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Progressive Commentary Hour 12.04.19
Abby Martin and Chris Hedges discuss the bipartisan road from neoliberalism to fascism. Also, Catherine Austin Fitts on the missing trillions and what we can do to reclaim it.
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Project Censored 12.03.19
Mickey Huff and guests examine how Facebook, Twitter and Google are working to hide,
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Offering Choice but Delivering Tyranny: The Corporate Capture of Agriculture
By Colin Todhunter Source: Off-Guardian Many lobbyists talk a lot about critics of genetic engineering technology denying choice to farmers. They say that farmers should have access to a range of tools and technologies to maximise choice and options. At … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Empire, Environment, Health, imperialism, Inequality, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Oligarchy, Science, society, Sociology, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Africa, Agribusiness, Agroecology, Bayer, Big Ag, Biotech, Cargill, Eric Holt-Giménez, Fertilizers, Genetic Engineering, Global Food System, GM Crops, GMOs, Green Revolution, IMF, India, Industrial Foods, Monsanto, Neoliberalism, organic agriculture, Steven Druker, tyranny, Ukraine, Vandana Shiva, World Bank
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How the West eats its children
By Thierry Meyssan Source: VoltaireNet.org The cause of Western recession International relations experienced a profound change with the paralysis of the Soviet Union in 1986, when the State was unable to control the civilian nuclear incident in Tchernobyl [1], then with … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Neoliberalism, Recession, Social Control, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Africa, capitalism, china, Cold War, Corporate Globalisation, Desert Storm, European Union, financial crisis, financialisation, France, geopolitics, George Bush Sr., Global Financial System, iraq, Margaret Thatcher, NATO, Neolioberalism, New World Order, Obama, Office of Force Transformation, recession, Russia, Sovereignty, Soviet Union, Theresa May, Trump, United Kingdom, United States, US multinationals, Volcker rule
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Peace is a Cliché: When the West cannot Control the World Unopposed it Means War
Dedicated to my friend, a philosopher, John Cobb, Jr. By Andre Vltchek Source: Dissident Voice The West likes to think of itself as a truly “peace-loving part of the world”. But is it? You hear it everywhere, from Europe to … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Empire, Geoengineering, History, imperialism, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, propaganda, Social Control, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Africa, Corporate Globalization, Corporate Interests, Ecology of War, empire, Exposing Lies of the Empire, geopolitics, hypocrisy, imperialism, Kenya, Lebanon, Neoliberalism, Peace, US Foreign Policy, war
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The Global Pivot Away From America
By Graham Vanbergen Source: TruePublica There was a day when the world realised they’d had enough of America. It wasn’t when America turned it back on the Herculean effort to sign the world up to the Paris Climate Agreement or … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism
Tagged Africa, America, Belt Road Initiative, BRI, china, Donald Trump, Economics, empire, EU, Europe, France, geopolitics, Germany, imperialism, Iran, Iran Nuclear Deal, Israel, Middle East, One Belt One Road, Russia, uk, United State, US Dollars, US Foreign Policy, Wang Yi, Yuan
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Obama’s Rape of Libya Part II
By Stephen Lendman Source: SteveLendmanBlog In 2011, he and then secretary of state Hillary Clinton bore full responsibility for the rape and destruction of Libya, transforming Africa’s most developed country into a cauldron of endless violence, instability, turmoil and unspeakable … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, culture, Dystopia, Empire, Energy, Geopolitics, History, Militarization, Neocons, news, society, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged Africa, Dystopia, empire, Fossil Fuels, geopolitics, Hillary Clinton, Humanitarian Intervention, imperialism, ISIL, ISIS, Libya, NATO, Neocons, Obama, Qaddafi, war, war on terror
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Exposing the Libyan Agenda: A Closer Look at Hillary’s Emails
By Ellen Brown Source: Web of Debt Critics have long questioned why violent intervention was necessary in Libya. Hillary Clinton’s recently published emails confirm that it was less about protecting the people from a dictator than about money, banking, and … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, Corruption, culture, Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, History, society, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged Africa, Ellen Brown, Gold, Hillary Clinton, iraq, Libya, NATO, Neocons, OPEC, Qadhafi, Saddam Hussein, US State Department
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Doctors to Use Sterilants to Cure Early Puberty & Obesity
Investigative journalist Susanne Posel of OccupyCorporatism.com just posted a disturbing yet informative article that touches on a number of societal trends. She cited a recent study from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Molecular Epidemiology in Children’s Environmental Health (MECEH), and … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, consciousness, Corporate Crime, Economics, GMOs, propaganda, Science, society
Tagged Africa, AGRA, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Bisphenol A, BPA, Depo-Provera, early puberty, Environmental health, National Institutes of Health, obesity, Occupy Corporatism, Raj Patel, Susanne Posel
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Geopolitical Motives Behind Kenya Mass Shooting
Western corporate news has predictably portrayed the recent massacre in Kenya as a senseless terrorist attack by “Muslim fanatics” of Al Shabaab, a Somalian Al Qaeda franchise. If their motive was solely religious, perpetrating a large-scale slaughter drawing international condemnation … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, conditioning, corporate news, divide and conquer, Empire, False Flag, Geopolitics, History, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, war, war on terror, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Africa, Al Qaeda, Al Shabaab, Ethiopia, False Flag, geopolitics, Kenya, Land Destroyer Report, mass shooting, Nairobi, psy-op, Somalia, state terrorism, Syria, terrorism, Tony Cartalucci, war, war on terror
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