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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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Wall Street, Banks, and Angry Citizens
The Inequality Gap on a Planet Growing More Extreme By Nomi Prins Source: TomDispatch.com As we head into 2019, leaving the chaos of this year behind, a major question remains unanswered when it comes to the state of Main Street, … Continue reading
Posted in civil disobedience, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged 1%, Bailouts, Billionaires, central banks, Corporate Globalization, economic inequality, Economic Recovery, elites, Emmanuel Macron, European Union, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, France, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Quantitative Easing, recession, Trade War, wall street
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How the West eats its children
By Thierry Meyssan Source: VoltaireNet.org The cause of Western recession International relations experienced a profound change with the paralysis of the Soviet Union in 1986, when the State was unable to control the civilian nuclear incident in Tchernobyl [1], then with … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Neoliberalism, Recession, Social Control, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Africa, capitalism, Cold War, Corporate Globalisation, Desert Storm, European Union, financial crisis, financialisation, France, geopolitics, George Bush Sr., Global Financial System, iraq, Margaret Thatcher, NATO, Neolioberalism, New World Order, Obama, Office of Force Transformation, recession, Russia, Sovereignty, Soviet Union, Theresa May, Trump, United Kingdom, United States, US multinationals, Volcker rule
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The Age of Disintegration
Neoliberalism, Interventionism, the Resource Curse, and a Fragmenting World By Patrick Cockburn Source: TomDispatch.com We live in an age of disintegration. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Greater Middle East and Africa. Across the vast swath of territory … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Empire, Energy, Geopolitics, History, Neoliberalism, news, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged Bashar al-Assad, Brexit, Corporatism, Economics, empire, European Union, Failed States, Free Market Economy, imperialism, Iran, Islamic State, Middle East, NATO, Neoliberalism, Syria, US Foreign Policy, war
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Democracy Is Dead
By Gilbert Mercier Source: News Junkie Post From the west to the east, and the south to the north of our global horizon, it is the same tableau: the horrendous killing fields of disaster capitalism where its cohorts of 18-wheelers, … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, Dirty Politics, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, Neoliberalism, Recession, Revolution, Social Control, society, Sociology, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged Brexit, Corporate Globalization, Corporatism, Democracy, disaster capitalism, EU, European Union, Global Elites, imperialism, Neoliberalism, sociopaths
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#Brexit confirms: the neoliberal center cannot hold
By Jerome Roos Source: ROAR Magazine The post-Brexit pandemonium has less to do with Britain’s relationship to Europe than it has with elites losing control over the monsters they have created. Britain finds itself in a general state of pandemonium. The … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, corporate news, culture, Economics, Energy, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, Neoliberalism, news, patriotism, Recession, Revolution, Social Control, society, Sociology
Tagged Brexit, Corporate Globalization, David Cameron, EU, European Union, financial crisis, Jeremy Corbyn, Neoliberalism, Populism, Tony Blair
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Brexit Is What Happens When the Pie Is Shrinking
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds This process of withdrawal into the relative safety of internally cohesive groups and group identities is intrinsically messy in globalized, multicultural societies. A great many narratives are drifting around the Brexit pool: … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, divide and conquer, Economics, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, Neoliberalism, Recession, Social Control, society, State Crime
Tagged Bankers, Brexit, Class War, Corporate Globalization, Crony Capitalism, economic inequality, EU, European Union, financial crisis, Identity Politics, Neoliberalism, Technocrats, Wealth Gap
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