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Tag Archives: Torture
Hedges: The Execution of Julian Assange
He committed empire’s greatest sin. He exposed it as a criminal enterprise. He documented its lies, callous disregard for human life, rampant corruption and innumerable war crimes. And empires always kill those who inflict deep and serious wounds. By Chris … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, black ops, censorship, CIA, civil liberties, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Law, Militarization, news, police state, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war, Whistleblowers
Tagged ADX, Afghanistan, Belmarsh, censorship, CIA, Dean Yates, Deep State, Department of Justice, empire, fascism, geopolitics, imperialism, iraq, Jow Biden, Julian Assange, ny Blinken, Special Administrative Measures, The Espionage Act, Torture, UC Global, US Foreign Policy, warcrimes, whistleblowers
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Stand Up to Tyranny: How to Respond to the Evils of Our Age
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, civil liberties, culture, Dystopia, Empire, imperialism, Inequality, Law, Militarization, Oligarchy, Philosophy, police state, Revolution, society, Spirituality, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged activism, civil disobedience, civil liberties, Covid-19, empire, Jesus, lockdown, Martin Luther King Jr., Militarization, Oligarchy, Pandemic, Philosophy, police state, Revolution, spirituality, surveillance state, Torture, war
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The Twilight of Liberty: the State Destroys Alternative Media
By Kurt Nimmo Source: Another Day in the Empire It should be obvious by now what the plan is for Julian Assange—psychological torture resulting in either a total breakdown or an untimely death, the latter supported by the psychopaths who … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, censorship, CIA, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, FBI, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, Neocons, news, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged alternative media, censorship, Chelsea Manning, CIA, CNN, Cointelpro, corporate media, Dystopia, Fake News, fascism, FBI, geopolitics, Hamilton 68, Information Warfare, Internet Freedom, Jeff Bezos, Julian Assange, Mainstream Media, media, Media Literacy, MSM, National Security State, NATO, Neocons, police state, Psyops, Russia, RussiaGate, Social Media, State Crime, Technocracy, The Alliance for Securing Democrac, the German Marshall Fund, The Washington Post, Torture, US State Department
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Demasking the Torture of Julian Assange
By Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Source: Medium I know, you may think I am deluded. How could life in an Embassy with a cat and a skateboard ever amount to torture? That’s exactly what I thought, too, … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, corporate news, culture, Empire, freedom of speech, imperialism, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, war, Whistleblowers
Tagged censorship, corporate media, empire, imperialism, Internet Freedom, Julian Assange, press freedom, propaganda, Russia, State Crime, Torture, Truth, tyranny, Western democracy, whistleblowers
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From Jesus Christ to Julian Assange: When Dissidents Become Enemies of the State
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” — George Orwell When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals. … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, civil liberties, culture, Dystopia, elites, Empire, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, imperialism, Law, Mass Incarceration, Militarization, news, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, war, Whistleblowers
Tagged activism, Capital Punishment, civil disobedience, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Dystopia, elites, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, Internet Freedom, Jesus Christ, Julian Assange, Martial Law, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, police state, press freedom, surveillance state, Torture, war, war crimes, whistleblowers
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Uncle Sam, the Human Rights Hypocrite
By Paul Street Source: TruthDig This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Signed by the United States and adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on Dec. 10, 1948, the document was a great … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Environment, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Inequality, Mass Incarceration, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged censorship, civil liberties, economic inequality, Elections, empire, freedom of speech, geopolitics, Human Rights, imperialism, Mass Incarceration, National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA, police state, Police Violence, Poverty, racism, surveillance state, Torture, United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, US Foreign Policy
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Noseblind to Odors in Your Empire?
By John Rohn Hall Source: Axis of Logic Using metaphor or analogy as a creative aid is especially useful when venturing journalistically into uncomfortable, foreign territory, and Trump’s new version of Amerika is indeed uncomfortable and foreign territory. Gotta admit … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, consciousness, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, History, Militarization, Neocons, patriotism, society, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged Black Sites, Border Wall, Drone Assassination, empire, imperialism, Iran, Muslim Ban, Obama, racism, Refugees, Torture, Trump, U.S. Foreign Policy, voting, war, war on terror
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The Imperial President’s Toolbox of Terror: A Dictatorship Waiting to Happen
By John W. Whitehead Source: Waking Times “When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.”~Richard Nixon Presidents don’t give up power. Executive orders don’t expire at the end of each presidential term. And every successive … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, civil liberties, Conspiracy, Corruption, culture, divide and conquer, Empire, Hackers, History, internet freedom, Militarization, police state, Psy-ops, Social Control, society, State Crime, surveillance state, war, war on terror
Tagged Bush, Clinton, Constitutional Rights, Cyber Attacks, Dictatorship, Election 2016, Elections, Emperialism, empire, Indefinite Detention, Kill List, Martial Law, Militarism, Obama, police state, Presidential Elections, Secret Courts, State Crime, surveillance state, Torture, Trump, war
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