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Category Archives: Neoliberalism
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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America’s empire is bankrupt
The dollar is finally being dethroned By John Michael Greer Source: UnHerd Let’s start with the basics. Roughly 5% of the human race currently live in the United States of America. That very small fraction of humanity, until quite recently, … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, Technology, war
Tagged China, culture, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, empire, financial crisis, Francis Fukuyama i, geopolitics, Globalization, imperialism, Inflation, Iran, Neoliberalism, Russia, Sanctions, society, Technocracy, technology, Ukraine, US Dollar, war
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Hunger Profiteers, Granny Killers, and Skin-Deep Morality
By Colin Todhunter Source: Dissident Voice Today, a fifth (278 million) of the African population are undernourished, and 55 million of that continent’s children under the age of five are stunted due to severe malnutrition. In 2021, an Oxfam review of IMF COVID-19 … Continue reading
Posted in Big Pharma, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Health, Militarization, military spending, military-industrial complex, Neocons, Neoliberalism, news, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Africa, Agribusiness, Big Ag, Big Pharma, Covid-19, Dystopia, GMOs, Green Revolution, hunger, IMF, military spending, NATO, obesity, Oxfam, Public Health, Technocracy, Ukraine, World Bank, WTO
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Austerity, War & Dictatorship… the Charade of Western Democracy Is Over. Can We Lose Those Chains?
By Finian Cunningham Source: Strategic Culture Foundation Western liberal democracy and its ubiquitous “austerity economics” is a euphemism for fascism. And the charade is finally coming to an end. Western liberal democracy and its ubiquitous “austerity economics” is a euphemism … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, culture, Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Neoliberalism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy, war
Tagged austerity, capitalism, Clara Mattei, Crisis, Economics, economy, empire, fascism, geopolitics, imperialism, Neoliberalism, Socialism, society, war
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Technology and a Tyranny Worse than Prison
By Bert Olivier Source: Brownstone Institute In an outstanding piece of political-theoretical writing, titled ‘The Threat of Big Other’ (with its play on George Orwell’s ‘Big Brother’) Shoshana Zuboff, succinctly addresses the main issues of her book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism – The Fight … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Antonio Negri, Big Brother, Catherine Austin Fitts, CBDCs, Digital Currency, Dystopia, Economics, George Orwell, Klaus Schwab, Lena Petrova, Melissa Cuimmei, Michael Hardt, Philosophy, Shoshana Zuboff, surveillance capitalism, surveillance state, Technocracy, WEF
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The Everything Bubble and Global Bankruptcy
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The resulting erosion of collateral will collapse the global credit bubble, a repricing/reset that will bankrupt the global economy and financial system. Scrape away the complexity and every economic crisis and crash boils down … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Housing Crisis, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged central banks, collateral, Credit Bubble, credit-asset bubbles, Debt, economic crisis, Economics, everything bubble, Financial Collapse, global bankruptcy, Great Depression, Housing Crisis, Oligarchy
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Prepare to Be Bled Dry by a Decade of Stagflation
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The Great Moderation of low inflation and soaring assets has ended. Welcome to the death by a thousand cuts of stagflation. It was all so easy in the good old days of the past 25 years: … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged A Great Stagflation, Economic Collapse, Economics, financial crisis, Financialization, Globalization, Hyper-financialization, hyper-globalization, Inflation, stagflation
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The Cost Of Living Has Become Extremely Oppressive And 57 Percent Of Americans Cannot Afford A $1,000 Emergency Expense
By Michael Snyder Source: Activist Post I don’t have to tell you that your money doesn’t go as far as it once did. You see it every time that you go shopping. Our leaders flooded the system with money and … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Cost of Living, Economic Collapse, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, food crisis, Housing Crisis, Inflation, McDonalds, Technocracy, Unilever
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