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Tag Archives: U.S. Foreign Policy
Decriminalizing the Drug War?
Calculating the Damage from a Century of Drug Prohibition By Alfred W. McCoy Source: TomDispatch.com We live in a time of change, when people are questioning old assumptions and seeking new directions. In the ongoing debate over health care, social … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, CIA, culture, Deep State, Economics, Geopolitics, Health, History, imperialism, Law, Mass Incarceration, police state, Social Control, society, State Crime, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged addiction, Afghanistan, Alfred W. McCoy, black ops, CIA, drug war, Economics, geopolitics, Harm Reduction, Lucien Conein, Mass Incarceration, Narcotics, Prohibition, Roger Trinquier, The Politics of Heroin, Tom Tripodi, U.S. Foreign Policy, Vietnam
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Facebook is Filtering Out News That Doesn’t Bolster US Foreign Policy
Facebook has shed any pretense of neutrality in handling political information concerning the foreign affairs of the U.S. government. By WT Whitney Source: Mint Press News Facebook has its admirers. Shareholders are enamored of its profits – $15.9 billion in 2017 – … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, censorship, conditioning, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technology
Tagged Atlantic Council, censorship, Corporate Censorship, corporate media, Digital Forensic Research Lab, empire, Facebook, geopolitics, Government Censorship, imperialism, Mark Zuckerberg, NATO, Social Engineering, Social Media, TeleSUR, U.S. Foreign Policy, venezuela, Venezuelanalysis.com
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The World Will Not Mourn the Decline of U.S. Hegemony
By Paul Street Source: Consortium News There are good reasons to bemoan the presence of the childish, racist, sexist and ecocidal, right-wing plutocrat Donald Trump in the White House. One complaint about Trump that should be held at arm’s-length by … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, CIA, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Economics, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Neocons, Neoliberalism, society, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged 9/11, Afghanistan, American Century, American History, Chile, CIA, Democracy, Donald Trump, empire, geopolitics, Hiroshima, imperialism, Indonesia, iraq, Korean War, My Lai Massacre, Nagasaki, NATO, Neocons, Neoliberals, Serbia, Syria, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Hegemony, Vietnam, war
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The Skripal Poisonings and the Ongoing Vilification of Putin
By Gary Leupp Source: CounterPunch Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned by a nerve agent on March 4 on a park bench in Salisbury, England. Skripal had been a Russian double agent, a spy who turned over 300 names … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, Conspiracy, corporate news, culture, Empire, False Flag, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Neocons, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged black ops, Britain, Cold War, corporate media, Donald Trump, empire, False Flag, geopolitics, imperialism, John Bolton, NATO, Neocons, North Korea, Novichok, propaganda, Psy-ops, Russia, Sergei Skripal, Syria, U.S. Foreign Policy, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, war
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Enough Is Enough: If You Really Want to Save Lives, Take Aim at Government Violence
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “It is often the case that police shootings, incidents where law enforcement officers pull the trigger on civilians, are left out of the conversation on gun violence. But a police officer shooting … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, culture, Dystopia, Empire, Militarization, military spending, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged culture, Culture of Violence, Government, Gun Control, IRS, Militarization, Military, police, police shootings, police state, Police Violence, racism, State Crime, state violence, Systemic Violence, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Government, Violence
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