US, it is the corporate sta&#8230;</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end of colonialism]]></title><description><![CDATA[is the end of Israel.]]></description><link>https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/the-end-of-colonialism</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/the-end-of-colonialism</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Gannett]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:08:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IqAg!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc469f953-5548-4e68-a0c7-87d70318275e_1180x916.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why can&#8217;t the US and Britain give up the horrid nightmare of supporting Israel? Because Israel is the last stand of completely racist colonialism, which supports the collapsing Anglo/American empire. </p><p>The colonial era began some 500 years ago and was marked by brutal white European domination of the world&#8217;s peoples and resources, based on genocide, slave&#8230;</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full-on psychosis]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lock political elites up!]]></description><link>https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/full-on-psychosis</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/full-on-psychosis</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Gannett]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:16:47 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IqAg!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc469f953-5548-4e68-a0c7-87d70318275e_1180x916.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Joe Biden in promoting the Gaza genocide because he couldn&#8217;t say no to Netanyahu, and Kamala Harris because she, as his DNC-selected replacement candidate, couldn&#8217;t say no to the genocide as well, brought us the worst and most consequential president in US history. </p><p>Liberal psychosis literally brought us the full-on fascist King Baby Trump. </p><p>Unfortunately&#8230;</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imperial depression]]></title><description><![CDATA[What a deep, deep black funk.]]></description><link>https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/imperial-depression</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://destroyempire.substack.com/p/imperial-depression</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Gannett]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 01:34:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IqAg!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc469f953-5548-4e68-a0c7-87d70318275e_1180x916.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One would think that a great empire such as the US would be a happy and prosperous empire. But think again.</p><p>The internal contradictions of the US empire are staggering. It is not an ordinary empire of great wealth percolating through and uplifting the masses, but an empire of oligarchs. Three individuals own more wealth than the poorest 50% of the nation&#8230;</p>
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