Stateless societies, where no centralized government exists, have appeared historically and in some modern contexts. Examples include: - Medieval Iceland (9th-13th centuries): Relied on voluntary assemblies and private law enforcement. - The San people of southern Africa: Hunter-gatherer groups with egalitarian, consensus-based decision-making. - Zomia highlands in Southeast Asia: Upland communities evading state control through decentralized structures. - Some pre-colonial Native American tribes, like the Iroquois Confederacy (more confederated than stateless). - Somali clans under Xeer customary law: Traditional dispute resolution without a formal state.

"Just follow orders" is just the 2025 version of "Just get the experimental jab" The Left: Follow CDC orders. The Right: Follow ICE orders. Different tribes. Same submission to the State.

The Great H.L. Mencken was not only sharp as a razor in his commentary, but apparently clairvoyant as well. He died in 1956 yet he surely did see Donald J. Trump coming down the pike of history: “The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots… His public life is an endless series of evasions and false pretences. He is willing to embrace any issue, however idiotic, that will get him votes, and he is willing to sacrifice any principle, however sound, that will lose them for him… He may be, on the one hand, a cross-roads idler striving to get into the State Legislature … or he may be, on the other, the President of the United States.”—H. L. Mencken

Here’s the percentage of your life the US has been at war, based on birth year. Is this the legacy we want to leave our children? Do we want to leave them a better safer future, or a world that’s been destabilized and ravaged by endless wars? Courtsy Quincy Institute

I’m so glad they finally toppled the Maduro Regime in Venezuela, now the Venezuelan people can experience true American democracy. - A Rothschild controlled central bank currency. - A real education system where their kids are taught the values of Trannyism - A state run media running a non stop 24 hour a day psychological operation explaining how jews are God’s chosen people and they should turn over all their resources to isreal.

There Are No Good Outcomes in Trump’s Latest Attempt at Regime Change in Venezuela

Donald has started an illegal and unauthorized war to deny an estimated 5 million US adult cocaine users access to any Venezuela-based supplies of a recreational drug that— has a mere 0.1% chance of killing them. will not make a damn bit of difference as to supply and availability on the streets in the US anyway. That’s because Venezuela supplies just 8% or 51,000 pounds of the total US cocaine supply of 635,000 pounds annually. Moreover, almost the entirety of this tiny amount of Venezuela-based cocaine is actually grown, harvested and processed into bricks in Columbia. The fact is, finished product merely passes through trans-shipment routes in Venezuela, which could be replaced by alternative routes in a heartbeat.

Red meat supposedly causes cancer. Meanwhile, every single population that ate primarily red meat for millennia: Mongols Maasai Plains Indians Inuit Gauchos Had functionally zero cancer until Western contact introduced them to sugar and seed oils. But sure, it's the meat.

