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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: To Heal the Great Divide
By Edward Curtin Source: Behind the Curtain It has been fifty-five years since Senator Robert F. Kennedy stepped onto the presidential nominating stage to try to mend the massive breach that had opened in American society. The country was torn … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, CIA, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Deep State, History, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, society, State Crime, Technocracy, war
Tagged Albert Camus, Anthony Fauci, CIA, corporate media, COVID vaccines, Covid-19, Deep State, Fake News, JFK, Mainstream Media, Philosophy, politics, propaganda, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Russia, society culture, Ukraine, war
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What Is To Be Done?
By Paul Edwards Source: Information Clearing House Not an original title for a piece that will assert we are in a unique moment in world history? No, Lenin used it to expose the cruelty and villainy of the empire that … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, news, Oligarchy, Philosophy, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged capitalism, corporate media, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, economic, empire, geopolitics, Mainstream Media, Oligarchy, politics, propaganda, society, war
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Politics Is Dead, Here’s What Killed It
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Representational democracy–a.k.a. politics as a solution to social and economic problems–has passed away. It did not die a natural death. Politics developed a cancer very early in life (circa the early 1800s), caused by … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Inequality, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Collapse, Dystopia, Economics, empire, Federal Reserve, Government, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, politics, society, Supreme Court, Technocracy, Two Party System
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No More Mushrooms: Government is Bad
By Kirkpatrick Sale Source: CounterPunch In a book just recently published, I began with a chapter on “Why Government is Bad.” I first decided that this statement would be obvious to everyone. After all, look around: city, state, national, these … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corruption, culture, Empire, History, Philosophy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged anti-Federalists, Arthur Arnould, Authoritarianism, Bureaucracy, Corruption, Government, politics, Power, The Rebel, war
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The Political Value of Psychedelics
By Dr. James Cooke Source: Reality Sandwich Psychedelics and Politics Psychedelics are political. Their use in the 1960s had a political impact that is still being felt today, and their widespread banning was driven by political motives. But how can … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, culture, Environment, Health, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged civilization, collective trauma, Consciousness, Control, culture, Deep Ecology, Entheogens, fear, LSD, Neurology, Philosophy, politics, Progress, Psychedelics, psychology, society, Sociology
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Abnormalize The Status Quo
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com If we’d been living in a healthy society and then suddenly had this society’s sick, insane status quo thrust upon us by powerful people, we’d have all been out in the streets making life very … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Empire, Health, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged corporate news, culture, Duopoly, Health, Mass Media, Media Literacy, MSM, Oligarchy, Philosophy, politics, propaganda, sick society, Sickness, society, Status Quo
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Four Reasons Civilization Won’t Decline: It Will Collapse
By Craig Collins Source: CounterPunch As modern civilization’s shelf life expires, more scholars have turned their attention to the decline and fall of civilizations past. Their studies have generated rival explanations of why societies collapse and civilizations die. Meanwhile, a … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged Biodiversity, capitalism, civilization, Collapse, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, environment, financial crisis, Fossil Fuels, Industrial Civilization, Invasive Species, Jared Diamond, John Michael Greer, Peak Oil, politics, Progress, society, Steven Pinker, war
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