COUP D’ETAT: The Final Take-down of Trump Begins in Earnest

Source – stateofthenation2012.com – “…Make no mistake about it: from now until Inauguration Day will be the most dangerous times for Donald Trump and his transition team.  The very future of the United States of America now hangs in the balance as never before.  Hence, it is imperative that every American citizen stays vigilant and…

REALPOLITIK: U.S. Special Operations’ Forces Deploy to 138 Nations…70% of the World’s Countries – By Nick Turse

Source – tomdispatch.com – “…I will become the first president of the United States to serve two full terms during a time of war,” Obama added….The results of his permanent-war presidency have, in fact, been dismal, according to Special Operations Command.  Of eight conflicts waged during the Obama years, according to a 2015 briefing slide from the…

AMERIKA: ‘Self-Proclaimed Progressives’, Apologists for the Neocon-Neoliberal Empire – By Charles High Smith

Source – charleshughsmith.blogspot.ca – “…Wake up, Self-Proclaimed “Progressives”: you’re apologists for an Evil Empire.Your devotion to the Democratic Establishment that has mastered the art of bleating politically correct speech acts while destroying entire nations renders you the classic useful idiots, on par with those who defended Stalinism and the Soviet Gulag because “it was the right thing to…

SHADOW GOVERNMENT: America Versus The Deep State – By Howard Kunstler

Source – kunstler.com – “…When the markets blow, do you suppose the Russians will be blamed for that? Did Boris Yeltsin repeal the Glass-Steagall Act? Was Ben Bernanke a puppet of Putin? No, these actions and actors were homegrown American. For more than thirty years, we’ve been borrowing too much money so we can pretend…

AMERIKA: 7 Things to Show that you’re not living in the ‘Land of the Free’ – By Paul A Philips

Source – newparadigm.ws – “…In many American states it is now illegal to donate food to the homeless. If caught, pending your involvement, you could be heavily fined.  Those in a church at Dundalk, Maryland found this out the hard way. The church was fined a whopping great $12,000 for letting the homeless sleep overnight…

HIGH SOCIETY: Britain Reclassifies CBD Oil as Medicine, While America Throws It in With Heroin

Source – hightimes.com – “…Gerald Heddell, director of inspection and enforcement at MHRA, told Sky News: “The change really came about with us offering an opinion that CBD is in fact a medicine, and that opinion was based on the fact that we noted that people were making some quite stark claims about serious diseases…

REALPOLITIK: ‘Military Over-Reach’, The Legacy of the “Democrat” – By Manlio Dinucci

Source – voltairenet.org – “…Stamping the failure of the core strategic objectives: Russia, cornered by the new cold war triggered by the putsch in Ukraine and by ensuing sanctions, struck Washington by surprise, intervening with the use of force to support Damascus. This prevented the Syrian state from being taken apart, the fate [allotted to]…

DEAD MEN DON’T TALK: False Claims & Uninvestigated Murders – By Michel Chossudovsky

Source – globalresearch.ca – “…Professor Michel Chossudovsky reminds us that the hacked emails were about the DNC and Hillary campaign’s theft of the Democratic presidential nomination from Bernie Sanders, which had nothing whatsoever to do with Russia”: (False Claims & Uninvestigated Murders – By Michel Chossudovsky) President Obama in the course of his last few…

REALPOLITIK: By Way Of Deception Thou Shalt Lose Your Empire

Source – unz.com – “…Since a truly free and independent media is central to a functioning democracy, then the total corruption of the media in the US is also the proof that this country does not have a functioning democracy”: (By way of deception thou shalt lose your Empire) “For nothing is hidden that will…

DAS KAPITAL: A Billionaire Working Class Hero is Something to Be

Source – strategic-culture.org -(EN: …Obama’s decision to maintain Hank Paulson as Treasury Secretary was an ominous sign of things to come, or better stated  – “…not to come”, for his toothless Wall Street initiatives – all bark and no bite. The vultures are again circling America’s deeply wounded democratic corpse – Is Trump a Con…

AMERIKA: ‘The Radical Jesus’, How Would the Baby in a Manger Fare in the American Police State? – By John W. Whitehead

