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An Engineered Food and Poverty Crisis to Secure Continued US Dominance
By Colin Todhunter Source: Dissident Voice In March 2022, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned of a “hurricane of hunger and a meltdown of the global food system” in the wake of the crisis in Ukraine. Guterres said food, fuel and fertiliser prices were skyrocketing … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Environment, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Health, imperialism, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, war
Tagged Andrew Gavin Marshall, Antonio Guterres, Covid-19, Debt Crisis, Economics, empire, Famine, food crisis, Food Security, food shortages, geopolitics, Henry Kissinger, IMF, imperialism, India, Michael Hudson, Navdanya International, Neoliberalism, Poverty, Russia, Sanctions, Technocracy, Ukraine, war, WTO
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What Was Covid Really About? Triggering A Multi-Trillion Dollar Global Debt Crisis. “Ramping up an Imperialist Strategy”?
Covid, Capitalism, Friedrich Engels and Boris Johnson By Colin Todhunter Source: Global Research “And thus it renders more and more evident the great central fact that the cause of the miserable condition of the working class is to be sought, … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Big Pharma, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Health, imperialism, Inequality, Labor, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, Work
Tagged Africa, Boris Johnson, capitalism, Covid-19, culture, Debt Crisis, Economic Collapse, empire, financial crisis, Friedrich Engels, geopolitics, IMF, imperialism, Public Health, society, Technocracy, Welfare, Work, World Bank
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A New Lost Generation: Student Loans, Wage Slavery, and Debt Peonage
Dr. Nicholas Partyka Source: The Hampton Institute In literature, the term “lost generation” refers to a cohort of authors whose work defines the post-First World War era. This group includes literary notables like Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, among … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, conditioning, culture, Economics, education, Financial Crisis, History, Labor, Recession, Social Control, society, Work
Tagged austerity, Debt Crisis, Debt Slavery, Debt Strike, Economic Bubble, economic crisis, Eurozone, Greece, Labor, Lost Generation, Over-Educated, Over-Qualified, Radicalization, recession, Student Debt, Student Loans, Work
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Oil and Money – Lessons Learned
This is a concluding post for an excellent 7 part long-form series featured on the Hipcrime Vocab blog. While this serves as an adequate synopsis of what was covered, I highly recommend the series for it’s depth and scope starting … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Empire, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, Labor, Militarization, Social Control, society, Sociology, war, Work
Tagged automation, Automobiles, Carbon Emissions, Cars, Coal, Crumbling Infrastructure, Debt Crisis, Dmitry Orlov, economic inequality, Economics, economy, Environmental Crisis, Fossil Fuels, Fracking, Gas, Immigration, Industrial Civilization, Market Speculation, Mixed Economy, Neoliberalism, oil, Peak Oil, petrodollar, Petroleum, Wealth Disparity
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The Poverty Machine: Student Debt, Class Society, and Securing Bonded Labor
By Jeremy Brunger Source: The Hampton Institute At the dawn of the 20th century, very few American students attended high school, as the demands of the heavy-industrial and the agricultural economies of that period were ill-suited to an extended education … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, culture, Economics, education, Financial Crisis, History, Labor, Recession, Social Control, society, Work
Tagged Corvee, Debt Bubble, Debt Crisis, Higher Education, Neoliberalism, Proletariat, Student Debt, Student Loans
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