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Tag Archives: Economics
The Impending Economic Collapse – A Cause of Current Conflict
By Phil Butler Source: New Eastern Outlook Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has called on BRICS nations to create an alternative to replace the dollar in foreign trade. Other experts suggest President Joe Biden’s policies will destroy America’s middle … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Deep State, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, military-industrial complex, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged American hegemony, bond market, Brazil, BRICS, China, currency reserve, Defense Budget, Economic Collapse, Economics, empire, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, geopolitics, gold standard, IMF, imperialism, Joe Biden, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, MIC, military spending, military-industrial complex, Russia, US Dollar, US Foreign Policy, war, war profiteers
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America’s Social Contract Is Broken
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds I do not claim any expertise in social contract theory, but in broad brush we can delineate two implicit contracts: one between the citizenry and the state (government) and another between citizens. We … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Banana Republics, Corruption, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, feudalism'capitalism, financial crisis, Government, Income Inequality, Neofeudalism, Oligarchy, social contract, Trickle down economics
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China, Russia and India Versus USA, EU and Japan: Axis Powers of a New Global Cold War?
By Gilbert Mercier Source: New Junkie Post The birth of a bipolar world order? Since 2014, which marked the first Russian intervention in Ukraine, a new global geopolitical dynamic has amplified under conflicting impulses. The areas of direct, or more often … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, military-industrial complex, NATO, Neocons, NGOs, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, war
Tagged bipolar order, BRICS, China, Economics, empire, EU, geopolitics, imperialism, MIC, military spending, military-industrial complex, multipolarity, NATO, non-alignment, Russia, Taiwan, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, war, war profiteers
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America’s empire is bankrupt
The dollar is finally being dethroned By John Michael Greer Source: UnHerd Let’s start with the basics. Roughly 5% of the human race currently live in the United States of America. That very small fraction of humanity, until quite recently, … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, Technology, war
Tagged China, culture, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, empire, financial crisis, Francis Fukuyama i, geopolitics, Globalization, imperialism, Inflation, Iran, Neoliberalism, Russia, Sanctions, society, Technocracy, technology, Ukraine, US Dollar, war
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US to double its ‘defense’ budget
By Drago Bosnic Source: InfoBRICS.org Back in late March, top American General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that the United States of America would be doubling its military budget in case the Kiev regime was … Continue reading
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Tagged Deep State, Economics, empire, federal budget, financial crisis, geopolitics, imperialism, Mark Milley, MIC, military spending, military-industrial complex, Nuclear Weapons, rules-based order, Russia, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, war, war profiteers
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The End of American “Exceptionalism”?
Failing banks, inflation, soaring interest rates and the flight from the petrodollar could become a disaster for ordinary Americans By Philip Giraldi Source: FreePress.org Watching a once great nation commit suicide is not pretty. President Joe Biden does not seem … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, NATO, Neocons, news, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy, war
Tagged American exceptionalism, Antony Blinken, China, Economics, Emmanuel Macron, empire, financial crisis, geopolitics, imperialism, Janet Yellen, Joe Biden, multipolarity, Nord Stream, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, war
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Where the $1.3 Trillion Per Year U.S. Military Budget Goes
By Eric Zuesse Source: The Duran Nobody can give a precise dollar-number to U.S. ‘Defense’ spending because the U.S. ‘Defense’ Department has never been able to pass an audit, and is by far the most corrupt of all federal Departments … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, Neocons, Oligarchy, society, State Crime, war
Tagged China, Corporate Welfare, David Norquist, DOD, Dystopia, Economics, empire, financial crisis, geopolitics, Grover Norquist, imperialism, Militarism, Military Industrial Complex, military spending, NDAA, Neocons, Oligarchy, Russia, society, US Foreign Policy, war, war profiteers
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Austerity, War & Dictatorship… the Charade of Western Democracy Is Over. Can We Lose Those Chains?
By Finian Cunningham Source: Strategic Culture Foundation Western liberal democracy and its ubiquitous “austerity economics” is a euphemism for fascism. And the charade is finally coming to an end. Western liberal democracy and its ubiquitous “austerity economics” is a euphemism … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, culture, Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Neoliberalism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy, war
Tagged austerity, capitalism, Clara Mattei, Crisis, Economics, economy, empire, fascism, geopolitics, imperialism, Neoliberalism, Socialism, society, war
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