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Tag Archives: Globalization
Showdown in Ukraine
Hobbled US Turns to War to Preserve its Waning Primacy By Mike Whitney Source: The Unz Review The future of humanity will be decided on a battlefield in Ukraine. That’s no exaggeration. The conflict between the United States and Russia will … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Energy, Geopolitics, imperialism, NATO, Neocons, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy, war
Tagged Belt and Road Initiative, China, Deep State, empire, geopolitics, Globalization, imperialism, New World Order, Nord Stream, Oligarchy, Russia, Third World War, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, US Hegemony, war
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Prepare to Be Bled Dry by a Decade of Stagflation
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The Great Moderation of low inflation and soaring assets has ended. Welcome to the death by a thousand cuts of stagflation. It was all so easy in the good old days of the past 25 years: … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged A Great Stagflation, Economic Collapse, Economics, financial crisis, Financialization, Globalization, Hyper-financialization, hyper-globalization, Inflation, stagflation
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The One Chart That Explains Everything
Look at the chart above. The chart explains everything. By Mike Whitney Source: The Unz Review It explains why Washington is so worried about China’s explosive growth. It explains why the US continues to hector China on the issues of Taiwan … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Neoliberalism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged China, Economics, empire, geopolitics, Globalization, IMF, imperialism, Neoliberalism, NSS, Russia, Taiwan, Ukraine, war
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Calm Before the Tempest?
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Let’s start by stipulating the obvious: no one knows the future, and most of the guesses–oops, I mean forecasts–will be wrong. Arguing about the forecasts now won’t make any difference as to which ones … Continue reading
Global Planned Financial Tsunami Has Just Begun
By F. William Engdahl Source: Global Research Since the creation of the US Federal Reserve over a century ago, every major financial market collapse has been deliberately triggered for political motives by the central bank. The situation is no different … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Empire, Energy, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Neoliberalism, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Biden Administration, BitCoin, BlackRock, central banks, China, Citigroup, Credit Bubble, Cryptocurrency, Digital Currency, Economic Collapse, economic depression, Economics, Federal Reserve, Fidelity, financial crisis, GATT, geopolitics, Globalization, grain, Great Reset, Housing Market, Inflation, JP MorganChase, Lehman Bros, mortgage rates, natural gas, Quantitative Easing, Richard Nixon, Russia, Wells Fargo, World Trade Organization, WTO
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The Real Threat to Democracy is Corrupting Wealth Inequality
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Imagine a town of 1,000 adults and their dependents in which one person holds the vast majority of wealth and political influence. Would that qualify as a democracy? Now imagine that 100 of … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Democracy, Dystopia, economic inequality, Economics, elites, empire, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Financialization, Globalization, Kleptocracy, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Technocracy, Wealth Disparity
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America’s Bottom 50% Have Nowhere To Go But Down
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds One might anticipate that the bottom 50%’s meager share of the nation’s exploding wealth would have increased as smartly as the wealth of the billionaires, but alas, no. America’s economy has changed … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Health, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, Work
Tagged Asset Bubbles, Big Tech, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elites, everything bubble, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Financialization, Gig Economy, Globalization, healthcare, Homelessness, Housing Crisis, Labor, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Poverty
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The Top 10%’s Bubble Is About to Burst
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds When the top 10%’s bubble pops in 2021, the loss of illusions/delusions of security and wealth will be shattering to all those who believed artifice and illusory “wealth” were real. A great … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged asset deflation, Dystopia, economic bubbles, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Financialization, Globalization, Income Inequality, Meritocracy, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Technocracy
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