… are economic warfare.

28% of the world’s population (a conservative estimate) is subjected to this kind of warfare from the US. “Cuba has been under siege for 64 years, but there are 30 other countries where this kind of war runs broad and deep in 2023.

Being at war with the world this way will become the why and how of the end of Empire.

We are not the good guys.

I’m sure your savvy will get you through and you’ll be fine, yeah yeah yeah.

I’m sure I will be too, even lacking the simplest kinds of that savvy.

I’m not as optimistic for the kids though.

Not by a long shot.

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And lest we forget about the other kind of Empire war, toward the end of the interview Sachs notes correctly that ‘just about every bomb falling on Gaza is an American bomb’.

The great weight of the military-industrial complex presses down on the least of these our brothers and sisters like a boot on a neck, and our comforts and vaunted standards of living are based on the leftover scraps of that big evil process.

But … don’t let that fact stop you from enjoying the occasional well-chosen comfort anyway.