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Tag Archives: United States
A Glance Ahead
By James Howard Kunstler Source: Kunstler.com Satan is the father of lies and we have become Satanic, being and doing evil, most especially to ourselves…. hat’s ahead — like a few months down the road? Hysteria and chaos, if the … Continue reading
Posted in Big Pharma, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, news, Philosophy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy, war
Tagged America, China, Covid-19, culture, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Economic Collapse, Economics, finanacial crisis, geopolitics, Inflation Reduction Act, Joe Biden, Monkeypox, Philosophy, Satan, society, Technocracy, United States, war
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The Systemic Risk No One Sees
The unraveling of social cohesion has consequences. Once social cohesion unravels, the nation unravels. By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds My recent posts have focused on the systemic financial risks created by Federal Reserve policies that have elevated moral … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, media, Oligarchy, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged America, censorship, civics, corporate media, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, empire, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Jimmy Carter, Mainstream Media, Morality, Oligarchy, partisanship, social cohesion, society, United States
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Israel, the Big Lie
Israel is not exercising “the right to defend itself” in the occupied Palestinian territories. It is carrying out mass murder, aided and abetted by the U.S. By Chris Hedges Source: ScheerPost Nearly all the words and phrases used by the … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, news, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Benny Gantz, corporate media, Election Meddling, empire, fascism, Gaza, geopolitics, imperialism, Israel, Israel lobby, Mainstream Media, media, Media Literacy, Palestine, racism, surveillance state, United States, US Foreign Policy, war
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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, 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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