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For Whom the Bell Tolls: A Report on the State of Planet Earth at Year’s End 2020
By Robert J. Burrowes In 1624, English poet John Donne penned his famous poem ‘No Man Is an Island’, sublimely evoking the reality of human unity: ‘Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.’ Therefore, he concluded his poem, ‘never … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, education, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, Housing Crisis, Inequality, internet freedom, media, Militarization, military spending, news, Oligarchy, Philosophy, police state, Psychology, Social Control, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology, war
Tagged 2020, 5G, ABM treaty, activism, Big Tech, Bill Gates, Biodiversity, Climate Change, corporate media, Covid-19, DARPA, Deforestation, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, environment, Extinction, Factory Farms, Famine, financial crisis, Fossil Fuels, geoengineering, Global Elite, GMOs, Homelessness, International Atomic Energy Agency, James Corbett, Lockdowns, military spending, NATO, Nuclear Power, pollution, Privacy, SARS-CoV-2, sex trafficking, Slavery, surveillance state, Tax Havens, Technocracy, The Great Reset, Vaccines, Violence, war, World Economic Forum, World Health Organization
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As Millions Face Eviction, Senate Proposes Nearly $700 Billion for Pentagon
By John Vibes Source: Activist Post As millions face eviction and line up at food banks throughout the country, waiting for another stimulus payment that will seemingly never come, the Senate Appropriations Committee is proposing a $696 billion Pentagon spending … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, military spending, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged 2021 Pentagon spending bill, Corporate Welfare, eviction, F-35, financial crisis, Homelessness, military spending, Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi, Poverty, unemployment
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Killing Democracy in America
By William J. Astore Source: Strategic Culture Foundation The phrase “thinking about the unthinkable” has always been associated with the unthinkable cataclysm of a nuclear war, and rightly so. Lately, though, I’ve been pondering another kind of unthinkable scenario, nearly as nightmarish … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, Neocons, Oligarchy, society, State Crime, war, war on terror, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Afghanistan, Crisis, Defense Budget, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, military-industrial complex, Pandemic, Peace, perpetual war, terrorism, United States, Vietnam War, war
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Hiroshima Denial is Terror
By Finian Cunningham Source: Information Clearing House Those who deny history, or who are oblivious, are apt to repeat it. That is the frightening, perhaps most disturbing aspect of the 75th anniversary this week of the American atomic bombing of … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, military spending, society, State Crime, war
Tagged American History, Atomic Bombs, empire, Genocide, geopolitics, Hiroshima, imperialism, Mass Murder, Nagasaki, Nuclear War, State Terror, US Foreign Policy, war, War Crime
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The War in Questions
Making Sense of the Age of Carnage By Tom Engelhardt Source: TomDispatch.com My first question is simple enough: After 18-plus years of our forever wars, where are all the questions? Almost two decades of failing American wars across a startlingly … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, Afghanistan, china, corporate media, elites, empire, geopolitics, George W. Bush, imperialism, iraq, military-industrial complex, NATO, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, propaganda, Russia, US Foreign Policy, war
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Human Extinction Now Imminent and Inevitable? A Report on the State of Planet Earth
By Robert J. Burrowes There is a significant body of evidence that human extinction is now imminent; that is, it will occur within the next few years and possibly this year: 2020. There is also a significant body of evidence … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, education, elites, Empire, Energy, Environment, freedom of speech, Geoengineering, Geopolitics, GMOs, Health, imperialism, Inequality, internet freedom, Militarization, military spending, news, Oligarchy, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged 5G, Afghanistan, bioengineering, china, Climate Change, corporate media, Economics, Education, environment, fascism, Fossil Fuels, free speech, General Qassem Soleimani, geoengineering, Global Elite, Human Extinction, Iran, iraq, military spending, NATO, Nuclear Power, Parenting, Philosophy, pollution, psychology, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slavery, Socialization, Sociology, Tax Havens, vaccinations, Violence, war, Yemen
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