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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, 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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The Illusion of Freedom: The Police State Is Alive and Well
By John W. Whitehead Source: Battlefield America “What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, conditioning, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state
Tagged 1984, civil liberties, Dystopia, fascism, Freedom, George Orwell, police state, Ruling Class, social control, Social Engineering, State Crime, surveillance state
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Why Are There So Many Psychopaths in Positions of Power?
By Anna LeMind Source: Waking Times A 2010 study that examined a sample of 203 individuals from different companies’ management development programs revealed something interesting. It was found that about 3% of business managers scored in the psychopath range while … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, consciousness, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dirty Politics, Economics, Psychology, Science, Social Control, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged 1%, CEOs, Corporate Criminals, Corporate Elites, culture, Election 2016, Emotion, Emotional Intelligence, intelligence, Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, Political Power, Politicans, Presidential Elections, psychopaths, Psychopathy, Ruling Class, social control, sociopaths
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Sports Bar Politics and Corporate Duopolies
You don’t have to feel “The Bern” to root for Sanders in the primaries, nor must you be a white supremacist to hope that Trump wins the GOP contest. Both campaigns have the potential to fracture the duopoly electoral system … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corruption, culture, Dirty Politics, divide and conquer, Empire, Social Control, society
Tagged bernie sanders, Democrats, Donald Trump, Duopoly, Election 2016, Electoral System, Hillary Clinton, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Presidential Elections, Republicans, Ruling Class, Ted Cruz, Two Party System
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The Media and the Corporate State
By Kevin Carson Source: Center for a Stateless Society In an interview with Cenk Uygur March 23, Bernie Sanders noted, “The media is an arm of the ruling class of this country,” going on to point out its concentrated corporate … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, corporate news, culture, Economics, Empire, History, news, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged bernie sanders, Corporate Consolidation, corporate media, Corporate Power, Corporatism, corporatocracy, FCC, Journalism, Mainstream Media, Media Cartel, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Ruling Class
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