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HOW THE WESTERN MEDIA HELPED BUILD THE CASE FOR GENOCIDE IN GAZA
From obscuring the West’s role in starving Gaza to sensationalised accounts of mass rape by Hamas, journalists are playing the role of propagandists, not reporters. By Jonathan Cook Source: Declassified UK The past five months have been clarifying. What was … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, corporate news, culture, Deep State, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, Neocons, Neoliberalism, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Anat Schwartz, BBC, corporate news, Deep State, empire, Ethnic Cleansing, fascism, Flour Massacre, Gaza, Genocide, geopolitics, Global Elites, Hamas, imperialism, Israel, Mainstream Media, mass starvation, Neoliberalism, New York Times, Normal Finkelstein, Palestine, Pramila Patten, propaganda, Psyops, UNRWA, US Foreign Policy, Western Media, Zionism
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A Low-Trust Society Is an Impoverished Society
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The sole remaining reservoirs of trust in American life are personal networks, local enterprises and local institutions. It’s not exactly news that social trust has declined significantly in the United States. Surveys find … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged Cartels, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, elites, empire, financial crisis, low-trust society, Managerial Class, Monopolies, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psyops, Roman Empire, social trust, society, war
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Rule by Criminals: When Dissidents Become Enemies of the State
By John & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “In these days of worldwide confusion, there is a dire need for men and women who will courageously do battle for truth.”— Martin Luther King Jr. When exposing a crime is treated as committing a … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, civil disobedience, civil liberties, culture, Dystopia, elites, Empire, History, imperialism, Militarization, news, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged activism, Capital Punishment, civil disobedience, civil liberties, Dystopia, empire, fascism, Government, imperialism, Jesus, Julian Assange, Martial Law, Martin Luther King Jr., Nazi Germany, police state, Roman Empire, State Terror, surveillance state, Torture, war, war crimes
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Net Zero, the Digital Panopticon and the Future of Food
By Colin Todhunter Source: Off-Guardian The food transition, the energy transition, net-zero ideology, programmable central bank digital currencies, the censorship of free speech and clampdowns on protest. What’s it all about? To understand these processes, we need to first locate … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Agenda 2030, Authoritarianism, BlackRock, COVID, Digital Panopticon, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, Fabio Vighi, financial crisis, Food, food sovereignty, Food System, Global Elites, Global Warming, Great Reset, healthcare, Lockdowns, Neoliberalism, Net Zero, police state, surveillance state, Technocracy, Ted Reece, United Nations, WEF
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The US Economy Looks Good On Paper – Here’s Why It’s Actually A Disaster In Progress
By Brandon Smith Source: Alt-Market.us One of my favorite false narratives floating around corporate media platforms has been the argument that the American people “just don’t seem to understand how good the economy really is right now.” If only they … Continue reading
Posted in corporate news, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Labor, news, Oligarchy, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Work
Tagged BitCoin, central banks, Consumerism, Debt, Economic Collapse, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, GDP, Great Depression, Inflation, labor market recovery
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Why Journalism is Going Extinct
By Peter Van Buren Source: We Meant Well Is journalism going extinct? asks The Atlantic in an article of roughly the same name. The numbers are deadly: the grimmest news was from the Los Angeles Times, the biggest newspaper outside of the east coast. The paper announced … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, conditioning, corporate news, culture, Deep State, elites, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, news, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Authoritarianism, censorship, corporate news, culture, Deep State, disinformation, Dystopia, Fake News, fascism, Glenn Greenwald, Journalism, Mainstream Media, media, Media Literacy, Misinformation, MSM, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psyops, Technocracy
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Technocensorship: When Corporations Serve As a Front for Government Censors
By John & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, freedom of speech, internet freedom, media, Militarization, military-industrial complex, news, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged censorship, civil liberties, Covid-19, Deep State, Dystopia, fascism, free speech, Government, Internet Freedom, police state, Social Media, surveillance state, technocensorship, Technocracy
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The State of Our Nation No One’s Talking About: Tyranny Is Rising as Freedom Falls
By John & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest—forces that look … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, conditioning, culture, Dystopia, elites, Empire, Law, Mass Incarceration, Militarization, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Aldous Huxley, civil liberties, Dystopia, fascism, Hannah Arendt, law, Militarism, police state, propaganda, surveillance state, Technocracy, Totalitarianism, tyranny
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