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A blog by Ed Berger

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2026-06-07 20:12:48 GMT

Desert Anterior
Rummaging in the Archives
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/desert-anterior

2025-12-19 09:34:24 GMT

End of Year Wrap Up
2025 Inventory of RC2.0
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/end-of-year-wrap-up-ef8

2025-08-17 21:46:41 GMT

Power's Agony
Epstein, finance & late imperialism
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/powers-agony

2025-07-26 21:12:03 GMT

Return to form
Pseudcast's Back
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/return-to-form

2025-07-10 15:35:49 GMT

Journal #7
Reading & Thinking about historical methodology (On Carlo Ginzburg)
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/journal-7

2025-06-17 17:19:10 GMT

Planes, Stocks, and the Decentered Velocity of American Power
Another book review
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/planes-stocks-and-the-decentered

2025-06-06 11:30:13 GMT

Journal #4
Return to Book Reviews (this time about language)
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/journal-4

2025-06-03 23:31:21 GMT

U.S. Underground
Meanderings in Late American Psychosis
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/us-underground

2025-05-18 20:50:26 GMT

Journal #3
Apologies for the abrupt shift to this ‘journal’ format instead of the longer, dryer and more tedious posts that I know my readers want & love.
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/journal-3

2025-05-12 16:40:11 GMT

Journal #2
5/06/2025
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/journal-2

2025-05-05 18:07:49 GMT

Journal #1
A place to put thoughts & other little things
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/journal-1

2025-05-01 12:50:15 GMT

The Dollar Abyss (1)
Recapping some odds and end & some comments on Peter Dale Scott
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/the-dollar-abyss-1

2025-04-09 11:47:10 GMT

The Prison House of Superfluity
Various thoughts
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/the-prison-house-of-superfluity

2025-03-31 20:27:00 GMT

Robert Kurz's 'The Black Book of Capitalism: A Farewell to the Market Economy'
Courtesy of Machine Translation
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/robert-kurzs-the-black-book-of-capitalism

2025-03-26 19:21:20 GMT

Is it capitalism that is collapsing?
A hastily written post on my phone…
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/is-it-capitalism-that-is-collapsing

2025-03-25 10:50:11 GMT

Destination Yemen
A rejoinder to 'Dark Circuits'
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/destination-yemen

2025-03-22 13:22:11 GMT

The Empire's Green Fabric
Excerpt from & commentary upon Elaine Dewar's Cloak of Green
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/the-empires-green-fabric

2025-03-15 16:15:57 GMT

Dark Circuits: Oil Money and Covert Activities
A 'brief' note for posts to come
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/dark-circuits-oil-money-and-covert

2025-02-05 13:05:18 GMT

Happy birthday to Reciprocal Contradiction 2.0
One Year Old
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/happy-birthday-to-reciprocal-contradiction

2025-02-01 18:17:04 GMT

Spider's Web
Cult Compounds, William Branham and the Fourth Reich
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/spiders-web

2025-01-10 13:37:00 GMT

Polycrisis & Omnicrisis
Slipperiness of the Definition
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/polycrisis-and-omnicrisis

2025-01-07 16:26:31 GMT

Thought on Água Viva
The Stream of Life
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/thought-on-agua-viva

2025-01-04 13:22:28 GMT

Acceleration Afterthoughts
Stasis, Capital and Class Struggle
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/acceleration-afterthoughts

2024-12-25 15:33:49 GMT

End of Year Wrap-Up
An Inventory of RC2.0
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/end-of-year-wrap-up

2024-12-21 17:03:52 GMT

The Great Soviet Gold Heist
A series of unwarranted speculations
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/the-great-soviet-gold-heist

2024-12-16 14:29:04 GMT

Infinite Revolution and Posthistory
Culbreath's Comments
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/infinite-revolution-and-posthistory

2024-12-15 10:59:08 GMT

Astral Maoism
Notes on the the Turbulence of the Infinite
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/astral-maoism

