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Resolution for 2022: Dare to Build Your Own Opinions and Then Defend Them!
By Alfred De Zayas Source: CounterPunch – Sapere aude!, Horace Anyone who has followed the political culture in the US, Canada, UK, EU over the past twenty years must have realized that a war on epistemology, on truth, on semantics is … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil disobedience, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, news, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged 1984, 2022, censorship, corporate news, Democracy, Dystopia, Freedom, geopolitics, George Orwell, Human Rights, iraq, Julian Assange, lawfare, Libya, mainstream meida, military-industrial-financial complex, NATO, New Normal, Newspeak, patriotism, Peace, propaganda, war, weaponization, whistleblowers
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More Than a Threat, America’s Criminal Ways
By Gordon Duff Source: New Eastern Outlook It is one thing watching the news, such as it is, a mix of conspiracy theories, flummery and distraction but quite something else watching the United States under its current regime wage war … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, CIA, corporate news, culture, elites, Empire, False Flag, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, news, Oligarchy, patriotism, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology, war
Tagged America, Britain, CIA, corporate media, Dystopia, empire, Ethnic Cleansing, Eugenics, False Flags, Genocide, geopolitics, Germany, Hitler, imperialism, Israel, Japan, Mainstream Media, Mike Pompeo, Oligarchs, Oligarchy, patriotism, Plutocracy, propaganda, science, State Terror, Technocracy, technology, US Foreign Policy, war, wealthy elites, World War II
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America is exceptional — in all the wrong ways
By Maj. Danny Sjursen Source: Axis of Logic I was born and raised in an America far more Orwellian than many now remember. Matters have gone so far off the rails since 9/11 that few seem to recall the madness … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, Health, History, Inequality, Militarization, military spending, patriotism, Social Control, society, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged Afghanistan, American exceptionalism, Citizen's United, Donald Trump, elliot abrams, Gun Control, iraq, maj. danny sjursen, nationalism, Orwell, patriotism, Ronald Reagan, Russia
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Overcoming the Myth of Authority
By Gary Z McGee Source: The Mind Unleashed “For thousands hacking at the branches there is one striking the root.” ~Henry David Thoreau If, as Albert Einstein said, “unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth,” then it … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, consciousness, culture, education, patriotism, Philosophy, Social Control, society, Sociology
Tagged activism, Authoritarianism, Authority, culture, Logic, Magical Thinking, patriotism, Philosophy, Power, Reasoning, social control, society
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The Danger Of Patriotism
By Bob Livingston Source: Alt-Market.com My friends, it is frightening how simple we are and how easily we are manipulated simply because we are intellectually lazy. The U.S. establishment has confused cause and effect by and through a flag-waving mania … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, conditioning, culture, education, Empire, freedom of speech, Militarization, patriotism, Philosophy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, war
Tagged Colin Kaepernick, Democracy, empire, fascism, Freedom, imperialism, Militarism, military-industrial complex, nationalism, Oligarchy, patriotism, Plutocracy, tyranny, US government, war
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A dystopia in real time
By Dave Lefcourt Source: OpEdNews.com Let’s come straight out with it, to the US government, We the People are the enemy. If you’ve read John W. Whitehead [1] regularly you’re already aware of that. The tell-tale sign: surveillance camera’s seemingly … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, Conspiracy, culture, Dystopia, Empire, freedom of speech, Law, patriotism, police state, propaganda, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, war on terror
Tagged activism, corporatocracy, Dystopia, empire, fascism, Indoctrination, Oligarchy, patriotism, police state, propaganda, protest, Revolution, social control, Social Engineering, surveillance state, Totalitarianism, US government, war on terror
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4 Ways to Throw a Monkey Wrench into the War Machine
By Gary ‘Z’ McGee Source: Waking Times “When a public is stressed and confused, a big lie told repeatedly and unchallenged can become accepted truth.” ~George Orwell One of the biggest lies told is the false notion that in order to … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, conditioning, consciousness, culture, education, Empire, Militarization, patriotism, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged activism, anti-war, Authority, Bureaucracy, Disobey, empire, George Orwell, Immorality, Military, Morality, Nietzsche, obedience, patriotism, propaganda, Statism, war
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