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Tag Archives: financial crisis
Jeff Bezos’s Corporate Takeover of Our Lives
How Amazon’s relentless pursuit of profit is squeezing us all—and what we can do about it By David Dayen Source: In These Times AMAZON IS AN ONLINE RETAILER. It also runs a marketplace for other online retailers. It’s also a shipper … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, media, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technology, Work
Tagged AI, Alexa, Alienation, Amazon, big data, CIA, Cloud Computing, Corporate Lobbyists, Dystopia, e-commerce, Economics, financial crisis, Jeff Bezos, Labor, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Precariat, Retail Apocalypse, Small Business, Social Isolation, Technocracy, technology, Worker's Rights
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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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Unrealistically Great Expectations
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Our expectations have continued ever higher even as the pie is shrinking.. Let’s see if we can tie together four social dynamics: the elite college admissions scandal, the decline in social mobility, the … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, education, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Recession, Social Control, society, Sociology
Tagged College, Corporate Crime, Debt, Economics, Education, elites, financial crisis, Income Inequality, Peter Turchin, Precariat, social mobility
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Bullet Points: How Forever War Will End
By Kurt Nimmo Source: Another Day in the Empire Forget a popular movement to end the wars. As George W. Bush said during his murder spree in Afghanistan and Iraq, the antiwar movement at that time (far larger than what … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, black ops, culture, Economics, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, Neocons, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Afghanistan, American exceptionalism, china, Economic Collapse, Economics, empire, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, geopolitics, George W. Bush, imperialism, iraq, military spending, Neocons, Russia, war
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Why Are American Communities Dying?
By Tom Chatham Source: Project Chesapeake Most Americans who have been around for a while know life is nothing like it used to be. When someone wanted a job one was found with a little bit of searching. Today jobs … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, Labor, Neoliberalism, Recession, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged American Community, Corporations, Economic Collapse, Economics, Family-Owned Business, financial crisis, Government Jobs, local economies, Neoliberalism, recession, Small Business, Small Towns
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Poor Folks
By Peter Van Buren Source: We Meant Well A guy on Facebook I don’t know wrote a version of what has become a kind of set-piece article in today’s America. Here’s a portion: Losing The War of Attrition or How … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged America, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Poverty, society
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GIVE AMERICA’S ‘HELICOPTER PARENTS’ A BREAK
Hovering parents don’t need lectures. They need a more equal nation. By Sam Pizzigati Source: OtherWords A good many of us aging baby boomers are having trouble relating to the “helicopter parents” of our modern age — those moms and pops … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, education, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged culture, economic inequality, Economics, Families, financial crisis, Income Disparity, Parenting, Social Stratification, society, Wealth Concentration, Wealth Gap
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Survival of the Richest
All Are Equal, Except Those Who Aren’t By Nomi Prins Source: TomDispatch.com Like a gilded coating that makes the dullest things glitter, today’s thin veneer of political populism covers a grotesque underbelly of growing inequality that’s hiding in plain sight. And … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Work
Tagged central banks, Collusion, Dystopia, economic inequality, Economic Meltdown, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, George Orwell, Income, income gap, J.P. Morgan, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, Wealth
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