Source – hangthebankers.com – The president and his top advisers have kept an open door for CEOs of Fortune 100 companies, keeping almost 1,000 appointments with them, a Reuters review of White House records shows. Of the hundreds of appointments listed, Obama himself was present at about half. As the corrupting hand of government intervention spreads, so CEOs…
Source – globalresearch.ca – You won’t believe who’s on this list. Once slavery was abolished in 1865, manufacturers scrambled to find other sources of cheap labor—and because the 13th amendment banned slavery (except as punishment for crimes), they didn’t have to look too far. Prisons and big businesses have now been exploiting this loophole in the…
Source – democracynow.org – Describing the United States as an “advanced Third World country,” longtime consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader calls for a new mass movement to challenge the power corporations have in Washington. “It is not too extreme to call our system of government now ‘American fascism.’ It’s the control of…
Source – truth-out.org – Speaking with NPR this week, multimillionaire Mackey tried to express how much he hates Obamacare. Back in 2009, he hated Obamacare so much that he called it “socialism.” But now, in 2013, Mackey thinks Obamacare is “fascism.” – “Technically speaking, [Obamacare] is more like fascism,” he said. “Socialism is where the…
Source – wakingtimes.com – Similar to the end of feudalism hundreds of years ago, is capitalism to be replaced by a new type of social infrastructure and an emergence of a new kind of human being? Many believe that the much-needed shift has already started, as the message that capitalism is not working becomes louder and…
Source – wakeup-world.com – Secret TPP Text Unveiled: It’s worse than we thought, with limits on food safety and controversial investor-state system expanded, rollback of Bush-era medicine access and environmental terms. Long-awaited text reveals gaps between administration claims and actual TPP terms on key congressional and public concerns. Thursday’s long-awaited release of the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)…
Source – hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com – During the Nicaraguan contra war, the CIA ran a guns-for-drugs operation out of Belize. One note in Oliver North’s diaries read, “Proceed on White House project in Belize”. Another read, “wants to contact drug people in Belize camps”. In 1984 Walter Mischer, a Houston business man with mob connections started a…
Source – spitfirelist.com – The bloody 1965 coup against Sukarno is known to have been largely engineered by the CIA. By some accounts, the death toll reached 1,000,000, with the victims including many liberals, journalists, artists, writers and others viewed with distaste by the army. A recent issue of German Foreign Policy (which feeds along the…
Source – nytimes.com, By Nicholas Confessore, Sarah Cohen and Karen Yourish – A stunning feature in the New York Times details how a mere 158 American households comprised nearly half of all the money donated to 2016 presidential campaigns thus far. These donors are disproportionately white, male, old, and unbelievably wealthy. In total, these families account for…
Source – nakedcapitalism.com – ..An extended discussion between Chris Hedges and Sheldon Wolin on capitalism and democracy. This offering focuses on what Wolin calls “inverted totalirianism,” or how corporations and government are working together to keep the general public in thrall. Wolin discusses how propaganda and the suppression of critical thinking serve to a promote…
Source – newdawnmagazine.com – There is no proletarian, not even communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, in the directions indicated by money, and for the time permitted by money – and that without the idealist amongst its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact. – Oswald Spengler1 One of…
Source – rabble.ca/ – For many in the Global North, certain countries only appear on our radar screens as discount winter vacation hotspots. Other times, when natural disaster strikes, these countries serve as empathy-building backdrops to raise millions for charities that, after skimming some off the top, may distribute some of the contributions for the…
Source – truthandshadows.wordpress.com – “A clique of U.S. industrialist is hell bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democratic government and is working closely with the fascist regime in Germany and Italy. I have had plenty of opportunity in my post in Berlin to witness how close some of our American ruling families…
Source – counterpunch.org – Globalization of trade and central banking has propelled private corporations to positions of power and control never before seen in human history. Under advanced capitalism, the structural demands for a return on investment require an unending expansion of centralized capital in the hands of fewer and fewer people. The financial center…
Source – andrewgavinmarshall.com – There exists an overlapping and highly integrated network of institutions, committees and secret meetings of ad-hoc groups that collectively run the global economy. This network consists of finance ministries, central banks, international organizations and the various conferences and confabs that bring them together. This network is responsible for facilitating global financial…
Source – EFF.org. – Today’s release by WikiLeaks of what is believed to be the current and essentially final version of the intellectual property (IP) chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) confirms our worst fears about the agreement, and dashes the few hopes that we held out that its most onerous provisions wouldn’t survive to…
Source – strategic-culture.org – As of 5 October 2015, a super-secret 12-nation treaty called TPP is set to be signed by the 12 nations, and the terms of this massive international contract will be kept secret until the contract has been in force for four years, at which time the contents might (but won’t necessarily)…
Source – politicalblindspot.com – A report by Jeremy Scahill in The Nation revealed that the largest mercenary army in the world, Blackwater (later called Xe Services and more recently “Academi“) clandestine intelligence services was sold to the multinational Monsanto. Blackwater was renamed in 2009 after becoming famous in the world with numerous reports of abuses in…
Source – webofdebt.com – The Fed is privately owned. Its shareholders are private banks: “The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debt” – Henry Ford, – “Some people think that the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government institutions. They are private monopolies which prey upon the…
Source – paulcraigroberts.org – Before the West spreads democracy abroad maybe it could get some for itself. The US is an oligarchy in which government is answerable to six powerful private interest groups. In Europe governments are answerable to the EU, Washington, and private bankers and not to their peoples. In the UK the military…
Source – ericpetersautos.com – Democracy is an incredibly successful long con. It works because of the illusion of consent. People actually believe they are “represented.” And so, they accept impositions that would otherwise be intolerable, if imposed on them by a king or a fuhrer or generalissimo. But when the “people” have decided… . Except…
Source – GoldenJackass.com – The 9/11 event was the coming out party for the American Fascists. It was also a complex sequence of criminal events, to abrogate $230 billion in Russian bonds, to wipe clean the Black Eagle Fund on gold obligations. But in the immediate, it was a bank heist: The ultimate patriotic act…
Source – counterpunch.org – Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both spent around $1bn on their 2012 presidential campaigns. Rather than fund a candidate in 2016, New York billionaire Donald Trump decided to stand himself. “My income is $400m a year,” he claimed. “Sure, I would spend it [on campaigning].” In 1992 billionaire Ross Perot promised…
Source – corbettreport.com – Forget for one moment everything you’ve been told about September 11, 2001. 9/11 was a crime. And as with any crime, there is one overriding imperative that detectives must follow to identify the perpetrators: follow the money. This is an investigation of the 9/11 money trail. https://www.corbettreport.com/?p=16167
Source – thirdworldtraveler.com – This article was first published by GR 14 years ago upon the inauguration of our website on September 9, 2001 What drives incarceration and the massive build-up in American criminal justice? Are specific corporate interests taking control of criminal justice policy, as is often the case with military policy? Has the…
Source – mintpressnews.com – The private prison industry has become an increasingly lucrative business, as the companies running them seek to increase profits by cutting inmates’ food provisions while pressuring state governors to guarantee prisons remain 90 percent full at all times. In recent years, for-profit prisons have grown in popularity. The number of private…
Source – fpif.org – Greece’s left-wing government stood up to their creditors, only to be politically executed. Is the far right set to pick up the mantle?: – For a moment this summer, it appeared that Greece had cornered its creditors. In a hotly contested vote in which their European neighbors openly intervened, Greeks overwhelmingly…
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