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Eyewitness to the Agony of Julian Assange
By Timothy Erik Strom and John Pilger Source: CounterPunch John Pilger has watched Julian Assange’s extradition trial from the public gallery at London’s Old Bailey. He spoke with Timothy Erik Ström of Arena, Australia: Q: Having watched Julian Assange’s trial firsthand, can … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, news, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Whistleblowers
Tagged censorship, civil liberties, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, John Pilger, Journalism, Julian Assange, State Crime, Timothy Erik Ström, whistleblowers, WikiLeaks
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Julian Assange, Prometheus Bound
He is being punished not for stealing fire – but for exposing power under the light of truth and provoking the god of Exceptionalism. By Pepe Escobar Source: Consortium News This is the tale of an Ancient Greek tragedy reenacted … Continue reading
Undeclared Israeli War on Syria
By Stephen Lendman Source: StephenLendman.org In cahoots with the US and their ISIS, al-Nusra, and other terrorist proxies, Israel has been waging undeclared war on Syria for years. Ruling regimes of both countries partner in each other’s high crimes of … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, news, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Al Nusra, Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump, geopolitics, Hamas, Hezbollah, IDF, Israel, State Crime, Syria, US Foreign Policy, war
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The System Is Rigged: Qualified Immunity Is How the Police State Stays in Power
By John W. Whitehead Source: Mint Press News The system is rigged, the government is corrupt, and “we the people” continue to waste our strength by fighting each other rather than standing against the tyrant in our midst. Because the system … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, civil liberties, culture, elites, Empire, Militarization, news, Oligarchy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Authoritarianism, civil liberties, elites, fascism, law, Oligarchy, police state, Police Violence, qualified immunity, State Crime, tyranny, U.S. Supreme Court
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That Change You Requested…?
By James Howard Kunstler Source: Kunstler.com All the previous incidents of white cops killing blacks were just too ambiguous to seal the deal. Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri (a murky business); Tamir Rice in Cleveland (waving the BB gun that … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, civil liberties, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, news, Oligarchy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Covid-19, Derek Chauvin, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, Financial Crash, George Floyd, insurgency, lockdown, Oligarchy, police state, Police Violence, protests, State Crime, Systemic Racism, Uprising
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How Washington “Liberates” Free Countries
By Andre Vltchek Source: OffGuardian There are obviously some serious linguistic issues and disagreements between the West and the rest of the world. Essential terms like “freedom”, “democracy”, “liberation”, even “terrorism”, are all mixed up and confused; they mean something … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, culture, Deep State, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Neocons, Oligarchy, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged china, Colonialism, Deep State, Democracy, empire, Freedom, General Soleimani, geopolitics, Hong Kong, imperialism, Iran, iraq, Liberation, Oligarchy, propaganda, regime change, Russia, State Crime, US Foreign Policy, venezuela, war
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After Mossad Targeted Soleimani, Trump Pulled the Trigger
By Jeffrey Morley Source: The Deep State Last October Yossi Cohen, head of Israel’s Mossad, spoke openly about assassinating Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, the head of the elite Quds Force in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. “He knows very well … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, black ops, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, news, society, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged assassination, Bibi Netanyahu, geopolitics, Iran, iraq, ISIS, Israel, Mossad, Qassem Soleimani, State Crime, State Terror, war, WW3, Yossi Cohen
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Iraqi PM reveals Soleimani was on peace mission when assassinated, exploding Trump’s lie of ‘imminent attacks’
The Trump administration claimed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani was planning “imminent attacks” on US interests when it assassinated him. That lie was just destroyed, but not before countless corporate media outlets transmitted it to the public. By Max Blumenthal Source: … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Adil Abdul-Mahdi, Afghanistan, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, CNN, corporate media, Donald Trump, empire, General Qasem Soleimani, geopolitics, imperialism, Iran, iraq, Jim Sciutto, Mainstream Media, media, Media Literacy, Mike Pompeo, MSM, propaganda, Psy-ops, State Crime, US Foreign Policy
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