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PS: I posted this eight years ago:
President Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia and Israel may well be the beginning of a process that could culminate in a kind of peace that no o

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Please watch the video above. It's one of many, but it drives the point. The urgency. The impending human apocalypse. This is not science fiction or a thriller. What can be done to alert the world to our impending doom? What are cultural institutions and universities doing about this? Are we in a mortal state of distraction?
I wrote about this on Tingis Magazine:
Over the last few decades, a consensus has been growing in major hubs of science and technology, especially in the United States, that the h
We need more voices.
In my book Islam and America: Building a Future without Prejudice, published in December 2011, I wrote this:
“. . . the Republican president [George W. Bush] chose forty-nine-year-old Bernard B. Kerik—a man who as a toddler, was abandoned by his prostitute mother (who was probably later killed by her pimp), dropped out of high school, declared bankruptcy, ran a jail in New Jersey, supervised the security of Saudi royal hospitals, worked as an undercover detective, and eventually rose to New York City police commissioner, a post he held during the terrorist attacks of 9/11—to run the newly created Department of Homeland Security. Kerik eventually withdrew his nomination after it turned out that he had hired an illegal immigrant nanny and engaged in other illegal activities. After a decade of legal wrangling, he was finally sent to prison in 2010. Still, the fact that he had been chosen or this powerful post attests to the opportunities available to average Americans."
Another example of Steve Bannon's explanation of the Trump Revolution and why it matters to America. I think of Bannon, ironically, as the Lenin of the MAGA movement. There is no one in America--or the world--who comes close to his command of global geopolitics, combined with a complete understanding of the capitalist world order. He may very well be the last of a species of leaders who can still articulate a political vision based on a vast knowledge of history and economics.
In this PBS Newshour aired on December 5, 1994, Henry Kissinger and former ambassador to the Soviet Union Jack Matlock discuss the future of NATO and Russia after the collpase of the Soviet Union. This historical perspective is what is missing from the shouting matches today about the Ukraine-Russia war. This is why the study of history matters.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the newly confrmed Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, introduces himself and his views to his colleagues. Let us hope that this great American succeeds in his noble mission.
Can Donald Trump actually end the Ukraine war? Jeffrey Sachs thinks he can.
This is a must-watch interview. Except for someone like Henry Kessinger, there are a few people who can match Jeffrey Sachs's knowledge of the contemporary world and the people who have shaped it.
One of the most powerful expressions of the MAGA or populist nationalist revolutioin under way in the United States right now.
59 seconds · Clipped by Tingis Magazine · Original video "TRUMP TEAM: RFK Jr. sworn in as Secretary of Health and Human Services" by The Nat
A historic moment in American history.
Countries with democratic governments and mostly free economies should come together and create a new trade regime, based on balance.
A few facts from this article:
"That the trading system has failed America seems clear. In the last 20 years, we have transferred some $20 trillion of our wealth (in the form of equity in our companies, debt and real estate) to the governments and citizens of the exploiting countries. The aggressors now own both those assets and the future income of a large segment of the U.S. economy. We and our children are poorer and our ostensible trading “partners” are richer."
“We recently achieved a dubious distinction in two critical areas: For the first time in our history, we imported more food than we exported, and more than half of the passenger cars sold in America were imported.”
"But our workers are the real victims of these policies. They have seen millions of their good-paying jobs disappear, their real wages have mostly stagnated for more than two decades and many of their communities have been decimated."
"At the same time, wealth inequality has grown to an alarming level. The top 1 percent of our families now have more wealth than the middle 60 percent."

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30 seconds · Clipped by Tingis Magazine · Original video "Elon Musk's Speech At Trump's Mar-a-Lago (High Quality)" by Tech Chasm
At least, the French have the critical acumen to appreciate the emergence of Trump, his Second Coming, and his partnership with history's most creative and wealthiest man. I recently asked the historian Robert Allison who would Thomas Jefferson have voted for in the last 2024 presidential election? I leave that same question to the readers of this post. I spent the last eight years walking on eggshells trying to convince my colleagues that we live in revolutionary times. The right/left, conservative/progressive binaries have preempted any attempt at a lucid analysis of the Trump phenomenon.
Clint Eastwood's new film Juror #2 is yet another inadvertent indictment of the jury system as average people with busy lives render a unanimous verdict on an innocent man prosecuted by an ambitious politician and represented by a public defender. The film is not quite like Sidney Lumet's first feature film, 12 Angry Men, released in 1957. In both cases, a holdout juror challenges his eleven co-jurors and manages to raise serious doubt or even reverse their majority decision in the end. But such outcomes are unlikely to happen in real life, Michael Astimow argued in an article he wrote for the Chiacgo-Kent Law Review on the 50th anniversary of Lumet's film. Despite the limitations of a jury verdict, Americans put far more trust in juries than they do in the U.S. Justice system, judges, or lawyers. In the end, justice and truth, as Juror # 2 suggests, are not always the same.
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The post-2024 election interview with Bernie Sanders reminds me of Edward Luttwak's article above, published on July 28, 2017, telling readers that Trump and Sanders have more in common than people realize. Here's what he wrote:
"The victory of the Democratic establishment merely ensured the victory of the only Sanders counterpart on the Republican side with whom Sanders differed sharply on almost everything – except for the only thing that really mattered to both: the urgent need to mobilize government policies to increase American jobs and wages, in firm opposition to all the competing international and planetary priorities continuously proffered by elite Americans and their core institutions."
In the meantime, "leading commentators did the very opposite: they asserted in tones of unassailable certainty that both men were irremediably unelectable. That was, admittedly, a perfectly reasonable conclusion, given that neither happened to have a party to support them."
Sanders never succeeded in leading Democrats or his nation, but his Republican alter ego Trump managed to win the presidency twice and has transformed the stuffy Republican Party of corporate bosses into a populist party of the people.
How the media reacted to Donald Trump's victory in 2024.
The French spent the early hours of November 6, 2024 ( "la nuit americaine," they called it) trying to understand the Trump phenomenon and his impending return to the presidency.

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I couldn’t resist rushing to watch Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, a movie fable about the collapse of New Rome and the emergence of a new world designed by Cesar Catilina, a Nobel prize laureate, a latter-day Robert Moses, or should we say, the American version of the Saudi prince MBS who is in the process of creating Neom, a city that resembles the utopian one planned by Cesar. Heavy references to Rome (Coppola is of Italian ancestry, of course), Nietzschean characters with vast powers to change the world, and a tsunami of social desperation make this a quintessentially American fable as if emerging from the imagination of inebriated partygoer trying to impress his audience (this is surely a male fantasy). Occasional captions try to guide the lost viewer in a fast-moving plot, but the final one that closes the film—“I pledge allegiance/To our human family/And to all the species/That we protect/One earth, indivisible/With long life, education, and justice/For all”—proves that New Rome’s culture and values (though sentimentally tweaked) are here to stay for the foreseeable future.
At long last, I finally opened and read Ivan Illich’s classic Deschooling Society (first published in 1970) given to me by my colleague and friend Karen Kortecamp decades ago. Way ahead of Michel Foucault and many other theorists, Illich knew that schools are the sanctioned churches of the new global order, forcing young people to endure years of incarceration and submit to curricula designed by experts who think certification and graded promotions are the paths to success in a consumer society that is detrimental to humanity. Most social institutions are “schooling” us into accepting this order of things as an unquestioned good.