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Bolivia coup led by Christian fascist paramilitary leader and millionaire – with foreign support
Bolivian coup leader Luis Fernando Camacho is a far-right multi-millionaire who arose from fascist movements in the Santa Cruz region, where the US has encouraged separatism. He has courted support from Colombia, Brazil, and the Venezuelan opposition. By Max Blumenthal … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Economics, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged black ops, Bolivia, Branko Marinkovic, Brazil, Carlos Mesa, Christian fundamentalism, Colombia, Corporate Elites, corporate media, Donald Trump, empire, Evo Morales, fascism, geopolitics, imperialism, Jair Bolsonaro, Luis Fernando Camacho, Movement Toward Socialism, Oligarchy, propaganda, Santa Cruz, The Organization of American States, Unión Juvenil Cruceñista, venezuela, WikiLeaks
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US plotting coups in Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua?
By Stephen Lendman Source: Intrepid Report The US wants all nations worldwide colonized, their resources looted, their people exploited as serfs, including ordinary Americans. Sovereign independent governments everywhere are targeted for regime change—by coups d’état or wars. That’s what imperialism … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, CIA, culture, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, Neocons, Social Control, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Arab Spring, black ops, Bolivia, Brazil, CIA, Coups, Cuba, Dictatorship, Egypt, empire, geopolitics, Global South, Haiti, Honduras, imperialism, Latin America, Neocons, Nicaragua, Nicolas Maduro, Paraguay, Plan Colombia, regime change, South America, State Terror, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, venezuela
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Facebook’s New Propaganda Partners
By Alan Mcleod Source: FAIR Media giant Facebook recently announced (Reuters, 9/19/18) it would combat “fake news” by partnering with two propaganda organizations founded and funded by the US government: the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the International Republican Institute … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, Election Fraud, elites, Empire, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, news, police state, Privatization, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged Atlantic Council, Brazil, censorship, Corporate Censorship, Cuba, empire, Facebook, Fake News, geopolitics, Government Censorship, Hugo Chavez, imperialism, International Republican Institute, IRI, Israel, Madeleine Albright, National Democratic Institute, NATO, NDI, Nicaragua, Palestine, propaganda, Sen. John McCain, Social Media, venezuela
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Whose Dystopia Is It Anyway?
Reason writers debate which fictional dystopia best predicted our current moment. By Mike Riggs, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Todd Krainin, Nick Gillespie, Jesse Walker, Robby Soave, Eric Boehm, Christian Britschgi, Peter Suderman & Brian Doherty Source: Reason With social media platforms seemingly … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Authoritarianism, culture, Dystopia, media, society, Sociology
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Back to the Future II, Being John Malkovich, Brazil, Edgar Allan Poe, Ender's Game, Fahrenheit 451, George Orwell, Love in the Ruins, Neal Stephenson, Orson Scott Card, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Robert Zemeckis, Science fiction, Sleeper, Snow Crash, Speculative Fiction, Terry Gilliam, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, The Past Through Tomorrow, Walker Percy, Woody Allen
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You Want a Picture of the Future? Imagine a Boot Stamping on Your Face
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “The Internet is watching us now. If they want to. They can see what sites you visit. In the future, television will be watching us, and customizing itself to what it knows … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Authoritarianism, culture, Dystopia, Film, media, police state, society, State Crime
Tagged 1984, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Aldous Huxley, Blade Runner, Brazil, Children of Men, Dystopia, Fahrenheit 451, George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, Minority Report, Philip K. Dick, Pierre Boulle, Planet of the Apes, police state, Ray Bradbury, Science fiction, Soylent Green, Stanley Kubrick, surveillance state, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Matrix, They Live, THX 1138, Totalitarianism, V For Vendetta
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International Collaboration to End Violence
By Robert J. Burrowes While much of the world is engulfed in violence of one sort or another (whether violence in the home or on the street, exploitation, ecological destruction or war), a global network of individuals and organizations is … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, consciousness, culture, Economics, education, Environment, Revolution, society, Sociology, Spirituality, war
Tagged Brazil, Burma, Ecochateau, environment, France, Iran, Myanmar, Non-Violence, Permaculture, Somalia, The People's Charter to Create a Nonviolent World, Viet Nam, Violence
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An Open Letter to the People of Brazil
By Robert J. Burrowes As I read of the latest coup in Brazil, once again removing a democratically elected leader from power, my anger surged. Not again! However, as I see and read about the ongoing massive protests, as well … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, Corruption, culture, Dirty Politics, Economics, Empire, Environment, History, Labor, Neoliberalism, news, Philosophy, Revolution, society, State Crime
Tagged activism, Brazil, BRICS, Democracy, Dilma Rousseff, Direct action, Landless Workers' Movemen, Neoliberalism, Nonviolent Defense, Social Movements
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Oligarchs, Bankers, and Swindlers
Washington’s “New Managers” in Latin America By James Petras Source: Dissident Voice Amid raging corruption, social pathologies and outright political thuggery, a new gang of vassal regimes has taken-over Latin America. The new rulers are strictly recruited as the protégé’s … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, CIA, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dirty Politics, divide and conquer, Drug War, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, History, Neoliberalism, Revolution, Social Control, society, State Crime
Tagged America, Argentina, austerity, Banks/Banking, Brazil, capitalism, Corruption, Coups, Democracy, drug war, Economics, empire, Finance, Hillary Clinton, Honduras, IMF, Ixachilan, Latin America, Manuel Zelaya, Mexico, neo-colonialism, Neoliberalism, Paraguay, South America, wall street, War on Drugs, World Bank
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