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Progressive Commentary Hour 12.04.19
Abby Martin and Chris Hedges discuss the bipartisan road from neoliberalism to fascism. Also, Catherine Austin Fitts on the missing trillions and what we can do to reclaim it.
The Jimmy Dore Show 12.03.19
Project Censored 12.03.19
Mickey Huff and guests examine how Facebook, Twitter and Google are working to hide,
“deplatform” or otherwise undermine news and opinions critical of US government policies, and thus reestablish the dominance of establishment-friendly corporate media
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Category Archives: Drug War
WHY WE’RE A CULTURE OF ADDICTS
By Leslie Garrett Source: Waking Times If there’s one constant among addicts of all types, it’s shame. It’s what makes us lie and hide. It’s what keeps us from asking for help – though we don’t think we need it … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Drug War, Health, Law, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged addiction, Buddhism, Compassion, Consciousness, Criminalization, culture, Dr. Gabor Maté, drugs, Harm Reduction, In the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts, Neurology, Philosophy, psychology, Recovery, Shame, society, Sociology, spirituality, Trauma
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Saturday Matinee: The Sunshine Makers
A real-life Breaking Bad for the psychadellic set, The Sunshine Makers reveals the entertaining, untold story of Nicholas Sand and Tim Scully, the unlikely duo at the heart of 1960s American drug counterculture. United in a utopian mission to save … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Drug War, Film, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged Consciousness, Documentary Film, drug war, Entheogens, LSD, Nicholas Sand, Orange Sunshine, Psychedelics, The Sunshine Makers, Tim Scully
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A New World Order: Brought to you by the Global-Industrial Deep State
By John W. Whitehead Source: Intrepid Report “There are no nations. There are no peoples . . . There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, black ops, civil disobedience, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, divide and conquer, Drug War, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Inequality, Militarization, military spending, Neocons, Neoliberalism, NSA, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged AT&T, conspiracy, Corporate Globalization, Deep State, Dystopia, empire, fascism, geopolitics, Global Elites, Globalists, imperialism, Israel, Mega Corporations, military spending, military-industrial complex, New World Order, NSA, Nullification, police state, surveillance state, U.S. Government, war, war profiteers
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Big Pharma, Big Oil and Big Banks Meet the Definition of Terrorists
Common threads persist throughout definitions of terrorism: violence, injury or death, intimidation, intentionality, multiple targets and political motivation. Big pharma, big oil and big banks meet them all. By Paul Buchheit Source: Mint Press News Various definitions of terrorism have been … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Drug War, Economics, elites, Environment, Financial Crisis, Health, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Social Control, society, State Crime
Tagged Big Banks, Big Oil, Big Pharma, culture, economic inequality, elites, financial crisis, Lobbyists, Opioid Addiction, society, state terrorism, Suicides, Wealth Concentration
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US Technological Transformations and the Narcotic-Fueled Genocide of American Workers
By James Petras Source: The Unz Review Introduction During his recent visit to New Hampshire on 3/20/18, President Trump declared once again that the US is facing a ‘drug epidemic’. This time he advocated the death penalty for criminal drug … Continue reading
Posted in Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Drug War, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, History, Inequality, Labor, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Work
Tagged Big Pharma, Corporate Crime, culture, DEA, Deindustrialization, Donald Trump, drug war, Economics, elites, Employment, FDA, Genocide, Labor, Lobbyists, NAFTA, Oligarchy, Opioid Epidemic, opioids, Pharmaceuticals, Plutocracy, Population Control, society
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A Tale of Two Americas: Where the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Go to Jail
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, culture, Drug War, Dystopia, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Mass Incarceration, Militarization, police state, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Dystopia, elites, Jeff Sessions, Law Enforcement, Mass Incarceration, Militarism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, police state, Poverty, Prisons, Private Prisons
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Carl Sagan’s Thoughts On The War on Drugs
Since today marks the birthday of the late Carl Sagan, we can remember a lesser-known aspect of his greatness by reading (or re-reading) the following 1969 essay he wrote under the pseudonym “Mr. X” published in 1971 in Lester Grinspoon’s … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, culture, Drug War, History, Philosophy, Science, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged Cannabis, cannabis legalization, Carl Sagan, drug war, Entheogens, Lester Grinspoon, Marihuana Reconsidered, marijuana, Marijuana Decriminalization, Prohibition
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