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Category Archives: Corporate Welfare
Dictators Bent on Building Military Empires: The Cost of the Nation’s Endless Wars
By John & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “Autocrats only understand one word: no, no, no. No you will not take my country, no you will not take my freedom, no you will not take my future… A dictator bent … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, NATO, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Afghanistan, Dwight Eisenhower, Economics, empire, fascism, geopolitics, Government, hypocrisy, ilitary-industrial complex, imperialism, Joe Biden, Militarism, military spending, NATO, Russia, tyranny, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, war, war profiteers
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War Certainly Is A Racket
By Iain Davis Source: Off-Guardian In 1935, Major General Smedley Butler’s seminal book “War Is A Racket” warned of the dangers of the US military-industrial complex, more than 25 years before the outgoing US President Eisenhower implored the world to … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, Authoritarianism, black ops, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Empire, Energy, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, military spending, NATO, Neocons, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, war, war on terror
Tagged Bulgaria, corporate media, CPA, Deep State, DynCorp, empire, EU, geopolitics, George Bush, imperialism, iraq, Kazakhstan, KBR, Lukoil, Moldova, MSM, NATO, propaganda, Russia, Smedley Butler, Syria, Teresa May, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, war, war profiteers, Yugoslavia
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Prostitutes of the Press
By Stephen Lendman Source: The Stephen Lendman Blog Western MSM operate as fake news ministries of truth in nations where they’re located. They’re bribed with big bucks to lie and mass-deceive by sticking exclusively to the fabricated official narrative. On … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, Corporate Welfare, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, military spending, NATO, Neocons, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged censorship, China, corporate news, empire, Fake News, fascism, geopolitics, George Orwell, imperialism, Mainstream Media, media, Media Literacy, MSM, NATO, propaganda, Psyops, Russia, surveillance state, Ukraine, war
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More Billions to Ukraine as America Falls Apart
By Ron Paul Source: Ron Paul Institute There is a video clip making the rounds showing President Biden speaking at a recent NATO summit about the seven billion dollars the US government had – at that time – provided to … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, black ops, CIA, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, culture, Deep State, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geoengineering, imperialism, military spending, NATO, Neocons, news, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged black-ops, CIA, Deep State, Economics, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, Inflation, Joe Biden, Military Industrial Complex, NATO, Non-Interventionism, Poverty, Russia, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, war, war profiteers
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‘We the People’ Are the New, Permanent Underclass in America
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation.”—Herbert Hoover This is financial tyranny. The … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Drug War, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, imperialism, Inequality, Militarization, military spending, Oligarchy, police state, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war, war on terror
Tagged Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, empire, financial crisis, imperialism, Military Industrial Complex, military spending, national debt, police state, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
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Saving Capitalism or Saving the Planet?
By Colin Todhunter Source: Dissident Voice The UK government’s Behavioural Insights Team helped to push the public towards accepting the COVID narrative, restrictions and lockdowns. It is now working on ‘nudging’ people towards further possible restrictions or at least big … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, culture, Economics, elites, Empire, Environment, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Health, Neoliberalism, news, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Agribusiness, Behavioural Insights Team, Commodification, Covid-19, Economics, environment, Financialization, Global Warming, greenwashing, Jason Hickel, Microsoft, Technocracy, UNFSS, WTO
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America’s Bottom 50% Have Nowhere To Go But Down
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds One might anticipate that the bottom 50%’s meager share of the nation’s exploding wealth would have increased as smartly as the wealth of the billionaires, but alas, no. America’s economy has changed … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Health, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, Work
Tagged Asset Bubbles, Big Tech, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elites, everything bubble, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Financialization, Gig Economy, Globalization, healthcare, Homelessness, Housing Crisis, Labor, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Poverty
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Why Don’t Billionaires Pay the Same High Tax Rates the Rest of Us Pay?
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The truth is America has lost its way if commoners pay a rate of 40% but its billionaires pay next to nothing. As with everything else in polarized America, billionaires proclaiming space … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Billionaires, Cartels, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Jeff Bezos, Medicare, Monopolies, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Social Security, Tax Havens, Taxes
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