Source – scheerpost.com Our Collective Trauma Is The Road To Tyranny – By Chris Hedges American society spawns trauma and this trauma expresses itself in a variety of self-destructive pathologies, including the erosion of democracy and rise of neo-fascism. By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost Corporate capitalism, defined by the cult of the self and…
Source – theburningplatform.com WHEN THE WALL STREET CABAL TOOK OVER AMERICA The chart below reveals much about what has happened since Nixon closed the gold window in 1971, allowing politicians, controlled by the Wall Street banking cabal, to spend our country into $33 trillion of debt, while accumulating another $200 trillion of unfunded pension and…
Source – qolrm.substack.com Herald the Apostates They will point the way… JEFF EINSTEIN [Author’s note: Herald the Apostates was first published a little more than a year ago, back when Tucker Carlson was still on FOX News. With the exception of Tucker’s exit from corporate media and newfound home on X, not much has changed…]…
Source – oftwominds.com Reinventing Democracy The whole point of democracy and free markets is to force competition on elites who are desperate to eliminate competition. (Added By SM) What’s the point of discussing reforms that aren’t even possible in the current status quo? That’s a good question, as any discussion of major systemic changes can be…
Source – internationalman.com Doug Casey on the 2024 Election International Man: President Biden is running for reelection in 2024. However, many Americans are questioning Biden’s physical and mental faculties. He appears half asleep on many occasions—often forgetting his train of thought or stumbling on his words. Biden will soon be 81, making him the oldest president…
Source – scheerpost.com Chris Hedges: The Crucifixion of Julian Assange By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost Hebrew Bible Reading: Jeremiah 37 11- 21 And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh’s army, Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into…
Source – vtforeignpolicy.com MEET THE ALL-DECADE TEAM: Former leaders have been jailed or charged all over the world Whose Your Favorite Indicted and Convicted Former Leader? By Johnny Punish Former President Trump declared after being indicted in New York that “THE USA IS NOW A THIRD WORLD NATION,” a statement echoed by his sons and…
Source – lewrockwell.com Who Are The Neocons? & How Did They Develop? By Charles Burris The development of what was originally called by the CIA as the Non-Communist Left (NCL) and what has emerged gradually as neoconservatism has been a work-in-progress since the origins of the CIA in 1947. Agency created front organizations and publications networks such as the Congress…
Source – paulcraigroberts.org The Orchestrated Cases Against Trump Explained Authored by Paul Craig Roberts, (Added By SM) President Trump has broken no laws. The charges against Trump brought by corrupt Democrat appointees are for propaganda purposes and for sidelining the candidate who the Democrats know will win the next election. If the Democrats did not…
Source – sovereignman.com Not bad for a Banana Republic I landed in Panama last night for a quick business trip, and I have to say, I’m really astonished at the political situation here. Central American countries like Panama are often referred to as “Banana Republics”. The term refers to largely impoverished nations with underdeveloped economies…
Source – charleshughsmith.blogspot.com It’s Mourning in America Now that America has been transformed from a high-trust social order into a low-trust social order, there’s no going back. The birth of financialization in the early 1980s was morning in America because finance– the collateralization of previously low-risk assets and the resulting explosion of credit and leverage–gooses demand and…
Source – phoenixcapitalresearch.com Buckle Up, What You’re About to See Isn’t Pretty By Graham Summers, MBA Last week I noted that the U.S. is becoming an emerging market. By quick way of review: 1) Many of the most important institutions in the U.S. now exhibit a level of corruption that is normal for banana republics.…
Source – michael-hudson.com America Has Just Destroyed a Great Empire MICHAEL HUDSON Herodotus (History, Book 1.53) tells the story of Croesus, king of Lydia c. 585-546 BC in what is now Western Turkey and the Ionian shore of the Mediterranean. Croesus conquered Ephesus, Miletus and neighboring Greek-speaking realms, obtaining tribute and booty that made him…
Source – scheerpost.com A Wild, Conspiratorial, Fantastical View of World Politics: Might It Be True? The modus operandi of the Deep State is to prepare the ground for destruction of any nation deemed a threat and to neutralize those individuals, foreign and domestic, considered a danger to the Controllers’ agenda. By Richard Cook / Original to ScheerPost…
Source – zerohedge.com Victor Davis Hanson: America Wakes Up To Woke Authored by Victor Davis Hanson, Wokeness was envisioned as a new reboot of the coalition of the oppressed. Those purportedly victimized by traditional America would find “intersectional” solidarity in their victimhood owing to the supposed sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, and other alleged American sins,…
Source – strategic-culture.org An Unfolding Tragedy: The Impossibility of Doing ‘Anything Other’ By Alastair Crooke The conditions that gave rise to the golden era that created the ‘Comfort Generation’ no longer are available, Alastair Crooke writes. The Tragedy that besets the West today consists, on the one hand, of the sheer impossibility for it to continue…
Source – scheerpost.com The United States of Paralysis The longer the corporate state erodes the social bonds that knit us to society and give us a sense of purpose and meaning the more inevitable an authoritarian state and a Christianized fascism becomes. By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost Political paralysis is snuffing out what is…
