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Tag Archives: Japan
Get Ready For An Economic Wake-Up Call This Holiday Season
By Brandon Smith Source: Alt-Market.com If we are to measure the concept of “economic recovery” in real terms, then we would have to look at the fundamentals (not stock markets) and whether or not they’re improving. Unfortunately, not all economic … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged Bankruptcy, china, Consumer Debt, consumer demand, Corporate Globalization, Corporate Welfare, Economic Bubble, Economic Crash, Economics, Exports, financial crisis, Germany, Global Economy, global manufacturing, Japan, manufacturing jobs, Oligarchy, price inflation, retail sales growth, South Korea, Tariffs, Tax Cuts, Trade War, US Economy
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More Than a Threat, America’s Criminal Ways
By Gordon Duff Source: New Eastern Outlook It is one thing watching the news, such as it is, a mix of conspiracy theories, flummery and distraction but quite something else watching the United States under its current regime wage war … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, CIA, corporate news, culture, elites, Empire, False Flag, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, news, Oligarchy, patriotism, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology, war
Tagged America, Britain, CIA, corporate media, Dystopia, empire, Ethnic Cleansing, Eugenics, False Flags, Genocide, geopolitics, Germany, Hitler, imperialism, Israel, Japan, Mainstream Media, Mike Pompeo, Oligarchs, Oligarchy, patriotism, Plutocracy, propaganda, science, State Terror, Technocracy, technology, US Foreign Policy, war, wealthy elites, World War II
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The curious case of the tankers
By Nat South Source: The Saker I have taken the opportunity to look at the recent incident involving two outbound tankers in the Gulf of Oman. I have got some questions or two, (or three) about certain parts of the … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, Conspiracy, Deep State, Empire, False Flag, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged black ops, empire, False Flag, Front Altair, geopolitics, Gulf of Oman, imperialism, Iran, Japan, Kokuka Courageous, Psy-ops, Strait of Hormuz, US Navy, USS Bainbridge
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Superpowers and Concrete Towers: Katsuhiro Otomo’s ‘Domu: A Child’s Dream’
By Patrick Haddad Source: We Are the Mutants In 1989, almost a year after it was released in Japan, the Western world was given its first cinematic taste of anime with the sci-fi epic Akira. Acclaimed writer Katsuhiro Otomo’s vision … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Dystopia, History, media, Philosophy, society, Sociology
Tagged Akira, Architecture, Art, culture, Domu, Domu: A Child's Dream, Dystopia, Japan, Katsuhiro Otomo, Manga, Modernism, Science fiction, society
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FIGHTING FOR OKINAWA — MY HOME, NOT A MILITARY BASE
By Moé Yonamine Source: Rethinking Schools My family moved to the United States from Okinawa when I was 7. But Okinawa is still home — and I’m hurt and angered at how the United States and Japan continue to treat … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, culture, education, Empire, Geopolitics, History, Militarization, society, State Crime, war
Tagged activism, anti-war, culture, empire, environment, Futenma, geopolitics, Global Hegemony, imperialism, Japan, Militarism, Military, Okinawa, Peace, resistance, U.S. Foreign Policy, Uchinanchu, United States, US Military Bases, World War 2
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Why Okinawa Should Matter
By Richard Falk Source: Foreign Policy Journal Okinawa has been a mostly unhappy host of American military bases, and the issue has been prominent at times on the agenda of the Japanese peace movement. When President Barack Obama visited Hiroshima … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, culture, Empire, Geopolitics, History, Militarization, military spending, Social Control, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Colonialism, Emperialism, empire, geopolitics, Japan, Kadena Air Base, Military Bases, Neocolonialism, Okinawa, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Military, World War II
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America’s Barbaric Logic of Hiroshima 70 Years On
By Finnian Cunningham Source: Strategic Culture Foundation Even if we accept that there was a plausible military imperative to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki – to bring about a swift defeat of Japan and thus an end … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, culture, Empire, Geopolitics, History, society, State Crime, war
Tagged A-Bomb, Atomic Bomb, Cold War, Dwight Eisenhower, empire, Gar Alperovitz, Genocide, Government Psychopothy, Harry Truman, Hiroshima, Japan, Nagasaki, Nuclear War, radiation poisoning, Soviet Union, State Terror, The Greatest Generation, War Crime, World War 2, WW2
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Saturday Matinee: Battle Royale
With the recent release of the Hunger Games sequel, it seems fitting to feature a cult classic that may have been the inspiration for that series: “Battle Royale”. Released in 2000, it was Kinji Fukasaku’s final film, a director previously … Continue reading