Source – economicprism.com “…Therein lies the paradox. People say they love and cherish freedom. They’ll celebrate it on Independence Day with reverence and zeal. Yet they will sacrifice it for safety and security. They will incrementally trade freedom for the promise of government salvation. The future democratic tyrannies, predicted Tocqueville in 1840, will extend “over…
Source – strategic-culture.org “…American political science professor Colin Cavell. In the following interview, Cavell takes the long historical view of how the two-party system has been used traditionally as a reactionary device to conceal and shore up the oligarchic power of U.S. capitalism. The essence of the system is dividing the mass of ordinary working…
Source – veteranstoday.com “…The three branches of government (Executive, Legislative and Judicial) and the agencies under their command—Defense, Commerce, Education, Homeland Security, Justice, Treasury, etc.—have switched their allegiance to the Corporate State with its unassailable pursuit of profit at all costs and by any means possible” One Nation Under Greed – By Jonas E. Alexis…
Source – oftwominds.com –“…War is an extremely profitable business if one manages to keep the conflict out of the home country. War profiteering has as long a history as war itself….If the industry is warfighting, then wars will manifest, with “victory” being the stated goal but utilization and expansion of assets being the actual purpose.…
Source – geopolitics.co -“…While the US is complaining that Kopelman misled the court, one of their key witnesses, Sigurdur Thordarson, admitted to fabricating his witness testimony against Assange in exchange for immunity. So is lying and misleading the court only acceptable when it’s done on behalf of the Department of Justice? Julian Assange is A…
Source – bleepingcomputer.com –“…FBI’s TSC is used by multiple federal agencies to manage and share consolidated information for counterterrorism purposes. The agency maintains the classified watchlist called the Terrorist Screening Database, sometimes also referred to as the “no-fly list.” Such databases are regarded as highly sensitive in nature, considering the vital role they play in aiding national security and…
Source – oftwominds.com “…The real dynamic behind this happy-story shuck-and-jive is unprecedented prosperity for those with access to low-cost credit generated out of thin air by central banks. In other words, introducing market forces leads to the dominance of those who control those forces –banks and corporations…The unraveling we’re witnessing is just getting started. The…
Source – off-guardian.org “…It astounds me that my Progressive friends — the same ones who claim to support “social justice” — are welcoming a fascist society in which government crushes any opposition and individuals cannot make choices about their own lives. I will not comply because I do not want to live in the society…
Source – oftwominds.com “…Neoliberalism-is all fun and games when it’s stripmining some distant developing-world nation, but since opportunities have dried up globally, the stripmining machine has come home to America and its target is America’s middle class” Stripmining the Middle Class: Neoliberalism Comes Home to Roost – By Charles Hugh Smith But once this last…
Source – sovereignman.com “…Just last month Wells Fargo closed the accounts of two different conservative activists, without explanation. In 2019, JP Morgan Chase did the same thing. And the CEO of the alternative social media website Gab had four banks in four weeks ban the company’s account, allegedly because the platform harbors “extremist content.”All of…
Source – off-guardian.org “…Major investment firms such as Vanguard and Blackrock, along with rental companies such as American Homes 4 Rent, are buying up single-family homes in record numbers – sometimes entire neighbourhoods at a time….in the last year, the private investment share of single-family home purchases is estimated to have increased ten-fold, going from…
Source – goldmoney.com “…In this, the greatest of Great Games, America has seen the strategic advantage move to the China—Russia partnership, which probably explains why the US is backing off from Asia. Meanwhile, China’s production-based economy is strong while that of the US remains weak, a weakness only disguised by monetary inflation“ Western Socialism &…
Source – tomdispatch.com “…Forget any fantasies about us spreading democracy abroad. We’re now in a country that’s visibly threatening to lose democracy at home. Forget Afghanistan. From the January 6th assault on the Capitol to the latest (anti-)voting laws in Texas and elsewhere, there’s a flailing, failing system right here in the U.S. of A. And unlike Afghanistan, it’s not one…
Source – capitalistexploits.at “…China is laying siege to the USA by slowing down production and delivery of goods…Corporate America sacrificed national interests in service of greed, and so did the U.S. government. As we all know, the source of Corporate America’s unprecedented explosion in profits in the 21st century is the offshoring of manufacturing to…
Source – thedailybell.com “…The great struggle of the 21st century is not kinetic but rather spiritual warfare: the People vs. the Corporate State…Predictably, the “lifestyle journalists” at Vice News got ahold of the story and distorted it from an objective accounting of an interesting alternative lifestyle into a fact-free smear job against “transphobic,” racist Q-Anon…
Source – unz.com “…The “tech war” is not a competition of technological prowess between China and America, but an attempt by the US to strangle China’s tech advance by denying it access to technology. It is a complex dance as America tries to block some technology and China tries to develop a substitute” Watching China:…
