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		<title>Empire at 250: Can the Principles of 1776 Survive the American Police State?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“The people are the only legitimate fountain of power.” James Madison This is a year of strange anniversaries. Two hundred and fifty years ago, a band of revolutionaries declared their independence from a king. America’s founders rejected concentrated power. They denounced standing armies. They distrusted government secrecy. They risked their lives to escape a ruler &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Letter From Desolation Row</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 08:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“At midnight all the agents And the superhuman crew Come out and round up everyone That knows more than they do” Bob Dylan “Desolation Row.” Perhaps you have noticed – if you have any idea who I am or give a damn – that I have slowed down my political analyses of our current situation. &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>America the Unfree—Home of the Policed, Surveilled and Occupied</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“I love the inflation.” Donald Trump, June 2026 I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. I don’t think about anybody.” Donald Trump, May 2026 America has become an occupied nation. Not by one invading army, but by many occupying powers: the police state, the surveillance state, the war state, the corporate state, the foreign influence machine, &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Permanent War Government: Who’s Really Calling the Shots in Washington?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“You want to defend the United States of America, then defend it with the tools it supplies you with—its Constitution. You ask for a mandate, General, from a ballot box. You don’t steal it after midnight, when the country has its back turned.” Seven Days in May (1964) Who is actually running the government? That is &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Founding Felons: Jefferson Would Be on a Watch List Today—You Might Be Next</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 17:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech.” Benjamin Franklin Everything this nation once stood for is being turned on its head. We are being asked—no, told—to believe that the greatest threat to America today is not government overreach, endless war, corruption, surveillance, or the steady erosion &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Everything We Don’t Need to Know, and A Few We Do</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 17:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“And there are those who claim that Big Data will supplant Sapiens and drag him helplessly along like a straw in the mighty flow of information. We will then be close to knowing almost everything we don’t need to know.” Roberto Calasso, The Unnamable Present, 2017 Onerous it is and more onerous it will be when AI &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Stealing of America: You’re Not a Citizen—You’re a Revenue Stream for the Power Elite</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.” Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations You’re not imagining it. Everything costs more. Everything is monitored. Everything feels like it’s designed to take—from your wallet, your time, your freedom. That’s because it is. The government &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;Called it!&#8221; &#8211; 2026 &#038; &#8220;the end of US hegemony&#8221; &#8211; Updated</title>
		<link>https://off-guardian.org/2026/04/07/called-it-2026-the-end-of-us-hegemony/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In January, following Mark Carney&#8217;s well-publicised Davos speech, I wrote an article headlined&#8230; 2026 &#8211; The Year US Hegemony Ends? To be clear, I was not &#8211; and am not &#8211; predicting the empire is about to fall and usher in a new world of justice and freedom. No, I was predicting that certain media &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Let&#8217;s talk about&#8230;Artemis II &#038; Moon Landing 2.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today, in about eight hours, NASA will be launching their Artemis II mission, the first manned rocket to circle moon and come back to Earth in fifty years. The next step, penciled in for 2028, is to land people on the moon an Artemis IV. Then they&#8217;re going to build a lunar base. The press &#8230;]]></description>
		
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