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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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The Military Must be De-Funded Along with the Police
By Dan Kovalik Source: CounterPuch As Vijay Prashad explains in his book, Red Star Over The Third World, domestic fascism in the West has reflected the West’s pre-existing colonial practices abroad. Citing Martinique communist Aimé Césaire, Prashad explains: “What had come … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, culture, Dystopia, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Law, Militarization, Oligarchy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Authoritarianism, civil liberites, empire, fascism, geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, Military, National Defense Authorization Act, police, police state
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The Looming Financial Nightmare: So Much for Living the American Dream
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged American Dream, Cronyism, Debt, Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, empire, fascism, financial crisis, geopolitics, Government Corruption, Gross National Product, imperialism, Irwin A. Schiff, national debt, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, tax protest, Taxes, war
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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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Nullify Government Tyranny: In 2020, Harness the Power of Your Discontent
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “The people have the power, all we have to do is awaken that power in the people. The people are unaware. They’re not educated to realize that they have power. The system … Continue reading
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Tagged Asset Forfeiture, censorship, Debtors’ prisons, Deep State, Dystopia, endless wars, free speech, Government Corruption, Grassroots Activism, indefinite detentions, Mass Shootings, Militarism, Militarized Police, Nullification, pay-to-play politicians, police brutality, police shootings of unarmed citizens, police state, profit-driven prisons, retaliatory arrests, roadside strip searches, surveillance, surveillance state, SWAT team raids, the criminalization of lawful activities, tyranny, warmongering
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