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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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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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Where the $1.3 Trillion Per Year U.S. Military Budget Goes
By Eric Zuesse Source: The Duran Nobody can give a precise dollar-number to U.S. ‘Defense’ spending because the U.S. ‘Defense’ Department has never been able to pass an audit, and is by far the most corrupt of all federal Departments … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, Neocons, Oligarchy, society, State Crime, war
Tagged China, Corporate Welfare, David Norquist, DOD, Dystopia, Economics, empire, financial crisis, geopolitics, Grover Norquist, imperialism, Militarism, Military Industrial Complex, military spending, NDAA, Neocons, Oligarchy, Russia, society, 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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Seymour Hersh: the CIA Knows Ukrainian Officials Are Skimming US Aid
Hersh says the CIA estimates at least $400 million was embezzled last year in funds earmarked for diesel payments By Dave DeCamp Source: Antiwar.com On Wednesday, Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published a report on Substack that alleged the CIA was aware of … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, CIA, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, military-industrial complex, Neocons, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Antony Blinken, CIA, Corruption, geopolitics, Jake Sullivan, Joe Biden, military spending, Nord Stream, Russia, Seymour Hersh, Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, war, William Burns
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