Source – billmoyers.com – “…She argues that what we once knew as the Republican Party is, in effect, being supplanted by a private party of billionaires who use its machinery but have little use for the traditional political tools of compromise and negotiation. Why? Because they want what they want, hate government and don’t really…
Source – journal-neo.org – “…In a truly free society, an educated citizenry is capable of deciding for itself what is “fake news” and what isn’t. Because of the rise of alternatives to the West’s monopoly over global information, many people are doing just that – determining that Western narratives are in fact deceptions”: The West’s…
Source – theantimedia.org – “…The U.S. deterioration is primarily driven by the growing intensity of internal conflict within the country, which was partly seen in the divisive 2016 Presidential election, as well as increases in the perceptions of criminality across American society,” the analysis said”: Here’s Where the US Ranks on the List of Most…
Source – madcowprod.com – “…Two of Mexico’s busiest international airports, the Cancun and Toluca International Airports, are controlled by the Beltrán Leyva Cartel, who used them between 2006 and 2009 to smuggle at least 50 tons of cocaine into Mexico from Colombia and Venezuela…the elephant is the money”: The Three Amigos, a total dreamboat, and an elephant…
Source – voltairenet.org – “…Livestock and poultry were subject to endemics and illnesses concocted in CIA laboratories; in the years to come, the Cuban population would be affected chiefly by unexpected outbreaks of conjunctivitis bleeding, dysentery and dengue serotype 02, that caused 158 deaths, including those of 101 children in the 1980s, this being the…
Source – sovereignman.com – “…We now regularly witness government shutdowns, debt ceiling crises, and gross government incompetence. But this is just the beginning. The national debt is growing far faster than the economy as a whole. And, especially if interest rates continue to rise, the trend will accelerate – It’s simple arithmeti”:. The Final Show…
Source – paulcraigroberts.org – “…Peace with Russia and China would undermine the justification of the $1,000 billion military/security budget, and that the military/security complex is the American government, is too much truth for most writers to state. Truth is the most rare element in the Western world, and we will not be permitted to have…
Source – thenation.com, By Benjamin Ryan – The American Psychological Association is marshaling research that shows alleviating poverty improves mental health: In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith noted that central aspects of living in poverty include marginalization from public life and suffering the stigma associated with being poor. The same year this capitalist’s bible…
Source – counterpunch.org – Contemporary history is neither a series of random occurrences nor the predetermined plaything of a small cabal of super-empowered conspirators. The truth is somewhere in-between. A sizeable cadre of class- and system-conscious deep-state and imperial planners from the heights of concentrated private and governmental power join together to shape the outlines…
Source – dissidentvoice.org – About 75% of US employees work 40 hours or longer, the second longest among all OECD countries, exceeded only by Poland and tied with South Korea. In contrast, only 10% of Danish workers, 15% of Norwegian, 30% of French, 43% of UK and 50% of German workers work 40 or more…
Source – govtslaves.info – There are currently 2.4 million people in American prisons. This number has grown by 500% in the past 30 years. While the United States has only 5% of the world’s population, it holds 25 percent of the world’s total prisoners. In 2012, one in every 108 adults was in prison or in jail, and one in 28 children in the U.S. had a…
Source – firstlook.org – Searching for the “best kept secret in outsourcing,” one that can “provide you with all the advantages” of domestic workers, but with “offshore prices”? Try prison labor! That’s the message of Unicor, also known as Federal Prison Industries, a government-owned corporation that employs federal workers for as little as 23 cents an…
Source – theantimedia.org – The US is breeding a Chinese-style prison labor scheme on its own soil. States and some of the biggest private companies are now enjoying the fruits of a cheap and readily available work force, with tens of millions of lobbying dollars spent by private prisons to keep their jails full. …
Source -.tomdispatch.com – “If you’re graduating from a liberal arts college, you’ve been taken for a ride. Start getting used to it”: – It couldn’t be a sunnier, more beautiful day to exit your lives — or enter them — depending on how you care to look at it. After all, here you are four…
Source – mic.com – In a recent report from the academic journal Perspectives on Politics, the United States is not a democracy, but is instead, an oligarchy. For those who aren’t up with fancy words, this means that the US government is very, very corrupt. The news: A new scientific study from Princeton researchers Martin Gilens and Benjamin…
Source – truthdig.com – Boycott, Divest and Sanction Corporations That Feed on Prisons – By Chris Hedges – All attempts to reform mass incarceration through the traditional mechanisms of electoral politics, the courts and state and federal legislatures are useless. Corporations, which have turned mass incarceration into a huge revenue stream and which have unchecked…
