Author Archives: bill gannett

Comparisons of the American empire to the Roman empire only go so far, but they don’t have to be exact to be striking and relevant. I refer to both empires in the past tense as an act of grammarly prescience. … Continue reading →

American fascism is pretty straightforward. The most difficult thing is to get past denial by dropping linguistic prudery. There is something of a comparison with the phrase, “Black lives matter”. If the response is, well, all lives matter, you have … Continue reading →

Religious/ racial nationalism is surging globally, and with more than a little help from the USA. This is hugely ironic, of course, given our putative constitutional mandate to enforce the separation of church and state. But hey, why let the … Continue reading →

Fascism, American style, is based on the incoherence of empire. As the clock ticks out on late stage capitalism, aka neoliberalism, the problem of empire becomes more and more desperate. The only strategy left to prop up our enormous political and … Continue reading →

Sustainability is the global crisis of our time. The machine age, symbolized by the automobile, is carrying us off the cliff. We, the lemmings, are driving the car. It really does seem as if we are powerless to slam on … Continue reading →

We are well into the age of Orwellian shitfuckery. A good start date for this age is 9/11/2001. This marks the symbolic crashing of the corporate state and the consequent panic that elevated demagoguery as the primary basis for a … Continue reading →