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Category Archives: wasted taxpayer dollars
The Impending Economic Collapse – A Cause of Current Conflict
By Phil Butler Source: New Eastern Outlook Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has called on BRICS nations to create an alternative to replace the dollar in foreign trade. Other experts suggest President Joe Biden’s policies will destroy America’s middle … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Deep State, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, military-industrial complex, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged American hegemony, bond market, Brazil, BRICS, China, currency reserve, Defense Budget, Economic Collapse, Economics, empire, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, geopolitics, gold standard, IMF, imperialism, Joe Biden, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, MIC, military spending, military-industrial complex, Russia, US Dollar, US Foreign Policy, war, war profiteers
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US to double its ‘defense’ budget
By Drago Bosnic Source: InfoBRICS.org Back in late March, top American General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that the United States of America would be doubling its military budget in case the Kiev regime was … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, Authoritarianism, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, military-industrial complex, Neocons, news, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Deep State, Economics, empire, federal budget, financial crisis, geopolitics, imperialism, Mark Milley, MIC, military spending, military-industrial complex, Nuclear Weapons, rules-based order, Russia, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, war, war profiteers
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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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New York Times Is Now Telling Bigger Lies Than Iraq WMDs and More Effectively
By David Swanson Source: War Is a Crime The New York Times routinely tells bigger lies than the clumsy nonsense it published about weapons in Iraq. Here’s an example. This package of lies is called “Liberals Have a Blind Spot on Defense” but … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Welfare, culture, Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, military-industrial complex, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged China, Economics, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, Militarism, Military Budget, military spending, military-industrial complex, Russia, Ukraine
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Seymour Hersh: the CIA Knows Ukrainian Officials Are Skimming US Aid
Hersh says the CIA estimates at least $400 million was embezzled last year in funds earmarked for diesel payments By Dave DeCamp Source: Antiwar.com On Wednesday, Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published a report on Substack that alleged the CIA was aware of … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, CIA, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, military-industrial complex, Neocons, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Antony Blinken, CIA, Corruption, geopolitics, Jake Sullivan, Joe Biden, military spending, Nord Stream, Russia, Seymour Hersh, Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, war, William Burns
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Fiscal Insanity: The Government Borrows $6 Billion a Day, and We’re Stuck with the Bill
By John & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute We’re not living the American dream. We’re living a financial nightmare. The U.S. government is funding its existence with a credit card. The government—and that includes the current administration—is spending money … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Deep State, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, military-industrial complex, Oligarchy, police state, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged American Dream, Charles Pollock, civil liberties, Committee for a Reasonable Federal Budget, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Government, military spending, military-industrial complex, national debt, Oligarchy, police state, surveillance state, Taxes, war
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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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Dictators Bent on Building Military Empires: The Cost of the Nation’s Endless Wars
By John & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “Autocrats only understand one word: no, no, no. No you will not take my country, no you will not take my freedom, no you will not take my future… A dictator bent … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, NATO, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Afghanistan, Dwight Eisenhower, Economics, empire, fascism, geopolitics, Government, hypocrisy, ilitary-industrial complex, imperialism, Joe Biden, Militarism, military spending, NATO, Russia, tyranny, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, war, war profiteers
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