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Powerful New Evidence that U.S. Is A Dictatorship
By Eric Zuesse Source: The Duran Because the U.S. Government flaunts itself as being a democracy instead of a dictatorship and it coups and invades and overthrows and replaces (“regime changes”) Governments that it declares to be dictatorships instead of … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Inequality, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, war
Tagged Aristocracy, Authoritarianism, Cold War, congressional elections, coruption, Deep State, Democracy, Dictatorship, empire, fascism, geopolitics, imperialism, Oligarchy, social science, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Totalitarianism, war
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How Billionaires Transfer Blame to Others
By Eric Zuesse Source: Strategic Culture Foundation In a two-Party dictatorship, the important truths are kept away from being publicized on either side, Eric Zuesse writes. Throughout history, aristocrats, and their flaks such as their ‘news’-media, cast blame downward, away … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Aristocracy, Billionaires, campaign finance, corporate media, Democrats, Dictatorship, Duopoly, empire, fascism, geopolitics, imperialism, Mainstream Media, Michael Bloomberg, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, propaganda, Republicans, Russia, Sheldon Adelson, Thomas Steyer, Timothy Mellon, tyranny, war
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Why Freedom Is Ending
By Eric Zuesse Source: The Duran First, the force that is ending freedom will be identified and described; and, then, the force that they fear and hate the most (and are trying to destroy) will be identified and described. THE … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, CIA, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Militarization, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, Whistleblowers
Tagged Aristocracy, CIA, Colonialism, Deep State, Donald Trump, empire, Freedom, geopolitics, imperialism, international trade, John Kiriakou, Julian Assange, Militarism, Oligarchy, war profiteers, whistleblowers
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Of Course Billionaires Shouldn’t Exist
By HipCrime Vocab There’s apparently a row over whether billionaires should exist. That is, whether or not billionaires should be a thing in our society. What a stupid question. Of course billionaires shouldn’t exist! But the reason has nothing to do with … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Oligarchy, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged Adam Smith, Amazon, Aristocracy, Bill Gates, Billionaires, capitalism, Classical Liberals, economic inequality, Economics, Great Britain, John D. Rockefeller, Libertarianism, market failure, Matt Stoller, Millionaires, Monopolies, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Socialism, technology, Wealth Concentration
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Understanding the American Dictatorship
By Eric Zuesse Source: Washington’s Blog The American dictatorship is by the aristocracy of the country’s 585 billionaires, and has been scientifically proven beyond any doubt, now, not only in the classic Gilens and Page study, which examined thousands of … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, Conspiracy, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Economics, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Inequality, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society
Tagged Aristocracy, censorship, corporate media, corporationism, Dictatorship, empire, Fake News, geopolitics, imperialism, Obama, Oligarchy, Omidyar, Plutocracy, Soros, Trump
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Forgiveness Is Overrated
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com Journalist David Sirota has just published an excellent op-ed titled “America’s new aristocracy lives in an accountability-free zone”, which begins with the observation that “Enron executives were among the last politically connected criminals to face any serious … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, culture, elites, patriotism, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, State Crime
Tagged Accountability, Aristocracy, Authority, Catholic Church, culture, David Sirota, Domestic Abuse, elites, evil, Forgiveness, Organized Religion, Philosophy, Pope Francis, Power, Ruling Class, Shaun King, social control, society, sociopaths, spirituality
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Assets of world’s “high net wealth” millionaires surged to $70 trillion in 2017
By Barry Grey Source: WSWS.org The concentration of the planet’s wealth in the hands of a narrow financial elite is growing by leaps and bounds. A new report published Tuesday reveals that the wealth of the world’s 18.1 million “high … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Neoliberalism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged 1%, Aristocracy, Capgemini, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, financial elite, high net wealth individual, HNWI, income gap, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Revolution, Trillionaires, wall street, Wealth Concentration, World Hunger, World Wealth Report 2018
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