Limits to Progress

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April 5, 2026: Take your toys and go home, Donny! 2730 words 18 KB
Here is an interesting comment posted on GWA weekend monitor Read:
"The Sebait layer. Kathleen at 79 is doing Sebait work – curating the wisdom voices (Sachs, Mearsheimer, Wilkerson) and transmitting them forward. But her transmission is narrative. Her readers get why this is unjust. Your readers get why the money moves anyway. Those two frequencies together are more powerful than either alone."

April 2, 2026: A cross-post of Is Iran the 'Leading State Sponsor of Terrorism?' (w/ John Kiriakou) | The Chris Hedges Report As the U.S. seeks to label Iran as a mass sponsor of state terrorism, CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou looks inward, examining the decades of US-backed terror campaigns waged towards imperialist ends.

March 29, 2026: Who Controls Oil Controls the World 2815 words 10 KB

March 26, 2026: A cross-post of MOMS LOG OFF – And the World Didn't End - What happens when the people running everything quietly decide to go dancing instead.
Here's a deep dive into the underpinnings of the entire social order - the largely unseen, underappreciated and definitely unpaid work that enables everything you see in the "productive" economy as well as every aspect of "normal" life – family, education, health and social services. It definitely has a cost, and someone's paying it, someone's carrying that load.

March 26, 2026: A cross-post of The false prophet Trump and the ghosts of Epstein: between Armageddon and the day of reckoning by Ismaele.
"There are very important concepts in this article and yes, the world is watching, but watching is an inadequate response. Possibly, this could be the last opportunity to end this nonsense. Silence is complicity in the crime."

March 24, 2026: A cross-post of The War on Iran: Anatomy of a Conflict That Is Reshaping the World Order by Ismaele.
Here's the entire world situation, summarized in one article! "Great powers do not collapse when they are defeated on the battlefield. They collapse when they insist on fighting wars that belong to the past. The Iranian crisis risks being remembered not as a show of strength, but as the moment when the West once again confused military power with strategic vision."

March 23, 2026: Vassal States: Hall of Shame 349 words 4 KB

March 23, 2026: Energy Collapse 838 words, 8 KB

March 22, 2026: A cross-post of America is Achieving Full-Spectrum Energy Dominance – And Nobody is Paying Attention by Karim at BETTBEAT, "You're not watching a war. You're watching America lock every nation on earth into energy servitude – An analysis of Richard Medhurst's "Petro-Gas Dollar" thesis – and "the way out" he missed."

March 21, 2026: A cross-post of We need more than price controls by Prof. Warwick Powell, "A hasty, provisional thermoeconomic response to the unfolding hydrocarbons crisis"

March 21, 2026: A cross-post of Empire, Extraction, and the Global Majority: Mapping the Invisible Chains of U.S. Domination by William Murphy, "How a tiny transnational elite and its imperial proxies control the lives of billions while the global majority labors in silence."

March 19, 2026: March 19 2026 - Make a Choice 520 words 5 KB

March 19, 2026: A cross-post of A Planned Crisis: Iran, Debt, The Digital Dollar - ISMAELE - MAR 19, 2026

March 16, 2026: How to really end the war 1275 words, 10 KB

March 15, 2026: A cross-post of [COPY] Why the West Aligned with Israel, Clings to a Settler State That's Already Dying - Israel's Collapse Exposes the Rot of Empire, By Rima Najjar, Oct. 3, 2025

March 13, 2026: Who's in Charge? 2400 words, 17 KB

March 10, 2026: A Cross-Post of an essay by BettBeat Media: Iran and the Psychopathology of White Supremacy, By Ajamu Baraka

March 9, 2026: This Is The End 1680 words, 13 KB

March 5, 2026: Pedophile's War, Day Five 459 words, 5KB

March 3, 2026: Stand with the Resistance, or Lie Down in Submission 1090 words, 9 KB

March 2, 2026: A cross-post from Endtropy on Substack - Operation Epic Folly(Fury) - Part 1: US-Israeli Miscalculation and Iranian Retaliatory Doctrine - The Perfect War Machine fighting a War it was never designed for.

March 2, 2026: This Illegal US-Israeli Attack on Iran Is Also an Assault on the United Nations by Jeffrey D. Sachs & Sybil Fares, 1800 words, 18 KB

March 1, 2026: A cross-post from Scott Ritter: Regime Change, the Double-Edged Sword

February 28, 2026: Pedophile War – Day Two 2847 words 20 KB

February 28, 2026: February 28 – a very bad year! 219 words, 9 links to read, 4 KB

February 27, 2026: Welcome New Subscribers 1063 words, 10 KB

February 26, 2026: A cross-post of the text of an address by Prof. Glenn Diesen of Norway, to the Valdai Discussion Club.

February 24, 2026: A cross-post from Prof. Glenn Diesen's speech at the UN Security Council.

February 22, 2026: A cross-post of an article by The Duke Report, which you may read here on Substack

February 19, 2026: There is no "Away" to run to 1474 words 12 KB

February 19, 2026: An Article on AI by Milind Pathak A link to his article - please read!

February 17, 2026: Canada the Colonialist? 677 words, 6 KB

February 16, 2026: Jeffery D. Sachs Open Letter to the U.N. Security COuncil This is a link to the letter on Common Dreams, I'm not converting it to another HTML page here.

February 16, 2026 Around the world, February 16th 596 words 6 KB

February 12, 2026: Out of Gas 983 words, 8 KB

February 7, 2026: No Crocodile Tears for Arms Control 1567 words, 13 KB

February 6, 2026: Canada's Goose is cooked 1084 words, 9 KB

February 5, 2026: Mr. Hersch, that's Strike Number 2 201 words, 3 KB

January 30,2026: A Cross-Posting of:
The Israelification of America: ICE, Surveillance, and the U.S. Occupation at Home - How American institutions are adopting the logic of occupation—and why our borders are just the beginning. WILLIAM MURPHY JAN 29, 2026
"'This is a long-term struggle, but awareness is the first weapon.' This enforcement system is what the zionist entity sells to all nations who wish to hold their populations in permanent captivity. This is the REAL purpose of all the new data centers." - Kathleen McCroskey

January 30,2026: A Cross-Posting of:
Optimal Zero Sum Game Theory: The American Century - JOHN DOE - JAN 09, 2026, from CIA - Collapse Intelligence Agency
"Unfortunately, the Future could look exactly like this, unless the Rest OF The World can do some heavy lifting!" - Kathleen McCroskey

January 25, 2026: Inranian "Protests" Explainer 1161 words, 12 KB

January 14, 2026: Is Peace Even Possible? 2098 wrds, 17 KB

January 9, 2026: Power Without Consequences 1457 words, 12 KB

January 4, 2026: Suffering Beyond Measure, Evil Beyond Words 665 words, 7 KB

January 1, 2026: The Furure Starts in March 1007 words, 8 KB

December 28, 2015: The Empire Ended in 72 Hours? 452 words, 6 KB

December 27, 2025: How was your Christmas? For the banks, it was a disaster. 555 words, 5 KB

December 24, 2025: Someone has a Money Problem 1283 words, 9 KB

December 19, 2025: Value(s) 1317 words, 11 KB

December 13, 2025: Dearth of Progressive voices in Canada 1215 words, 9 KB

December 7, 2025: Correspondence Nov-2025 2544 words, 20 KB

November 21, 2025: COP-30: The Latest Failure 789 words, 7 KB