The Weekly Flail — November 23, 2024

OVERVIEW

This and the Thanksgiving weekend issue will be briefer than usual. I am also continuing to make adjustments to work with accelerating climate and political disasters. As I’ve written elsewhere, Trump is primarily irrelevant except as an agent of chaos.

Chaos can be used to motivate change, but that requires creativity and organization, neither of which is present around Trump and his cult. We can expect rapid departures of people who are silly enough to get involved in a Trump cabinet and are not cultists.

As I mentioned in last week’s Flail, our focus will be outside the American Empire. Things are moving fast in South America with G20 in Brazil, and . . .

Chinese President Xi Jinping — fresh from his previous triumph, when he was for all practical purposes coronated King of Peru during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Lima — complete with the inauguration of the $1.3 billion port of Chancay, the new South American node of the Pacific Maritime Silk Road. [Scheerpost]

Expect much more from BRICS, which has now expanded. If you follow international news, the world looks very different without the US and now Trumpist distortions. There is undoubtedly danger from the imperial neofascists and their permanent wars, but they appear increasingly…