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ARCHITECTS OF POWER: HOW THE GLOBAL ELITE PROFIT FROM EXTREME INEQUALITY & PRE-EMPT THE BACKLASH
By Dr. Tim Coles Source: Waking Times There is a new, mega-rich global elite consisting of a small number of billionaires and multibillionaires. Many of them made their money in the technology sector. Others play financial markets or inherit fortunes. … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, CIA, civil disobedience, civil liberties, conditioning, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged 1%, austerity, Bail-Outs, Billionaires, CIA, Corporate Welfare, Deregulation, Dystopia, Economics, elites, financialisation, Global Elite, Howard G. Buffett, Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg, Neoliberalism, NSA, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, privatization, Robert Mercer, Sergey Brin, Warren Buffett
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This holiday season, American workers have little to celebrate
By Danny Haiphong Source: Intrepid Report Every year, much of the U.S. population celebrates Thanksgiving and Christmas to show appreciation for their families and friends. Thanksgiving normalizes the colonial origins of the United States and erases the brutality of the … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, propaganda, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged Alienation, austerity, capitalism, Christmas, Debt, economic crisis, Economics, Education, Financial Crash, healthcare, Homelessness, Housing Crisis, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Poverty, privatization, protests, Stagnant Wages, Thanksgiving, Working Class
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The Real Big Brother
By Eric Zuesse Source: Consortium News Jeff Bezos is the owner of The Washington Post, which leads America’s news-media in their almost 100 percent support and promotion of neoconservatism, American imperialism and wars. This includes sanctions, coups, and military invasions … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, CIA, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Inequality, media, Militarization, military spending, Neocons, news, NSA, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, war
Tagged 1%, 1984, Amazon, Big Brother, Billionaires, CIA, Corporate Crime, corporate media, Deep State, Dystopia, economic inequality, Economics, elites, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, Jeff Bezos, John Brennan, King Salman, Neocons, Neoconservatism, NSA, Oligarchs, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, privatization, State Crime, The Washington Post, US Foreign Policy
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For Economic Truth Turn To Michael Hudson
By Paul Craig Roberts Source: PaulCraigRoberts.org Readers ask me how they can learn economics, what books to read, what university economics departments to trust. I receive so many requests that it is impossible to reply individually. Here is my answer. … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Environment, Financial Crisis, Labor, Neoliberalism, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Work
Tagged austerity, capitalism, Classical Economics, Debt, Economic Rent, Economics, elites, environment, External Costs, financial crisis, Financialization, J Is for Junk Economics, Michael Hudson, Natural Resources, Neoliberalism, privatization, Supply-side Economics, Taxes, unemployment
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Billionaires Want Poor Children’s Brains to Work Better
By Gerald Coles Source: CounterPunch Why are many poor children not learning and succeeding in school? For billionaire Bill Gates, who funded the start-up of the failed Common Core Curriculum Standards, and has been bankrolling the failing charter schools movement, and … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, education, elites, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Privatization, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society
Tagged Bill Gates, charter schools, Common Core, economic inequality, Economics, Education, elites, Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft, Neoliberalism, Neuroscience, No Child Left Behind, Pedagogy, Poverty, privatization
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America’s Dystopian Future
By Robert Hunziker Source: CounterPunch Imagine a privatized America where rugged individualism reigns supreme within a vast network of corporate America, Inc., similar to 19th century wild west lifestyle, no social security, no Medicare, no Medicaid, no public law enforcement … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, imperialism, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged America, American History, austerity, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, empire, financial crisis, Free Market, imperialism, Manifest Destiny, Neoliberalism, P, Poverty, privatization, Scott Erickson, the history of the decline and fall of america
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Public School or Prison? Here Are 10 Ways It’s Hard To Tell
By Alice Jones Webb Source: The Mind Unleashed Every weekday morning, from September through June, parents across the country get up earlier than they want to, rush like crazy, wrangle kids into appropriate clothing, and wait in exhausting drop-off lines … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, culture, Drug War, Dystopia, education, Health, police state, Privatization, propaganda, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state
Tagged Child Developement, Childhood, Compulsory Education, Conformity, Education System, Health, Homeschooling, Mental Health, obedience, Prisons, privatization, Public Health, schools, Zero Tolerance
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The Crisis in Education Is That the Super Wealthy Corporate Education System Wants to Destroy Public Schools
By Diane Ravitch Source: OpEdNews.com It has become conventional wisdom that “education is in crisis.” I have been asked about this question by many interviewers. They say something like: “Do you think American education is in crisis? What is the … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, culture, Economics, education, History, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society
Tagged charter schools, corporate education, Corporate Philanthropy, privatization, Public Education, Standardized Testing, Teach for America, TFA, U.S. Department of Education
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