2024-12-14 13:53:56 GMT

Metacartel II: Capitalist Axiomatics
Or, the chaining of onshore and offshore money markets in the symmetry of occult finance
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/metacartel-ii-capitalist-axiomatics

2024-12-01 12:09:23 GMT

Vince Garton: Collected Writings, 2016-2023
Scribbling in the chaos of phenomena
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/vince-garton-collected-writings-2016

2024-11-29 13:29:09 GMT

Celestial Phenomena I Saw in 2024
It’s almost the final month of 2024.
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/celestial-phenomena-i-saw-in-2024

2024-11-25 15:46:46 GMT

Opus
Where Offshore Finance and Neo-Traditionalism Meet (Book Review)
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/opus

2024-11-23 14:00:43 GMT

Luminous Vertigo of Crisis Postscript
Response to a comment & a few additional thoughts
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/luminous-vertigo-of-crisis-postscript

2024-11-20 17:19:35 GMT

The Luminous Vertigo of Crisis
The "Continuity Thesis", the End of Marxism and my trip to Washington DC
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/the-luminous-vertigo-of-crisis

2024-11-14 21:49:43 GMT

Books I Read So Far in November
Will this be a monthly or bimonthly column? Maybe.
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/books-i-read-so-far-in-november

2024-11-12 12:47:26 GMT

Metacartel Thesis (Almost) Vindicated
Big battles looming on the horizon?
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/metacartel-thesis-almost-vindicated

2024-11-07 13:57:30 GMT

Late Imperial Phantasmagoria
Election Season Postscript
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/late-imperial-phantasmagoria

2024-11-05 17:26:43 GMT

America
Stray thoughts and more from the archives
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/america

2024-10-26 15:10:49 GMT

120 Broadway Update
Gold Vaults & Nazi Intrigue
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/120-broadway-update

2024-09-24 22:51:18 GMT

Pyramids
Moseying around American Oddities (and PsyOps in the Heartland)
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/pyramids

2024-09-03 20:26:36 GMT

"England was a seance"
Book review time
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/england-was-a-seance

2024-08-29 16:27:30 GMT

Updates & Such
On the future of Reciprocal Contradiction 2.0
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/updates-and-such

2024-08-18 16:56:43 GMT

Anatomy of a Fraud (part 0)
The Rise, Decline, and Fall of Marvin Warner
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/anatomy-of-a-fraud-part-0

2024-08-09 22:07:52 GMT

Anatomy of a Fraud (part 1)
How real estate and bank fraud helped finance the secret wars of the 1980s
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/anatomy-of-a-fraud-part-1

2024-08-08 21:04:02 GMT

On the Trail of the Universal Brotherhood
Spiritualists, Abolitionists and Doomed Communal Experiments in the State of Ohio
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/on-the-trail-of-the-universal-brotherhood

2024-07-08 15:08:46 GMT

The Invisible Landscape: Tracing the Spiritualist Utopianism of Nineteenth Century America
[One from the archives]
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/the-invisible-landscape-tracing-the

2024-06-27 19:21:21 GMT

Weird Scenes in Southern Indiana
Jeffersonville Memories, a Cemetery Trip and Cold War Psychodramas
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/weird-scenes-in-southern-indiana

2024-06-01 14:12:30 GMT

The Anglo-Imperial Apparatus in Canada
Henry Aubin on 'who owns Montreal?'
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/the-anglo-imperial-apparatus-in-canada

2024-05-28 17:50:19 GMT

Inside the Deltec Files (2)
The Origins of the Pepsi Deep State
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/inside-the-deltec-files-2

2024-05-23 18:10:42 GMT

Bank Woes (3)
Banking crisis and the Metacartel's favorite accountants
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/bank-woes-3

2024-05-15 13:57:40 GMT

The Zionist Money Machine
State of Israel Bonds & Related Things
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https://edberg.substack.com/p/the-zionist-money-machine