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Tag Archives: Autocracy
The New Normal: Death Spirals and Speculative Frenzies
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds There is an element of inevitability in play, but it isn’t about central bank bailouts, it’s about Death Spirals and the collapse of unsustainable systems. The vapid discussions about “soft” or “hard” … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, Racism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Autocracy, Bailouts, central banks, currency devaluation, Death Spirals, Economic Collapse, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Inflation, New Normal, Oligarchy, Titanic
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Destroying Western Values To Defend Western Values
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com So it turns out the US intelligence cartel has been working intimately with online platforms to regulate the “cognitive infrastructure” of the population. This is according to a new investigative report by The Intercept, based on … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, FBI, freedom of speech, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Aaron Maté, Alan MacLeod, Autocracy, censorship, Center for Internet Security, CISA, civil liberties, corporate media, Covid-19, Deep State, DHS, disinformation, Donald Trump, Facebook, FBI, free speech, Information Warfare, Max Blumenthal, MintPress News, propaganda, Psyops, Social Media, Technocracy, The Grayzone, Twitter, tyranny, Western values
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Peering Into the Crystal Ball, We See… Instability Leading to Collapse
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds We can only choose one: open, dynamic stability (evolution) or autocracy (instability and collapse). When the fundamentals of life change, every organism must evolve or die. This is equally true of human organizations, societies … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Authoritarianism, Autocracy, Collapse, dynamic equilibrium, Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, Evolution, evolutionary churn, financial crisis, Kleptocracy, Oligarchy, stability
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Jeff Bezos Embodies the Cruel Autocracy of Neoliberal Capitalism
Amazon CEO and richest-man-in-the-world Jeff Bezos wants you to work as much as he does—for one millionth of the pay By Branko Marcetic Source: In These Times “Is Jeff Bezos a horrible boss and is that good?” That was the question … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Environment, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy, Work
Tagged Amazon.com, Autocracy, Blue Origin, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, environment, financial crisis, Jeff Bezos, Kshama Sawant, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, washington post, Work
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Political Collapse: The Center Cannot Hold
By Kirkpatrick Sale Source: CounterPunch Have you noticed? From Hong Kong to Baghdad, Paris to Tehran, 2019 is shaping up to be, as the New York Times dubbed it, “the year of the protest.” Violent—and often deadly—anti-government protests are breaking … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anarchism, Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Oligarchy, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged Anarchy, Autocracy, Chaos, Civil War, Climate Change, Corporate Crime, Dystopia, elites, Failed States, Immigration, migration, Oligarchy, Political collapse, Poverty, protests, Refugees, Resource depletion, terrorism, war
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America’s War Party
By Steven Lendman Source: SteveLendman Blog America is a one-party state with two wings, each virtually identical to the other, differing only in style and rhetoric. They’re in lockstep on issues mattering most – notably supporting endless wars at the … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, Authoritarianism, black ops, conditioning, Conspiracy, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Empire, Geopolitics, History, media, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, war on terror, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Autocracy, corporate media, Duopoly, empire, Neocons, US Foreign Policy, war, war profiteers
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