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Killing Democracy in America
By William J. Astore Source: Strategic Culture Foundation The phrase “thinking about the unthinkable” has always been associated with the unthinkable cataclysm of a nuclear war, and rightly so. Lately, though, I’ve been pondering another kind of unthinkable scenario, nearly as nightmarish … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, Neocons, Oligarchy, society, State Crime, war, war on terror, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Afghanistan, Crisis, Defense Budget, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, military-industrial complex, Pandemic, Peace, perpetual war, terrorism, United States, Vietnam War, war
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America’s Despair
By Vladimir Odintsov Source: New Eastern Outlook More and more people in the United States are feeling let down by American capitalism, and the population is being plunged into depression. This was the alarming conclusion reached by two researchers from … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Alcoholism, American wages, Angus Deaton, Anne Case, capitalism, deaths of despair., Debt, declining life expectancy, depression, despair, drug addiction, economic inequality, Economics, financial crisis, Great Recession, Homelessness, opioid crisis, painkillers, Suicides, unemployment, United States
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The Forgotten Past Will Always be Repeated
By Robert Fantina Source: CounterPunch “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” So said George Santayana. It is difficult today to look at many, many situations in the world and not see some of the worst events in history being … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, propaganda, Social Control, society, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged empire, Genocide, geopolitics, history, imperialism, India, Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Mike Pompeo, Myanmar, racism, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United States, US Foreign Policy, venezuela
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EMPIRES ARE A SECRET UNTIL THEY START FALLING
By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese Source: Popular Resistance In the past, we have written about the 2020s as a decade when the United States Empire will end. This is based on Alfred McCoy’s predictions (listen to our interview with him on Clearing the … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, black ops, CIA, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Afghanistan, AFRICOM, Alfred McCoy, Andre Vltchek, china, corporate media, empire, fascism, geopolitics, Hong Kong, imperialism, independent media, John Galtung, Joshua Wong, Juan Guaidó, Nuclear War, Sanctions, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, United States, US Foreign Policy, venezuela, war
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The Great Unraveling Begins: Distraction, Lies, Infighting, Betrayal
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The good news is renewal becomes possible when the entire rotten status quo collapses in a putrid heap. There are two basic pathways to systemic collapse: external shocks or internal decay. The two … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Inequality, Oligarchy, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged America, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Ruling Elites, Status Quo, United States
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The Obsession with and Lies about Nicaragua
By S. Brian Willson Source: Dissident Voice The intense focus on the “ills” of Nicaragua completely misses the deep issues of continued US intervention – imperial neocolonialism – into the sovereign lives of other countries, as here with Nicaragua. Whether … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Neocons, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, war
Tagged disinformation, El Salvador, empire, Fake News, geopolitics, Honduras, Humanitarian Intervention, imperialism, Militarism, NGOs, Nicaragua, President Daniel Ortega, propaganda, United States, US Foreign Policy, US Hypocrisy, US Media, US Terrorism, US War Crimes
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How the West eats its children
By Thierry Meyssan Source: VoltaireNet.org The cause of Western recession International relations experienced a profound change with the paralysis of the Soviet Union in 1986, when the State was unable to control the civilian nuclear incident in Tchernobyl [1], then with … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Neoliberalism, Recession, Social Control, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Africa, capitalism, china, Cold War, Corporate Globalisation, Desert Storm, European Union, financial crisis, financialisation, France, geopolitics, George Bush Sr., Global Financial System, iraq, Margaret Thatcher, NATO, Neolioberalism, New World Order, Obama, Office of Force Transformation, recession, Russia, Sovereignty, Soviet Union, Theresa May, Trump, United Kingdom, United States, US multinationals, Volcker rule
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