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Tag Archives: Slavery
For Whom the Bell Tolls: A Report on the State of Planet Earth at Year’s End 2020
By Robert J. Burrowes In 1624, English poet John Donne penned his famous poem ‘No Man Is an Island’, sublimely evoking the reality of human unity: ‘Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.’ Therefore, he concluded his poem, ‘never … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, education, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, Housing Crisis, Inequality, internet freedom, media, Militarization, military spending, news, Oligarchy, Philosophy, police state, Psychology, Social Control, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology, war
Tagged 2020, 5G, ABM treaty, activism, Big Tech, Bill Gates, Biodiversity, Climate Change, corporate media, Covid-19, DARPA, Deforestation, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, environment, Extinction, Factory Farms, Famine, financial crisis, Fossil Fuels, geoengineering, Global Elite, GMOs, Homelessness, International Atomic Energy Agency, James Corbett, Lockdowns, military spending, NATO, Nuclear Power, pollution, Privacy, SARS-CoV-2, sex trafficking, Slavery, surveillance state, Tax Havens, Technocracy, The Great Reset, Vaccines, Violence, war, World Economic Forum, World Health Organization
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Human Extinction Now Imminent and Inevitable? A Report on the State of Planet Earth
By Robert J. Burrowes There is a significant body of evidence that human extinction is now imminent; that is, it will occur within the next few years and possibly this year: 2020. There is also a significant body of evidence … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, education, elites, Empire, Energy, Environment, freedom of speech, Geoengineering, Geopolitics, GMOs, Health, imperialism, Inequality, internet freedom, Militarization, military spending, news, Oligarchy, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged 5G, Afghanistan, bioengineering, Climate Change, corporate media, Economics, Education, environment, fascism, Fossil Fuels, free speech, General Qassem Soleimani, geoengineering, Global Elite, Human Extinction, Iran, iraq, military spending, NATO, Nuclear Power, Parenting, Philosophy, pollution, psychology, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slavery, Socialization, Sociology, Tax Havens, vaccinations, Violence, war, Yemen
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Reflections on 2018, Forecasting 2019
By Robert J. Burrowes In many ways it is painful to reflect on the year 2018; a year of vital opportunities lost when so much is at stake. Whether politically, militarily, socially, economically, financially or ecologically, humanity took some giant … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, freedom of speech, Geoengineering, Geopolitics, GMOs, Health, imperialism, Inequality, internet freedom, media, Militarization, military spending, news, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technology, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged 2018, 2019, censorship, Climate Change, Corporate Globalization, corporate media, economic inequality, elites, Energy, environment, Extinction, Famine, financial crisis, geoengineering, GMOs, Government, human trafficking, INF Treaty, Militarism, military spending, Peace, pollution, Poverty, Privacy, psychology, Slavery, State Crime, Violence, wall street, war, Wealth Concentration
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The U.S. is ruled by the worst among us
By Carla Binion Source: Intrepid Report Is it possible for the human race to evolve beyond war, extreme income inequality, corporate money’s control of political systems, and other anti-democratic trends? Some people say even hoping for such evolution is too idealistic, … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, civil liberties, culture, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, imperialism, Inequality, Philosophy, society, Sociology, war
Tagged American History, empire, Frederick Douglass, Government, Howard Zinn, imperialism, Income Inequality, Martin Luther King Jr., politics, Public Opinion, Slavery, Truth, war
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The real Hunger Games: the Capitalist recipe to maximise profits while ‘having fun’
By Sky Wanderer Source: Investment Watch Introduce a political economy upon the arbitrary axiom that Capitalism is the one and only economic system for mankind, and introduce a narcissistic moral philosophy that you as a Capitalist represent unsurpassable objective moral … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, divide and conquer, Dystopia, Economics, education, Empire, Film, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, Labor, Militarization, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Racism, Social Control, society, Sociology, State Crime, war, war on terror, Work
Tagged Academia, capitalism, Colonialism, Corporate Capitalism, Corporate Globalization, Crony Capitalism, Debt, Economics, empire, healthcare, Homelessness, Immigration, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Private Banking, Privitization, Slavery, Workfare
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You Should Be Terrified That People Who Like “Hamilton” Run Our Country
The American elite can’t get enough of a musical that flatters their political sensibilities and avoids discomforting truths. By Alex Nichols Source: Current Affairs In 2012, Captain Dan and his Scurvy Crew, a four-man hip-hop ensemble trying to cement “pirate rap” … Continue reading
Posted in Art, corporate news, culture, Economics, History, Neoliberalism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged 1%, Corporate Elites, corporate media, Cultural Elites, Hamilton, hip-hop, history, Identity Politics, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Neoliberalism, Nerdcore, Political Elites, Revisionism, Slavery, White House
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The Prison Industry in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of Slavery?
By Vicky Pelaez Source: Global Research Human rights organizations, as well as political and social ones, are condemning what they are calling a new form of inhumane exploitation in the United States, where they say a prison population of up to … Continue reading
Posted in civil liberties, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, divide and conquer, Drug War, Economics, History, Labor, Law, police state, Privatization, Racism, Social Control, society, State Crime, Work
Tagged For-Profit Prisons, Human Rights, Mass Incarceration, Prison Industry, Prison-Industrial Complex, Private Prisons, Slavery
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Columbus Day and the Sanitization of History
By Owen McCormack Source: Disinfo.com The strife that has engulfed Christopher Columbus’s legacy in recent years has put the concept of an Indigenous People’s Day at the forefront of discussion. In theory, as we move forward in our lives, we … Continue reading