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America Condemns One Violent Mob While Celebrating Another
Where is the corporate media’s disgust for the courtesans of corporate destruction that wreak violence on Americans daily? By Lee Camp Source: ScheerPost.com Most rational Americans have correctly criticized and denounced the violent insurrection in the Capitol last week. Those … Continue reading
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Tagged Corporate Crime, corporate media, Economic Warfare, Economics, empire, financial crisis, geopolitics, healthcare, Homelessness, imperialism, Mainstream Media, Mass Poverty, Oligarchy, Opioid Epidemic, political prisoners, pollution, sixth great extinction, venezuela, war
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Corporate America Is an Anti-Social Black Plague: Negative Network Effects Run Amok
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The anti-social carnage unleashed by Corporate America’s “lock-in” / negative network effects has no real limits. Here’s the U.S.economy in a nutshell: Corporate America is an anti-social Black Plague, gorging on cartel-monopoly … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Law, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged big data, Boeing, Cartels, Corporate America, Corporate Crime, corporate sociopaths, Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, Facebook, financial crisis, Google, Monopoly, negative network effects, Network Effect, Oligarchy, Opioid Epidemic, Plutocracy, Simons Chase, social capital, social order, State Crime
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US Technological Transformations and the Narcotic-Fueled Genocide of American Workers
By James Petras Source: The Unz Review Introduction During his recent visit to New Hampshire on 3/20/18, President Trump declared once again that the US is facing a ‘drug epidemic’. This time he advocated the death penalty for criminal drug … Continue reading
Posted in Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Drug War, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, History, Inequality, Labor, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Work
Tagged Big Pharma, Corporate Crime, culture, DEA, Deindustrialization, Donald Trump, drug war, Economics, elites, Employment, FDA, Genocide, Labor, Lobbyists, NAFTA, Oligarchy, Opioid Epidemic, opioids, Pharmaceuticals, Plutocracy, Population Control, society
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Why We’re Underestimating American Collapse
The Strange New Pathologies of the World’s First Rich Failed State By Umair Haque Source: Information Clearing House You might say, having read some of my recent essays, “Umair! Don’t worry! Everything will be fine! It’s not that bad!” I … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Philosophy, Psychology, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged addiction, America, American Empire, capitalism, Collapse, Community, culture, Dystopia, Economics, empire, Nomadic Retirees, Opioid Epidemic, Public Healthcare, school shootings, Social Decline, society, Suicides
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