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America Escalates its “Democratic” Oil War in the Near East
By Michael Hudson Source: CounterPunch The mainstream media are carefully sidestepping the method behind America’s seeming madness in assassinating Islamic Revolutionary Guard general Qassim Suleimani to start the New Year. The logic behind the assassination was a long-standing application of … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Economics, elites, Empire, Energy, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Militarization, Neocons, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, china, corporate media, dedollarization, Deep State, Donald Trump, Economics, empire, Energy, imperialism, Iran, iraq, ISIS, Mainstream Media, military-industrial complex, MSM, Neocons, Oil Industry, OPEC, Qassim Suleimani, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, U.S. Dollar, war
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The Gulag of the Mind
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds There are no physical barriers in the Gulag of the Mind–we imprison ourselves, and love our servitude. Indeed, we fear the world outside our internalized gulag, because we’ve absorbed the narrative that the gulag … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, culture, Economics, Energy, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Law, police state, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Economic Collapse, Economics, empire, Energy, financial crisis, history, Justice, law, Oligarchy, police state, Social Media, surveillance state, Technocracy, technology
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Iran goes for “maximum counter-pressure”
By Pepe Escobar Source: Information Clearing House Sooner or later the US “maximum pressure” on Iran would inevitably be met by “maximum counter-pressure”. Sparks are ominously bound to fly. For the past few days, intelligence circles across Eurasia had been … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Energy, False Flag, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, media, Militarization, Neocons, news, propaganda, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Bank of International Settlements, BIS, Economic Collapse, Economics, empire, Energy, financial crisis, geopolitics, Hasan Nasrallah, imperialism, Iran, Israel, Mike Pompeo, Mohammad Baqeri, oil, Qasem Soleimani, Saudi Arabia, Strait of Hormuz, US Foreign Policy
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A Nonviolent Strategy to Defeat the US Coup Attempt in Venezuela
By Robert J. Burrowes To the People of Venezuela Yet again, the United States elite has decided to attempt to impose its will on the people of another nation, in this case, and not for the first time either, your … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, black ops, CIA, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Empire, Energy, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Neocons, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged Big Oil, corporate media, empire, Energy, European Union, geopolitics, imperialism, Juan Guaidó, Mike Pence, Nicolas Maduro, Nonviolence, OAS, Organization of American States, regime change, UN Security Council, United Nations, US Foreign Policy, venezuela, Violence
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National Bankruptcy as a Board Game
By Dmitry Orlov Source: Club Orlov Most people are familiar with the game Monopoly. Its goal is to teach capitalist kiddies a valuable lesson about capitalism; namely, that in running a business it isn’t useful to shoot for some happy … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Bankruptcy, capitalism, Cartels, china, Economic Collapse, Economics, Energy, financial crisis, geopolitics, Interest Rates, Labor, military spending, Monopoly, national debt, Russia, Walmart, war
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Reflections on 2018, Forecasting 2019
By Robert J. Burrowes In many ways it is painful to reflect on the year 2018; a year of vital opportunities lost when so much is at stake. Whether politically, militarily, socially, economically, financially or ecologically, humanity took some giant … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, freedom of speech, Geoengineering, Geopolitics, GMOs, Health, imperialism, Inequality, internet freedom, media, Militarization, military spending, news, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technology, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged 2018, 2019, censorship, Climate Change, Corporate Globalization, corporate media, economic inequality, elites, Energy, environment, Extinction, Famine, financial crisis, geoengineering, GMOs, Government, human trafficking, INF Treaty, Militarism, military spending, Peace, pollution, Poverty, Privacy, psychology, Slavery, State Crime, Violence, wall street, war, Wealth Concentration
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Demise Of The Petrodollar Has The Potential To Reshape The Geopolitical World
By James ONeill Source: New Eastern Outlook In the early 1970s President Richard Nixon instigated two changes that had profound effects. The first of these was taking United States off the gold standard; i.e. henceforth US dollars would no longer … Continue reading
Posted in Deep State, Energy, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, society, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged Big Oil, BRICS, china, Economics, empire, Energy, geopolitics, imperialism, OPEC, petrodollar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, US Dollar, US Foreign Policy, war
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For Purely Technical Reasons
By Dmitry Orlov Source: Club Orlov It is tempting for us to think that our technological choices—whether we choose to live in a city, a suburb or out in the country; whether we want to drive a pick-up truck, a … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Energy, History, Social Control, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged 1%, Automobiles, Batteries, Big Oil, Cars, Collapse, Economics, Electric Cars, Energy, environment, Lithium, Peak Oil, Precariat, Suburbs, technology, Traffic, Transportation
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