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Military Escalation in the Middle East: Is Israel Planning a Multi-Front War against Its Arab Neighbors?
Top US and Israeli Military Officials Meet Unannounced in Southern Israel By Timothy Alexander Guzman Source: Silent Crow News If you watch the US mainstream media’s 24 hour news coverage on recent events around the world no matter what time … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Deep State, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, news, State Crime, war
Tagged Beirut, Colonialism, geopolitics, Global Economy, Hezbollah, IDF, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Mark Milley, Media Analysis, Middle East, Occupation, Syria, war
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Why Freedom Is Ending
By Eric Zuesse Source: The Duran First, the force that is ending freedom will be identified and described; and, then, the force that they fear and hate the most (and are trying to destroy) will be identified and described. THE … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, CIA, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Militarization, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, Whistleblowers
Tagged Aristocracy, CIA, Colonialism, Deep State, Donald Trump, empire, Freedom, geopolitics, imperialism, international trade, John Kiriakou, Julian Assange, Militarism, Oligarchy, war profiteers, whistleblowers
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How Washington “Liberates” Free Countries
By Andre Vltchek Source: OffGuardian There are obviously some serious linguistic issues and disagreements between the West and the rest of the world. Essential terms like “freedom”, “democracy”, “liberation”, even “terrorism”, are all mixed up and confused; they mean something … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, culture, Deep State, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Neocons, Oligarchy, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Colonialism, Deep State, Democracy, empire, Freedom, General Soleimani, geopolitics, Hong Kong, imperialism, Iran, iraq, Liberation, Oligarchy, propaganda, regime change, Russia, State Crime, US Foreign Policy, venezuela, war
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Understanding NATO, Ending War
By Robert J. Burrowes On 4 April 2019, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, better known as NATO, marked the 70th anniversary of its existence with a conference attended by the foreign ministers of member nations in Washington DC. This will … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, CIA, culture, Deep State, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Militarization, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Afghanistan, Atlantic Council, black ops, CIA, Colonialism, Corporate Globalization, empire, Exit NATO!, Florence Declaration, geopolitics, Global Hegemony, Global Power Elite, imperialism, iraq, Jan Oberg, Libya, Michel Chossudovsky, NATO, Neoliberalism, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, peter phillips, Russia, SACEUR, SACLANT, Soviet Union, Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Syria, Transnational Corporate Class, Violence, war, Western Europe, Yugoslavia, Yves Engler
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Degrowth: closing the global wealth divide
Contradicting the dominant paradigm that economic growth equals development, degrowth theorists argue that serious cutbacks are crucial to protect life on our planet. By Riccardo Mastini Source: ROAR Today, some 4.3 billion people — more than 60 percent of the … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Inequality, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Oligarchy, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged capital flight, Climate Change, Colonialism, Consumerism, Consumption, Corporate Globalization, Degrowth, developing countries, Development, economic inequality, Economics, global development, Global Footprint Network, Global North, Global South, Globalization, Growth, Human Population, IMF, Jason Hickel, Multinational Corporations, Natural Resources, NGOs, Poverty, Progress, Sustainability, The Divide, The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and Its Solutions, Trade Agreements, trade misinvoicing, World Bank
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Neo-Liberalism and the Retreat of Democracy
By David Schultz Source: CounterPunch Democracy across the world is under siege. This according to the latest Freedom House report documenting that for 2017, “democracy faced its most serous crisis in decades” as seventy-one countries experienced declines in freedom or … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, imperialism, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Privatization, society
Tagged austerity, Colonialism, Corporate Globalization, Democracy, economic inequality, Economics, Free Trade, Freedom House, Neoliberalism, Working Class
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America’s ‘Unlimited Imperialists’
By Francis Boyle Source: Consortium News Historically the latest eruption of American militarism in the 21st Century is akin to that of America opening the 20th Century by means of the U.S.-instigated Spanish-American War in 1898. The then Republican … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Deep State, Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Militarization, Neocons, Neoliberalism, news, propaganda, society, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged 9/11, AFRICOM, American History, Big Oil, Colonialism, Corporate Globalization, Deep State, Economics, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, Libya, Militarism, Neocons, Neoliberals, Syria, war, war on terror
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Are Facebook and Google the New Colonial Powers?
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds To qualify as colonial powers, Facebook and Google must effectively limit the choices and power of users, and punish or coerce those who question or resist their power. I was struck by … Continue reading
Posted in censorship, conditioning, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, media, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged big data, Cartel, censorship, Colonialism, corporatocracy, Economics, Facebook, Google, Monopoly, Neocolonicalism, Oligarchy, Online Advertising, Plutocracy, Social Media, surveillance state, technology
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