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Our Real National Security Budget
$2 Trillion, Here We Come. By Andrew Cockburn Source: Spoils of War The Biden Administration has just published its proposed budget, generating copious commentary, much of it displaying a commensurate degree of misunderstanding, especially regarding our gargantuan national security spending. … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, CIA, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, FBI, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, military-industrial complex, Neocons, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy, war
Tagged Corruption, Deep State, Defense Budget, Department of Energy, Dystopia, Economics, empire, FBI, Geoppolitics, imperialism, Joe Biden, military spending, military-industrial complex, National Defense Authorization Act, National Security, US Foreign Policy, war, war profiteers, Winslow Wheeler
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A Low-Trust Society Is an Impoverished Society
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The sole remaining reservoirs of trust in American life are personal networks, local enterprises and local institutions. It’s not exactly news that social trust has declined significantly in the United States. Surveys find … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged Cartels, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, elites, empire, financial crisis, low-trust society, Managerial Class, Monopolies, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psyops, Roman Empire, social trust, society, war
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The “Phantom Legion” Problem
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Everything is presented as rock-solid until it falls apart. Of the many signs of systemic decay in the late Roman Empire, one of particular relevance to our era is the Phantom Legion, military … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, Health, History, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy
Tagged Bureaucracy, Corruption, Economic Collapse, Economics, financial crisis, healthcare, phantom legion, Roman Empire, Systemic Corruption
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How to Navigate Our Low-Trust, Increasingly Dysfunctional Society and Economy
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Politicians and corporate managers have an enviable record of self-enrichment but very little to show in terms of putting the long-term interests of the citizenry above their own short-term gains. This week’s … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, culture, Economics, education, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Oligarchy, Philosophy, society, Sociology
Tagged Corruption, culture, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, high-trust society, Inflation, localization, low-trust society, Oligarchy, Ralph Waldo Emerson, self-reliance, society, Sociology, Wealth Concentration
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Western ‘Civilization’ Is Doomed to Aggressive Collapse, and by its Own Hand
By Gary D. Barnett Source: GaryDBarnett.com “Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.” ~ Terence McKenna The word civilization from Latin is civis, which means citizen, and civitas, which means city-state. It is seen as ‘enlightened culture’ instead of barbarism. … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Inequality, Militarization, Oligarchy, Philosophy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged civilization, Collapse, Corruption, culture, Democracy, Dystopia, empire, fascism, geopolitics, Government, Nicolas Gomez Davila, propaganda, society, Technocracy, Terence McKenna, war, Western Civilization
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When He Was Vice-President, Joe Biden Acted Like Ukraine Was His ‘Own Backyard’: Fired Ukraine Prosecutor
“Biden was personally engaged in corruption in Ukraine” By Arjun Singh Source: Global Research.ca The former Ukrainian prosecutor who was fired at the insistence of then-Vice President Joe Biden in 2016 after investigating Burisma, claimed that Biden treated Ukraine like … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corruption, Deep State, Economics, elites, Empire, Energy, Geopolitics, imperialism, news, Oligarchy, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Burisma, Corruption, Deep State, elites, empire, FBI, geopolitics, Hunter Biden, imperialism, Joe Biden, Petro Poroshenko, Russia, RussiaGate, Ukraine, Viktor Shokin
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From Chi-Town bagman to ECOWAS chairman: meet the former money launderer leading the push to invade Niger
By Alexander Rubinsteain and Kit Klarenberg Source: The Grayzone Since the overthrow of Niger’s US-friendly government, West African nations of the ECOWAS bloc have threatened an invasion of their neighbor. Before leading the charge for intervention, ECOWAS chair Bola Tinubu … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Drug War, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Africa, balck ops, Bola Tinubu, Burkina Faso, Chicago, Colonialism, Corruption, Deep State, drug war, drug-trafficking, ECOWAS, elites, empire, First Heritage Bank, France, geopolitics, Guinea, heroion, imperialism, Jacques Chirac, Mali, Mobil Oil, neo-colonialism, Niger, Nigeria, Sanctions, US Foreign Policy, West Africa
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Rein in the FBI: Put an End to the FBI’s Gestapo Tactics
By John & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “One of the creeping hands of totalitarianism running through the democracy is the Federal Bureau of Investigation… Because why does the FBI do all this? To scare the hell out of … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, CIA, civil liberties, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Empire, FBI, Law, police state, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Authoritarianism, Church Committee, CIA, civil liberties, Cointelpro, Corruption, Dystopia, fascism, FBI, Gestapo, police state, Robert Gellately, surveillance state, Technocracy
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Desultory Heroics 