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Distract, Divide and Conquer: The Painful Truth About the State of Our Union

By John & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute Step away from the blinders that partisan politics uses to distract, divide and conquer, and you will find that we are drowning in a cesspool of problems that individually and collectively threaten … Continue reading

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Can a Nation Prosper as its Institutions Fail?

By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Economists focus on what can be easily measured: sales, profits, prices, tax revenues, etc. Since the decay and failure of institutions isn’t easily quantified, this decay doesn’t register in the realm of economics. Since it … Continue reading

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As US Prepares to Ban Ivermectin for Covid-19, More Countries in Asia Begin Using It

By Nick Corbishley Source: Naked Capitalism The information war takes a dark turn as the corporate media transitions from misinformation and obfuscation to outright lies and fabrication. The campaign against ivermectin is intensifying in the US. Until recently the health … Continue reading

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Economic effect of coronavirus could be revolutionary

By Paul Craig Roberts Source: Intrepid Report Coronavirus and globalism will teach us vital lessons. The question is whether we can learn vital lessons that do not serve the ruling interest groups and ideologies. Coronavirus will teach us that a … Continue reading

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OUR NEW, HAPPY LIFE? THE IDEOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT

By Charles Eisenstein Source: Waking Times In George Orwell’s 1984, there is a moment when the Party announces an “increase” in the chocolate ration – from thirty grams to twenty. No one except for the protagonist, Winston, seems to notice that … Continue reading

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Racket of Rackets

By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds If you thought banking in our time was a miserable racket — which it is, of course, and by “racket” I mean a criminal enterprise — then so-called health care has it … Continue reading

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How Pure is Your Hate?

By Paul Street Source: CounterPunch Fellow workers and citizens, how pure is your hatred? It’s easy to hate on openly authoritarian, loathsome, right-wing political personalities and institutions like Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Donald Trump, the Koch brothers, Paul Ryan, … Continue reading

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Does “Creative Destruction” Include the State?

  By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds When do we get to exercise democracy and fire every factotum, apparatchik, toady and lackey in the state who has abused his/her authority? Everyone lauds “creative destruction” when it shreds monopolies … Continue reading

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