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Containment and Expropriation: Lockdowns, Public Health, and the Scrap Iron Industry in Trinidad & Tobago

Beginning in July of 2022 a series of articles here and on Disaster X have been examining and questioning what it means to declare crime a “public health emergency”. The case is that of Trinidad & Tobago, which is being used as a lab experiment by US agencies. This is relevant to important new research […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Why did the Left Fail the Covid Test So Badly?

Note: Contrary to this site’s policy of not republishing work from other sites, which has been in effect for several years, this exception is a must. It is almost impossible for me to find something with which I agree so thoroughly, and what follows is the rarest of exceptions. It consists of exactly what I […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Declaring Crime to be a Public Health Emergency: Trinidad & Tobago Out Front

When it should be that the declaration of a public health emergency is itself the crime. “There are efforts being made to ensure that countries respond in the way that we are responding here in Trinidad & Tobago….We are a bit out front on it”. These were the words of Dr. Keith Rowley, the Prime […]

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by Maximilian C. Forte

The Work of Factions and the Pandemic’s Political Collapse

We are now facing a regime that is losing, is aware that it is losing, and wants at all costs to survive even if it means damning everyone else. That is the picture that we get, in bold strokes. In practice, there may be considerable divisions and emergent factionalism within the pandemicist regime. By pandemicism […]

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by Maximilian C. Forte

Are You Afraid of the Digital Taleban?

In the latest in militainment news, Electronic Arts has bowed to pressure from military officials in the U.S. and UK–not that it wasn’t already predisposed to their sentiments–and to the overreaching complaints of family members of those who died killing Afghans, and removed mention of the Taleban from the upcoming release of “Medal of Honor.” […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Automatic Replay: “Two” Imperialist Speeches from the One Party State

“Bi-partisanship” is a word I have known for as long as I have known the United States. Speeches promoting the idea provide one of those moments when the ethos of the de facto one party state comes into focus. For the rest of the world, distinctions between “Democrat” and “Republican” have long been seen as […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Finally, Ward Churchill’s lawsuit goes to court in 2009 (1.5)

Great news from How the university works that Ward Churchill’s very good case against the University of Colorado will go to court in early 2009, challenging the right wing witch hunt that unfairly targeted him and that stalks the 65% of faculty in the U.S. who are not tenured, or are not tenure-track. As laid […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

09-11-1984, The Calculus of Fear: When Trivial Terrors Become the “Real Threats”

Orange has become America’s new national colour. Before the Hate had proceeded for thirty seconds, uncontrollable exclamations of rage were breaking out from half the people in the room. The self-satisfied sheep-like face on the screen, and the terrifying power of the Eurasian army behind it, were too much to be borne: besides, the sight […]