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Americans Are Only Now Beginning to Learn that We Live in a Dictatorship
Americans Are Only Now Beginning to Learn that We Live in a Dictatorship The first time when it became clear to me that I live in a dictatorship was in 2014 when reading, prior to its publication, the landmark (and still the only) scientific empirical study to address the question as to whether or not the United States federal Government is, authentically, a democracy […]
It’s Time to Rethink Education – Part 1 (Indoctrination)
It’s Time to Rethink Education – Part 1 (Indoctrination) Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. – Mark Twain As a father of two young children, my thoughts have increasingly started to center around their young lives and the future world they’ll inhabit. Such considerations quickly lead to stressful questions such as, what are the […]
Is Washington the Most Corrupt Government in History?
Is Washington the Most Corrupt Government in History? The man who died twice Robert Mueller, a former director of the FBI who is working as a special prosecutor “investigating” a contrived hoax designed by the military/security complex and the DNC to destroy the Trump presidency, has yet to produce a scrap of evidence that Russiagate […]
Corruption is Pervasive & Standard Operating Procedure
Corruption is Pervasive & Standard Operating Procedure COMMENT: I read your post on Trump, Jr. and it does appear obvious that there is no investigation into the whole Maginsky Act and why are Trump Jr.’s lawyers not exposing this more? It seems that corruption only really exists when it always involves government. KA ANSWER: Corruption […]
Corruption In China Risks A Soviet-Style Collapse – Party’s Graft Buster
Corruption In China Risks A Soviet-Style Collapse – Party’s Graft Buster Yang Xiadou is the Party’s number two man in Xi Jinping’s crackdown on corruption in the Chinese Communist Party – although some have seen this, in part, as a convenient way for Xi to bolster his power base. During the 19th Party Congress last […]
How Broke is the House of Saud?
How Broke is the House of Saud? Salvador Dalí The oecumenial council 1960Trying to figure out what on earth is happening in the Middle East appears to have gotten a lot harder. Perhaps (because) it’s become more dangerous too. There are so many players, and connections between players, involved now that even making one of […]
Saudi Arabia’ Government Purge–And How Washington Corruption Enabled It
Photo: Bandar Algaloud/Saudi Royal Council/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images SAUDI ARABIA’S GOVERNMENT PURGE — AND HOW WASHINGTON CORRUPTION ENABLED IT THE MASS ARREST of high-ranking Saudi businessmen, media figures and royal family members Saturday has shaken the global business community. Among 10 other princes and 38 others, the roundup netted Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, one of the world’s […]
So This Is What Happens With Government Disaster Relief?
So This Is What Happens With Government Disaster Relief? There is no possibility of eliminating corruption in government. The idea of having government assist after a natural disaster sounds great. It makes us feel good. Houston floods? Send millions. New Orleans floods? Send hundreds of millions. Puerto Rico? The place is a mess and needs […]
If You Want to Understand the Next 10 Years, Study Spain
If You Want to Understand the Next 10 Years, Study Spain Some of you may be confused as to why a U.S. citizen living in Colorado has become so completely obsessed with what’s going on in Spain. Bear with me, there’s a method to my madness. I believe what’s currently happening in Spain represents a […]
Which Rotten Fruit Falls First?
Which Rotten Fruit Falls First? I predict the current investigations will widen and take a variety of twists and turns that surprise all those anticipating a tidy, narrowly focused denouement. The theme this week is The Rot Within. To those of us who understand the entire status quo is rotten and corrupt to its core, […]
The United States of Weinstein: Complicity, Greed and Corruption Is the Status Quo
The United States of Weinstein: Complicity, Greed and Corruption Is the Status Quo If integrity means more than any of these baubles, then prepare to fail. The theme this week is The Rot Within. The sordid story of Harvey Weinstein is being presented as an aberration. It is not an aberration; it is merely a […]
Dan Rather Exposes Corrupt Media – But Back in 2008
Dan Rather Exposes Corrupt Media – But Back in 2008
It Gets Ugly in Brazil
It Gets Ugly in Brazil The price of corruption. In a stunning deterioration, the unemployment rate in Brazil spiked to 12.6% in the rolling three-month period through January, a record in the new data series going back to 2012, according to Brazil’s statistical agency IBGE. Up from 11.8% in the three-month period through October. Up from an […]
Reasons to Risk Nuclear Annihilation
Reasons to Risk Nuclear Annihilation Exclusive: The latest neocon/liberal-hawk scheme is for the U.S. population to risk nuclear war to protect corrupt politicians in Ukraine and Al Qaeda terrorists in east Aleppo, two rather dubious reasons to end life on the planet, says Robert Parry. Obviously, I never wanted to see a nuclear war, which would […]