Jeffrey Sachs Blasts US Power Grab Over Venezuela, Maduro Capture at Historic UN Meeting 🇺🇸 US military interventions in foreign countries since WWII (incomplete list): 🇮🇷 Iran: 1946 🇨🇳 China: 1946 - 1949 🇬🇷 Greece: 1947 - 1949 🇮🇹 Italy: 1948 🇵🇭 Philippines: 1948 - 1954 🇰🇵 Korea: 1950 - 1953 🇮🇷 Iran: 1953 🇻🇳 Vietnam: 1954 🇬🇹 Guatemala: 1954 🇱🇧 Lebanon: 1958 🇵🇦 Panama: 1958 🇭🇹 Haiti: 1959 🇨🇩 Congo: 1960 🇻🇳 Vietnam: 1960 - 1964 🇨🇺 Cuba: 1961 🇨🇺 Cuba: 1962 🇱🇦 Laos: 1962 🇪🇨 Ecuador: 1963 🇵🇦 Panama: 1964 🇧🇷 Brazil: 1964 🇻🇳 Vietnam: 1965 - 1975 🇮🇩 Indonesia: 1965 🇨🇩 Congo: 1965 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic: 1965 🇱🇦 Laos: 1965 - 1973 🇬🇭 Ghana: 1966 🇬🇹 Guatemala: 1966 - 1967 🇰🇭 Cambodia: 1969 - 1975 🇴🇲 Oman: 1970 🇱🇦 Laos: 1971 - 1973 🇨🇱 Chile: 1973 🇰🇭 Cambodia: 1975 🇦🇴 Angola: 1976 - 1992 🇮🇷 Iran: 1980 🇱🇾 Libya: 1981 🇸🇻 El Salvador: 1981 - 1992 🇳🇮 Nicaragua: 1981 - 1990 🇱🇧 Lebanon: 1982 - 1984 🇬🇩 Grenada: 1983 🇭🇳 Honduras: 1983 - 1989 🇮🇷 Iran: 1984 🇱🇾 Libya: 1986 🇧🇴 Bolivia: 1986 🇮🇷 Iran: 1987 - 1988 🇱🇾 Libya: 1989 🇵🇭 Philippines: 1989 🇵🇦 Panama: 1989 - 1990 🇱🇷 Liberia: 1990 🇮🇶 Iraq: 1990 - 1991 🇮🇶 Iraq: 1991 - 2003 🇭🇹 Haiti: 1991 🇸🇴 Somalia: 1992 - 1994 Yugoslavia: 1992 - 1994 🇧🇦 Bosnia: 1993 - 1995 🇭🇹 Haiti: 1994 - 1996 🇭🇷 Croatia: 1995 🇨🇩 Zaire (Congo): 1996 - 1997 🇱🇷 Liberia: 1997 🇸🇩 Sudan: 1998 🇦🇫 Afghanistan: 1998 🇮🇶 Iraq: 1998 Yugoslavia: 1999 🇲🇰 Macedonia: 2001 🇦🇫 Afghanistan: 2001 🇮🇶 Iraq: 2003 🇮🇶 Iraq: 2003-present 🇭🇹 Haiti: 2004 🇸🇾 Syria: 2011-present 🇺🇦 Ukraine: 2014-present 🇻🇪 Venezuela: 2026 The UN Security Council witnessed a rare, explosive intervention as economist Jeffrey Sachs delivered a sweeping warning on Venezuela. Speaking during an emergency session, Sachs framed the crisis as a test of international law itself, not leadership politics. He traced decades of U.S. regime-change actions, questioned the legality of force and sanctions, and warned of catastrophic consequences if UN rules collapse in a nuclear age. Since 1947, United States foreign policy has repeatedly employed force, covert action, and political manipulation to bring about regime change in other countries. This is a matter of carefully documented historical record. In her book Covert Regime Change (2018), political scientist Lindsey O’Rourke documents 70 attempted US regime-change operations between 1947 and 1989 alone. These practices did not end with the Cold War. Since 1989, major United States regime-change operations undertaken without authorization by the Security Council have included, among the most consequential: Iraq (2003), Libya (2011), Syria (from 2011), Honduras (2009), Ukraine (2014), and Venezuela (from 2002 onward). The methods employed are well established and well documented. They include open warfare; covert intelligence operations; instigation of unrest; support for armed groups; manipulation of mass and social media; bribery of military and civilian officials; targeted assassinations; false-flag operations; and economic warfare aimed at collapsing civilian life. These measures are illegal under the UN Charter, and they typically result is ongoing violence, lethal conflict, political instability, and deep suffering of the civilian population. The case of Venezuela The recent United States record with respect to Venezuela is clear. In April 2002, the United States knew of and approved an attempted coup against the Venezuelan government. In the 2010s, the United States funded civil society groups actively engaged in anti-government protests, notably in 2014. When the government cracked down on the protests, the US followed with a series of sanctions. In 2015, President Barrack Obama declared Venezuela to be “an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.” In 2017, at a dinner with Latin American leaders on the margins of the UN General Assembly, President Trump openly discussed the option of the US invading Venezuela to overthrow the government. During 2017 to 2020, the US imposed sweeping sanctions on the state oil company. Oil production fell by 75 percent from 2016 to 2020, and real GDP per capita (PPP) declined by 62 percent. The UN General Assembly has repeatedly voted overwhelmingly against such unilateral coercive measures. Under international law, only the Security Council has the authority to impose such sanctions. On 23 January 2019, the United States unilaterally recognized Juan Guaidó as “interim president” of Venezuela and on 28 January 2019 froze approximately $7 billion of Venezuelan sovereign assets held abroad and gave Guaidó authority over certain assets. These actions form part of a continuous United States regime-change effort spanning more than two decades. Recent United States global escalation In the past year, the United States has carried out bombing operations in seven countries, none of which were authorized by the Security Council and none of which were undertaken in lawful self-defense under the Charter. The targeted countries include Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, and now Venezuela. In the past month, President Trump has issued direct threats against at least six UN member states, including Colombia, Denmark, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria and of course Venezuela. These threats are summarized in Annex I to this statement. What is at stake today Members of the Council are not called upon to judge Nicolás Maduro. They are not called upon to assess whether the recent United States attack and ongoing naval quarantine of Venezuela result in freedom or in subjugation. Members of the Council are called upon to defend international law, and specifically the United Nations Charter. The realist school of international relations, articulated most brilliantly by John Mearsheimer, accurately describes the condition of international anarchy as “the tragedy of great power politics.” Realism is therefore a description of geopolitics, not a solution for peace. Its own conclusion is that international anarchy leads to tragedy. In the aftermath of World War I, the League of Nations was created to end the tragedy through the application of international law. Yet the world’s leading nations failed to defend international law in the 1930s, leading to renewed global war. The United Nations emerged from that catastrophe as humanity’s second great effort to place international law above anarchy. In the words of the Charter, the UN was created “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind.” Given that we are in the nuclear age, failure cannot be repeated. Humanity would perish. There would be no third chance. Measures required of the Security Council To fulfill its responsibilities under the Charter, the Security Council should immediately affirm the following actions: The United States shall immediately cease and desist from all explicit and implicit threats or use of force against Venezuela. The United States shall terminate its naval quarantine and all related coercive military measures undertaken in the absence of authorization by the Security Council. The United States shall immediately withdraw its military forces from within and along the perimeter of Venezuela, including intelligence, naval, air, and other forward-deployed assets positioned for coercive purposes. Venezuela shall adhere to the UN Charter and to the human rights protected in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Secretary-General shall immediately appoint a Special Envoy, mandated to engage relevant Venezuelan and international stakeholders and to report back to the Security Council within fourteen days with recommendations consistent with the Charter of the United Nations, and the Security Council shall remain urgently seized of this matter. All Member States shall refrain from unilateral threats, coercive measures, or armed actions undertaken outside the authority of the Security Council, in strict conformity with the Charter. In Closing Mr. President, Distinguished Members, Peace and the survival of humanity depend on whether the United Nations Charter remains a living instrument of international law or is allowed to wither into irrelevance. That is the choice before this Council today. Thank you.