AMERIKA: ‘Forecast 2023’, Get Out Of The Way If You Can’t Lend A Hand – By James Howard Kunstler

Source – kunstler.com “…America is at a crossroads, a threshold, a tipping point. Every vital institution in the land has been at least partially wrecked, most especially the ones in charge of the rule of law, which was the best thing we had going for us. The Deep State is for real — the weaponization…

DEEP STATE: ‘Mysteries Of The Deep State’, Examining The Hidden Hands That Guide World Events – By Dr Tim Coles

Source – newdawnmagazine.com “…The term Deep State is widely attributed to the academic Peter Dale Scott, who notes that at least four major political events in modern US history were designed by Deep State actors: the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Watergate (1972-74), the Iran-Contra Affair (1985-87), and 9/11. In each case, Deep State actors…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: ‘Pentagon Capitalism’, The Democrats Are Now The War Party – By Chris Hedges

Source – scheerpost.com “…The Democratic Party has become the party of permanent war, fueling massive military spending which is hollowing out the country from the inside and flirting with nuclear war…“The truth of the matter is that we’re in a heavily militarized society driven by greed, lust for profit, and wars are being created just…

BIG BROTHER: ‘You’d Better Watch Out’, The Surveillance State Is Making a List, & You’re On It – By John & Nisha Whitehead

Source – rutherford.org “… You’d better watch out—you’d better not pout—you’d better not cry—‘cos I’m telling you why: this Christmas, it’s the Surveillance State that’s making a list and checking it twice, and it won’t matter whether you’ve been bad or good. You’ll be on this list whether you like it or not” You’d Better…

AMERIKA: ‘Bad Santa’, The War On Christmas Is A War On America – By Don Feeder

Source – washingtontimes.com “…The left hates Christmas because it hates all expressions of faith in our society. On a deeper level, however, the War on Christmas is a war on America…This is reflected in the push to get Christmas trees out of public parks and libraries (which have no problem celebrating Pride Month and having “drag queen story hour”)…The War on Christmas isn’t…

BIG BROTHER: ‘Then & Now’, The Christmas Baby Born In A Police State – By John W. & Nisha Whitehead

Source – rutherford.org “…What if, instead of being born into the Roman police state, Jesus had been born at this moment in time?…If his family were forced to flee violence in their native country and sought refuge and asylum within our borders, what sanctuary would we offer them? A singular number of churches across the…

AMERIKA: ‘After Bush, Obama & Biden’, Restoring Freedom Of Expression In The West – By Thierry Meyssan

Source – voltairenet.org “…Republican President George Bush Jr., and Democratic Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden have destroyed freedom of expression in the West. All three have managed to make the main media support their common ideology. In two decades, the press has turned a blind eye to anything that contradicts the official rhetoric from…

AMERIKA: ‘Criminalizing Poverty’, Teaching Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago in Prison – By Chris Hedges

Source – scheerpost.com “…What Solzhenitsyn underwent during his eight years as a prisoner in the labor camps was familiar to my students, most of whom are people of color, poor, often lacking competent legal representation and almost always coerced into signing confessions or accepting plea deals that include crimes, or versions of crimes they were…

REBEL YELL: Yes, Jesus Would Have Been Branded A Domestic Extremist Today – By John & Nisha Whitehead

Source – rutherford.org “…What would Jesus—the baby born in Bethlehem who grew into an itinerant preacher and revolutionary activist, who not only died challenging the police state of his day (namely, the Roman Empire) but spent his adult life speaking truth to power, challenging the status quo of his day, and pushing back against the…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: How The Corporate Takeover Of American Politics Began – By Robert Reich

Source – robertreich.org “…Corporate money supports platoons of lawyers, often outgunning any state or federal attorneys who dare to stand in their way. Lobbying has become a $3.7 billion dollar industry…Lobbyists and their allies in Congress, and eventually the Reagan administration, worked to defang agencies like the FTC — and to staff them with officials…

STRANGE DAZE: ‘Poisoning The Well’, Extinguishing Knowledge, Perverting Culture & Incubating Dystopia

Source – zerohedge.com “…I came to live in the United States from the Communist block in late 1980s. At that time, the cultural environment upheld free speech as sacrosanct. Suggesting any limitations on free speech would have been rejected outright and viewed with great suspicion. Somehow, this has been turned on its head in the…

