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Category Archives: Corruption
US Empire of Debt Headed for Collapse
By Pepe Escobar Source: The Unz Review Prof. Michael Hudson’s new book, The Collapse of Antiquity: Greece and Rome as Civilization’s Oligarchic Turning Point is a seminal event in this Year of Living Dangerously when, to paraphrase Gramsci, the old geopolitical and … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Aristotle, Collapse, Debt Deflation, Economic Collapse, Economics, empire, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, geopolitics, imperialism, Michael Hudson, Philosophy, Plato, The Collapse of Antiquity
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Rein in the FBI: Put an End to the FBI’s Gestapo Tactics
By John & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “One of the creeping hands of totalitarianism running through the democracy is the Federal Bureau of Investigation… Because why does the FBI do all this? To scare the hell out of … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, CIA, civil liberties, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Empire, FBI, Law, police state, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Authoritarianism, Church Committee, CIA, civil liberties, Cointelpro, Corruption, Dystopia, fascism, FBI, Gestapo, police state, Robert Gellately, surveillance state, Technocracy
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Toxic Contagion – Funds, Food and Pharma
By Colin Todhunter Source: Off-Guardian In 2014, the organisation GRAIN revealed that small farms produce most of the world’s food in its report Hungry for land: small farmers feed the world with less than a quarter of all farmland. The report Small-scale Farmers … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Big Pharma, censorship, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Environment, Geopolitics, Health, imperialism, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Agribusiness, Big Ag, Big Pharma, BlackRock, Corporate Globalization, Economics, empire, food sovereignty, geopolitics, Global Food System, grain, IMF, imperialism, industrial farms, Monoculture, Neoliberalism, Oakland Institute, Pandemic, small farms, Technocracy, World Bank, WTO
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The Enemy From Within
The war industry, a state within a state, disembowels the nation, stumbles from one military fiasco to the next, strips us of civil liberties and pushes us towards suicidal wars with Russia and China. By Chris Hedges Source: ScheerPost America … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, military-industrial complex, NATO, Neocons, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy, war
Tagged China, Corporate Welfare, Deep State, empire, fascism, geopolitics, imperialism, Julian Assange, MIC, Militarism, military spending, military-industrial complex, NATO, propaganda, Russia, stratocracy, war, war profiteers
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Matt Taibbi Discovers Democrats are Authoritarians
There is nothing mysterious, arcane, or byzantine about what is happening in America. By Kurt Nimmo Source: Kurt Nimmo Substack First, allow me to thank Mr. Taibbi for his work exposing the social media censorship agenda. The uniparty wanted to … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, freedom of speech, History, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Authoritarianism, Bill Clinton, censorship, Child Online Protection Act, civil liberties, corporate media, Deep State, Democrats, DNC, elites, fox news, Mainstream Media, Matt Taibbi, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psyops, Social Media
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America’s Social Contract Is Broken
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds I do not claim any expertise in social contract theory, but in broad brush we can delineate two implicit contracts: one between the citizenry and the state (government) and another between citizens. We … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Banana Republics, Corruption, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, feudalism'capitalism, financial crisis, Government, Income Inequality, Neofeudalism, Oligarchy, social contract, Trickle down economics
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China, Russia and India Versus USA, EU and Japan: Axis Powers of a New Global Cold War?
By Gilbert Mercier Source: New Junkie Post The birth of a bipolar world order? Since 2014, which marked the first Russian intervention in Ukraine, a new global geopolitical dynamic has amplified under conflicting impulses. The areas of direct, or more often … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, military-industrial complex, NATO, Neocons, NGOs, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, war
Tagged bipolar order, BRICS, China, Economics, empire, EU, geopolitics, imperialism, MIC, military spending, military-industrial complex, multipolarity, NATO, non-alignment, Russia, Taiwan, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, war, war profiteers
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