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Tag Archives: fascism
A Nanny State Idiocracy: When the Government Thinks It Knows Best
By John & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military.”—Simone Weil, French philosopher It’s hard to say whether … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Law, Mass Incarceration, Oligarchy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Asset Forfeiture, Authoritarianism, Bureaucracy, Dystopia, Economics, fascism, idiocracy, kakistocracy, Kleptocracy, law, Mass Incarceration, Nanny State, Overcriminalization, overregulation, police state, SWAT, Technocracy
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Dictators Bent on Building Military Empires: The Cost of the Nation’s Endless Wars
By John & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “Autocrats only understand one word: no, no, no. No you will not take my country, no you will not take my freedom, no you will not take my future… A dictator bent … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, NATO, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Afghanistan, Dwight Eisenhower, Economics, empire, fascism, geopolitics, Government, hypocrisy, ilitary-industrial complex, imperialism, Joe Biden, Militarism, military spending, NATO, Russia, tyranny, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, war, war profiteers
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There Are No Permanent Allies, Only Permanent Power
If we do not build left-right coalitions on issues such as militarism, health care, a living wage and union organizing, we will be impotent in the face of corporate power and the war machine. By Chris Hedges Source: The Chris … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, CIA, civil disobedience, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, NATO, Neocons, news, Oligarchy, society, State Crime, war
Tagged activism, Afghanistan, Ann Wright, antiwar, Anya Parampil, Capitol Hill Citizen, CIA, Code Pink, Cynthia McKinney, Deep State, Dennis Kucinich, empire, False Claims Act, fascism, geopolitics, imperialism, Jill Stein, Jimmy Dore, Libya, Max Blumenthal, military-industrial complex, Nick Brana, Oligarchy, Pakistan, Rage Against the War Machine, Ralph Nader, raq, Ron Paul, Scott Horton, Somalia, Syria, The People's Party, Veterans for PEace, war, Yemen
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360 Degree Surveillance: How Police Use Public-Private Partnerships to Spy on Americans
By John & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “We live in a surveillance state founded on a partnership between government and the technology industry.”— Law Professor Avidan Y. Cover In this age of ubiquitous surveillance, there are no private … Continue reading
Posted in civil liberties, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, FBI, freedom of speech, internet freedom, Law, Mass Incarceration, news, police state, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Amazon, civil liberties, culture, DHS, Dystopia, fascism, FBI, Fourth Amendment, George Orwell, Google, Government, law, NSA, police state, Privacy, Public-Private Partnerships, society, surveillance state, Technocracy
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Don’t Trust the Government with Your Privacy, Property or Your Freedoms
By John & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute How do you trust a government that continuously sidesteps the Constitution and undermines our rights? You can’t. When you consider all the ways “we the people” are being bullied, beaten, bamboozled, … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Health, Militarization, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged civil liberties, digital rights, Economics, fascism, Freedom, Government, Kleptocracy, police state, Police Violence, Privacy, Public Health, surveillance state, Technocracy, tyranny
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Why Orwell matters
His defence of freedom flies in the face of all that is woke and regressive today. By Bruno Waterfield Source: Spike Online Most people think that George Orwell was writing about, and against, totalitarianism – especially when they encounter him … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, conditioning, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, elites, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged 1984, censorship, civil liberties, Consciousness, Dystopia, elites, Eric Blair, fascism, George Orwell, intellectuals, language, Newspeak, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Philosophy, propaganda, psychology, Sociology, Technocracy, Totalitarianism, Will Self
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Prostitutes of the Press
By Stephen Lendman Source: The Stephen Lendman Blog Western MSM operate as fake news ministries of truth in nations where they’re located. They’re bribed with big bucks to lie and mass-deceive by sticking exclusively to the fabricated official narrative. On … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, Corporate Welfare, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, military spending, NATO, Neocons, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged censorship, China, corporate news, empire, Fake News, fascism, geopolitics, George Orwell, imperialism, Mainstream Media, media, Media Literacy, MSM, NATO, propaganda, Psyops, Russia, surveillance state, Ukraine, war
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Yes, Jesus Would Have Been Branded a Domestic Extremist Today
By John & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone, when the kings and princes are home, when the shepherds are back with their flocks, … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, civil liberties, culture, Dystopia, Empire, Mass Incarceration, Militarization, Philosophy, police state, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged activism, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Christ, Christmas, civil liberties, civil rights, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, domestic terrorists, Dystopia, fascism, Gulags, Jesus, Martin Luther King Jr., Mass Incarceration, Militarism, Nativity, Nazis, police state, Privatized Prisons, Roman Empire, surveillance state, Technocracy, WWJD
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