Source – caitlinjohnstone.com ”…Hollywood trained us to fear psychopathic killers prowling around in the dark so we won’t notice the psychopathic killers who rule our world in broad daylight. We’ve been trained to fear the serial killer covered in blood and wielding a chainsaw so we won’t notice the serial killer wearing a suit and wielding…
Source – journal-neo.org ”…A game is afoot. Laws are being passed, in state after state, that disenfranchise eligible voters, tens of millions of them, not criminals or “illegal aliens” but working Americans who are now living under regional governments that have abandoned any system of justice or decency as much of America descends into fascism.…
Source – geopolitics.co ”…The essence of the system is dividing the mass of ordinary working Americans into petty rival camps of two parties distracted by reactionary political issues. That mechanism, he contends, has now reached the end of its effectiveness. The system is moribund from deep-seated, corrosive social problems of inequality and a lack of…
Source – strategic-culture.org “…In plain English, the Biden Administration is calling on Americans to spy on friends, neighbors and family and reporting any “extremist” views to the authorities. Well, Facebook is now fully on board with more of the same, engaged in the “hot” war against the “white supremacists/extremists/domestic terrorists….In truth Americans are standing at…
Source – oftwominds.com “…This wholesale transfer of wealth and income from workers to Capital was documented by a RAND Corporation report, Trends in Income From 1975 to 2018. Time magazine summarized the findings: The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90% — And That’s Made the U.S. Less Secure“ The…
Source – zerohedge.com “…As the ruling class went to absurd lengths to try and dismantle Donald Trump, pissed off supporters watched in horror as a captured media peddled lie after lie – typically based on anonymous leaks from deep state bureaucrats, and as powerful agents within America’s intelligence apparatus falsified evidence and collaborated with foreign…
Source – rt.com “…As the US runs out of concrete resources to sell, bankers have had to get clever – whether this means repackaging assets already sold six times over….By the time Americans realized that the promised ‘trickle-down’ theory of neoliberal economics was in fact more of a speedy trickle-up…Blackstone became notorious for slurping up…
Source – liberationschool.org “…In 1934, the McCormack-Dickstein Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, after weeks of investigation, concluded that “certain persons had made an attempt to establish a fascist organization in this country.”[6] The American Liberty League, as this organization was known, served as the driving force behind what the bourgeois press described as…
Source – realclearpolitics.com “…Monetizing political connections is standard practice in Washington, where politicians and senior bureaucrats move seamlessly from their government positions to K Street lobbying. Gone are the days when retired members of Congress or presidential aides returned home after stints in government. Too much money is floating around the Swamp for the taking.…
Source – amgreatness.com “…Our adversaries can’t quite believe their good fortune. Had they thought up ways to divide and impoverish America, to see its cities burned, and looted, to weaken its economy and currency, to erode the unity of its once feared military, and to entrench the most effective critics of America in America—not in Beijing, Moscow,…
Source – lewrockwell.com “…Watching McAfee speak in Barcelona in 2019, one is reminded of the vitality, confidence, passion and genius that some fans of the US government would like to ascribe to the perfect G-man, Rumsfeld. Not long after this talk, the USG indicted McAfee for unreported income of $23 million, ostensively hidden from the…
Source – charleshughsmith.blogspot.com “…Though no one dares confess this publicly, America is now a moral cesspool. As a result, the moral legitimacy of the nation’s leadership has been lost. Every nook and cranny of institutionalized America is dominated by self-interest, and much of the economy is controlled by profiteering monopolies and cartels which wield far more…
Source – scheerpost.com “…The historian Johan Huizinga, writing about the twilight of the Middle Ages, argued that as things fall apart sadism is embraced to cope with the hostility of an indifferent universe. No longer bound to a common purpose, a ruptured society retreats into hedonism and the cult of the self. It celebrates, as…
Source – theblaze.com “…Just five years after Barack Obama completed two terms as president of the United States, we’re supposed to believe America has been overrun by violent white supremacists determined to reinstate segregation, Jim Crow laws, and maybe even slavery….The real war is about global power and the future of America’s system of government.…
Source – oftwominds.com “…America’s fast-expanding class of billionaires are doing their best to mimic the clueless French nobility just before France’s convulsive revolution in 1789…America’s ruling elite has rewritten the social contract to benefit itself at the expense of the bottom 99.9%. Studies have confirmed that the bottom 99.9% hold virtually no political power, and…
Source – fff.org “…The Trump–Deep State clash is a showdown between a presidency that is far too powerful versus federal agencies that have become fiefdoms with immunity for almost any and all abuses…Secrecy is the ultimate entitlement program for the Deep State. The federal government is creating trillions of pages of new secrets every year.…
Source – journal-neo.org “….By now it should be clear to anyone who bothers to look, that the person who claims to be US President, 78-year old Joe Biden, is not making any decisions. He even has difficulty reading a teleprompter or answering prepared questions from friendly media without confusing Syria and Libya or even whether…
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