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Why Freedom Is Ending
By Eric Zuesse Source: The Duran First, the force that is ending freedom will be identified and described; and, then, the force that they fear and hate the most (and are trying to destroy) will be identified and described. THE … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, CIA, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Militarization, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, Whistleblowers
Tagged Aristocracy, CIA, Colonialism, Deep State, Donald Trump, empire, Freedom, geopolitics, imperialism, international trade, John Kiriakou, Julian Assange, Militarism, Oligarchy, war profiteers, whistleblowers
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Guns for Hire: No, the Government Shouldn’t Be Using the Military to Police the Globe
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, Neocons, Oligarchy, Social Control, society, State Crime, surveillance state, war, war on terror
Tagged American Empire, Boeing, Deep State, Defense Contractors, Dystopia, empire, endless wars, fascism, geopolitics, imperialism, military-industrial complex, national infrastructure, Neocons, President Obama, Saudi Arabia, surveillance state, Totalitarianism, war, war on terror, war profiteers
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War Profiteers and the Demise of the US Military-Industrial Complex
By Dmitry Orlov Source: Club Orlov Within the vast bureaucratic sprawl of the Pentagon there is a group in charge of monitoring the general state of the military-industrial complex and its continued ability to fulfill the requirements of the national … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, Neocons, Oligarchy, society, State Crime, war, war on terror, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Afghanistan, Arms Trade, BAE Systems, Boeing, DARPA, Defense Contractors, Defense Spending, EBITDA, General Dynmics, geopolitics, INDPOL, Iran, Lockheed Martin, military-industrial complex, North Korea, Northrop Grumman, Nuclear Weapons, Raytheon, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, The Pentagon, Turkey, US DOD, war, War Criminals, war profiteers, Yemen
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Boycott Facebook, Twitter, and Google. Here’s Why
By Eric Zuesse Source: Strategic Culture Foundation NATO — the neoconservatives, the marketeers for firms such as Lockheed Martin and BAE — has taken over the social-media giants and much of online international ‘news’-reporting, including that of virtually all independent … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, black ops, censorship, civil liberties, consciousness, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, divide and conquer, Dystopia, elites, Empire, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, military spending, Neocons, news, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technology, war
Tagged alternative media, Atlantic Council, Ben Nimmo, boycott, censorship, corporate media, DFRLab, Digital Forensic Research Lab, Dystopia, Eliot Higgins, empire, Facebook, Facebook Purge, geopolitics, Google, imperialism, Information War, Internet Freedom, Katie Harbath, Libya, media, Militarism, military spending, Mint Press, Nathaniel Gleicher, NATO, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Russia, Russian Trolls, Social Media, Twitter, uk, war, war profiteers
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Mother Jones Writer Shows What Happens When You Apologize To A Manipulator
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.org Have you ever noticed how rare sincere apologies are in politics? I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. Normal people apologize to each other every day, for accidentally interrupting someone or standing in their … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, CIA, Conspiracy, culture, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, war
Tagged CIA, conspiracy, Francesca Fiorentini, Jimmy Dore, Manipulators, Mother Jones, Narcissists, Propagandists, psychopath, regime change, Shane Bauer, sociopaths, Syria, The Young Turks, Twitter, war profiteers, War Shills
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A New World Order: Brought to you by the Global-Industrial Deep State
By John W. Whitehead Source: Intrepid Report “There are no nations. There are no peoples . . . There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, black ops, civil disobedience, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, divide and conquer, Drug War, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Inequality, Militarization, military spending, Neocons, Neoliberalism, NSA, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged AT&T, conspiracy, Corporate Globalization, Deep State, Dystopia, empire, fascism, geopolitics, Global Elites, Globalists, imperialism, Israel, Mega Corporations, military spending, military-industrial complex, New World Order, NSA, Nullification, police state, surveillance state, U.S. Government, war, war profiteers
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The Pentagon Budget as Corporate Welfare for Weapons Makers
By William Hartung (with introduction by TomDispatch) Source: TomDispatch.com What company gets the most money from the U.S. government? The answer: the weapons maker Lockheed Martin. As the Washington Post recently reported, of its $51 billion in sales in 2017, … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, society, State Crime, war, war on terror, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Afghanistan, Corporate Welfare, Defense Spending, Domestic Spending, Donald Trump, economic crisis, empire, F-35, geopolitics, iraq, Jim Mattis, Libya, Lockheed Martin, Militarism, Military Contractors, military spending, Pakistan, Pentagon Budget, Reagonomics, Somalia, Syria, Tax Giveaways, US Foreign Policy, war, war profiteers, Yemen
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