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Progressive Commentary Hour 12.04.19
Abby Martin and Chris Hedges discuss the bipartisan road from neoliberalism to fascism. Also, Catherine Austin Fitts on the missing trillions and what we can do to reclaim it.
The Jimmy Dore Show 12.03.19
Project Censored 12.03.19
Mickey Huff and guests examine how Facebook, Twitter and Google are working to hide,
“deplatform” or otherwise undermine news and opinions critical of US government policies, and thus reestablish the dominance of establishment-friendly corporate media
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Tag Archives: Children
In Defense of the Human Individual
By Robert J. Burrowes While it is now very late in the life cycle of homo sapiens, with extinction now due to consign us to Earth’s fossil record – see ‘Will humans be extinct by 2026?’ – I would like … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, culture, education, Environment, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, society, Sociology
Tagged Children, Conformity, culture, environment, Individuality, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Nonviolence, Philosophy, psychology, School, Socialization, society, Violence
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Humanity’s ‘Dirty Little Secret’: Starving, Enslaving, Raping, Torturing and Killing our Children
By Robert J. Burrowes In a recent article titled ‘Challenges for Resolving Complex Conflicts’, I pointed out four conflict configurations that are paid little attention by conflict theorists. In this article, I would like to discuss a fifth conflict configuration … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, education, Environment, Health, media, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged Agribusiness, Child Sex Abuse, Childhood Development, Children, CIA, Corporate Crime, Depleted Uranium, Domestic Violence, Economics, Education, environment, Health, human trafficking, Indian Residential Schools, Indigenous Peoples, International Tribunal for Natural Justice, Organized Religion, pollution, psychology, schools, Sociology, US Military, Violence, war, Yemen
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Why Do Some Men Rape?
By Robert J. Burrowes A recent report from Equality Now titled ‘The World’s Shame: The Global Rape Epidemic‘ offered a series of recommendations for strengthened laws to deter and punish sexual violence against women and girls. However, there is substantial … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, culture, Health, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged Behavioral Psychology, Children, Communication, fear, Legal System, Non-Violence, Parenting, Powerlessness, psychology, Punishment, Rape, Self-hatred, Selfhood, Violence
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Lament for Humanity: A 50 Year Reflection
By Robert J. Burrowes Source: RINF Deeply affected by the death of my two uncles in World War II, on 1 July 1966, the 24th anniversary of the USS Sturgeon sinking of the Japanese prisoner-of-war ship Montevideo Maru which killed … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, civil disobedience, consciousness, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, education, Empire, Environment, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Health, History, media, Militarization, military spending, Neocons, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Psychology, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war, war on terror, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged activism, anti-war, Big Pharma, Children, civil liberties, corporate media, corporatocracy, economic crisis, Economics, Education, environment, Environmental Crisis, Exploitation, Food System, Free Trade, Global Economy, Global Elites, Human Extinction, Militarism, military spending, Neoliberalism, society, TPP, Violence, war
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Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, A Mother Thinks the Unthinkable
By Tom Engelhardt and Frida Berrigan Source: TomDispatch.com Frida Berrigan’s piece today speaks to me very personally. At 71, I have two children and a grandchild in this world, and I feel some responsibility for the sorry planet I’m leaving … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, Environment, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology
Tagged activism, Children, Climate Change, Collapse, Dystopia, Parenthood, Social Upheaval
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How Do You Prepare a Child for Life in the American Police State?
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “Fear isn’t so difficult to understand. After all, weren’t we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is … Continue reading
Posted in civil liberties, conditioning, Corruption, culture, Militarization, police state, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, society, State Crime
Tagged Children, civil liberties, Freedom, Lockdowns, Mass Shooters, Parenting, police, Police Militarization, Prisons, schools, SWAT Teams, Zero Tolerance
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