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Tag Archives: military-industrial complex
The Enemy From Within
The war industry, a state within a state, disembowels the nation, stumbles from one military fiasco to the next, strips us of civil liberties and pushes us towards suicidal wars with Russia and China. By Chris Hedges Source: ScheerPost America … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, military-industrial complex, NATO, Neocons, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy, war
Tagged China, Corporate Welfare, Deep State, empire, fascism, geopolitics, imperialism, Julian Assange, MIC, Militarism, military spending, military-industrial complex, NATO, propaganda, Russia, stratocracy, war, war profiteers
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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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China, Russia and India Versus USA, EU and Japan: Axis Powers of a New Global Cold War?
By Gilbert Mercier Source: New Junkie Post The birth of a bipolar world order? Since 2014, which marked the first Russian intervention in Ukraine, a new global geopolitical dynamic has amplified under conflicting impulses. The areas of direct, or more often … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, military-industrial complex, NATO, Neocons, NGOs, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, war
Tagged bipolar order, BRICS, China, Economics, empire, EU, geopolitics, imperialism, MIC, military spending, military-industrial complex, multipolarity, NATO, non-alignment, Russia, Taiwan, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, war, war profiteers
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US to double its ‘defense’ budget
By Drago Bosnic Source: InfoBRICS.org Back in late March, top American General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that the United States of America would be doubling its military budget in case the Kiev regime was … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, Authoritarianism, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, military-industrial complex, Neocons, news, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Deep State, Economics, empire, federal budget, financial crisis, geopolitics, imperialism, Mark Milley, MIC, military spending, military-industrial complex, Nuclear Weapons, rules-based order, Russia, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, war, war profiteers
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New York Times Is Now Telling Bigger Lies Than Iraq WMDs and More Effectively
By David Swanson Source: War Is a Crime The New York Times routinely tells bigger lies than the clumsy nonsense it published about weapons in Iraq. Here’s an example. This package of lies is called “Liberals Have a Blind Spot on Defense” but … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Welfare, culture, Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, military-industrial complex, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged China, Economics, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, Militarism, Military Budget, military spending, military-industrial complex, Russia, Ukraine
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Fiscal Insanity: The Government Borrows $6 Billion a Day, and We’re Stuck with the Bill
By John & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute We’re not living the American dream. We’re living a financial nightmare. The U.S. government is funding its existence with a credit card. The government—and that includes the current administration—is spending money … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Deep State, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, military-industrial complex, Oligarchy, police state, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged American Dream, Charles Pollock, civil liberties, Committee for a Reasonable Federal Budget, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Government, military spending, military-industrial complex, national debt, Oligarchy, police state, surveillance state, Taxes, war
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There Are No Permanent Allies, Only Permanent Power
If we do not build left-right coalitions on issues such as militarism, health care, a living wage and union organizing, we will be impotent in the face of corporate power and the war machine. By Chris Hedges Source: The Chris … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, CIA, civil disobedience, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, NATO, Neocons, news, Oligarchy, society, State Crime, war
Tagged activism, Afghanistan, Ann Wright, antiwar, Anya Parampil, Capitol Hill Citizen, CIA, Code Pink, Cynthia McKinney, Deep State, Dennis Kucinich, empire, False Claims Act, fascism, geopolitics, imperialism, Jill Stein, Jimmy Dore, Libya, Max Blumenthal, military-industrial complex, Nick Brana, Oligarchy, Pakistan, Rage Against the War Machine, Ralph Nader, raq, Ron Paul, Scott Horton, Somalia, Syria, The People's Party, Veterans for PEace, war, Yemen
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