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Censoring Alex Jones
By Dmitry Orlov Source: Club Orlov Something happened recently that made me feel like a bit of an endangered species. A set of transnational internet companies, including Google, Facebook, Apple and several others, all synchronously removed content belonging to infowars.com, which … Continue reading
Posted in censorship, civil liberties, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, freedom of speech, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technology
Tagged Alex Jones, censorship, civil liberties, Conservatives, corporate news, Facebook, free speech, Google, Hate Speech, Infowars, Libertarians, Mainstream Media, Populism, Psy-ops, Russia, Social Media
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NYT: Don’t Be Progressive, Be a ‘Liberal’
By Jim Naureckas Source: FAIR A New York Times op-ed by political scientist (and former Bob Kerrey aide) Greg Weiner (7/13/18) may well be the New York Times–iest op-ed ever. Its ostensible subject is why Democrats should call themselves “liberals” … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, conditioning, corporate news, culture, Financial Crisis, History, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society
Tagged Cold War, Conservatives, corporate news, Democrats, Great Society, Greg Weiner, Liberals, Lyndon Johnson, Mainstream Media, media, New York Times, NYT, Poverty, Progressives, Redbaiting, Russia
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Three Paths
By Erik Lindberg Source: Resilience To have lost the godlike conceit that we may do what we will, and not to have acquired a homely zest for doing what we can, shows a grandeur of temper which cannot be objected … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Economics, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, war, Work
Tagged Anthropology, civilization, Conservatives, Degrowth, environment, Globalism, Globalists, Liberals, Peak Oil, Philosophy, Progress, Realism, society, Sociology, Sustainability
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Corbyn Teaches Us to Embrace the Change We Need
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers Source: The Unz Review The shocking election result in the United Kingdom – the Conservatives losing their majority and the creation of a hung Parliament; and Jeremy Corbyn being more successful than any recent … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, corporate news, culture, Empire, Health, Labor, Neoliberalism, news, society, war, war on terror
Tagged bernie sanders, Blairites, Campaign Financing, Conservatives, Democrats, DNC, Duopoly, empire, foreign policy, Jeremy Corbyn, Labor Party, Neoliberals, Parliament, Retail Politics, terrorism, Theresa May, Tories, United Kingdom, war, war on terror
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Isms, Schisms and Post-Political Correctness
By rahkyt Source: MAR I grew up in the 70s and came of age in the 80s. Pre-political correctness. Which means I’ve never been interested in glossing over what people really think with some false veneer of civility that obscures … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, consciousness, culture, Philosophy, Psychology, Racism, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged Cognitive Dissonance, Conservatives, culture, Liberals, Political Correctness, racism, society, Truth
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Why Do “Progressives” Like War?
By Philip Giraldi Source: Unz Review Liberals are supposed to be antiwar, right? I went to college in the 1960s, when students nationwide were rising up in opposition to the Vietnam War. I was a Young Republican back then and … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, History, Militarization, Neocons, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Cold War, Conservatives, David Ignatius, Democrats, Donald Trump, empire, geopolitics, Hillary Clinton, Iran, iraq, John McCain, Liberals, National Security State, Neocons, Obama, Progressives, rachel maddow, Russia, Russophobia, Syria, U.S. Foreign Policy, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, war, WW3
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A Universal Basic Income Is The Bipartisan Solution To Poverty We’ve Been Waiting For
What if the government simply paid everyone enough so that no one was poor? It’s an insane idea that’s gaining an unlikely alliance of supporters. By Ben Schiller Source: FastCoexist.com There’s a simple way to end poverty: the government … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Labor, Philosophy, Recession, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged automation, Basic Income, Bureaucracy, Conservatives, Income Inequality, Liberals, Libertarians, Poverty, Precariat, Robots, technology, Universal Basic Income, Wealth Gap, Wealth Redistribution, Welfare, Workfare
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