Source  – rutherford.org – “…Either way, whether Jesus had been born in our modern age or his own, he still would have died at the hands of a police state. Indeed, as I show in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, what Jesus and other activists suffered in their day is…

AMERIKA: ‘The Heist’, Who Stole the American Dream and How We Can Get It Back

Source – stuartjeannebramhall.com –  “…Guided by the Powell Memo, right wing Democrat Bill Clinton repealed the Glass Steagall Act,***, deregulated derivatives trading, gutted the Federal Communication Commission’s authority to regulate media monopolies, and sped up the outsourcing of US jobs through the enactment of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)”: (The Heist: Who Stole the…

AMERIKA: ‘Trumpocalypse’, Suddenly Liberals Are The Ones Stockpiling Food, Guns And Emergency Supplies – By Michael Snyder

Source – theeconomiccollapseblog.com – “…The Liberal Gun Club”, and since Trump’s victory it has experienced a huge surge in membership…Lara Smith, national spokesperson for the Liberal Gun Club, says her organization has seen a “huge” rise in enquiries since November’s election and a 10% increase in paid members”: (‘Trumpocalypse’, Suddenly Liberals Are The Ones Stockpiling…

AMERIKA: The US Already Built Trump’s Wall and It’s Not on the Border

Source – telesurtv.net – “…Trump, “represents a definite authoritarian shift to the right on migration control,” who lacks “even the pretext of having a liberal democracy” and will likely swap civil liberties and human rights protections for a total police state. “It’s not Obama versus Trump or Republican versus Democrat; it’s about the reconfiguration of the…

DAS KAPITAL: Robert Reich – “The Rich Don’t Work Anymore, Working Is for Poor People” (Flashback)

Source – alternet.org – “…A study from the Boston College Center on Wealth and Philanthropy projects a total of $59 trillion passed down to heirs between 2007 and 2061. As the French economist Thomas Piketty reminds us, this is the kind of dynastic wealth that’s kept Europe’s aristocracy going for centuries. It’s about to become the major…

CONTROLLED DEMOLITION: The Death of Dignity In Working Class America – By Lainey Hashorva

Source – occupy.com – “…We see it in every industry over the last decade or so, cutting workers and benefits, sick leave or vacation time. Piling more work and demands on those that remain, impossible quotas for sales under threats of termination. Americans training teams from India to do their jobs as they teeter on…

AMERIKA: It’s Beginning to Smell a Lot Like Totalitarianism, and I Don’t Mean Russia – By F. William Engdahl

Source – journal-neo.org – “…Rather than confiscate citizens’ gold, today the Gods of Money would have to find a way to steal the cash of citizens. Moving to their “cashless” banking, limiting how much cash can be withdrawn and then eliminating cash entirely as Swedish banks are doing would enable tax authorities to have perfect…

99% PROOF: The Tide Is Turning Against the Oligarchs – By Paul Craig Roberts

Source – paulcraigroberts.org – “… Perhaps the era of fooling deceived Americans is coming to an end. Clearly the ruling oligarchy is concerned that the websites on the 200 List now control the explanations although not the levers of power. Nevertheless, if the pen is more powerful than the sword, power will return to the…

HIDDEN HISTORY: What Americans (Really) Celebrate On Thanksgiving Day – By Paul Craig Roberts

Source – paulcraigroberts.org – “…Today, Thanksgiving is simply known as “Turkey Day” and a time of retail sales. But as you eat your Thanksgiving meal, contemplate that what you are really celebrating is an Empire rooted in war crimes. If Lincoln had lost, and if there had been at that time a Nuremberg War Crimes…

AMERIKA: Here’s What Happened When Ancient Romans Tried to Drain the Swamp – By Simon Black

Source – sovereignman.com – “…In today’s version of the Roman Empire, the United States, we can see similar circumstances.The debt level is now rapidly closing in on $20 trillion, well in excess of 100% of GDP….We can see a commercial banking system that, even in the opinion of its own regulators (most recently the Federal…

