Source – rutherford.org – America is at a crossroads. History may show that from this point forward, we will have left behind any semblance of constitutional government and entered into a militaristic state where all citizens are suspects and security trumps freedom. Certainly, this is a time when government officials operate off their own inscrutable,…
Source – sputniknews.com – The US media is skillfully lying about world affairs, delivering contrived narratives that are generated by the Pentagon, the State Department and the White House and misinforming the public; the ignorance this process generates is very dangerous because Americans “act on it”, according to foreign policy expert Stephen Kinzer. American public…
Source – hauensteincenter.org – How many of our presidents owned slaves?: There are two ways of interpreting your question. Either: How many presidents owned slaves at some point in their lives? Or: How many presidents owned slaves while serving as chief executive? Many books get the answers to these questions wrong, and when I speak…
Source – washingtonsblog.com – If you’ve just seen Michael Moore’s movie and are wondering how in the world the United States got diverted into the slow lane to hell, go watch Noam Chomsky’s movie. If you’ve just seen Noam Chomsky’s movie and are wondering whether the human species is really worth saving, go see Michael…
Source – motherjones.com – It was around 10:30 p.m. when Steve Jacobs rolled down the gravel driveway. The air was warm for early January, even for Florida. Yellow boat lights bobbed on St. Augustine’s harbor, and the scent of star jasmine hung on the breeze. Jacobs stepped onto his porch and found the door still…
Source – truthdig.com – “The thousands of Michigan children who were knowingly poisoned were victims of an American moral malaise: Our nation has bred generations of bureaucrats who are blind to values other than self-advancement and profit”: What is in the mind of someone who knowingly poisons children and impairs their lives? Why did the…
Source – journal-neo.org – The state of most media today is sad, pitiful, and hopelessly unbelievable. From BBC to the New York Times, any semblance of believability is gone. What makes matters worse though, are what amount to popularity factions in social media. The information world has never been so polarized, while the public sinks…
Source – globalresearch.ca – Decoding the US Empire of Chaos, The Global Reversal of the Social Evolution of Humanity – By Prof. John McMurtry and Biljana Đorović: The interview (transcript below) from questions with Prof. John McMurtry was conducted for the 15th Anniversary of “Geopolitika” a journal of geopolitical and cultural analysis in Belgrade which…
Source – rationalrevolution.net – The rise of fascism itself is a complex story, much less the rise of American fascism. Just as understanding the rise of fascism in Europe requires understanding the conditions of the time, so too understanding fascism in America requires understanding the conditions leading up to its transformation into a fascist state.…
Source – original.antiwar.com, By Gary Chartier – Opposing the Plutocracy Means Opposing the Warfare State: Bernie Sanders wants to stay on message. So his presidential campaign has focused on economic issues. The American economy is rigged, Sanders says, in the interests of the wealthy and well connected. Banks and Wall Street brokerage houses get what…
Source – mises.org – On January 12, America’s central planner-in-chief gave his State of the Union address. The president promised nothing less than to feed the hungry, create jobs, shape the earth’s climate, and make everyone a college graduate. There’s nothing new here, though. We’ve heard variations of this silly song and dance every year…
Source – exposingtruth.com – Fascism is a word thrown around a lot, typically used to describe far-right wing groupings. What might be surprising for some is that many of the most fascist regimes in history, including the Nazis, were in many ways politically centrist… they just happened to be very right wing with regard to…
Source – cluborlov.blogspot.com.es – On the wall of George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth from his novel 1984 there were three slogans: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH It occurred to me that these apply just a little bit too well to the way the Washington, DC establishment operates. War certainly is peace:…
Source – wakeup-world.com – What once began as a joke could soon become a reality for California politicians. Popular on social media sites, memes calling for politicians to wear badges of their corporate donors have spread like wildfire for years. But no one took the idea seriously — until now. Corruption in politics is a…
Source – boilingfrogspost.com – “No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” – Edward R. Murrow, Broadcast Journalist: America is in the midst of an epidemic of historic proportions. The contagion being spread like wildfire is turning communities into battlegrounds and setting Americans one against the other. Normally mild-mannered individuals…
Source – sputniknews.com – Bernie Sanders said that the $5 billion fine imposed this week on the giant investment bank Goldman Sachs proves that the US financial system centered on Wall Street is based on fraud: The $5 billion fine imposed this week on the giant investment bank Goldman Sachs proves that the US financial system…
Source – disinfo.com – Dark money groups have spent $143 million on the 2016 U.S. presidential election since last July—nearly four times as much as the candidates’ own campaigns, Politico reported in a new analysis on Tuesday. The origins of most of that funding will never be revealed, while some of it will be made public at midnight…
