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Get Ready For An Economic Wake-Up Call This Holiday Season
By Brandon Smith Source: Alt-Market.com If we are to measure the concept of “economic recovery” in real terms, then we would have to look at the fundamentals (not stock markets) and whether or not they’re improving. Unfortunately, not all economic … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged Bankruptcy, Consumer Debt, consumer demand, Corporate Globalization, Corporate Welfare, Economic Bubble, Economic Crash, Economics, Exports, financial crisis, Germany, Global Economy, global manufacturing, Japan, manufacturing jobs, Oligarchy, price inflation, retail sales growth, South Korea, Tariffs, Tax Cuts, Trade War, US Economy
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America’s Debt Dependence Makes It An Easy Economic Target
By Brandon Smith Source: Alt-Market.com There is a classic denial tactic that many people use when confronted with negative facts about a subject they have a personal attachment to; I would call it “deferral denial” — or a psychological postponing of … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Social Control, society, State Crime
Tagged central banks, Consumer Debt, Corporate Debt, Debt, Debt Monetization, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, foreign investment, International Banks, Mortgage Backed Securities, Trade War, U.S. Debt, U.S. Dollar, US Economy
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What’s Wrong with the Economy: 9 Toxic Dynamics
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds These nine dynamics are mutually reinforcing. Beneath the surface signals of an eternally rising stock market and expanding GDP, we all sense something is deeply, systemically wrong with the U.S. economy. These … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Work
Tagged Asset Bubbles, Economic Collapse, Economic Growth, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Financialization, Fossil Fuels, Globalization, income gap, Labor, Over-speculation, Stock Market, technology, US Economy, wall street, Wealth Concentration, Wealth Disparity
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America is Disneyland
By Chris Kanthan Source: Activist Post Disneyland is the Happiest Place on Earth! Millions of families visit the theme park every year to enjoy the magical place of rides, spectacular shows and cheerful cartoon figures. Everything is clean, perfect and … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Social Control, society, Work
Tagged America, Corporate Greed, Corporations, corporatocracy, Disneyland, Economic Disparity, Economics, elites, Homelessness, Income Inequality, Labor, Neo Feudalism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, unemployment, United States, US Economy, wall street, Wealth Gap
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The End of Empire
The brutality abroad is matched by a growing brutality at home. By Chris Hedges Source: CommonDreams The American empire is coming to an end. The U.S. economy is being drained by wars in the Middle East and vast military expansion … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Inequality, Labor, Mass Incarceration, Militarization, police state, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, war
Tagged civil liberties, Corporate Globalization, Deindustrialization, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, Militarism, military-industrial complex, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, police state, surveillance state, United States, US Economy, war
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The War Conspiracy – Oligarchical Collectivism
By Ethan Indigo Smith Source: OpEdNews.com “Since armies are legal, we feel that war is acceptable; in general, nobody feels that war is criminal or that accepting it is criminal attitude. In fact, we have been brainwashed. War and the … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, consciousness, culture, Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, History, military spending, propaganda, Social Control, society, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged 1984, conspiracy, Economics, empire, ISIS, Neocons, Peace, propaganda, Smedley Butler, Syria, terrorism, US Economy, war, war on terror
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Is the US Economy Heading for Recession?
By Jack Rasmus Source: Global Research This past week the U.S. government announced the country’s economy rose in the January-March 2016 at a mere 0.5 percent annual growth rate. Since the U.S., unlike other countries, estimates its GDP based on … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, corporate news, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Labor, media, news, Recession, Social Control, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged bernie sanders, Economic Collapse, Economic Recovery, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, GDP, Global Economy, Millenials, recession, unemployment, US Economy
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The Mad Violence of Casino Capitalism
By Henry Giroux Source: Counterpunch American society is morally bankrupt and politically broken, and its vision of the future appears utterly dystopian. As the United States descends into the dark abyss of an updated form of totalitarianism, the unimaginable has … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, Labor, Philosophy, police state, Privatization, Recession, Social Control, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technology, war on terror, Work
Tagged Corporate Globalization, Dystopia, Labor, Michael Yates, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Precariat, Social Inequality, surveillance state, technology, The Great Inequality, US Economy
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Desultory Heroics 