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Bono Is Doing Illustrations For The Atlantic Now, Because Everything’s Fake And Stupid

By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com So U2 singer Bono is literally just doing illustrations for the imperialist propaganda rag The Atlantic now, because that’s the sort of thing that happens in a dystopian civilization during the death throes of a … Continue reading

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Is the United States a Failed Society?

The facts have become too dire to ignore any longer. By Chad Mulligan Source: Hipcrime Vocab I’d like to pose a question I’ve been dancing around for the last couple of posts: Is the United States a failed society? That may seem … Continue reading

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Matt Taibbi Discovers Democrats are Authoritarians

There is nothing mysterious, arcane, or byzantine about what is happening in America. By Kurt Nimmo Source: Kurt Nimmo Substack First, allow me to thank Mr. Taibbi for his work exposing the social media censorship agenda. The uniparty wanted to … Continue reading

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America’s Social Contract Is Broken

By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds I do not claim any expertise in social contract theory, but in broad brush we can delineate two implicit contracts: one between the citizenry and the state (government) and another between citizens. We … Continue reading

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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

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Here’s How We’ll Have Labor Shortages and High Unemployment at the Same Time

By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds This is how we’ll end up with severe shortages of truly skilled labor and high unemployment of those who lack the necessary skills. The labor force and the job market are referred to as if … Continue reading

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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

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The Everything Bubble and Global Bankruptcy

By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The resulting erosion of collateral will collapse the global credit bubble, a repricing/reset that will bankrupt the global economy and financial system. Scrape away the complexity and every economic crisis and crash boils down … Continue reading

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