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America’s Bottom 50% Have Nowhere To Go But Down

Posted on November 10, 2021 by Luther Blissett

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 →

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America Is Now a Kleptocrapocracy

Posted on November 4, 2021 by Luther Blissett

By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds I’ve coined a new portmanteau word to describe America’s descent: kleptocrapocracy, a union of kleptocracy (a nation ruled by kleptocrats) and crapocracy, a nation drowning in a moral sewer of rampant self-interest in which … Continue reading →

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Sickcare is the Knife in the Heart of Employment–and the Economy

Posted on June 3, 2021 by Luther Blissett

By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds We need to change the incentives of the entire system, not just healthcare, but if we don’t start with healthcare, that financial cancer will drag us into national insolvency all by itself. … Continue reading →

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America Condemns One Violent Mob While Celebrating Another

Posted on January 27, 2021 by Luther Blissett

Where is the corporate media’s disgust for the courtesans of corporate destruction that wreak violence on Americans daily? By Lee Camp Source: ScheerPost.com Most rational Americans have correctly criticized and denounced the violent insurrection in the Capitol last week. Those … Continue reading →

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Government propaganda: deflecting public attention from the most serious crimes of the oligarchy

Posted on January 25, 2021 by Luther Blissett

By Carla Binion Source: Intrepid Report People of the U.S. often fail to notice the methods their own government uses to do what amounts to brainwashing them. The book Manufacturing Consent by Edward S. Hermann and Noam Chomsky details how U.S. corporate-controlled … Continue reading →

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American Requiem

Posted on November 9, 2020 by Luther Blissett

However inequitable its bias, capitalist democracy at least offered the possibility of incremental and piecemeal reform. Now it is a corpse. By Chris Hedges Source: ScheerPost.com Well, it’s over. Not the election. The capitalist democracy. However biased it was towards … Continue reading →

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The Pandemic Is Accelerating Trends That Are Disrupting the Foundations of the Economy

Posted on September 8, 2020 by Luther Blissett

By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The problem is the economy that’s left has no means of creating tens of millions of jobs to replace those lost as the 1959 economic model collapses. Fundamentally, the economy of 2019 … Continue reading →

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A New World Is Being Born: What Will It Be?

Posted on April 24, 2020 by Luther Blissett

By Paul Craig Roberts Source: PaulCraigRoberts.org We are hearing from many that the world after Covid-19 will be different.  The question is:  Different in what way?  Will it be better or worse? Elites are working to make it better for … Continue reading →

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