Source – nytimes.com, By Mary Pilonfeb – For generations, the story of Monopoly’s Depression-era origins delighted fans almost as much as the board game itself. The tale, repeated for decades and often tucked into the game’s box along with the Community Chest and Chance cards, was that an unemployed man named Charles Darrow dreamed up…
Source – yesmagazine.org – It has been 50 years since America launched the War on Poverty. The Economic Opportunity Act and legislation to outlaw racial discrimination were the centerpieces of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s vision to create a Great Society. These programs helped get a generation of families jobs. We had to find ways to…
Source – ussia-insider.com – “Mass incarceration on a scale almost unexampled in human history is a fundamental fact of our country today,” writes the New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik. “Over all, there are now more people under ‘correctional supervision’ in America – more than 6 million – than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.” Is this…
Source – americansperspective.com – In America, most prisons are owned by private corporations. Private corporations like to make money. Lots of money. Empty prison beds do not make money, so many states are being urged into contracts with the prisons, pledging to keep the prison anywhere from 70% to 97% full, at all times. So…
Source – journal-neo.org – “…The American Thinker is predicting an abrupt rise in political violence in the United States, while arguing that wars begin when, in a major crisis, no peaceful solution can be found. Americans are at or near that point. Unfortunately, most people are not going to acknowledge the truth until it is too…
Source – strategic-culture.org – “…The United States has seen a faster increase in inequality in recent decades than any of the major advanced economies, and despite the historic progress made over the last eight years, the level of U.S. inequality remains high». Normally, after an economic crash, economic inequality reduces; but under Obama it remained at…
Source – desultoryheroics.com – “…Ninety-seven percent of 125,000 federal inmates have been convicted of non-violent crimes. It is believed that more than half of the 623,000 inmates in municipal or county jails are innocent of the crimes they are accused of. Of these, the majority are awaiting trial. Two-thirds of the one million state prisoners…
Source – strategic-culture.org – “…U.S. aggression combines now with a tightening closed-door policy, and neither reality fits the Western myth. So, might Lady Liberty be crying also because of Western lying?”: (Ship the Statue of Liberty Back to France – By Eric ZUESSE) Today’s America is a mockery of it. Lady Liberty weeps now. So,…
Source – stuartjeannebramhall.com – “…Lets forget for a second that the fake left is going ballistic over Trump’s banning of people supposedly from those countries (when he doesn’t actually mention them by name in his order) while they have been quiet as little church mice as their hero, ObamaGod, bombed every one of them… and…
Source – cluborlov.blogspot.ca – “…If Trump doesn’t crack open the chocolate egg that is Saudi Arabia and run off with the toy inside, then somebody else will. Saudi Arabia’s days are numbered. For now, it is still rich in money, oil, sand and imbeciles, but it is burning through the first two faster and faster.…
Source – geopolitics.co – “…There are also some indications that the Trump administration will finally end the decades of government suppression against exotic technologies. This is very evident in his inaugural speech…The various space age technologies, e.g. free energy, anti-gravity, cell regeneration, that have been under lock and key for more than a century are…
Source – charleshughsmith.blogspot.ca – “…The Left is not just in disarray–it is in complete collapse because the working class has awakened to the Left’s betrayal and abandonment of the working class in favor of building personal wealth and power. Anyone who denies this is still in the fatal grip of the Left’s Great Con”: (The Collapse…
Source – yesmagazine.org – “…If the Trump administration is serious about bringing jobs and pride back to rural America, they should take a lesson from cooperatives of the 1930’s”: (How Co-ops Can Make Infrastructure Great Again – By Nathan Schneider) Not many people I’ve known who lived through the Great Depression recall it fondly. I suspect…
Source – globalresearch.ca – “…President-to-be Trump has a model to go on. A remission in the US private corporate occupation of the world for private profit occurred with Roosevelt’s New Deal. It emerged with the victorious war against Nazism, union legalization, high taxes on high incomes, and post-war industry growth on all planes. An implied…
Source – counterpunch.org – “…Fascism is, above all, a response to deep structural crises of capitalism, such as that of the 1930s and the one that began with the financial meltdown in 2008 …. There is a near-straight line here from Obama to Trump”: (The Issue is Not Trump. It is Us – By John…
Source – internationalman.com – “…Those who hope that Trump will reverse the trend of the Deep State’s near-total control over the US will be disappointed not only by the choice of Mike Pompeo for the CIA, but of Trump campaigner and establishment insider Jeff Sessions as attorney general”: (Under New Management – By Jeff Thomas)…
Source – cluborlov.blogspot.ca – “…We also know how painful it is to realize that the US is damaged beyond repair, or to acquiesce to the fact that most of the damage is self-inflicted: the endless, useless wars, the limitless corruption of money politics, the toxic culture and gender wars, and the imperial hubris and willful…
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