"The US and some of the horrible, USA-hating people that represent us are the greatest threat to Western civilization today. These globalists want to squander all of America's strength, blood and treasure, chasing monsters and phantoms overseas while keeping us distracted from the havoc they're creating right here at home. These forces are doing more damage to America than Russia and China could ever have dreamed."
It was coined by Werner Sombart, a controversial German historical economist, almost a century ago in his three-volume magnum opus Der Moderne Kapitalismus (published from 1902 through 1927).I don't think this conception is useful. Capitalism doesn't exist in the West, and hasn't for some time. Managerial liberalism does, however, and it has progressed to the same final stage converged upon by distinct ideologies in the U.S.S.R. some decades ago and Rome some centuries before that: Late Stage Bureaucracy (LSB).
Sombart's main contribution was to define three periods of the capitalist economic system: early or proto capitalism, advanced capitalism and late capitalism. In Sombart's analysis, late capitalism referred specifically to economic, political and social deprivations associated with the aftermath of the first world war.
Former US President Donald Trump has warned that he will be "arrested on Tuesday," in an all-caps post on his Truth Social platform on Saturday, crediting "illegal leaks from a corrupt & highly political Manhattan district attorney's office" for his advance knowledge.
Trump predicted:"With no crime able to be proven, & based on an old & fully debunked (by numerous other prosecutors) fairytale, the far & away leading Republican candidate & former president of the United States of America, will be arrested on Tuesday of next week."When reached for comment by Fox News on Friday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office would neither confirm nor deny whether he was planning to issue an indictment on campaign finance violations for then-candidate Trump's alleged payment of hush money to porn actress Stormy Daniels in 2016.
Trump was invited to testify before a grand jury earlier this month regarding the Stormy Daniels scandal, a move many interpreted as a prelude to an indictment. If so, he would be the first former US president to be criminally indicted, an eventually for which several law enforcement agencies are reportedly discussing "security preparations."
Trump's attorney, Joe Tacopino, excoriated prosecutors for having "completely weaponized" the legal system, pointing out that the crime as alleged - falsifying records - was a misdemeanor and only becomes a felony if prosecutors can prove it was done intentionally and maliciously.
Tacopino added that Trump cannot be prosecuted in the state of New York for a federal election charge, and since Trump's personal funds were used to pay the porn actress, the payment was not a campaign expense at all.
Comment: RT's less hysterical take: