Source – consortiumnews.com – “…Not one U.S. soldier has gone to jail for the Baghdad massacre and the whistleblower and the journalist who revealed the crime were both imprisoned. Manning’s 35-year sentence was commuted in 2017. She was again imprisoned for more than 250 days for refusing to testify to a grand jury against Assange,…
Source – zeihan.com – “…Americans have no sense of proportion…We overreact. But we overreact with the power of the world’s largest and most stable and most technologically advanced economy. We overreact with the strength of a continent. We overreact with the world’s most powerful long-range military, a military that absolutely controls all global waterways. And…
Source – strategic-culture.org – “…The betrayals of the Democrat Party against its own working class base would lead towards an uprising, finally coalescing around a National Labor Movement, christened through blood and sacrifice. This would ultimately team-up with Trump’s small business and working class base, making every conservative-libertarian’s worst horse-shoe theory nightmare a living reality”…
Source – americanthinker.com – “…Governments that have tried this approach have ended up with money that looks like this 50-trillion-dollar bill from Zimbabwe. It’s real paper money. But this $50 trillion wouldn’t buy much. In Venezuela, the inflation rate is around 53 million percent. That means everything costs more every day. And with socialist destruction…
Source – journal-neo.org – “…Strauss wanted Americans to see the world in terms of pure black and white, good and evil. The United States was to be the infallible “shining city on a hill” and its enemies were to forces of absolute evil with no redeeming attributes. The role of intellectuals is to reduce the…
Source – truthdig.com – “…We now live in an oligarchic state. The oligarchs control politics, the economy, culture, education and the press. Donald Trump may be a narcissist and a con artist, but he savages the oligarchic elite in his long-winded speeches to the delight of his crowds. He, like Bernie Sanders, speaks about the…
Source – commondreams.org – “…This speaks to the broader rise of the 21st century authoritarian capitalism. It reveals the willingness and enhanced ability for governments and corporations to work together to defend the “free market” against social unrest and demands for greater equality and justice” The Real Global Threat to 21st Century Freedom Is Authoritarian…
Source – journal-neo.org – “…According to the January report published by the National Center for Homeless Education funded by the US Department of Education, over 1.5 million schoolchildren experienced homelessness in the 2017-2018 school year….the American Institutes for Research…recorded that 2.5 million children had experienced homelessness in the year 2013..with one in thirty American children…
Source – rutherford.org – “…We’re being robbed blind so the governmental elite can get richer. This is nothing less than financial tyranny. “We the people” have become the new, permanent underclass in America. It’s tempting to say that there’s little we can do about it, except that’s not quite accurate….it will require that “we the…
Source – truthdig.com – “…This time there will be a crucial difference. The ruling elites, once divided between Trump and Hillary Clinton, with most of the elites preferring Clinton, will be united against Sanders. They will back Trump as the least worst. The corporate media will turn its venom, now directed at Trump, toward Sanders.…
Source – greenmedinfo.com – “…Legislators contend that such measures are needed to protect public health, and that sentiment is echoed in media reports nationwide. An opinion piece published in the Chicago Sun Times pushed for changing the state law to allow 12 year olds to override their parents to get vaccinated. In it, the author…
Source – cluborlov.blogspot.com – “..Lest you think that the US isn’t an empire—a collapsing one—consider the following. The US defense budget is larger than that of the next ten countries combined, yet the US can’t prevail even in militarily puny Afghanistan. (That’s because much of its defense budget is trivially stolen.)…It controls and manipulates governments…
Source – americanthinker.com – “…Remember when Republicans were castigated as the party of the rich? For decades, Democrats have labeled Republicans as out of touch with middle-class Americans, enriching themselves at the expense of the working people and giving tax breaks to the obscenely rich…the Democrats have completely reversed themselves by encouraging one of the…
Source – libertyblitzkrieg.com – “…You have multitudes taking on debt defensively just to keep going and avoid falling further down the socioeconomic scale. Debt doesn’t empower such people, rather, it turns them into modern day indentured servants endlessly stuck on a hamster wheel with little to no hope of getting off. This is not an…
Source – geopolitics.co – “…Given the death of liberalism in mainstream U.S. politics, why would the owners of capital and their bought politicians (the 2016 elections cost $6.6 billion) want to change to brand “fascism”? Brand “bourgeois democracy” has been so terrifically successful in sheep-dogging the people into accepting elite rule and believing they are…
Source – rutherford.org – “…Stop waiting patiently for change to happen, stop waiting for some politician to rescue you, and take responsibility for your freedoms: start by fixing what’s broken in your lives, in your communities, and in this country. Get mad, get outraged, get off your duff and get out of your house, get…
