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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.
The Jimmy Dore Show 12.03.19
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: schools
Humanity’s ‘Dirty Little Secret’: Starving, Enslaving, Raping, Torturing and Killing our Children
By Robert J. Burrowes In a recent article titled ‘Challenges for Resolving Complex Conflicts’, I pointed out four conflict configurations that are paid little attention by conflict theorists. In this article, I would like to discuss a fifth conflict configuration … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, education, Environment, Health, media, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged Agribusiness, Child Sex Abuse, Childhood Development, Children, CIA, Corporate Crime, Depleted Uranium, Domestic Violence, Economics, Education, environment, Health, human trafficking, Indian Residential Schools, Indigenous Peoples, International Tribunal for Natural Justice, Organized Religion, pollution, psychology, schools, Sociology, US Military, Violence, war, Yemen
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How the Government is Manipulating America’s Youth
By Ryan Christian Source: Waking Times Few would disagree that this country’s school system is, at best, behind the times; at worst, stifling unique perspectives and creativity, and effectively the future. With all that we have discovered about the way the mind works, and … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, Conspiracy, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, education, media, Philosophy, police state, Psy-ops, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged alternative media, Authoritarianism, Compulsory Education, conspiracy, corporate news, Educational System, police state, propaganda, schools, social control, Thought Control
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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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There is No Pipeline, Schools are Prisons
By Ryan Calhoun Source: Center for a Stateless Society We are told there is a pipeline in the United States that travels from our school system to our criminal justice system. Correct as the data corroborating the pipeline’s existence may be, … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, culture, education, Law, Militarization, police state, Privatization, Social Control, society, State Crime
Tagged Child Abuse, Compulsory Education, Education, Institutional Racism, Mass Incarceration, police brutality, police state, Prison-Industrial Complex, Prisons, School to Prison Pipeline, schools
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Terrorizing School Children in the American Police State
By Henry Giroux Source: Counterpunch Americans live in an age, to rephrase, W.E.B. Dubois, in which violence has become the problem of the twenty-first century. As brutalism comes to shape every public encounter, democratic values and the ethical imagination wither … Continue reading
Posted in civil liberties, conditioning, culture, Dystopia, education, Militarization, police state, Privatization, Social Control, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged civil liberties, Education reform, Militarization, Neoliberalism, Pedagogy, Police Militarization, police state, Police Violence, Prison-Industrial Complex, Prisons, Privitization, racism, School to Prison Pipeline, schools, Violence
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How Do You Prepare a Child for Life in the American Police State?
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “Fear isn’t so difficult to understand. After all, weren’t we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is … Continue reading
Posted in civil liberties, conditioning, Corruption, culture, Militarization, police state, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, society, State Crime
Tagged Children, civil liberties, Freedom, Lockdowns, Mass Shooters, Parenting, police, Police Militarization, Prisons, schools, SWAT Teams, Zero Tolerance
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The Crisis of the Now: Distracted and Diverted from the Ever-Encroaching Police State
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby talk, when, in short, a … Continue reading
Posted in civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, media, Militarization, news, Philosophy, police state, propaganda, Psychology, Social Control, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged Battlefield America, corporate media, corporate news, Distraction, Diversion, Jacques Ellul, Militarization, News Cycle, police state, Prisons, schools, Spectacle, Television
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Public School Students Are the New Inmates in the American Police State
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute In the American police state, you’re either a prisoner (shackled, controlled, monitored, ordered about, limited in what you can do and say, your life not your own) or a prison bureaucrat (police … Continue reading
Posted in civil liberties, conditioning, culture, freedom of speech, Law, Militarization, police state, Privatization, Psychology, Social Control, society, State Crime, surveillance state
Tagged Criminalization, Institutional Racism, marijuana, Militarization, police state, Prison-Industrial Complex, Prisons, Private Prisons, Public Schools, schools, surveillance state, Zero Tolerance
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