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Category Archives: Drug War
‘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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MORE PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED FOR CANNABIS POSSESSION THAN ALL VIOLENT CRIMES PUT TOGETHER IN THE US LAST YEAR
By John Vibes Source: Waking Times With legal recreational and medical cannabis now available in so many different US states, it is easy to get the impression that the war on cannabis users is over. However, cannabis users still represent … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Drug War, Law, Mass Incarceration, news, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged ACLU, Cannabis, cannabis legalization, drug war, Erik Altieri, law, marijuana, Marijuana Decriminalization, Mass Incarceration, NORML, society, Steve Sisolak, Systemic Racism, Uniform Crime Report, violent crimes
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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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