AMERIKA: ‘Prince Of Darkness’, Two Antithetical Billionaires – By Victor Davis Hanson

Source – amgreatness.com “…Musk’s mortal sin was not just buying the money-losing Twitter and reinventing it as a free-speech platform. Musk’s crime was far worse. First, was the sin of betrayal. A month ago, all those Teslas on the streets of Palo Alto, Austin, and Cambridge were virtue-signaling proof of green moral superiority. Then suddenly,…

CROSSROADS: ‘Plan B’, Has America’s Reached It’s King Charles II Of Spain Moment?…

Source – sovereignman.com “…Spain was in desperate need of a strong, effective leader who was capable of reversing the decline. Instead they got Charles…They supported the Inquisition’s war on freedom of thought and intellectual dissent; in fact, in 1680, Charles presided over one of the most violent public executions in the history of the Spanish…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: ‘Rothbardian Thought’, Globally Controlled Trade – By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

Source – lewrockwell.com “…Coerced restraints on trade-such as protectionism-cripple, hobble, and destroy trade, the source of life and prosperity. Protectionism is simply a plea that consumers, as well as general prosperity, be hurt so as to confer permanent special privilege upon groups of inefficient producers, at the expense of competent firms and of consumers. But it…

CORPRO-FASCISM: ‘Serf City, U.S.A.’, Know Thine Enemy – By Chris Hedges

Source – scheerpost.com “…The railroad barons refuse to permit sick days because they have stripped the railroads down to skeleton crews in a process known as precision scheduled railroading, or PSR. In essence, no spare labor is available, which is why the reduced labor force is subjected to such punishingly short periods of time off and onerous working conditions”…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: Once Upon A Time The US Taxed The Rich – By Sam Pizzigati

Source – commondreams.org “…But taxes,” he emphasizes, “have been a principal engine of worsening economic inequality simply because the wealthy, thanks to their success in Congress, now have more money—to buy stocks, invest in real estate, build megayachts, blast off into space, and make campaign contributions to politicians so the cycle isn’t interrupted” Once Upon…

REBEL YELL: ‘Kafka-esque’, A Light In The Darkness – By James Howard Kunstler

Source – kunstler.com ‘…Nothing else so far has confronted the Left’s crusade to overturn American life so stoutly as Elon Musk’s reform of Twitter. It seems to be working. The Wokesters are acting like a gang on-the-run. Pretty soon they’ll be ratting out each other to save their skins. Reality is a harsh mistress when…

HIGH CRIMES: FTX & The Corruption Of America – By Charles Hugh Smith

Source – charleshughsmith.blogspot.com ‘…What all the entrenched insiders in America’s parasitic, predatory elites and institutions don’t dare admit is that to protect themselves from consequence, we’ve had to sacrifice everything else…Thanks to the FTX swindle, we now know the cost of a get out of jail free card in America: $40 million, paid to political elites. It seems…

KILL THE MESSENGER: JFK & The War On Our Heroes – By Kit Knightly

Source – off-guardian.org “…Over time the American Imperialists fermented into what we call the Deep State. Interconnected families of enormous wealth and immeasurable economic influence, given complete monetary control after the founding of the Federal Reserve, and handed the reins of military and political power when Harry Truman signed the order that established the CIA.…

AMERIKA: How Unaccountable Institutions Are Shaping Your Life – By Robert Reich

Source – robertreich.org “… Five of the current justices were put there by presidents who lost the popular vote in their first election. Only 40 percent of the public now approves of the Supreme Court’s performance, a new low. Yet because justices are appointed for life, its members are immune to checks and balances, no matter how unpopular their rulings may…

AMERIKA: ‘Plato’s Cave’, Dr Naomi Wolf – America’s Broken Digital Hallucinogens

Source – naomiwolf.substack.com “…I explained how colluding elected officials and government bureaucrats echoed in their turn the “findings” of the lying digital dashboards; and then, the corrupted media echoed the corrupted officials and the corrupted data; and finally, the whole corrupt circle spun round and round through these three mutually impacted worlds of corruption, with…

