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Nord Stream Sabotage Backfires With Historic Demolition of U.S. Image and Lies Over Ukraine War
Washington is a war-criminal state par excellence along with its European Quislings. Source: Strategic Culture Foundation The Hersh report is a devastating revelation of U.S. and NATO international terrorism as well as Western media complicity. It exposes the lawlessness of … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, CIA, Conspiracy, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Militarization, NATO, Neocons, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged censorship, corporate media, Deep State, empire, Europe, False Flag, geopolitics, Germany, imperialism, Mainstream Media, My Lai, NATO, Neocons, Nord Stream, Olaf Scholz, propaganda, Russia, Seymour Hersh, State Terror, terrorism, UN Security Council, US Foreign Policy, Vietnam, Vladimir Putin, war
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Signs of Early Onset Activist Syndrome
By Mickey Z. Source: Dissident Voice In my very young days, I lived in a fourth-floor apartment in a five-story, pre-war, walk-up building. On the second floor, you’d find an older Italian couple: Mr. and Mrs. Larucci. (I say “older” … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, consciousness, culture, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, society, Sociology, war
Tagged activism, antiwar, culture, Duck Soup, Groucho Marx, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, society, Vietnam
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The Democrats Are Now the War Party
The Democratic Party has become the party of permanent war, fueling massive military spending which is hollowing out the country from the inside and flirting with nuclear war. By Chris Hedges Source: ScheerPost.com The Democrats position themselves as the party … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Arnold Toynbee, Big Tech, Bill Clinton, culture, Deep State, Democrats, Dennis Kucinich, DNC, Donbass, empire, FBI, Fyodor Dostoevsky, geopolitics, Google, imperialism, Microsoft, Militarism, military spending, military-industrial complex, NATO, propaganda, Russia, Seymour Melman, society, surveillance state, Technocracy, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, Vietnam, war, war economy, war profiteers
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The Drumbeats of War and US-NATO Propaganda: “China is Bad” and “They are Coming to Enslave Us”
The Truth about China’s Imperial Ambitions, the Uyghurs and What the West Really Fears By Timothy Alexander Guzman Source: Silent Crow News Western media outlets are playing the drumbeats of war by warning the public that a new Chinese empire … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, CIA, Conspiracy, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, Neocons, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged al-Qaeda, CCP, CFR, China, CHRD, CIA, corporate media, Covid-19, Deep State, East Turkestan Islamic Movement, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, India, Japan, Mainstream Media, multipolarity, NATO, NED, New World Order, propaganda, Russia, surveillance state, Syria, Taiwan, Technocracy, terrorism, Uyghurs, Vietnam, war, Xi Jinping
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Who’s to Blame for Losing Afghanistan?
By Peter Van Buren Source: We Meant Well Who should we blame for losing Afghanistan? Why blame anyone? Did anyone expect the U.S. war in Afghanistan to end cleanly? If so, you bought the lies all along and the cold … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, culture, Deep State, Empire, History, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, Neocons, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged 9/11, Afghanistan, Biden, carter, Cheney, COIN, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, iraq, Military, Neocons, Petraeus, Reagan, Rumsfeld, State Terror, Surge, Taliban, Trump, US Foreign Policy, Vietnam, war, War Criminals, war on terror
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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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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
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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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We Have Met the Alien and He Is Us
By William Astore Source: TomDispatch.com We Are The Empire Of U.S. Military Interventions, Alien Disaster Movies, and Star Wars By William J. Astore Perhaps you’ve heard the expression: “We have met the enemy and he is us.” Cartoonist Walt Kelly’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, Afghanistan, Cold War, Drone Assassination, Drone Bombs, Drone Warfare, empire, Evil Empire, George Lucas, Independance Day, Interventionalism, iraq, Libya, Militarism, Neocons, Pentagon, Science fiction, Star Wars, US Military, Vietnam, war on terror, Yemen
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