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There Are No Permanent Allies, Only Permanent Power
If we do not build left-right coalitions on issues such as militarism, health care, a living wage and union organizing, we will be impotent in the face of corporate power and the war machine. By Chris Hedges Source: The Chris … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, CIA, civil disobedience, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, NATO, Neocons, news, Oligarchy, society, State Crime, war
Tagged activism, Afghanistan, Ann Wright, antiwar, Anya Parampil, Capitol Hill Citizen, CIA, Code Pink, Cynthia McKinney, Deep State, Dennis Kucinich, empire, False Claims Act, fascism, geopolitics, imperialism, Jill Stein, Jimmy Dore, Libya, Max Blumenthal, military-industrial complex, Nick Brana, Oligarchy, Pakistan, Rage Against the War Machine, Ralph Nader, raq, Ron Paul, Scott Horton, Somalia, Syria, The People's Party, Veterans for PEace, war, Yemen
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Never Let A Good Crisis Go to Waste
Relentless Ukraine reporting helps conceal other conflicts By Philip Giraldi Source: Information Clearing House It is astonishing how many observers of war in Ukraine who should know better have been inclined to take at face value the assertions of “sources” … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, corporate news, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, war, war on terror
Tagged Africa, AFRICOM, corporate news, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, iraq, Israel, Joe Biden, Mainstream Media, Palestine, propaganda, Russia, Somalia, Syria, Ukraine, war
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What Will You Say When Millions Of People Starve To Death?
By Michael Snyder Source: End of the American Dream For a long time, those of us that were claiming that a global famine was coming were widely mocked. The skeptics could see the exact same trends that everyone else could … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Environment, Financial Crisis, Health, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy
Tagged Africa, Agriculture, Beef prices, cattle shortage, Drought, Dystopia, Food Shortage, Food System, Global Crisis, mass starvation, megadrought, Somalia, World Health Organization
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The Pentagon Budget as Corporate Welfare for Weapons Makers
By William Hartung (with introduction by TomDispatch) Source: TomDispatch.com What company gets the most money from the U.S. government? The answer: the weapons maker Lockheed Martin. As the Washington Post recently reported, of its $51 billion in sales in 2017, … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, society, State Crime, war, war on terror, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Afghanistan, Corporate Welfare, Defense Spending, Domestic Spending, Donald Trump, economic crisis, empire, F-35, geopolitics, iraq, Jim Mattis, Libya, Lockheed Martin, Militarism, Military Contractors, military spending, Pakistan, Pentagon Budget, Reagonomics, Somalia, Syria, Tax Giveaways, US Foreign Policy, war, war profiteers, Yemen
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The Simulacra Democracy
By John Steppling Source: CounterPunch … a nation in which 87 percent of eighteen- to twenty-four year olds (according to a 2002 National Geographic Society/Roper Poll survey) cannot locate Iran or Iraq on a world map and 11 percent cannot … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, CIA, conditioning, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, Geopolitics, History, media, Militarization, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Racism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged Afghanistan, AFRICOM, American Culture, American History, CIA, Clinton, conspiracy, corporate media, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Democratic Party, DNC, Donald Trump, empire, Gaddafi, geopolitics, Harvey Weinstein, Hegemony, hollywood, Hugo Chavez, imperialism, iraq, Liberals, Libya, NATO, Obama, propaganda, social control, society, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, wall street, Yemen
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‘New World Order’ is falling apart
By Wayne Madsen Source: Intrepid Report One of the more welcomed outcomes of the paring back of the U.S. State Department bureaucracy is the elimination of scores of “status quo enthusiasts.” Since the end of World War II, the State … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, CIA, culture, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Revolution, society
Tagged Algeria, Austria, California, Cannabis, Catalonia, CIA, Colorado, DEA, drug war, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, India, marijuana, Mexico, neo-colonialism, New World Order, Nigeria, NWO, Secession, Servia, Somalia, Spain, States' Rights, US Foreign Policy, US State Department, World War II
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8 Critical Factors Behind Every Food Crisis
By John Hawthorne Source: Business Connect From the beginning of time, their have been food crises in one form or another. Ancient books such as the Bible have records of various famines devastating portions of the world. And while it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, Health, History, Inequality, Neoliberalism, society, war
Tagged Agro-fuels, Alternative Energy, Climate Change, Corporate Globalization, Dairy Industry, Desertification, Disease, Drought, Fertilizers, Food Crises, Foreign Aid, Fossil Fuels, Global Food Crisis, IMF, International Monetary Fund, Meat Industry, Petrochemicals, Plant-based Fuels, Poverty, Somalia, Starvation, war
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International Collaboration to End Violence
By Robert J. Burrowes While much of the world is engulfed in violence of one sort or another (whether violence in the home or on the street, exploitation, ecological destruction or war), a global network of individuals and organizations is … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, consciousness, culture, Economics, education, Environment, Revolution, society, Sociology, Spirituality, war
Tagged Brazil, Burma, Ecochateau, environment, France, Iran, Myanmar, Non-Violence, Permaculture, Somalia, The People's Charter to Create a Nonviolent World, Viet Nam, Violence
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