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Tag Archives: austerity
The United States Does Not Have an Economy
By Paul Craig Roberts Source: PaulCraigRoberts.org The US financial sector has long looted other countries. A number of participants have described the process. First a country is enticed with bribes to the leaders to take out loans that cannot be serviced or … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Inequality, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged austerity, Corporate Globalization, corporate media, Covid-19, Economic Collapse, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, IMF, Lockdowns, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Pandemic, Russia, Sanctions, Technocracy
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ARCHITECTS OF POWER: HOW THE GLOBAL ELITE PROFIT FROM EXTREME INEQUALITY & PRE-EMPT THE BACKLASH
By Dr. Tim Coles Source: Waking Times There is a new, mega-rich global elite consisting of a small number of billionaires and multibillionaires. Many of them made their money in the technology sector. Others play financial markets or inherit fortunes. … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, CIA, civil disobedience, civil liberties, conditioning, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged 1%, austerity, Bail-Outs, Billionaires, CIA, Corporate Welfare, Deregulation, Dystopia, Economics, elites, financialisation, Global Elite, Howard G. Buffett, Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg, Neoliberalism, NSA, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, privatization, Robert Mercer, Sergey Brin, Warren Buffett
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Inflation Is Stealth Austerity
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Rather than decry austerity, which demands an open political discussion of trade-offs, we should decry inflation’s stealthy reduction of purchasing power. Austerity–bad. Inflation–good. Oh wait–they’re the same thing: both are a reduction … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged austerity, central banks, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Inflation, Oligarchy
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Get Ready for an Unacceptable New Normal
By Stephen Lendman Source: StephenLendman.org At times like now, ideas lying around dormant on the shelf become reality. Economic and other crisis conditions are times when most people can be convinced to accept unacceptable policies they’d likely reject otherwise. During … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, news, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged austerity, censorship, corporate media, Covid-19, dytopia, Economic Collapse, financial crisis, Mainstream Media, Martial Law, MSM, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, surveillance state, Technocracy, Totalitarianism, tyranny
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This holiday season, American workers have little to celebrate
By Danny Haiphong Source: Intrepid Report Every year, much of the U.S. population celebrates Thanksgiving and Christmas to show appreciation for their families and friends. Thanksgiving normalizes the colonial origins of the United States and erases the brutality of the … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, propaganda, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged Alienation, austerity, capitalism, Christmas, Debt, economic crisis, Economics, Education, Financial Crash, healthcare, Homelessness, Housing Crisis, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Poverty, privatization, protests, Stagnant Wages, Thanksgiving, Working Class
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Media Just Can’t Stop Presenting Horrifying Stories as ‘Uplifting’ Perseverance Porn
By Alan Macleod Source: FAIR.org “THIS IS AWESOME!” That’s how Fox 5 DC described its story (5/28/19) about Logan Moore of Cedartown, GA, a disabled two-year-old whose parents were unable to afford to buy him a walker, so employees at … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, media, Media Literacy, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged austerity, Bankruptcy, corporate media, Dystopia, economic crisis, Economics, healthcare system, Homelessness, Human Rights, Journalism, late state capitalism, Mainstream News, media, Media Literacy, MSM, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Poverty, recession
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Saturday Matinee: I fight, therefore I am
I fight therefore I am (in french: Je lutte donc je suis) is a documentary film about social and political struggles in Greece and Spain which provides an overview of the struggles in Europe against austerity, capitalism and fascism. A … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Art, culture, Economics, Film, Neoliberalism, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged activism, austerity, capitalism, Documentary Film, fascism, Greece, I fight therefore I am, Je lutte donc je suis
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For Economic Truth Turn To Michael Hudson
By Paul Craig Roberts Source: PaulCraigRoberts.org Readers ask me how they can learn economics, what books to read, what university economics departments to trust. I receive so many requests that it is impossible to reply individually. Here is my answer. … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Environment, Financial Crisis, Labor, Neoliberalism, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Work
Tagged austerity, capitalism, Classical Economics, Debt, Economic Rent, Economics, elites, environment, External Costs, financial crisis, Financialization, J Is for Junk Economics, Michael Hudson, Natural Resources, Neoliberalism, privatization, Supply-side Economics, Taxes, unemployment
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