Category Archives: Oligarchy

Send in the Clowns

Yellen and Garland perform back-to-back surprise visits to Ukraine By Philip Giraldi Source: The Unz Review Sometimes I think that the script being used by the Biden Administration to manage its foreign and national security policies has been written by … Continue reading

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Ukraine is America’s Afghanistan More Than Russia’s

By Peter Van Buren Source: We Meant Well The thinking in Washington goes like this: for the “low cost” of Ukrainian lives and some American dollars, the West can end Putin’s strategic threat to the United States. No Americans are … Continue reading

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The Devil’s Milkshake

The water’s just fine! By Tarence Ray Source: The Baffler YOU’VE SEEN IT BEFORE. An industrial disaster poisons a town’s food or water supply. Residents get angry. Public officials try to dispel that anger through a public act of self-sacrifice, … Continue reading

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Silicon Valley Bank Crisis: The Liquidity Crunch We Predicted Has Now Begun

By Brandon Smith Source: Alt-Market.us There has been an avalanche of information and numerous theories circulating the past few days about the fate of a bank in California know as SVB (Silicon Valley Bank). SVB was the 16th largest bank in … Continue reading

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East Palestine, Ohio and the Oligarchy

By Margaret Kimberley Source: Black Agenda Report A freight train derailment brought environmental catastrophe to a small Ohio town. While the circumstances are somewhat unique, events followed a predictable pattern in a country run by and for the ruling class. … Continue reading

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A Nanny State Idiocracy: When the Government Thinks It Knows Best

By John & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military.”—Simone Weil, French philosopher It’s hard to say whether … Continue reading

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Showdown in Ukraine

Hobbled US Turns to War to Preserve its Waning Primacy By Mike Whitney Source: The Unz Review The future of humanity will be decided on a battlefield in Ukraine. That’s no exaggeration. The conflict between the United States and Russia will … Continue reading

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Why the Banking System Is Breaking Up

By Michael Hudson Source: The Unz Review The collapses of Silvergate and Silicon Valley Bank are like icebergs calving off from the Antarctic glacier. The financial analogy to the global warming causing this collapse of supporting shelving is the rising … Continue reading

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