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Category Archives: Empire
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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Why the media don’t want to know the truth about the Nord Stream blasts
First, journalists lapped up Russian culpability. Now they peddle a preposterous James Bond-style story. Anything to ignore the US role By Jonathan Cook Source: Jonathan Cook Blog No one but the terminally naïve should be surprised that security services lie … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, CIA, Conspiracy, Deep State, Empire, Energy, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, NATO, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged black ops, CIA, corporate media, Deep State, Dennis Kucinich, empire, geopolitics, Germany, imperialism, Mainstream Media, NATO, Nord Stream, NSC, propaganda, Russia, Seymour Hersh, State Terror, Technocracy, the new york times, Ukraine, war
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The Impending Economic Collapse – A Cause of Current Conflict
By Phil Butler Source: New Eastern Outlook Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has called on BRICS nations to create an alternative to replace the dollar in foreign trade. Other experts suggest President Joe Biden’s policies will destroy America’s middle … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Deep State, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, military-industrial complex, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged American hegemony, bond market, Brazil, BRICS, China, currency reserve, Defense Budget, Economic Collapse, Economics, empire, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, geopolitics, gold standard, IMF, imperialism, Joe Biden, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, MIC, military spending, military-industrial complex, Russia, US Dollar, US Foreign Policy, war, war profiteers
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Did Bellingcat get Ukrainian forces killed?
By Kit Klarenberg Source: The Grayzone Christo Grozev of Bellingcat gained a front row seat to a bungled Ukrainian intelligence operation that left a friendly airfield destroyed and soldiers dead. His narrative about his role in the plot is filled … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, corporate news, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, military-industrial complex, NATO, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, war
Tagged Bellingcat, Christo Grozev, Defense Intelligence Directorate, empire, geopolitics, Hryhoriy Halahan, imperialism, Information Warfare, Ivan Bakanov, NATO, propaganda, Psyops, Ruslan Demchenko, Russia, Security Service of Ukraine, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, Volodymyr Zelensky, war
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USAID Board Member Says ‘New World Order’ will Continue Despite a Rising Multipolar World
By Timothy Alexander Guzman Source: Silent Crow News That same old American institution called the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) who supports regime change and wars across the world has a board member who wrote an opinion piece for The Hill, … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, NATO, Neocons, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Technocracy, war
Tagged CENTCOM, China, empire, geopolitics, Globalism, Harley Lippman, imperialism, Iran, Israel, multipolarity, NATO, rules-based order, Russia, Saudi Arabia, SCO, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Syria, USAID
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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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