CROSSROADS: Our Collective Trauma Is The Road To Tyranny – By Chris Hedges

Source – scheerpost.com “…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…The endemic trauma in American society, which is getting worse under the onslaught of the gig economy, pronounced social inequality, indiscriminate police violence, the climate crisis and the seizure…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: When The Wall Street Cabal Took Over America – By Jim Quinn

Source – theburningplatform.com “…We lived in relative comfort on a truck driver’s salary, with a mom who stayed home. This arrangement is no longer possible in America, after fifty years of willfully generated inflation, averaging 3.9% annually. The wealth of the middle class was absconded by the banking cartel and the parasites which feed off…

REBEL YELL: ‘Technopoly’, Herald The Apostates…They Will Point The Way – By Jeff Einstein

Source – qolrm.substack.com “…But the utopian vision and optimism that marked the second half of the 20th century came crashing down like the World Trade Towers in the early 21st, replaced instead by the dark specter of a dystopian Technopoly, a deep state of utterly unaccountable power and wealth powered by trillions of microchips. Big Data…

DAS KAPITAL: ‘Reinventing Democracy’, Hubris, Misrule & The Elite Echo-Chamber

Source – oftwominds.com “…The only possible conclusion: if we don’t democratize capital, democracy is boiled away. I wish this could be sugarcoated, but it’s much like my other aphorism: if we don’t change the way money is created and distributed, we’ve change nothing” Reinventing Democracy The whole point of democracy and free markets is to force competition…

KILL THE MESSENGER: The Crucifixion Of Julian Assange – By Chris Hedges

Source – scheerpost.com “…The current American Empire, damaged and humiliated by troves of internal documents published by WikiLeaks, will, for this reason, persecute Julian for the rest of his life. It does not matter who is president or which political party is in power. Imperialists speak with one despotic voice. Julian, for this reason, is…

AMERIKA: ‘Teflon Don-ald’, The ‘All-Decades Team’ Of Former National Leaders That Have Been Jailed Or Charged

Source – vtforeignpolicy.com “…Whoever the Democratic nominee is, he or she will be carrying the can for a catastrophic administration: inflation, crime, borders, the green terror, Afghanistan and, in some respects, Ukraine. This can’t be disguised any longer behind an avalanche of defamation and false prosecution of Donald Trump. For the last eight years, all…

NEO-CONNED: Who Are The Neocons? & How Did They Develop? – By Charles Burris

Source – lewrockwell.com “…Neocons began becoming influential in the Nixon, Ford, and Reagan administrations. Later upon Buckley’s retirement and death NR has been solely captured as a neocon entity. Neoconservatism, particularly in relation to foreign policy, has become the ubiquitous and dominant mainstream stance of both political parties” Who Are The Neocons? & How Did…

AMERIKA: ‘Stalinist Purge’, The Orchestrated Cases Against Trump Explained – By Paul Craig Roberts

Source – paulcraigroberts.org “….Remember, also, that the Vietnam War, Gulf of Tonkin, bombings of Cambodia and Laos, Manning’s revelation of war crimes, etc., etc., real crimes all, never resulted in indictments of responsible administration figures, except for Manning who was indicted for blowing the whistle on crimes. In Washington’s justice, it is not those who…

NEO-CONNED: ‘Mourning In America’, The Con Is On & Your The Mark…

Source – charleshughsmith.blogspot.com “…Propaganda works best when it converts the previously uncommitted or apathetic into true believers, much like a religious conversion.…It was fun while it lasted, exploiting the supercharged-cons of hyper-financialization and hyper-globalization, but those cons have been tapped out and there are no replacements.” It’s Mourning in America Now that America has been transformed…

AMERIKA: ‘Banana Republic’, Buckle Up, What You’re About to See Isn’t Pretty – By Graham Summers

Source – phoenixcapitalresearch.com “…Many of the most important institutions in the U.S. now exhibit a level of corruption that is normal for banana republics. We now see these institutions doing everything from interfering in elections to arresting political opponents and more. The individuals who do this are not punished, if anything they given book deals…

RIELPOLITIK: ‘End Of History’, America Has Just Destroyed A Great Empire – By Michael Hudson

Source – michael-hudson.com “…The upshot will be civilizational in scope. We are seeing not the End of History but a fresh alternative to U.S.-centered neoliberal finance capitalism and its junk economics of privatization, class war against labor, and the idea that money and credit should be privatized in the hands of a narrow financial class…

DEEP STATE: ‘Might It Be True?’, A Wild, Conspiratorial, Fantastical View Of World Politics

Source – scheerpost.com “…The origins and genealogy of the cabal, and their ties with the British elite, were famously detailed in Professor Carroll Quigley’s classic work, The Anglo-American Establishment. After five decades spent in the environs of the nation’s capital, thirty-two of them at the policy levels of five federal agencies, including the Carter White House, and…

AMERIKA: ‘Vaunted Victimhood’, America Wakes Up To Woke – By Victor Davis Hanson

Source – zerohedge.com “…Wokeness was envisioned as a new reboot of the coalition of the oppressed…The so-called white male heterosexual victimizing class was collectively to be held responsible for their sinful triad of white “rage,” “supremacy,” and “privilege…Americans are rejecting wokeism because they finally are realizing that if they do not, they will not have…

CROSSROADS: ‘An Unfolding Tragedy’, The Impossibility Of Doing ‘Anything Other’ – By Alastair Crooke

