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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
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, Oligarchy, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Andriy Kostin, China, Deep State, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Eli Rosenbaum, empire, FBI, financial crisis, geopolitics, ICC, imperialism, Janet Yellen, Joe Biden, Lloyd Austin, Merrick Garland, Russia, Tony Blinken, Ukraine, US Treasury, Volodymyr Zelensky, war
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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
Posted in black ops, CIA, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Militarization, NATO, news, Oligarchy, society, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged Afghanistan, CIA, Deep State, empire, EU, Euromaidan Revolution, geopolitics, Germany, imperialism, NATO, Pakistan, proxy war, Russia, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, Viktor Yanukovych, war
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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
Posted in Corporate Crime, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Ben Bernanke, central banks, credit crisis, Economic Collapse, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Inflation, Janet Yellen, Jerome Powell, Oligarchy, QT, Silicon Valley Bank, SVB, Technocracy
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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
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Law, Mass Incarceration, Oligarchy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Asset Forfeiture, Authoritarianism, Bureaucracy, Dystopia, Economics, fascism, idiocracy, kakistocracy, Kleptocracy, law, Mass Incarceration, Nanny State, Overcriminalization, overregulation, police state, SWAT, Technocracy
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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
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Energy, Geopolitics, imperialism, NATO, Neocons, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy, war
Tagged Belt and Road Initiative, China, Deep State, empire, geopolitics, Globalization, imperialism, New World Order, Nord Stream, Oligarchy, Russia, Third World War, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, US Hegemony, war
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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
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, History, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Central bank, derivatives, Economic Collapse, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Oligarchy, Quantitative Easing, recession, S&Ls, Silkicon Valley Bank, Silvergate, SVB, Technocracy, Treasury securities
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