Toward the Highest Stage of Ultra-imperialism?
A local friend of mine jokes: if worst comes to worst, the US can always annex Saudi Arabia. But why stop there on the way to the highest stage of ultra-imperialism: America, China, Japan, Germany, and Saudi Arabia together legally conglomerated into a...

@rojopelo EXCELLENT way to spend Sunday morning! "Empire Strikes Back" is a great one. How old are the kids?

The Roman Empire Sim
Recently, I received a message from mikeD Streeter informing me about the changes that they did in The Roman Empire sim. The Roman Empire is the flagship sim of RPG Empire. As far as I know, the success of The Roman Empire gave birth to other empires...

@jasonmoffatt thanks for putting that in my head! that and 588 2 300 empire! Today! the power of advertising

The empire strikes back has never been one of my favourites of the trilogy

The Global Financial Crisis Has a Social Cause, Too: the World of Low Wages: An Interview with Emiliano Brancaccio
The Global Financial Crisis Has a Social Cause, Too: the World of Low Wages:An Interview with Emiliano Brancaccioby Waldemar BolzeEmiliano Brancaccio is a professor of labor economics at the University of Sannio, member of Rifondazione Comunista, and...

@minnemon My favorite for eating is empire, and my favorite for cooking is Granny Smith.

@Trent_Armstrong ...Empire!

@sugarjones Right. Wait. Does that make me the evil genius behind your empire? Because I kind of like that idea.

Tomgram: Chalmers Johnson, Teaching Imperialism 101
The RAND Corporation was the ur-think tank, the Cold War granddaddy of them all, and it's still with us. In the 1950s, nuclear war-gaming a conflagration for which the usual war games would have been ludicrous, it took the U.S. military into...