Source – strategic-culture.org “…The deeper paradox is that all the easy choices are behind us. And the headwinds of debt, inflation and recession are now buffeting us fiercely. System ‘unravelling’ is already present in the form of government and institutional weakness: the ‘system’ lacked the will to take difficult decisions when it could. Easy choices…

AMERIKA: ‘Charlatans & Demagogues’, The United States Of Paralysis – By Chris Hedges

Source – scheerpost.com “…Democracies are not slain by reactionary buffoons like Donald Trump, who was routinely sued for failing to pay workers and contractors and whose fictional television persona was sold to a gullible electorate, or shallow politicians like Joe Biden, whose political career has been devoted to serving corporate donors. These politicians provide a false comfort of individualizing our crises, as if removing…

CROSSROADS: All Empires Are Mortal, The “American Empire” Too – By Thierry Meyssan

Source – voltairenet.org “…In the 35 years since the collapse of the USSR, the United States has wrongly convinced itself that it has defeated its rival. In reality, it was the Soviets themselves who overthrew it. They believed that the Russians would need a century to recover from their mistakes. In fact, they have become…

AMERIKA: ‘Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’, To Heal The Great Divide – By Edward Curtin

Source – edwardcurtin.com “…By the end of 1968, a plague year if there ever were one, Richard Nixon, together with his goon squad, prepared to occupy the White House, Vietnam raged on, and everything King and Kennedy stood for seemed lost.  Ignorance, vituperation, and the divide-and-conquer technique long practiced by the power elites set into…

AMERIKA: Taking Back Our Universities From Corporate Apparatchiks – By Chris Hedges

Source – scheerpost.com “…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…The public defunding of universities, along with their seizure by corporations and the uber rich, is part of the slow-motion corporate coup d’état. The goal is to enforce…

CROSSROADS: Doug Casey On Why The US Is Headed Into Its ‘Fourth Turning’

Source – internationalman.com “…The bottom line is that societies arise from poverty through moral strength—and that brings them prosperity. But that prosperity brings on arrogance, and the arrogance brings on laziness, which brings on weakness and moral decline. Then they’re reduced to a condition of slavery and poverty again. Change is the only constant—except in…

AMERIKA: The Biden 10-Step Plan For Global Chaos – By Victor Davis Hanson

Source – amgreatness.com “…The examples explain well enough why our emboldened enemies do not fear us, our triangulating allies judge us unreliable, and calculating neutrals assume America is in descent and too dangerous to join. Yet without America, the result is a new Chinese order in which, to quote the historian Thucydides, “the strong do…

CROSSROADS: ‘Empirial Collapse’, When Empires Die – By Jeff Thomas

Source – internationalman.com “…In its latter days, an empire becomes hollowed out. It’s burdened with a costly and top-heavy government. The middle class is expected to provide largess to the masses through bread & circuses… At this point, the empire is a mere superstructure – one that’s becoming increasingly unsound. Importantly, the prosperity that made…

REBEL YELL: ‘Fighting Irish’, The Hero’s Journey – By James Howard Kunstler

Source – kunstler.com “…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. Kennedy, Jr.” The Hero’s Journey By James…

DEEP STATE: ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS)’, Nothing To Bragg About – By David Stockman

Source – davidstockmanscontracorner.com “…More than anything else, the Deep State fears that the Donald may have learned just enough during his first desultory sojourn in the Oval Office to actually threaten their rule should he pull a Grover Cleveland. So there is literally nothing they will not do to keep him out of the White…

CROSSROADS: ‘Forever Wars’, Americans Must Choose – By Douglas Macgregor, Col. (ret.)

Source – theamericanconservative.com “…Americans must choose. Will Americans continue to support escalating proxy war in Ukraine, a byproduct of Washington’s pursuit of global hegemony? Or will Americans demand that Washington defend America’s borders, maintain a republic that upholds the rule of law…The American financial and economic system is at risk of failing catastrophically. And Ukraine is losing the fight with…

NEO-CONNED: ‘False Premise’, Ukraine Is The Latest Neocon Disaster – By Jeffrey D. Sachs

Source – lewrockwell.com “…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), Iraq (2003), Syria (2011), Libya (2011), and who did so much to provoke Russia’s invasion…

AMERIKA: Victor Davis Hanson – Indict One… And All?

Source – amgreatness.com “…The Left repeatedly breaks laws and long-held customs with impunity by weaponizing federal offices and bureaus, whether defined in the legal sphere by mostly exempting 120 days of mass rioting, looting, arson, mayhem, and lethal violence in the summer of 2020, or procedurally by denying the House minority leader the right to…

HYBRID WAR: ‘New Iron Curtain’, USA Is The Central Battlefield In The Global Total War – By Alex Krainer

Source – alexkrainer.substack.com “…The only consolation prize available to the occult oligarchy now is to carve out a geopolitical block, break all ties with the closed societies and implement their plans within a new iron curtain. Then perhaps, the open societies could regroup and rebuild their military strength (not with solar panels) for another attempt…

HIGH CRIMES: ‘The Ruling Crime Syndicate’, The Donald Trump Problem – By Chris Hedges

Source – scheerpost.com ‘…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…Nearly every serious crime he is accused of carrying out has been committed by his political rivals…he is deemed dangerous for his willingness, at least…

AMERIKA: ‘Sex, Drugs & Rock ‘N’ Roll’, Turn Out The Light’s The Parties Over….

Source – internationalman.com “…The boomer generation reached their teens in the 1960s, and having grown accustomed to receiving whatever they wanted in life, they were young adults and wanted to party. The phrase, “sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll” was coined and it was an apt one. Young Americans opted for plenty of all three.…