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Saturday Matinee: A Short Vision
The Night Ed Sullivan Scared a Nation with the Apocalyptic Animated Short, A Short Vision (1956) Source: Open Culture On May 27, 1956, millions of Americans tuned in to The Ed Sullivan Show, expecting the usual variety of comedians, talents … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Saturday Matinee, Video, war
Tagged A Short Vision, Cold War, Ed Sullivan, George K. Arthur, Joan Foldes, Nuclear War, Peter Foldes
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The Superpower That Fought Itself — And Lost
By William Astore and TomDispatch Source: TomDispatch.com After 19 al-Qaeda militants armed only with box-cutters and knives hijacked four American commercial airliners, the U.S. military moved with remarkable efficiency to rectify the problem. In the years since, in its global … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, black ops, CIA, Conspiracy, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, History, military spending, Neocons, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, war on terror, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged 9/11, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, black ops, Blackwater, Chalmers Johnson, china, CIA, Cold War, Deep State, empire, Erik Prince, geopolitics, Hegemony, imperialism, iraq, ISIS, James Madison, Militarism, military spending, military-industrial complex, Russia, Syria, Trump, US Foreign Policy, war
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End of Nuclearism or the End of the World: Utopian Dreams, Dystopian Nightmares
By Richard Falk Source: Global Justice in the 21st Century We are living amid contradictions whether we like it or not, driving expectations about the future toward opposite extremes. Increasingly plausible are fears that the ‘sixth extinction’ will encompass the … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, media, Militarization, news, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Cold War, Dystopia, empire, Extinction, geopolitics, imperialism, John Pilger, Nevile Shute, Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, On the Beach, propaganda
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On The Beach 2017
By John Pilger Source: Axis of Logic The US submarine captain says, “We’ve all got to die one day, some sooner and some later. The trouble always has been that you’re never ready, because you don’t know when it’s coming. … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Dystopia, Empire, Geopolitics, History, Militarization, news, propaganda, society, State Crime, war
Tagged arms race, china, Cold War, Economic Sanctions, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, Libya, North Korea, Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, Obama, On the Beach, Russia, Trump
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There’s Only One Rogue Nuclear State, and it’s the USA
By Bruce A. Dixon Source: Black Agenda Report This week marks the anniversary of two monstrous war crimes, the nuking of two undefended Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945. The fake history I learned as … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Dystopia, Empire, History, Militarization, society, State Crime, war
Tagged American History, Cold War, empire, Genocide, geopolitics, Hiroshima, imperialism, Nagasaki, Nuclear Terror, Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, Rogue State, State Terror, US Foreign Policy, war crimes, WWII
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How Fear of Russia Misleads Americans
NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake sees grave dangers in the U.S. government and media exaggerating foreign threats as a means to mislead and control the American public, reports Dennis J Bernstein. By Dennis J Bernstein Source: Consortium News Russia has been … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, civil liberties, conditioning, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Empire, History, media, Militarization, NSA, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, war, war on terror
Tagged 9/11, Cold War, Deep State, Edward Snowden, empire, Gary Webb, geopolitics, Gov-Corp, imperialism, NSA, police state, Psychopathy, Russia, surveillance state, Thomas Drake, US government, war on terror
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The Crisis of US Imperial Governance and the Struggle for a New World
By Danny Haiphong Source: Black Agenda Report “Economic crisis at home and endless war abroad has placed finance and monopoly capital in political disarray.” When I was here last year, I spoke a lot about ideology and how the struggle … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, CIA, Conspiracy, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dirty Politics, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, Neoliberalism, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged china, Cold War, Donald Trump, economic crisis, economic inequality, empire, Fake News, geopolitics, imperialism, Income Gab, Neoliberalism, Nuclear War, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Ruling Class, Russia, Russian Hackers, Russophobia, war, Wealth Concentration, Wealth Disparity
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America’s Real Red Scare
The Slow-Motion Collapse of the American Empire By William J. Astore Source: TomDispatch.com Jump into your time machine and let me transport you back to another age. It’s May 2001 and the Atlantic Monthly has just arrived in the mail. … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, censorship, civil liberties, Conspiracy, culture, Deep State, Drug War, Dystopia, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Health, History, Militarization, military spending, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, war, war on terror
Tagged American Empire, Authoritarianism, Cold War, conspiracy, Deep State, Donald Trump, drug war, empire, financial crisis, healthcare, imperialism, Mass Incarceration, Militarism, Nuclear Weapons, police state, Prisons, Russia, Russian Hackers, Shadow Government, Soviet Union, surveillance state, war profiteers
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