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An Inconvenient Revolution
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Convenience isn’t just about small appliances. It’s also about ruling nations. Let’s start with the semantics of ruling nations. Some labels might be viewed as somewhat inflammatory (Kleptocracy, anyone?), so let’s stick with … Continue reading
Posted in civil liberties, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Oligarchy, police state, Recession, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy, Work
Tagged Big Tech, capitalism, Convenience, Corruption, Economic Collapse, Economics, financial crisis, Inequality, Labor, Oligarchy, opting out, Rebellion, Revolution, Ruling Elites, Social Media, surveillance state, Technocracy
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I Know Why Can’t We Fix Homelessness
By Peter Van Buren Source: We Meant Well “What stands out for visitors?” I asked our guide during a Honolulu Chinatown tour with my out-of-town guests. “Always the same, the homeless. Even Mainlanders from big cities like San Francisco and … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, Labor, military spending, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged capitalism, Covid-19, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Hawaii, Homelessness, Honolulu, Housing Crisis, Minimum Wage, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, systemic inequality, Technocracy
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This Is of Course Insane
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Greed is a powerful motivation to be an ardent believer in the central banking cult. The ideal cult convinces its followers that it isn’t a cult, it’s simply the natural order of things. In … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technology
Tagged capitalism, central banking, Credit Bubble, culture, Economic Collapse, Economics, empire, financial crisis, Oligarchy, Religion, society
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Saturday Matinee: The Wobblies
Classic Film Review: One of the Great Labor Documentaries is restored — “The Wobblies (1979) By Roger Moore Source: Movie Nation “The One Big Union,” they called it, an organization that would represent every worker laboring for “The Man.” Unlike the … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Art, civil disobedience, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, culture, Film, Labor, Oligarchy, Saturday Matinee, society, State Crime, Video
Tagged activism, capitalism, Deborah Shaffer, Documentary, free speech, labor movement, Stewart Bird, The Wobblies, workers rights
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What Is To Be Done?
By Paul Edwards Source: Information Clearing House Not an original title for a piece that will assert we are in a unique moment in world history? No, Lenin used it to expose the cruelty and villainy of the empire that … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, news, Oligarchy, Philosophy, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged capitalism, corporate media, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, economic, empire, geopolitics, Mainstream Media, Oligarchy, politics, propaganda, society, war
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THE ELITES WHO ARE JUST SO OVER HUMANITY
The depth of anti-humanist sentiment related by Douglas Rushkoff in his latest book, Survival of the Richest, is harrowing and illuminating. By Chris Barsanti Source: PopMatters Some things can be horrifying even if unsurprising. One such moment is the opening anecdote … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Inequality, media, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged anti-humanism, capitalism, Douglas Rushkoff, Dystopia, elites, elitism, Elon Musk, Futurism, libertanianism, materialism, media studies, Oligarchy, Scientism, social sciences, sociopathy, technology
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Calm Before the Tempest?
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Let’s start by stipulating the obvious: no one knows the future, and most of the guesses–oops, I mean forecasts–will be wrong. Arguing about the forecasts now won’t make any difference as to which ones … Continue reading
What Was Covid Really About? Triggering A Multi-Trillion Dollar Global Debt Crisis. “Ramping up an Imperialist Strategy”?
Covid, Capitalism, Friedrich Engels and Boris Johnson By Colin Todhunter Source: Global Research “And thus it renders more and more evident the great central fact that the cause of the miserable condition of the working class is to be sought, … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Boris Johnson, capitalism, Covid-19, culture, Debt Crisis, Economic Collapse, empire, financial crisis, Friedrich Engels, geopolitics, IMF, imperialism, Public Health, society, Technocracy, Welfare, Work, World Bank
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