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US Technological Transformations and the Narcotic-Fueled Genocide of American Workers
By James Petras Source: The Unz Review Introduction During his recent visit to New Hampshire on 3/20/18, President Trump declared once again that the US is facing a ‘drug epidemic’. This time he advocated the death penalty for criminal drug … Continue reading
Posted in Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Drug War, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, History, Inequality, Labor, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Work
Tagged Big Pharma, Corporate Crime, culture, DEA, Deindustrialization, Donald Trump, drug war, Economics, elites, Employment, FDA, Genocide, Labor, Lobbyists, NAFTA, Oligarchy, Opioid Epidemic, opioids, Pharmaceuticals, Plutocracy, Population Control, society
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The End of Empire
The brutality abroad is matched by a growing brutality at home. By Chris Hedges Source: CommonDreams The American empire is coming to an end. The U.S. economy is being drained by wars in the Middle East and vast military expansion … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Inequality, Labor, Mass Incarceration, Militarization, police state, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, war
Tagged civil liberties, Corporate Globalization, Deindustrialization, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, Militarism, military-industrial complex, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, police state, surveillance state, United States, US Economy, war
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The Dance of Death
By Chris Hedges Source: OpEdNews.com The ruling corporate elites no longer seek to build. They seek to destroy. They are agents of death. They crave the unimpeded power to cannibalize the country and pollute and degrade the ecosystem to feed … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, History, Militarization, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technology, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged civilization, Collapse, Corporate Elites, Deindustrialization, Donald Trump, empire, environment, Freud, military spending, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Ruling Class, society, Totalitarianism
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