Yves here. Rob Urie starts with an up-to-date take on the Iran war to illustrate the extent of US institutional incompetence and decline, and turns to the new McCarthyism to justify regime-change operations in insufficiently US-multinational-friendly countries and demonize Americans who support social safety nets and oppose redistribution to the rich. The empire has no clothes. By Rob Urie, author of Zen Economics, artist, and musician who publishes The Journal of Belligerent Pontification on Substack One aspect of the current clash of civilizations that goes largely unnoticed in the US is that there is only one civilization, if we can...