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Toxic Contagion – Funds, Food and Pharma
By Colin Todhunter Source: Off-Guardian In 2014, the organisation GRAIN revealed that small farms produce most of the world’s food in its report Hungry for land: small farmers feed the world with less than a quarter of all farmland. The report Small-scale Farmers … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Big Pharma, censorship, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Environment, Geopolitics, Health, imperialism, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Agribusiness, Big Ag, Big Pharma, BlackRock, Corporate Globalization, Economics, empire, food sovereignty, geopolitics, Global Food System, grain, IMF, imperialism, industrial farms, Monoculture, Neoliberalism, Oakland Institute, Pandemic, small farms, Technocracy, World Bank, WTO
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Hunger Profiteers, Granny Killers, and Skin-Deep Morality
By Colin Todhunter Source: Dissident Voice Today, a fifth (278 million) of the African population are undernourished, and 55 million of that continent’s children under the age of five are stunted due to severe malnutrition. In 2021, an Oxfam review of IMF COVID-19 … Continue reading
Posted in Big Pharma, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Health, Militarization, military spending, military-industrial complex, Neocons, Neoliberalism, news, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Africa, Agribusiness, Big Ag, Big Pharma, Covid-19, Dystopia, GMOs, Green Revolution, hunger, IMF, military spending, NATO, obesity, Oxfam, Public Health, Technocracy, Ukraine, World Bank, WTO
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An Engineered Food and Poverty Crisis to Secure Continued US Dominance
By Colin Todhunter Source: Dissident Voice In March 2022, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned of a “hurricane of hunger and a meltdown of the global food system” in the wake of the crisis in Ukraine. Guterres said food, fuel and fertiliser prices were skyrocketing … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Environment, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Health, imperialism, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, war
Tagged Andrew Gavin Marshall, Antonio Guterres, Covid-19, Debt Crisis, Economics, empire, Famine, food crisis, Food Security, food shortages, geopolitics, Henry Kissinger, IMF, imperialism, India, Michael Hudson, Navdanya International, Neoliberalism, Poverty, Russia, Sanctions, Technocracy, Ukraine, war, WTO
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Global Planned Financial Tsunami Has Just Begun
By F. William Engdahl Source: Global Research Since the creation of the US Federal Reserve over a century ago, every major financial market collapse has been deliberately triggered for political motives by the central bank. The situation is no different … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Empire, Energy, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Neoliberalism, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Biden Administration, BitCoin, BlackRock, central banks, China, Citigroup, Credit Bubble, Cryptocurrency, Digital Currency, Economic Collapse, economic depression, Economics, Federal Reserve, Fidelity, financial crisis, GATT, geopolitics, Globalization, grain, Great Reset, Housing Market, Inflation, JP MorganChase, Lehman Bros, mortgage rates, natural gas, Quantitative Easing, Richard Nixon, Russia, Wells Fargo, World Trade Organization, WTO
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Saving Capitalism or Saving the Planet?
By Colin Todhunter Source: Dissident Voice The UK government’s Behavioural Insights Team helped to push the public towards accepting the COVID narrative, restrictions and lockdowns. It is now working on ‘nudging’ people towards further possible restrictions or at least big … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, culture, Economics, elites, Empire, Environment, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Health, Neoliberalism, news, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Agribusiness, Behavioural Insights Team, Commodification, Covid-19, Economics, environment, Financialization, Global Warming, greenwashing, Jason Hickel, Microsoft, Technocracy, UNFSS, WTO
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The Psychological Warfare Behind Economic Collapse
By Brandon Smith Source: Alt-Market.com The concept of using the economy as a weapon is not an alien one to most people. Generally, we understand the nature of feudalism and how various groups can be herded onto centralized plantations to … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Psy-ops, Psychology, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged BIS, Carroll Quigley, central banking, Corporate Globalization, Corporatism, Crony Capitalism, Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Free Markets, IMF, Neo Feudalism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, politics, Psy-ops, Psychological Warfare, psychology, Tragedy And Hope, WTO
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Exposing the Giants: The Global Power Elite
By Robert J. Burrowes Developing the tradition charted by C. Wright Mills in his 1956 classic The Power Elite, in his latest book, Professor Peter Phillips starts by reviewing the transition from the nation state power elites described by authors … Continue reading
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Tagged Bank for International Settlements, Bilderberg Group, BlackRock, CFR, Corporate Globalization, corporate media, Economics, G20, G30, G7, geopolitics, Global Elites, Group of 30, IMF, imperialism, International Capital, International Monetary Conference, International Monetary Fund, J.P Morgan Chase, Management Firms, NATO, NGOs, Oligarchy, peter phillips, Plutocracy, the Council on Foreign Relations, The Power Elite, Trilateral Commission, US Foreign Policy, war, WEF, World Bank, World Economic Forum, World Trade Organization, WTO
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Gaius Publius: Defining Neoliberalism
By Yves Smith Source: Naked Capitalism For years I’ve been using the term “neoliberalism” (or sometimes neo-liberalism*) and I’m always uncomfortable, since it sounds so academic. So I usually add one-phrase definitions and move on. For example, this from a … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Labor, Law, media, Neoliberalism, news, Philosophy, police state, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged 1%, Corporate Globalization, Democrats, Friedrich Hayek, George Monbiot, Global Elites, IMF, Margaret Thatcher, Milton Friedman, Neoliberalism, Republicans, Ronald Reagan, the World Bank, World Trade Organisation, WTO
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