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America’s Death March
By Chris Hedges Source: Mint Press News The terminal decline of the United States will not be solved by elections. The political rot and depravity will continue to eat away at the soul of the nation, spawning what anthropologists call … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Environment, Geopolitics, Health, imperialism, Inequality, news, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Racism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Anomie, culture, Democracy, Donald Trump, Dystopia, economic inequality, empire, environment, geopolitics, hyper-nationalism, imperialism, Joe Biden, Kleptocracy, Oligarchy, racism, society
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Is the U.S. Becoming a Third World Nation?
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds This is a chart of an informal kleptocracy which cloaks itself in the faux finery of democracy and a (rigged) “market” economy. Back in the day, nations that didn’t qualify as either … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy
Tagged America, corporate media, Coruption, Crumbling Infrastructure, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, Failed State, financial crisis, Inequality, Kleptocracy, Late Stage Capitalism, Pay to Play, Poverty, Precariat, Pundits, super-wealthy, Technocrats, Third World
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Color Revolution Comes Home?
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers Source: Popular Resistance The United States has perfected the art of regime change operations. The US is the largest empire in world history with more than 1,000 military bases and troops operating throughout the … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, CIA, Conspiracy, culture, Deep State, divide and conquer, Empire, Geopolitics, History, propaganda, Psy-ops, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged black ops, Chile, CIA, Color Revolutions, corporate media, DEA, empire, geopolitics, Hunter Biden, imperialism, Iran, John Kerry, Kleptocracy, Oligarchy, Petro Poroshenko, regime change, RussiaGate, State Department, Syria, the People’s Congress, U.S. Foreign Policy, Ukraine, US AID, venezuela, Victoria Nuland
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Collapsing Standard of Living: Kleptocrats and Militarists Fleece Americans
By Prof. James Petras Source: GlobalResearch.ca American living standards are plunging and it’s not simply because they are paid less, work longer (or shorter hours) under highly stressful workplace conditions and pay a higher percentage of their income for health … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, civil liberties, conditioning, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, Labor, Law, military spending, police state, Recession, Social Control, society, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars, Work
Tagged Collapsing Standard of Living: Kleptocrats and Militarists Fleece Americans, Cost of Living, Globalresearch.ca, Income Inequality, Kleptocracy, Living Standards, Plutocracy, police state, Prof. James Petras, Standard of Living
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