Author Archives: Clark Barnes

I’d been hearing the word “resilience” everywhere these past few months: on panels, in mission statements, in board retreats, staff meetings, and strategy decks. And I started to feel uneasy. Because while the word was being used constantly, it was often deployed like a mantra—vague, moralizing, strangely empty. Something you’re supposed to have. Something you’reContinue reading “What I Learned While Tracing Resilience Across Time—and How Leaders Can Put It Into Practice”

Governments exist either because they have come to power through force and violence or they have been elected and given power by the people. The force and violence crowd usually have their roots in the military and we like to call them Dictators. There have been a ton of them throughout history; Hitler, Stalin, Mao,Continue reading “Dictators Don’t Care About the People and Usually Kill Anyone Who Gets in Their Way.”

Since 2020 the nation has gone through some radical changes. There are more people prepping now than ever before. That should tell you just how much has changed in such a short time in our nation. While the federal government is working to figure out this moment in history, state level governance is stepping in,Continue reading “All Fifty States Threat Report”

The war in Ukraine (2022–present) brutally reminded the world that modern life can shatter overnight. One day you have running water, electricity, and a safe home; the next, you’re melting snow for drinking water and huddling in a basement as missiles fall. Ordinary civilians in Ukraine—families in Kyiv high-rises, neighbors in rural villages—were thrust intoContinue reading “Lessons Learned from the Ukraine War About Civilian Survival”

This article was first posted in 2022 but recently updated. For those of us who study propaganda critically, and seek to do this all-important work as public intellectuals, these last two years have been uniquely challenging, and even dangerous, forcing us into a painful double bind. On the one hand, we have never had soContinue reading “Only When We Know What Propaganda Is, And How It Works, Will We Be Free to Live Our Lives and Rule Ourselves”

First take a look at one of the most shocking videos in the world! This video actually shows the powers that be are lying to you—Here’s What They Don’t Want You to Know! I deplore the blame game, so often used to divert attention from the real issue or problem. I rail against the fake binaries deliberatelyContinue reading “The Parasite Class Tricks of Today”

What Will Happen Next “The price of tram rides and beef, theatre tickets, and school, newspapers and haircuts, sugar and bacon, is going up every week. As a result, no one knows how long their money will last, and people are living in constant fear, thinking of nothing but eating and drinking, buying and selling.”Continue reading “There is Something Worse Than an all-out Collapse Hitting the World”