Source – voltairenet.org All empires are mortal, the “American Empire” too by Thierry Meyssan Last week, I wondered about the reality of the rivalry between the United States and China. Perhaps the “Thucydides trap” is only a screen that masks the imminent disintegration of the “American empire”. In this article, I summarize its course, which Westerners…
Source – edwardcurtin.com Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: To Heal the Great Divide By Edward Curtin (Above Image Added By SM) It has been fifty-five years since Senator Robert F. Kennedy stepped onto the presidential nominating stage to try to mend the massive breach that had opened in American society. The country was torn asunder by…
Source – scheerpost.com Taking Back Our Universities From Corporate Apparatchiks – By Chris Hedges American universities are appendages of the corporate state. Educators are increasingly poorly paid, denied benefits and job security while senior administrators pay themselves obscene salaries By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost New Brunswick, N.J. — Here are some of the senior…
Source – internationalman.com Doug Casey On Why The US Is Headed Into Its ‘Fourth Turning’ Authored by Doug Casey International Man: The economic, political, social, and cultural situation seems to have become increasingly volatile in the United States and more broadly in the West. Is this a unique situation or part of a recurring historical…
Source – amgreatness.com The Biden 10-Step Plan For Global Chaos Authored by Victor Davis Hanson Our enemies do not fear us, our allies judge us unreliable, and neutrals assume America is in descent and too dangerous to join… Why is French President Emmanuel Macron cozying up to China while trashing his oldest ally, the United…
Source – davidstockmanscontracorner.com Imperial Washington — The New Global Menace By David Stockman (Above Image Added By SM) There is no peace on earth today for reasons mainly rooted in Imperial Washington — not Moscow, Beijing, Tehran, Damascus, Mosul or the rubble of what remains of Raqqa. Imperial Washington has become a global menace owing to…
Source – internationalman.com When Empires Die By Jeff Thomas (Above Image Added By SM) Years ago, Doug Casey stated, “When empires die, they do so with surprising speed.” At the time, that comment raised eyebrows, yet he was quite correct in his observation. Ernest Hemingway made a similar comment when a character in his novel The…
Source – kunstler.com The Hero’s Journey By James Howard Kunstle “If I run, my top priority will be to end the corrupt merger between state and corporate power that has ruined our economy, shattered the middle class, polluted our landscapes and waters, poisoned our children, and robbed us of our values and freedoms.” — Robert F.…
Source – davidstockmanscontracorner.com Nothing To Bragg About By David Stockman (Above Image Added By SM) When will we ever be rid of the scourge of Donald J. Trump? Just when his star was finally fading and the prospect of an alternative GOP candidate for the 2024 presidential race was gaining steam (i.e. Gov. Ron DeSantis) the…
Source – theamericanconservative.com Americans Must Choose Will voters compel a shift away from endless foreign wars in the upcoming election? (Photo by Muhammed Enes Yildirim/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Douglas Macgregor Apr 4, 202312:03 AM Choosing war is the most important policy decision Washington makes on behalf of the American people. War profoundly affects the…
Source – lewrockwell.com Ukraine Is the Latest Neocon Disaster By Jeffrey D. Sachs (Above Image Added By SM) The war in Ukraine is the culmination of a 30-year project of the American neoconservative movement. The Biden Administration is packed with the same neocons who championed the US wars of choice in Serbia (1999), Afghanistan (2001),…
Source – amgreatness.com Victor Davis Hanson: Indict One… And All? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson Were the opposition to match tit-for-tat these Democratic means, then the republic would not survive… As we await the publication of all the impending indictments of former President Donald Trump by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Americans are trying to…
Source – dailyreckoning.com The Death Of Patriotism JEFFREY TUCKER: Wall Street Journal has conducted a poll with the most interesting results. From 1998 to the present, the percentage of Americans who say that patriotism is an important value has crashed from 70% to 38%. The bulk of the fall has happened since 2019. More results will…
Source – alexkrainer.substack.com USA is the central battlefield in the global total war Alex Krainer There can be little doubt that we are at war, except it’s not quite like in the movies. This war is unlike any others about which we learned in school where two opposed forces meet in a battlefield and fight…
Source – scheerpost.com The Donald Trump Problem Donald Trump is not being targeted for the misdemeanors and serious felonies he appears to have committed but for discrediting and undermining the entrenched power of the ruling duopoly. By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost Donald Trump — facing four government-run investigations, three criminal and one civil, targeting himself and…
Source – internationalman.com Sex, Drugs & Rock ‘n’ Roll by Jeff Thomas The baby-boomer generation were perhaps the most privileged generation that the US has ever spawned. Their fathers returned from World War II, eager to get married, buy a house and start a family. The economy was booming, as, during the early years of the…
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