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Category Archives: Financial Crisis
Anomie and Postmodernism
By Richard Sahn Source: Bracing Views These are not exactly happy times. Americans have fewer safeguards for their jobs, financial well-being, and, ultimately, their very lives. Uncertainty and insecurity have become more prevalent than ever I can remember. As a … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Social Control, society, Sociology
Tagged Anomie, Byron Katie, Critical Thinking, culture, depression, Economics, Philosophy, Postmodernism, psychology, society, Sociology
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Neoliberal Defenestration and the Overton Window
By Stephen Martin Source: CounterPunch ‘It is difficult to get Artificial Intelligence to understand something, when the Research and Development funding it depends upon its not understanding it’– Paraphrase of Upton Sinclair. defenestration (diːˌfɛnɪˈstreɪʃən) n the act of throwing a person or thing out … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, imperialism, Inequality, Labor, Militarization, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technology, Work
Tagged AI, artificial intelligence, automation, Biodiversity, Corporatism, Economics, empire, Free Market, Hegemony, imperialism, Neoliberalism, Overton Window, panopticon, Philosophy, politics, Robotics, Utilitarianism
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Uncle Sam, the Human Rights Hypocrite
By Paul Street Source: TruthDig This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Signed by the United States and adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on Dec. 10, 1948, the document was a great … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Environment, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Inequality, Mass Incarceration, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged censorship, civil liberties, economic inequality, Elections, empire, freedom of speech, geopolitics, Human Rights, imperialism, Mass Incarceration, National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA, police state, Police Violence, Poverty, racism, surveillance state, Torture, United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, US Foreign Policy
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THE MONOPOLIZATION OF AMERICA: The biggest economic problem you’re hearing almost nothing about
By Robert Reich Source: Nation of Change Not long ago I visited some farmers in Missouri whose profits are disappearing. Why? Monsanto alone owns the key genetic traits to more than 90 percent of the soybeans planted by farmers in … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Social Control, society
Tagged antitrust, Big Ag, big data, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Cartels, corporatocracy, economic inequality, Economics, elites, Facebook, Google, Monopolization, Monopoly, Monsanto, Robert Bork, Ronald Reagan
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America’s Dystopian Future
By Robert Hunziker Source: CounterPunch Imagine a privatized America where rugged individualism reigns supreme within a vast network of corporate America, Inc., similar to 19th century wild west lifestyle, no social security, no Medicare, no Medicaid, no public law enforcement … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, imperialism, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged America, American History, austerity, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, empire, financial crisis, Free Market, imperialism, Manifest Destiny, Neoliberalism, P, Poverty, privatization, Scott Erickson, the history of the decline and fall of america
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Convenient Tales About Riches Within Reach
By Sam Pizzigati Source: OpEdNews.com The world at large knew virtually nada about Sylvia Bloom for 96 years. Then she died in 2016. Now, just a little too late, Sylvia Bloom is getting her belated — yet richly deserved — … Continue reading
Posted in corporate news, Corporate Welfare, culture, Economics, education, elites, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, Inequality, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society
Tagged austerity, corporate media, economic crisis, economic inequality, Economics, Free Education, Housing Crisis, Income Disparity, Millenials, Millionaires, Precariats, Public Transit, Rent Control, Social Services, Sylvia Bloom, Wealth, Wealth Gap
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The Pentagon Budget as Corporate Welfare for Weapons Makers
By William Hartung (with introduction by TomDispatch) Source: TomDispatch.com What company gets the most money from the U.S. government? The answer: the weapons maker Lockheed Martin. As the Washington Post recently reported, of its $51 billion in sales in 2017, … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, society, State Crime, war, war on terror, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Afghanistan, Corporate Welfare, Defense Spending, Domestic Spending, Donald Trump, economic crisis, empire, F-35, geopolitics, iraq, Jim Mattis, Libya, Lockheed Martin, Militarism, Military Contractors, military spending, Pakistan, Pentagon Budget, Reagonomics, Somalia, Syria, Tax Giveaways, US Foreign Policy, war, war profiteers, Yemen
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US Collapse – the Spectacle of Our Time
By Finnian Cunningham Source: Axis of Logic May you live in interesting times, goes the Chinese proverb. Few can doubt that we are indeed living in such an interesting time. Big changes are afoot in the world, it seems. None … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, culture, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, news, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged activism, American Empire, American exceptionalism, china, Cold War, corporate media, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, empire, financial crisis, geopolitics, imperialism, Mainstream News, Militarism, national debt, Poverty, propaganda, Rogue State, Russia, RussiaGate, war
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