NEO-CONNED: Fear and Loathing Inside The Deep State

Source – thesaker.is – “…The warmongers and neocons of the Deep State and surface government will try to work over all the Trump nominees in the security and policy arena. Trump has refused to listen to any of them…There has to be this cleaning out of the subterranean world of the Deep State.  If President Carter…

CRONY CAPITALISM: ‘The Age of Disintegration’, Political Disunity and Elites At War – By Charles Hugh Smith

Source – oftwominds.com – “…The fading elite will render the nation ungovernable rather than concede its power, wealth and global influence. This is the inevitable result of profound political disunity, which arises when The Ruling Elite Has Lost the Consent of the Governed“: (The Age of Disintegration: Political Disunity and Elites At War – By…

THE MEDIA MONOPOLY: ‘Political Theater’, The Breakaway Civilisation – By Mohsin Siddiqui

Source – vineyardsaker.co.nz –“…Where do you begin to explain that elections are for the most part mere stage managed theatre? That the USA is an Empire of 1,000 military bases and not a country? That Obama the peace maker has incinerated civilians in 7 countries with impunity? That Hillary’s black lives did not matter for whole…

AMERIKA: Now Is the Winter of our Discontent, Our Era of Rising Discord – By Charles Hugh Smith

Source – oftwominds.com – “…Combine identity politics with political correctness, and the New Nobility/Oligarchy can laugh their way to the bank while their pawn-serfs fight over how many politically correct angels can dance on the head of a pin. As noted above, the class war started long before Trump won the election. This Class War is…

CROSSROADS: We “conspiracy theorists” won, so why aren’t I celebrating? – By Kevin Barrett

Source – veteranstoday.com – “…Just as he offered both true and false “conspiracy theories,” Trump played on both legitimate and illegitimate outrage. He blasted legitimate targets: the Republican and Democratic establishments, the globalists, the banksters. But even as he attacked the powerful, he skillfully distracted his audience by simultaneously attacking the innocent and powerless: Muslims, hispanics,…

AMERIKA: ‘Limousine’ Liberals and the Secular ‘Jesus’ Complex

Source – rielpolitik.com – “…Watching the street demonstrations against Trump that are happening across the country right now. Karsten and Cookie are gushing how we are witnessing democracy in action – the people’s right to express themselves….Unlike those Occupy Wall Street scumbags. Good thing the cops bulldozed their tents and tossed them out of Zuccotti park…

CORPRO-FASCISM: Hillary Is Down, But Not The Oligarchs (Yet) – By Paul Craig Roberts

Source – paulcraigroberts.org – “…Trump said that he will put Hillary in prison. He should first put her on trial for treason and war crimes along with all of the neoconservatives. That would clear the decks for peace with the other two major nuclear powers over whom the neoconservatives seek hegemony”: (Hillary Is Down, But…

REALPOLITIK: Who Lost – A Biased Media, Pundits, Pollsters, Political Parties, Warmongers, the Corporatocracy, Pay-to-Play Grifters, Neoliberals – By Charles Hugh Smith

Source – oftwominds.com – “…Fake Progressives are perfectly fine with soaring inequality and corrupt governance, as long as everyone’s public utterances are politically correct. So the oppressor class is acceptable as long as they speak respectfully while stepping on your neck”: (Who Lost: A Biased Media, Pundits, Pollsters, Political Parties, Warmongers, the Corporatocracy, Pay-to-Play Grifters,…

REBEL YELL: ‘Trump’s Revolution’, Now Beware the Counter-Revolution – By Justin Raimondo

Source – original.antiwar.com – “…Even the chief executive of the United States runs up against limitations; I’m talking about not only political limitations but also the power of the “deep State” – the permanent national security bureaucracy that guards it power and agenda jealously. President Trump cannot stand alone against these powerful forces: he needs…

AMERIKA: The Ruling Elite Is Protected from the Consequences of its Dominance – By Charles Hugh Smith

Source – oftwominds.com – “…The last failed remnants of the state-cartel hierarchies left over from World War II must implode before we can move forward. Healthcare, defense, pharmaceuticals, higher education, the mainstream media and the systems of governance must all decay to the point that no one can be protected from the destructive consequences of…