Source – unz.com – “…Not only is Trump the great uniter of the GOP. He is the great uniter of Democrats. Every Democrat but three in the House voted to impeach and remove him. Every Democrat in the Senate voted to convict and expel him from office and prevent his ever running again” Long Before…
Source – off-guardian.org – “…No democratic-minded person questions the right of everyone, including transgender individuals, to their own beliefs, behaviors and lifestyle preferences, free from bigotry or discrimination. But extreme transgender ideology goes a step further. It demands not only support for the civil rights of trans people but insists that everyone must also embrace…
Source – counterpunch.org – “…The bad news is that the wokerati are everywhere on the left—from environmentalists to feminists to anti-racist activists—and they are reminding us every second of the day that someone, somewhere is wrong and should be stopped, fired, kicked out of a group and worse. It’s almost as if the wokerati are…
Source – wsws.org – “…There are further signs of the deep political crisis wracking the Democratic Party. Campaigning in New Hampshire, former Vice President Biden took up the anti-socialist cudgel wielded by Trump in his State of the Union address. “If Senator Sanders is the nominee for the party…every Democrat will have to carry the…
Source – ehrenreich.blogs.com – “…Media attention has focused, understandably enough, on the “nouveau poor” — formerly middle and even upper-middle class people who lost their jobs, their homes, and/or their investments in the financial crisis of 2008 and the economic downturn that followed it, but the brunt of the recession has been borne by the…
Source – thenation.com – “…The Super Bowl is like prom for the 1 percent. When the big game comes to town, it’s accompanied by private jets, parties, and nonstop bottle service. That should be enough, but it never is. The bacchanalia also comes festooned with public funds for the NFL, an overwhelming police presence, and…
Source – fff.org – “…Today, income taxation and the IRS are a core feature of American life. The government essentially owns everyone’s income and decides how much people will be permitted to keep, much as a parent permits his children to have an allowance” There Have Been Two Completely Different Americas in U.S. History –…
Source – veteranstoday.com – “…As a Muslims, who witness the ugly face of “tribalism” in the form of sectarians divide (Sunni v Shiite) which the Holy Quran was unable to eradicate and erase the nasty face of tribalism of ancient Mecca. We are witnessing the same in the US” America’s Tribalism: Democrats v Republicans –…
Source – peakprosperity.com – “…We’re in the 11th year of the longest economic expansion in US history. The markets are at record highs. The official reported unemployment rate is at a record low. When the next recession hits it will be like pouring jet fuel on this fire.Homelessness in California has doubled in just the…
Source – alt-market.com – “…The false Left/Right paradigm has been so useful to the establishment for so long. Anytime the public starts to wake up to the web of control, all the elites have to do is push one or both sides of the political spectrum towards extremism and let the people rage at each…
Source – veteranstoday.com – “…The money is real, much of it has been diverted and stolen for years, leading to a battle that began with George H.W. Bush ordered the kidnapping and rendition of Ambassador Wanta and years of torture and imprisonment” The Wanta Files: How China Went High Speed Rail, Which Thieves Deny Americans…
Source – journal-neo.org – “…Western capitalism has entered a stage where it views the population not as an asset, but as a burden. Instead of seeing each citizen as capable of creating a contribution to society, and making the country better, the population is viewed as a problematic horde that must be carefully managed and…
Source – aier.org – “…Oddly enough, Senator Warren and other capitalism critics seldom ask how the system got rigged and what might be done to undo the rigging. But of course, the rigging is done in Washington, sometimes when special interest groups—including corporations—lobby congress for favorable treatment. And how might that be undone? By trimming…
Source – truthdig.com – “…The problem is not messaging. The problem is the messenger. The mortal wounds inflicted on our democratic institutions are bipartisan. The traditional Republican elites are as hated as the Democratic elites. Trump is vile, imbecilic, corrupt and incompetent. But for a largely white working class cast aside by austerity and neoliberalism,…
Source – dailycaller.com – “…Even our “best” cities have become demolition derbies. What is especially absent, as I have averred to earlier, is artistry consciously applied to our surroundings. You can lay some of the blame for that on the dogmas of modernism, since the schools of architecture are marinated in it, especially the hatred…
Source – charleshughsmith.blogspot.com – “…The truth is no match for greed is good and don’t be evil, unless it’s incredibly profitable, in which case, go for it but cover your tracks (here’s looking at you, Big Tech). Outrage is reserved for whistleblowers who name names and reveal the sordid truths that the status quo has…
Source – counterpunch.org – “…Several of the other presidential candidates are calling for various forms of wealth taxes. If the most rigorous of these were enacted, Bloomberg’s grand fortune would shrink substantially — by more than $3 billion next year, according to one estimate. In other words, by undercutting wealth tax advocates, Bloomberg would save…
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