Source – nytimes.com – For some decades now, a popular conservative narrative of modern America has gone something like this: Our center-right nation, devout and industrious, is ruled by a politically liberal elite that disdains family, despises religion and celebrates indolence with government handouts. Many people find this story convincing. It helped fracture the postwar…
Source – nader.org – IN THIS LATEST episode of The Empire Files, Abby Martin interviews American political figure Ralph Nader about the 2016 US presidential race—from the “Brown Shirt” Trump movement to “corporate criminal” Hillary Clinton—and the reality of who has power in America. Ralph Nader is best known for his widely-popular presidential run in…
Source – wakeup-world.com – “News and the truth are not the same thing. If everybody in power doesn’t dislike you, you’re probably not doing your job properly”: If you’re a journalist, you manipulate facts,” says renegade reporter Chris Hedges at the start of this illuminating Vice interview. “I did it for a living.” Hedges is an…
Source – paulcraigroberts.org – “The media whores have fallen in line with the would-be dictator. All we hear is “gun violence.” If only Karl Marx were still with us. He would ridicule those who turn inanimate objects into purposeful actors. It is extraordinary that the American left-wing thinks that guns, not people, kill people”: …
Source – zerohedge.com – Gallup Explains Trump – “A Staggering 75% Of Americans Believe In Widespread Government Corruption”: Back in July, when the HuffPo was covering Donald Trump’s campaign in its “Entertainment Section” (they are not laughing now), and when not a single political pundit thought Trump had any chance of winning the GOP primary…
Source – theatlantic.com – However the Republican presidential primary turns out, the conditions that fostered the mogul’s rise have left their mark on the party—and America: In some ways, the most interesting political story of 2015 was not Donald Trump but the widespread pundit reaction to Trump. Throughout the year, until a different conclusion became…
Source – crooksandliars.com – Along with poverty and low incomes, the foreclosure rate has created its own crisis situation as the number of families removed from their homes has skyrocketed: The National Economic and Social Rights Initiative along with Amnesty International are asking the U.S. to step up its efforts to address the foreclosure crisis,…
Source – washingtonsblog.com – “And it’s not a partisan issue in the United States, either: both the ‘liberal’ and the outright conservative wings of the U.S. aristocracy are riddled with corruption, and suck the financial blood of not only their own nation, but of the foreign ones they entice into their grip, by bringing foreign…
Source – truthdig.com – “The German psychoanalyst and sociologist Erich Fromm in his book “Escape From Freedom” explained the yearning of those who are rendered insignificant to “surrender their freedom.” Totalitarian systems, he pointed out, function like messianic religious cults”: The seizure of political and economic power by corporations is unassailable. Who funds and manages…
Source – foodbeast.com – A religious group in New Jersey is willing to do anything to save the faith, including constructing a fully functional McDonald’s inside a church. Because nothing says Jesus like biting into a saucy Big Mac. They’re calling it the McMass Project. Created by Paul Di Lucca, creative director of the church…
Source – washingtonsblog.com – “…The Federal Reserve has played a game for six long years of lowering the cost of debt (i.e. the rate of interest borrowers must pay), which has enabled stagnating wages to support ever heavier debt loads. There is an endgame in sight to this financial trickery, a point of diminishing returns…
Source – truthandshadows.wordpress.com – This is Part 3 of Barrie Zwicker’s series on false flag operations. You can also read Part 1: An Introduction (April 14, 2013) and Part 2: Maximum Illusion Time. (June 10, 2013) Part 3: Trump Is Heralding Nazism …the general public is being reduced to a state where people not only…
Source – zerohedge.com – “This ship is sinking,” retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson tells Abby Martin, adding that “today the purpose of US foreign policy is to support the complex that we have created in the national security state that is fueled, funded, and powered by interminable war.” The former national security advisor to…
Source – collective-evolution.com – Despite the fact that various social, political, and human rights organizations have condemned the United States’ prison system, it remains one of the biggest businesses in existence today. Did you know that America has four percent of the world’s population, yet still carries approximately twenty five percent of the world’s prison population?…
Source – WakingTimes.com – “I should welcome almost any war, for I think this country needs one.” -President Theodore Roosevelt The American public and the world have long since been warned of the dangers of allowing the military industrial complex to become such an integral part of our economic survival. The United States is the…
Source – courthousenews.com – AUSTIN, Texas (CN) – Austin, Texas is the latest city to face a federal class action accusing it of reinstituting debtors’ prisons by jailing people who are too poor to pay fines for traffic tickets and petty misdemeanors. Such lawsuits have mushroomed in the past year, in the aftermath of the…
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