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The Superpower That Fought Itself — And Lost
By William Astore and TomDispatch Source: TomDispatch.com After 19 al-Qaeda militants armed only with box-cutters and knives hijacked four American commercial airliners, the U.S. military moved with remarkable efficiency to rectify the problem. In the years since, in its global … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, black ops, CIA, Conspiracy, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, History, military spending, Neocons, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, war on terror, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged 9/11, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, black ops, Blackwater, Chalmers Johnson, china, CIA, Cold War, Deep State, empire, Erik Prince, geopolitics, Hegemony, imperialism, iraq, ISIS, James Madison, Militarism, military spending, military-industrial complex, Russia, Syria, Trump, US Foreign Policy, war
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What Happened to All Those Foreclosed Houses?
Wall Street bought them — and is now leasing them out and driving up rents. By Jim Hightower Source: OpEdNews.com We know that millions of American families lost their homes after Wall Street’s 2007 financial crash. But where did all … Continue reading
Media’s Grim Addiction to Perseverance Porn
By Adam Johnson Source: FAIR You’ve seen or heard or read the personal interest story a thousand times: An enterprising seven-year-old collects cans to save for college (ABC7, 2/8/17), a man with unmatched moxie walks 15 miles to his job (Today, 2/20/17), … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Labor, media, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged conditioning, corporate media, corporate news, economic crisis, Economics, economy, healthcare, healthcare system, Labor, Mainstream Media, media, Poverty, propaganda, recession, social control, Systemic Problems, Work
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Profit Maximization is Easy: Invest in Violence
By Robert J. Burrowes For those of us committed to systematically reducing and, one day, ending human violence, it is vital to understand what is causing and driving it so that effective strategies can be developed for dealing with violence … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, conditioning, Corporate Crime, culture, Drug War, Economics, Environment, Militarization, Philosophy, police state, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, State Crime, war
Tagged Big Banks, Corporate Crime, culture, drug war, Economics, environment, Militarization, military-industrial complex, Morality, Non-Violence, Peace, Philosophy, police state, Police Violence, psychology, social control, society, State Crime, US Foreign Policy, Violence, war, War on Drugs, war profiteers
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Wall Street Primitivism: Nicaragua, China, The Middle East & Charlottesville
By Caleb Maupin Source: New Eastern Outlook Wall Street, London, and the Bretton Woods institutions like the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund claim to support development and the eradication of poverty around the world. They also claim to support … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, CIA, Conspiracy, culture, Deep State, Dirty Politics, divide and conquer, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, History, media, Neoliberalism, news, NGOs, propaganda, Psy-ops, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged Abd al-Wahhab, Al-Queda, black ops, capitalism, china, CIA, Corporate Globalization, Dalia Lama, Eastern Lightning, Economic Warfare, empire, Falun Gong, geopolitics, Hegemony, imperialism, Iran, ISIS, Lenin, Libya, NATO, Nazis, Neoliberalism, NICA Act, Nicaragua, primitivism, propaganda, Psy-ops, Russia, Sanctions, Sandinista, Saudi Arabia, Socialism, Tibet, US Foreign Policy, Wahabbism, wall street
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When the Butterfly Flaps Its Wings
By James Howard Kunstler Source: Kunstler.com It remains to be seen what the impact will be from Mother Nature putting the nation’s fourth largest city out-of-business. And for how long? It’s possible that Houston will never entirely recover from Hurricane … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, History, news, Recession, society
Tagged Big Oil, Debt, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Financialization, Houston, Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Katrina, Petrochemicals, wall street
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One nation under plutocracy
By Jack Balkwill Source: Intrepid Report Americans are brought up believing a fairy tale in which there is somehow democracy in their governance. But the late, great, Leonard Cohen exposed the system’s dirty little secret, “Everybody knows that the dice … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, History, Law, news, Revolution, Social Control, society, State Crime, war
Tagged 1%, 99%, Big Pharma, Bill, Bill Gates, Billionaires, Corporate Globalization, corporate media, Democracy, economic inequality, Health, Leonard Cohen, military-industrial complex, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Prisons, war profiteers, Wealth Gap
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US Sanctions Symptomatic of a Failing Empire
By James ONeill Source: New Eastern Outlook On 26 July 2017 the US Congress overwhelmingly approved a Bill providing for fresh sanctions against North Korea, Russia and Iran. The passage of this Bill , and its level of support in … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, Militarization, Neocons, propaganda, Social Control, society, State Crime, war
Tagged BRICS, china, empire, Eurasian Economic Union, geopolitics, imperialism, Iran, JCPOA, Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Libya, North Korea, North South Transportation Corridor, Nuclear Weapons, Russia, Sanctions, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, Syria, Trump, US Foreign Policy
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