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Mark Lesseraux

Mark Lesseraux is a singer/songwriter/socio-political columnist from Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is a Humanist, a proponent and practitioner of Active Nonviolence and a student of Nonduality.

False Hope and Small Change (How Donald Trump and Barack Obama Are Two Sides of the Same Criminal Coin)

The Epstein Files and Russiagate The rest of the second half of July’s Western mainstream news cycle will, understandably, be dominated by details relating to Donald Trump’s attempt to suppress information related to the “Epstein Files”. A story that will…

It’s The Hegemony, Stupid!

Francis Fukuyama’s Fever Dream A little over thirty years ago a neoconservative American Political Scientist named Francis Fukuyama declared, without irony, that history had come to an end.(1) He meant it figuratively of course, but he also wasn’t kidding around.…

All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars

Following the Money When we think of empires throughout history we think of examples like the Roman empire, the British empire, the American empire, etc. In other words, we automatically conflate the idea of empire with a particular location on…

Donald Trump Is Completely Betraying His MAGA Base

Trump Opens a Big Can of Worms Donald Trump is completely betraying his MAGA base. His base elected him on a nationalist, isolationist platform centered around closed borders, pulling US troops out of foreign nations and stopping the neocons’ forever-wars.…

What’s Really Going on in Ukraine Now (It’s Way Worse Than You Think)

A Friend Asked Me a Question Yesterday A friend of mine posed a question to me yesterday. They asked: “I know you’re philosophically against war and all, but aren’t you at least rooting for Ukraine to win against Russia?” The…

Crossing Into The Forbidden Zone (Beyond the Valley of the Neocons)

Preface to a Farewell  Over the course of the last 3 and ½ years, my Pressenza articles have been primarily concerned with two things: 1) shedding a light on the incredibly dangerous, ideologically driven perpetual war-path that the US has…

Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) 2.0: What Will Happen if it Happens, in 4 Points.

1) Every Neocon in Washington (both political parties and the upper echelon of the US military are dominated by the war-for-profit Neocon oligarch faction) is drooling with gleeful anticipation. There has been an outbreak of war between Israel and Iran…

The Real Reason Donald Trump is America’s Favorite Politician

The Unspoken Cause The real underlying reason that Donald Trump has been America’s favorite politician for the last 10 years is rarely spoken about. There’s a reason why it’s not mentioned much, but we’ll get to that in a moment.…

As the US Pivots Toward Multipolar Shores, Europe Heads Directly for the Abyss (Part 2)

Introduction: Reflecting Briefly on Part 1 A considerable portion of part one of this two part article consisted of a synthesis of how and why the last two and 1/2 decades of American foreign policy have been crippling for the…

As the US Pivots Toward Multipolar Shores, Europe Heads Directly for the Abyss (Part 1)

Introduction: An Optimal Way to Begin Many Americans automatically assume that their preferred political party’s foreign policy aims are substantively congruent with that party’s proclaimed domestic agenda. This simply isn’t the case though, and it’s been one of the primary…

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