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Tag Archives: Hegemony
The Troika of Tyranny: The Imperialist Project in Latin America and Its Epigones
By Roger Harris Source: CounterPunch Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela are today threatened by US imperialism. The first salvo of the modern Age of Imperialism started back in 1898 when the US seized Cuba along with Puerto Rico and the Philippines … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, CIA, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Neoliberalism, news, NGOs, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged Cuba, Daniel Ortega, empire, geopolitics, Hegemony, imperialism, Latin America, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Nicaragua, State Crime, tyranny, US Foreign Policy, venezuela, Washington Office on Latin America
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Neoliberal Defenestration and the Overton Window
By Stephen Martin Source: CounterPunch ‘It is difficult to get Artificial Intelligence to understand something, when the Research and Development funding it depends upon its not understanding it’– Paraphrase of Upton Sinclair. defenestration (diːˌfɛnɪˈstreɪʃən) n the act of throwing a person or thing out … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, imperialism, Inequality, Labor, Militarization, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technology, Work
Tagged AI, artificial intelligence, automation, Biodiversity, Corporatism, Economics, empire, Free Market, Hegemony, imperialism, Neoliberalism, Overton Window, panopticon, Philosophy, politics, Robotics, Utilitarianism
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The Simulacra Democracy
By John Steppling Source: CounterPunch … a nation in which 87 percent of eighteen- to twenty-four year olds (according to a 2002 National Geographic Society/Roper Poll survey) cannot locate Iran or Iraq on a world map and 11 percent cannot … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, CIA, conditioning, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, Geopolitics, History, media, Militarization, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Racism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged Afghanistan, AFRICOM, American Culture, American History, CIA, Clinton, conspiracy, corporate media, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Democratic Party, DNC, Donald Trump, empire, Gaddafi, geopolitics, Harvey Weinstein, Hegemony, hollywood, Hugo Chavez, imperialism, iraq, Liberals, Libya, NATO, Obama, propaganda, social control, society, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, wall street, Yemen
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Tomorrow Belongs to the Corporatocracy
By C.J. Hopkins Source: The Unz Review Back in October of 2016, I wrote a somewhat divisive essay in which I suggested that political dissent is being systematically pathologized. In fact, this process has been ongoing for decades, but it has been … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, freedom of speech, Hackers, History, media, Militarization, Neoliberalism, news, Philosophy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state
Tagged capitalism, censorship, civil liberties, Clinton, corporate media, Corporate New, Corporatism, corporatocracy, culture, Election 2016, Extremism, Facebook, Free Press, free speech, Google, Hegemony, media, propaganda, Russia-gate, Russian Hackers, surveillance state, Trump, Twitter
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The Superpower That Fought Itself — And Lost
By William Astore and TomDispatch Source: TomDispatch.com After 19 al-Qaeda militants armed only with box-cutters and knives hijacked four American commercial airliners, the U.S. military moved with remarkable efficiency to rectify the problem. In the years since, in its global … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, black ops, CIA, Conspiracy, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, History, military spending, Neocons, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, war on terror, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged 9/11, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, black ops, Blackwater, Chalmers Johnson, CIA, Cold War, Deep State, empire, Erik Prince, geopolitics, Hegemony, imperialism, iraq, ISIS, James Madison, Militarism, military spending, military-industrial complex, Russia, Syria, Trump, US Foreign Policy, war
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Wall Street Primitivism: Nicaragua, China, The Middle East & Charlottesville
By Caleb Maupin Source: New Eastern Outlook Wall Street, London, and the Bretton Woods institutions like the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund claim to support development and the eradication of poverty around the world. They also claim to support … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, CIA, Conspiracy, culture, Deep State, Dirty Politics, divide and conquer, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, History, media, Neoliberalism, news, NGOs, propaganda, Psy-ops, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged Abd al-Wahhab, Al-Queda, black ops, capitalism, CIA, Corporate Globalization, Dalia Lama, Eastern Lightning, Economic Warfare, empire, Falun Gong, geopolitics, Hegemony, imperialism, Iran, ISIS, Lenin, Libya, NATO, Nazis, Neoliberalism, NICA Act, Nicaragua, primitivism, propaganda, Psy-ops, Russia, Sanctions, Sandinista, Saudi Arabia, Socialism, Tibet, US Foreign Policy, Wahabbism, wall street
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