AMERIKA: A Tale Of Two Mid-Terms – By Dr. Ron Paul

Source – ronpaulinstitute.org “…Fortunately, the liberty movement has remained committed to principles. As the failure of the welfare-warfare state to deliver peace and property — and the failure of the Federal Reserve to fulfill its mandate of ensuring stable prices and low unemployment — become clear, more Americans will join the liberty movement. Support for…

RAINBOW WARRIOR: The Good Priest – By Chris Hedges

Source – scheerpost.com “…They provided another way to speak about the world. They reminded us that our primary task in life is to care for others. These moral giants, by their very presence and steadfast refusal to surrender, damned the avarice, lust for power, hedonism and violence that define corporate culture…He saw the United States…

HIGH CRIMES: ‘Imperial Corruption’, I Used To Be Disgusted, Now I’m Disabused – By Charles Hugh Smith

Source – oftwominds.com “…Vested interests block adaptions that threaten their share of the spoils. Any advance that increases efficiency and productivity and furthers the public good is squelched, suppressed or co-opted by vested interests who rightly fear their share of the spoils might be diminished by advances that obsolete their particular cartel, monopoly or other embedded…

AMERIKA: Four States Voted To End Slavery…But Not Louisiana

Source – truthout.org “…For decades, journalists have documented the testimonies of Black prisoners at the Angola prison farm who say they are forced to pick cotton and other crops under the hot sun and watchful eyes of wardens. Curtis Davis, a lead organizer with Decarcerate Louisiana’s effort to pass Amendment 7, was released from Angola…

CRONY CAPITALISM: Regardless Of Who’s Elected, Imperial Corruption Rules The Nation – By Charles Hughes Smith

Source – oftwominds.com “…While the much-touted differences between America’s political parties get obsessive, hysterical attention, the sameness of Imperial corruption, waste and squalor regardless of who’s in power gets little notice…The core of Imperial Corruption is the disconnect between the nation’s ideals of representational democracy and open markets and the sordid reality: elites serve their…

CORPRO-FASCISM: The Politicians Who Destroyed Our Democracy Want Us To Vote For Them To Save It – By Chris Hedges

Source – scheerpost.com “…The bipartisan project of dismantling our democracy, which took place over the last few decades on behalf of corporations and the rich, has left only the outward shell of democracy. The courts, legislative bodies, the executive branch and the media, including public broadcasting, are captive to corporate power. There is no institution…

AMERIKA: ‘Oligopoly’, The Trojan Horse Presidency – By Dmitri Orlov

Source – thesaker.is “…The United States is not a democracy and it doesn’t matter who is president…I stand by that statement, which I believe to be a provable statement of fact. Statistics show that there is zero correlation between public preferences and public policy decisions but a strong correlation between business lobby group preferences and…

AMERIKA: ‘Constitutional Defamation’, Democrats, Not Democracy, Are In Danger This Election – By Jonathan Turley

Source – jonathanturley.org “…What leaders like President Biden seem to forget is that our Constitution not only was written for times like this, it was written in a time like this. Federalists and Jeffersonians actually — not just figuratively — tried to kill each other with the use of laws like the Alien and Sedition Acts” Constitutional Defamation: Democrats,…

CROSSROADS: ‘Left Hook’, The Makings Of An Election-Day Disaster – By Ralph Nader

Source – scheerpost.com “…The problem is that the monied interests corrupt our elections, from pressing their own choice of candidates, financing them, directing them and backing them with nonstop television/radio/social media propaganda, and using front groups to promote lies and coverups…Year after year, this assault has ground most voters into – Republicans and Democrats under…

AMERIKA: ‘America’s Endgame’, Crucible Of Choice – By Alan Ned Sabrosky

Source – veteranstoday.com “…On the eve of the 2022 mid-term elections here, these words were penned by Yeats as Europe reeled in the aftermath of that fratricidal bloodletting misnamed the Great War (1914-18), a time of broken lives and empires that benefited principally Bolsheviks and bankers (perhaps only two sides of the same shekel), have…

AMERIKA: Political ‘Justice’ In America – By Ron Paul MD

Source – ronpaulinstitute.org “…How is it politicized justice for Bannon to be punished for ignoring a subpoena from the US Congress? Because many before him have been charged with contempt of Congress – including Democratic Party luminaries such as Eric Holder, Janet Reno, and Lois Lerner – and were never sentenced to jail time. Bannon’s…