-
Donate Bitcoin
13876bPmb1Dhxy9oKkJQQbwgKkvpSbntvQ
Recent Comments
Tag Archives: Exploitation
Our Financial System Is Optimized for Sociopaths and Exploitation
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds We live in a peculiar juncture of history in which truth has been banished as a threat to the maximization of private gain, i.e. the hyper-pursuit of self-interest. Evidence that supports a causal chain has been … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged capitalism, Corporate Crime, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, Exploitation, financial crisis, Financial System, Labor, Oligarchy, psychopaths, self interest, sociopaths
Leave a comment
Revolution Is Inevitable and Necessary
By Jason Holland Source: Dissident Voice None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Inequality, Oligarchy, Philosophy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Authoritarianism, capitalism, civil liberties, culture, economic inequality, Economics, elites, Exploitation, Opinion, Philosophy, Revolution, Ruling Class, Ruling Elite, society
1 Comment
Omens, Portents, Karma and the Mandate of Heaven
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The question of legitimacy isn’t limited to China. what makes humans unique among social mammals? Some say humor, I would nominate superstition: regardless of how hard we promote our rationality and logic, humanity … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, consciousness, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Empire, Environment, Health, Inequality, Labor, Oligarchy, Psychology, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Corruption, culture, Debt, Economics, environment, Exploitation, Government, Karma, Michael Snyder, natural disasters, Plagues, political disenfranchisement, self-aggrandizement, society, Superstition, Viruses, Wealth Inequality
Leave a comment
Ending Violence, Exploitation, Ecological Destruction and War: Creating a Culture of Peace
By Robert J. Burrowes The date 11 November is well known and commemorated in many parts of the world because it marks the Armistice ending World War I – ‘the Great War’ – in 1918. In the evocative words used … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, culture, education, Environment, Philosophy, police state, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, war
Tagged cultural violence, culture, Direct violence, Ecological violence, Education, Exploitation, Institutional violence, invisible violence, Johan Galtung, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Parenting, Peace, Philosophy, police state, psychological violence, psychology, society, Sociology, Structural Violence, war
1 Comment
Learning from Gandhi
By Robert J. Burrowes Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869: 150 years ago this year. There will be many tributes to Gandhi published in 2019 so I would like to add one of my own. This reflects … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, culture, education, Environment, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, society, Sociology, Spirituality, war
Tagged activism, Conflict, culture, Exploitation, Mohandas Gandhi, Nonviolence, Philosophy, psychology, Satyagraha, Socialization, society, Sociology, Structural Violence, Violence, war
Leave a comment
500 years is long enough! Human Depravity in the Congo
By Robert J. Burrowes I would like to tell you something about human depravity and illustrate just how widespread it is among those we often regard as ‘responsible’. I am going to use the Democratic Republic of the Congo as … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, Empire, History, imperialism, Neoliberalism, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Child Labor, Colonization, Conflict Minerals, Congo, Corporate Crime, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dictatorship, Economics, Exploitation, Forrest Group International, Global Witness, Natural Resources, Rare-Earth Minerals, State Crime, Violence
Leave a comment
Slaves and Bulldozers, Plutocrats and Widgets
By Kristine Mattis Source: CounterPunch There is not an industrial company on earth, not an institution of any kind – not mine, not yours, not anyone’s – that is sustainable. I stand convicted by me, myself alone, not by anyone … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Environment, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Philosophy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technology
Tagged 1%, capitalism, civilization, corporatocracy, Earth, Ecological Collapse, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, environment, Exploitation, Global Elites, income gap, Money, Plutocracy, Profit, Success, Wealth, Wealth Disparity
4 Comments
Lament for Humanity: A 50 Year Reflection
By Robert J. Burrowes Source: RINF Deeply affected by the death of my two uncles in World War II, on 1 July 1966, the 24th anniversary of the USS Sturgeon sinking of the Japanese prisoner-of-war ship Montevideo Maru which killed … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, civil disobedience, consciousness, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, education, Empire, Environment, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Health, History, media, Militarization, military spending, Neocons, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Psychology, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war, war on terror, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged activism, anti-war, Big Pharma, Children, civil liberties, corporate media, corporatocracy, economic crisis, Economics, Education, environment, Environmental Crisis, Exploitation, Food System, Free Trade, Global Economy, Global Elites, Human Extinction, Militarism, military spending, Neoliberalism, society, TPP, Violence, war
5 Comments
Desultory Heroics 