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Living in Dark Times: I Revolt, Therefore I Am!
By Dr. Rudolf Hänsel Source: Global Research “Really, I live in dark times! The guileless word is foolish. (…) The laughing man has only not yet received the terrible news.” This is how Bertolt Brecht‘s poem “An die Nachgeborenen” (To those … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, civil liberties, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, Empire, Philosophy, Psychology, Revolution, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy
Tagged Bertolt Brecht, coronavirus, Covid-19, culture, Dictatorship, fascism, Freedom, Human Rights, Knowledge, Peter König, Philosophy, psychology. psychiatry, Revolt, science, society, Sociology, Totalitarianism, tyranny
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Censorship Is the Way that Any Dictatorship — and NO Democracy — Functions
By Eric Zuesse Source: Strategic Culture Foundation No democracy can survive censorship. If there is censorship, then each individual cannot make his/her own decisions (voting decisions or otherwise) on the basis of truth but only on the basis of whatever … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, corporate news, culture, elites, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged censorship, civil liberties, corporate media, Democracy, Dictatorship, free speech, Julian Assange, Mainstream Media, MSM, propaganda, Social Media, Syria, Totalitarianism
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Understanding the American Dictatorship
By Eric Zuesse Source: Washington’s Blog The American dictatorship is by the aristocracy of the country’s 585 billionaires, and has been scientifically proven beyond any doubt, now, not only in the classic Gilens and Page study, which examined thousands of … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, Conspiracy, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Economics, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Inequality, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society
Tagged Aristocracy, censorship, corporate media, corporationism, Dictatorship, empire, Fake News, geopolitics, imperialism, Obama, Oligarchy, Omidyar, Plutocracy, Soros, Trump
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Lies America’s News-Media Tell
By Eric Zuesse Source: Strategic Culture Foundation Here are America’s recent targets for regime-change (against which have been used economic sanctions, invasion, and enormous destruction) — and all of them are nations that never invaded nor threatened to invade America: … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, corporate news, culture, Deep State, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Neocons, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, society, State Crime
Tagged Alexander Rubinstein, corporate media, Democracy, Dictatorship, empire, EU, European Council, fascism, geopolitics, imperialism, iraq, Libya, Mainstream News, MAx Blumenthal, MSM, RussiaGate, Syria, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, venezuela, war crimes, Yemen
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Why only fools trust America’s mainstream ‘news’
By Eric Zuesse Source: CounterCurrents.org Here will be yet another current example to demonstrate that all U.S. mainstream ’news’ media hide from their respective public that the U.S. government is lying, when the U.S. government lies—i.e., that all of the … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, censorship, CIA, consciousness, corporate news, culture, Deep State, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Aaron Mate, Ben Norton, black ops, CIA, corporate news, Dictatorship, Donald Trump, empire, geopolitics, GrayZone Project, imperialism, John Bolton, lies, Mainstream Media, media, Media Literacy, MSM, news, propaganda, SOUTHCOM, venezuela, Venezuela Coup, Wayne Madsen, Wikipedia
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Death of Free Speech leads to Fascism
By Dmitry Orlov Source: Club Orlov Freedom of speech is rather important. If people do not feel free to express their thoughts, then all they can do is endlessly repeat what has been said before, creating an echo chamber which … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, consciousness, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, elites, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged censorship, community standards, deplatforming, Dictatorship, Facebook, Fact, fascism, free speech, freedom of speech, geopolitics, Opinion, Patreon, PayPal, RussiaGate, Russophobia, Twitter
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US plotting coups in Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua?
By Stephen Lendman Source: Intrepid Report The US wants all nations worldwide colonized, their resources looted, their people exploited as serfs, including ordinary Americans. Sovereign independent governments everywhere are targeted for regime change—by coups d’état or wars. That’s what imperialism … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, CIA, culture, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, Neocons, Social Control, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Arab Spring, black ops, Bolivia, Brazil, CIA, Coups, Cuba, Dictatorship, Egypt, empire, geopolitics, Global South, Haiti, Honduras, imperialism, Latin America, Neocons, Nicaragua, Nicolas Maduro, Paraguay, Plan Colombia, regime change, South America, State Terror, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, venezuela
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