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Beware of Long Wars: Ukrainian Attacks on Russia Are Dangerously EscalatoryBeware of Long Wars:
By W.J. Astore Source: Bracing Views Reports that Ukraine is launching modified drones to strike airbases deep in Russia highlight the unpredictability and escalatory nature of wars. Ukraine is no longer content at defending itself against Russian aggression; Russia itself must be … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, black ops, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, NATO, Neocons, news, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged black ops, Deep State, Democracy, empire, Freedom, geopolitics, imperialism, military spending, NATO, Neocons, Nuclear War, Russia, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, Vladimir Putin, war
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I Used To Be Disgusted, Now I’m Disabused
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds It’s certainly possible to be disgusted, but being disabused of the fantasy that the system is self-correcting is the healthier perspective. I used to be disgusted, now I’m disabused: beneath all the … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, divide and conquer, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Collapse, Corruption, Deep State, Democracy, economic inequality, Economics, elites, empire, fascism, Government, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Wealth Concentration
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Powerful New Evidence that U.S. Is A Dictatorship
By Eric Zuesse Source: The Duran Because the U.S. Government flaunts itself as being a democracy instead of a dictatorship and it coups and invades and overthrows and replaces (“regime changes”) Governments that it declares to be dictatorships instead of … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Inequality, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, war
Tagged Aristocracy, Authoritarianism, Cold War, congressional elections, coruption, Deep State, Democracy, Dictatorship, empire, fascism, geopolitics, imperialism, Oligarchy, social science, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Totalitarianism, war
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The Real Threat to Democracy is Corrupting Wealth Inequality
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Imagine a town of 1,000 adults and their dependents in which one person holds the vast majority of wealth and political influence. Would that qualify as a democracy? Now imagine that 100 of … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Democracy, Dystopia, economic inequality, Economics, elites, empire, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Financialization, Globalization, Kleptocracy, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Technocracy, Wealth Disparity
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Resolution for 2022: Dare to Build Your Own Opinions and Then Defend Them!
By Alfred De Zayas Source: CounterPunch – Sapere aude!, Horace Anyone who has followed the political culture in the US, Canada, UK, EU over the past twenty years must have realized that a war on epistemology, on truth, on semantics is … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil disobedience, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, news, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged 1984, 2022, censorship, corporate news, Democracy, Dystopia, Freedom, geopolitics, George Orwell, Human Rights, iraq, Julian Assange, lawfare, Libya, mainstream meida, military-industrial-financial complex, NATO, New Normal, Newspeak, patriotism, Peace, propaganda, war, weaponization, whistleblowers
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Are We Human? Are We Free? Defeating The World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’ Before It Destroys Us
By Robert J. Burrowes For most people, 2020 will be remembered as the year of the ‘virus’ and 2021 will be remembered as the year of the ‘vaccine’. What most people will probably never know is that 2021 is shaping … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, civil liberties, consciousness, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, Health, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged 5G, 7 Days Campaign, Big Pharma, corporate media, Covid-19, Democracy, Dystopia, empire, Freedom, geopolitcs, Global Elite, Great Reset, imperialism, Mainstream Media, Oligarchy, Pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, society, Technocracy, Transhumanism, tyranny, vaccine mandates, Vaccine passports, Vaccines, We Are Human We Are Free
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Killing Democracy Once and for All: The Global Elite’s Coup d’Etat that Is Destroying Life as We Know It
By Robert J. Burrowes Politically savvy individuals know that democracy has rarely existed and probably never outside small groups of humans who deliberately organize themselves to share power or grant it temporarily to one or a small number of people … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, Geopolitics, Health, media, news, NGOs, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Bill Gates, Burundi, civil liberties, corporate media, Covid-19, Democracy, Dr. Joseph Mercola, free speech, geopolitics, Global Elites, Human Rights, Pandemic, propaganda, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., SARS-CoV-2, surveillance state, Switzerland, Tanzania, Technocracy, The Great Reset
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Return to the Source: Democracy is Dead
By Margaret Kimberley Source: Black Agenda Report By what stretch of the imagination can the US be a democracy when ordinary citizens have virtually no influence over what their government does? “The disregard of popular will is obvious for all … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Inequality, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged Bailouts, Democracy, Dystopia, elites, financial crisis, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, US Elections, US exceptionalism
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