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The Jimmy Dore Show 12.07.19
Progressive Commentary Hour 12.04.19
Abby Martin and Chris Hedges discuss the bipartisan road from neoliberalism to fascism. Also, Catherine Austin Fitts on the missing trillions and what we can do to reclaim it.
Project Censored 12.03.19
Mickey Huff and guests examine how Facebook, Twitter and Google are working to hide,
“deplatform” or otherwise undermine news and opinions critical of US government policies, and thus reestablish the dominance of establishment-friendly corporate media
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Tag Archives: Ruling Class
Democracy vs. The Putin-Nazis
By CJ Hopkins Source: Consent Factory Back in January 2018, I wrote this piece about The War on Dissent, which, in case you haven’t noticed, is going gangbusters. As predicted, the global capitalist ruling classes have been using every weapon … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, Conspiracy, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, Empire, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged censorship, civil liberties, corporate media, Dystopia, empire, geopolitics, Ideology, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, MSM, Power, propaganda, Putin, Reality, Ruling Class, Russia, RussiaGate, The War on Dissent, Truth
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Forgiveness Is Overrated
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com Journalist David Sirota has just published an excellent op-ed titled “America’s new aristocracy lives in an accountability-free zone”, which begins with the observation that “Enron executives were among the last politically connected criminals to face any serious … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, culture, elites, patriotism, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, State Crime
Tagged Accountability, Aristocracy, Authority, Catholic Church, culture, David Sirota, Domestic Abuse, elites, evil, Forgiveness, Organized Religion, Philosophy, Pope Francis, Power, Ruling Class, Shaun King, social control, society, sociopaths, spirituality
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Russiagate is a Ruling Class Diversion
By Glen Ford Source: Black Agenda Report “Trump supporters see themselves as a distinct and independent force in the nation — the saviors of America, in their diseased minds — and they now hate the Democratic Party in a far deeper … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, conditioning, corporate news, culture, Deep State, divide and conquer, Empire, Militarization, Neocons, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, war
Tagged capitalism, Cold War, corporate media, corporatocracy, Deep State, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, propaganda, Putin, racism, Republicans, Ruling Class, Russia, RussiaGate, social control, TPP, Trump, Voter Suppression, war
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The Crisis of US Imperial Governance and the Struggle for a New World
By Danny Haiphong Source: Black Agenda Report “Economic crisis at home and endless war abroad has placed finance and monopoly capital in political disarray.” When I was here last year, I spoke a lot about ideology and how the struggle … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, CIA, Conspiracy, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dirty Politics, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, Neoliberalism, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged china, Cold War, Donald Trump, economic crisis, economic inequality, empire, Fake News, geopolitics, imperialism, Income Gab, Neoliberalism, Nuclear War, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Ruling Class, Russia, Russian Hackers, Russophobia, war, Wealth Concentration, Wealth Disparity
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Non-Alignment and Dissent to Challenge US-Russia-China’s New World Order
By Gilbert Mercier (News Junkie Post) In groups of people there are always bullies who feel entitled, for no particular reason, to want more than the rest and to dominate the others in complete disregard of the common good. Fortunately … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, History, media, Militarization, Neoliberalism, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged BRICS, china, Corporate Globalization, corporate media, Cuba, empire, Fidel Castro, geopolitics, Global Elites, imperialism, Iran, military-industrial complex, New World Order, Non-Alligned Movement, propaganda, Ruling Class, Russia, Syria, United States, war
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The Dance of Death
By Chris Hedges Source: OpEdNews.com The ruling corporate elites no longer seek to build. They seek to destroy. They are agents of death. They crave the unimpeded power to cannibalize the country and pollute and degrade the ecosystem to feed … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, History, Militarization, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technology, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged civilization, Collapse, Corporate Elites, Deindustrialization, Donald Trump, empire, environment, Freud, military spending, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Ruling Class, society, Totalitarianism
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The U.S. Deep State Rules – On Behalf of the Ruling Class
By Glen Ford Source: Black Agenda Report “The U.S. Deep State is unlike any other, in that there is no other global superpower bent on world domination.” The Deep State is busy denying that it exists, even as it savages … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, CIA, conditioning, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, History, news, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged CIA, corporate news, corporatocracy, Deep State, Donald Trump, empire, geopolitics, iraq, ISIS, Michael V. Haden, New York Times, NSA, NYT, Obama, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, propaganda, Ruling Class, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, U.S. Foreign Policy, war, war on terror
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How 90% of American Households Lost an Average of $17,000 in Wealth to the Plutocrats in 2016
By Paul Buchheit Source: Information Clearing House America has always been great for the richest 1%, and it’s rapidly becoming greater. Confirmation comes from recent work by Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, and Gabriel Zucman; and from the 2015-2016 Credit Suisse Global Wealth Databooks (GWD). … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Labor, Social Control, society
Tagged 1%, 99%, economic crisis, economic inequality, Economics, Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman, Global Elite, middleclass, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Ruling Class, Thomas Piketty, Wage Gap, Wealth Disparity, Wealth Transfer
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