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Tag Archives: Identity Politics
Wonder Woman Is a Hero Only The Military-Industrial Complex Could Create
By Jonathan Cooke Source: TruePublica For a while I have been pondering whether to write a review of the newly released Wonder Woman, to peel back the layers of comic-book fun to reveal below the film’s disturbing and not-so-covert political … Continue reading
Posted in Art, conditioning, culture, Deep State, Empire, Feminism, Film, media, Militarization, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged DC Comics, Department of Defense, empire, Gal Gadot, geopolitics, hollywood, Identity Politics, imperialism, Interventionists, Israel Defense Forces, Militarism, military-industrial complex, Pentagon, propaganda, social control, Syria, war, Wonder Woman
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Propaganda Techniques of Empire
By James Petras Source: Axis of Logic Introduction Washington’s quest for perpetual world power is underwritten by systematic and perpetual propaganda wars. Every major and minor war has been preceded, accompanied and followed by unremitting government propaganda designed to secure … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, Authoritarianism, conditioning, Conspiracy, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Empire, False Flag, Geopolitics, History, Militarization, Neocons, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged Emperialism, empire, False Flags, Identity Politics, ISIS, Israel, Militarization, Palestine, propaganda, Psy-ops, racism, State Terror, Syria, US Foreign Policy, war
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Stop Pretending the Rich Care About You
By Dr. Bones Source: The Conjure House One of the terrible things about being a lone bastion of bomb-throwing, fire-starting, up-against-the-wall-fascist-killing type of Anarchism is you have to mingle and jive with the enemy. Like a Seminole off the reservation … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anarchism, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, divide and conquer, Economics, Film, Financial Crisis, Labor, media, Neoliberalism, news, propaganda, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, war
Tagged Anarchism, Class War, corporate media, Donald Trump, economic crisis, economic inequality, Economics, Free Trade, hollywood, Identity Politics, income gap, Jobs, Labor, Liberals, Meryl Streep, Neoliberalism, Poverty, wall street, war, Wealth Divide
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You Should Be Terrified That People Who Like “Hamilton” Run Our Country
The American elite can’t get enough of a musical that flatters their political sensibilities and avoids discomforting truths. By Alex Nichols Source: Current Affairs In 2012, Captain Dan and his Scurvy Crew, a four-man hip-hop ensemble trying to cement “pirate rap” … Continue reading
Posted in Art, corporate news, culture, Economics, History, Neoliberalism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged 1%, Corporate Elites, corporate media, Cultural Elites, Hamilton, hip-hop, history, Identity Politics, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Neoliberalism, Nerdcore, Political Elites, Revisionism, Slavery, White House
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The Corporate Liberal in America
By Jason Hirthler Source: CounterPunch “I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s greatest stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is … Continue reading
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Tagged Corporate Liberals, corporate media, Corporatism, Democratic Party, DNC, Duopoly, Economic Justice, Election 2016, empire, Hillary Clinton, Identity Politics, Karl Marx, Kshama Sawant, Liberals, Martin Luther King, MLK, Moderates, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Political Reform, Progressives, TPP, Two Party System, war
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Brexit Is What Happens When the Pie Is Shrinking
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds This process of withdrawal into the relative safety of internally cohesive groups and group identities is intrinsically messy in globalized, multicultural societies. A great many narratives are drifting around the Brexit pool: … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, divide and conquer, Economics, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, Neoliberalism, Recession, Social Control, society, State Crime
Tagged Bankers, Brexit, Class War, Corporate Globalization, Crony Capitalism, economic inequality, EU, European Union, financial crisis, Identity Politics, Neoliberalism, Technocrats, Wealth Gap
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