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What’s the future of U.S. democracy? More inequality, polarization and violence
It might have been irrelevant whether Biden or Trump won this election. Yes, the problems are that bad By Ramzy Baroud Source: Information Clearing House In January 2017, the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index downgraded the state of democracy in the United … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Militarization, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged bernie sanders, Democracy Index, Democrats, Donald Trump, Election 2020, Failed State, financial crisis, Income Inequality, inequality gap, Militarization, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Political polarization, Populism, Republicans
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“Watch this!”
By Dmitry Orlov Source: Club Orlov There are times in my career as a collapse observer and systematizer when my running commentary can quite reasonably be pared down to just two words: “Watch this!” The current severe stage of the … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dirty Politics, divide and conquer, Dystopia, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, History, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged Collapse, Corruption, Deep State, Democracy, DNC, Donald Trump, Dystopia, Election 2020, Election Fraud, elites, empire, history, Joe Biden, Oligarchy, Plutocracy
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Everybody Knows the Fight was Fixed
By Edward Curtin Source: Behind the Curtain “Yeah, like [in] a church. Church of the Good Hustler.” – Fast Eddie Felson (Paul Newman) in The Hustler At the end of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play, A Doll’s House, Nora, the aggrieved wife, leaves … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Authoritarianism, conditioning, Corruption, culture, Deep State, divide and conquer, Dystopia, elites, Empire, imperialism, media, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged A Doll’s House, Corruption, Donald Trump, Doublethink, Dystopia, Election 2020, empire, Henrik Ibsen, imperialism, Joe Biden, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, propaganda
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America After the Election: A Few Hard Truths About the Things That Won’t Change
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”—George Orwell The American people remain eager to be persuaded that a new … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, imperialism, Inequality, Law, Mass Incarceration, Militarization, news, Oligarchy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged Corruption, Dystopia, Election 2020, empire, financial crisis, imperialism, Mass Incarceration, Militarization, Oligarchy, Overcriminalization, Plutocracy, police shootings, police state, Poverty, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
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What We Don’t Elect Matters Most: Central Banking and the Permanent Government
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds We’re Number One in wealth, income and power inequality, yea for the Fed and the Empire! If we avert our eyes from the electoral battle on the blood-soaked sand of the Coliseum … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, divide and conquer, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Big Tech, central banks, Deep State, Economics, Election 2020, elites, empire, Federal Reserve, Oligarchy, Permanent Government, Plutocracy, Technocracy, voting
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American Requiem
However inequitable its bias, capitalist democracy at least offered the possibility of incremental and piecemeal reform. Now it is a corpse. By Chris Hedges Source: ScheerPost.com Well, it’s over. Not the election. The capitalist democracy. However biased it was towards … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, consciousness, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Health, Inequality, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged capitalism, corporatocracy, Democracy, Democrats, DNC, Donald Trump, Economics, Election 2020, empire, healthcare, Joe Biden, liberal elites, Oligarchy, Pandemic, Plutocracy, tyranny
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Lords of Misrule: UK Elites and the Rise of Global Feudalism
By Chris Floyd Source: Empire Burlesque I darkly suspect that the UK is entering a long winter of discontent and widespread upheaval, which will likely end with the replacement of the hapless opportunist Boris Johnson by someone even worse: the … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged Boris Johnson, corporate feudalism, corporatocracy, Dom Cummings, Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, Michael Gove, Neofeudalism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy
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Global billionaire wealth tops $10 trillion as COVID-19 deaths mount
By Jacob Crosse Source: WSWS.org The collective wealth of the world’s 2,189 billionaires has risen to $10.2 trillion, an increase of nearly $1.3 trillion in the past three years, according to a new report by the Swiss bank UBS and … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, news, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged bailout, Billionaires, covid profiteers, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, elites, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Institute for Policy Studies, Jeff Bezos, Mass Poverty, Neoclassical Economics, Oligarchs, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Riding the Storm, unemployment, Wealth Concentration
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