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Toxic Contagion – Funds, Food and Pharma
By Colin Todhunter Source: Off-Guardian In 2014, the organisation GRAIN revealed that small farms produce most of the world’s food in its report Hungry for land: small farmers feed the world with less than a quarter of all farmland. The report Small-scale Farmers … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Big Pharma, censorship, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Environment, Geopolitics, Health, imperialism, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Agribusiness, Big Ag, Big Pharma, BlackRock, Corporate Globalization, Economics, empire, food sovereignty, geopolitics, Global Food System, grain, IMF, imperialism, industrial farms, Monoculture, Neoliberalism, Oakland Institute, Pandemic, small farms, Technocracy, World Bank, WTO
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The Impending Economic Collapse – A Cause of Current Conflict
By Phil Butler Source: New Eastern Outlook Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has called on BRICS nations to create an alternative to replace the dollar in foreign trade. Other experts suggest President Joe Biden’s policies will destroy America’s middle … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Deep State, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, military-industrial complex, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged American hegemony, bond market, Brazil, BRICS, China, currency reserve, Defense Budget, Economic Collapse, Economics, empire, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, geopolitics, gold standard, IMF, imperialism, Joe Biden, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, MIC, military spending, military-industrial complex, Russia, US Dollar, US Foreign Policy, war, war profiteers
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Hunger Profiteers, Granny Killers, and Skin-Deep Morality
By Colin Todhunter Source: Dissident Voice Today, a fifth (278 million) of the African population are undernourished, and 55 million of that continent’s children under the age of five are stunted due to severe malnutrition. In 2021, an Oxfam review of IMF COVID-19 … Continue reading
Posted in Big Pharma, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Health, Militarization, military spending, military-industrial complex, Neocons, Neoliberalism, news, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Africa, Agribusiness, Big Ag, Big Pharma, Covid-19, Dystopia, GMOs, Green Revolution, hunger, IMF, military spending, NATO, obesity, Oxfam, Public Health, Technocracy, Ukraine, World Bank, WTO
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In a Multipolar World, the Idea of a New World Order Dies
By Timothy Alexander Guzman Source: Silent Crow News When former US President and war criminal George W. Bush and his neocon regime launched their anti-terrorism campaign after the September 11th attacks, he declared that “Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, CIA, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, NATO, Neocons, news, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, war
Tagged China, CIA, Deep State, empire, Europe, geopolitics, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Global South, Great Reset, IMF, imperialism, multipolarity, NATO, Neocons, New World Order, NWO, Russia, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, war, World Bank
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Not Letting a Good Tragedy Go to Waste, Banking Elite Use FTX Fraud, Crypto Crash to Push CBDCs
CBDCs mean the total death of any economic freedom the public has left… By Tyler Durden Source: The Free Thought Project Central bankers and international corporate financiers have long been pretending to hate the very concept of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin … Continue reading
Posted in civil liberties, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Inequality, internet freedom, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged BIS, BitCoin, Blockchain, CBDCs, central banks, Christine Lagarde, cryptocurencies, digital currencies, Dystopia, Economics, financial crisis, ftx, Great Reset, IMF, Internet Freedom, Oligarchy, surveillance state, Technocracy
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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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An Engineered Food and Poverty Crisis to Secure Continued US Dominance
By Colin Todhunter Source: Dissident Voice In March 2022, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned of a “hurricane of hunger and a meltdown of the global food system” in the wake of the crisis in Ukraine. Guterres said food, fuel and fertiliser prices were skyrocketing … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Gavin Marshall, Antonio Guterres, Covid-19, Debt Crisis, Economics, empire, Famine, food crisis, Food Security, food shortages, geopolitics, Henry Kissinger, IMF, imperialism, India, Michael Hudson, Navdanya International, Neoliberalism, Poverty, Russia, Sanctions, Technocracy, Ukraine, war, WTO
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How a Missile in Kabul Connects to a Speaker in Taipei
By Pepe Escobar Source: The Unz Review This is the way the “Global War on Terror” (GWOT) ends, over and over again: not with a bang, but a whimper. Two Hellfire R9-X missiles launched from a MQ9 Reaper drone on … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, China, Deep State, empire, geopolitics, IMF, imperialism, International Law, Kabul, Nancy Pelosi, Russia, Taiwan, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, Vladimir Putin, war, war on terror, Xi Jinping
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