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Understanding NATO, Ending War
By Robert J. Burrowes On 4 April 2019, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, better known as NATO, marked the 70th anniversary of its existence with a conference attended by the foreign ministers of member nations in Washington DC. This will … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, CIA, culture, Deep State, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Militarization, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Afghanistan, Atlantic Council, black ops, CIA, Colonialism, Corporate Globalization, empire, Exit NATO!, Florence Declaration, geopolitics, Global Hegemony, Global Power Elite, imperialism, iraq, Jan Oberg, Libya, Michel Chossudovsky, NATO, Neoliberalism, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, peter phillips, Russia, SACEUR, SACLANT, Soviet Union, Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Syria, Transnational Corporate Class, Violence, war, Western Europe, Yugoslavia, Yves Engler
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Why Activists Fail
By Robert J. Burrowes Despite enormous ongoing effort over more than a thousand years, during and since the formation and shaping of the modern world, and as the number of issues being contested has steadily increased, activists of many types … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, culture, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged activism, Biosphere, Consumerism, Ecology, Gandhi, geopolitics, Giants: The Global Power Elite, Global Elite, Nonviolent Action, peter phillips, Philosophy, psychology, Sociology, Strategy, Violence, war
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Exposing the Giants: The Global Power Elite
By Robert J. Burrowes Developing the tradition charted by C. Wright Mills in his 1956 classic The Power Elite, in his latest book, Professor Peter Phillips starts by reviewing the transition from the nation state power elites described by authors … Continue reading
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Tagged Bank for International Settlements, Bilderberg Group, BlackRock, CFR, Corporate Globalization, corporate media, Economics, G20, G30, G7, geopolitics, Global Elites, Group of 30, IMF, imperialism, International Capital, International Monetary Conference, International Monetary Fund, J.P Morgan Chase, Management Firms, NATO, NGOs, Oligarchy, peter phillips, Plutocracy, the Council on Foreign Relations, The Power Elite, Trilateral Commission, US Foreign Policy, war, WEF, World Bank, World Economic Forum, World Trade Organization, WTO
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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic. – A.J.P. Taylor
With so much attention on arguments for and against a potential World War 3, it’s almost easy to forget about economic problems though the issues overlap. To remind us (if we did need reminding), a number of great articles have … Continue reading
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Tagged A.J.P. Taylor, anti-war, bernie sanders, brady osborne, economy, financial crisis, Global Research, michael payne, neil irwin, oped news, peter phillips, ray downs, recession, Richard Eskrow, Smirking Chimp, Syria, vice, war, washington post
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Podcast Roundup
6/8: Hosts Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips discuss the ongoing situation in the Ukraine with Dr. Michael Parenti, Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, and former Congresswomen and Green Party Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney on “the Project Censored Show”. All of them are contributors to a … Continue reading →