In his keynote speech at the sixty-third annual Munich Security Conference on February 14, American Secretary of State Marco Rubio missed an opportunity for the Trump administration to set the Western alliance on a new course that would recognize the desires of developing countries for access to capital and the freedom to trade, which is the driving force of the BRICS movement.

A recent Wall Street Journal article recently outlined yet the latest attempts by the US government to bring down Cuba’s socialist government, a process that has been going on without much success for the past 65 years.

[From Isonomia Quarterly 4.1 Spring 2026. Read the full article at Isonomia Quarterly.]

There’s no doubt that the Americas were irrevocably changed by European contact. The decimation and sociopolitical transformation of the Western Hemisphere was so thorough that many scholars speak of an indigenous genocide—the intentional destruction of native societies. But there’s also no doubt that the story is not so simple.

Steve Bannon, who has condemned “Austrian economics, limited government,” also spent many hours chumming it up with Epstein. 

There is a lazy argument, often repeated in India’s political and intellectual circles: “Capitalism is only for those who already have capital. That is why it does not work for the poor.” It sounds empathetic and moral, but it is deeply flawed. This argument looks at capitalism at a surface level instead of a systemic level. It confuses entry conditions with survival conditions. Capitalism does not succeed or collapse based on who starts rich or poor. It operates on how individuals behave once they enter the system.

The dynamics at work in modern America are not accidental, nor are they merely the product of bureaucratic incompetence. They reflect the predictable outcomes of institutional incentives embedded within modern political, financial, and corporate structures—outcomes that reliably undermine national sovereignty, dissolve cultural continuity, and neutralize resistance to an unsustainable economic order.

“An Israeli-American regime-change operation is underway in Iran.”