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Twenty-First-Century Fascism
Twenty-First-Century Fascism 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 of global […]
Food Sovereignty: This is What Anarchy Looks Like
Food Sovereignty: This is What Anarchy Looks Like “This is what democracy looks like” goes the popular protest chant. However, it’s not democracy that captures the imagination, provides answers, and drives today’s resistance movement. Something much more interesting has been taking place during protests, forums and intentional communities. In his book The New Left the anthropologist David […]
Ranking the Peasants – China Introduces Orwellian “Citizen Scores”
Ranking the Peasants – China Introduces Orwellian “Citizen Scores” The following is extraordinarily creepy and disturbing. It’s also extremely clever, from a jackbooted, fascist thug perspective. When massive censorship itself isn’t enough… TechDirt reports: China’s plan to control the hearts, minds and internet connections of its citizens continues unimpeded. That’s the great thing about authoritarian regimes: rollout […]
Harper’s Newspeak
Harper’s Newspeak He loves naming laws with false slogans. (So do fascists.) Newspeak: ‘An impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.’ Photo source: Stephen Harper Flickr. In 1995 the Italian writer Umberto Eco, who grew up in Mussolini’s Italy, wrote an essay on the eternal threat of […]
How & Why U.S. Media Do Propaganda Against Russia
How & Why U.S. Media Do Propaganda Against Russia The owners of U.S. newsmedia know that in order to serve their fellow U.S. aristocrats who want to kick out Russia’s current leader, Vladimir Putin, so as to enable them to buy Russia’s natural resources (and highly educated work-forces) cheap via “privatizations,” their PR campaign for […]
Gold and the Grave Dancers
Gold and the Grave Dancers The Asset They Love to Hate … Back in the 1960s, Alan Greenspan wrote a well-known essay that to this day is an essential read for anyone who wants to understand the present-day monetary and economic system (which is a kind of “fascism lite” type of statism, masquerading as capitalism) […]
Everything You Need to Know About the Greek Crisis and ECB Fascism in Two Paragraphs
Everything You Need to Know About the Greek Crisis and ECB Fascism in Two Paragraphs Yanis Varoufakis just sat down for his first interview since resigning as Finance Minister of Greece. He talked frankly with Harry Lambert of the New Statesman. Here are the two most important paragraphs from the transcript. There is no democracy in Europe. […]
How Fascist Capitalism Functions: The Case of Greece
How Fascist Capitalism Functions: The Case of Greece There is democratic capitalism, and there is fascist capitalism. What we have today is fascist capitalism; and the following will explain how it works, using as an example the case of Greece. Mark Whitehouse at Bloomberg headlined on 27 June 2015, “If Greece Defaults, Europe’s Taxpayers Lose,” and presented […]
Wikipedia as Propaganda Not History — MH17 as An Example
Wikipedia as Propaganda Not History — MH17 as An Example Wikipedia articles are more propaganda than they are historical accounts. And, often, their cited sources are misleading, or even false. On 15 August 2007, the BBC headlined “Wikipedia Shows CIA Page Edits,” and Jonathan Fildes reported that, “An online tool that claims to reveal the identity of […]
U.S. Wealth-Concentration: The Most-Accurate Current Estimates
U.S. Wealth-Concentration: The Most-Accurate Current Estimates CURRENT REALITIES: Wealthiest Tenth (10%) of Americans Own 75% of America; They Draw 40% of All U.S. Income. Wealthiest Hundredth (1%) of Americans Own 43% of America; They Draw 20% of All U.S. Income. Wealthiest Thousandth (0.1%) of Americans Own 22% of America; They Draw 8% of All U.S. Income. Wealthiest Ten-Thousandth (0.01%) Own 11.2% of […]
The Two Contending Visions of World Government
The Two Contending Visions of World Government The Origin & Broader Context of Obama’s ‘Trade’ Deals U.S. President Barack Obama’s proposed ‘Trade’ deals are actually about whether the world is heading toward a dictatorial world government — a dictatorship by the hundred or so global super-rich who hold the controlling blocks of stock in the world’s […]
Orwellian Language – the Slide toward “Velvet Glove” Fascism Continues
Orwellian Language – the Slide toward “Velvet Glove” Fascism Continues Sometimes we get the feeling the ruling elites are investing the laws they enact with a kind of impertinent, slap-in-your-face black humor. How else to explain the Orwellian names given to the liberty-crushing laws that have been put in place since the “war on terror” […]
The End Is Near, Part 1: The “War On Cash”
The End Is Near, Part 1: The “War On Cash” As the saying goes, you can know a person by the quality of his or her enemies. This is also true of societies, where moral evolution can be traced by simply listing the things on which they declare war. Not so long ago, for instance, […]
U.S. to Start Training Nazi Troops in Ukraine, on April 20th, Hitler’s Birthday
U.S. to Start Training Nazi Troops in Ukraine, on April 20th, Hitler’s Birthday It has just been announced that, on April 20th (Hitler’s birthday), U.S. troops will start training troops of Ukraine’s nazi Azov Battalion. The Azov Battalion was founded and its members were selected by Andrei Biletsky, a Ukrainian nazi (that’s an ideological term, meaning racist fascist — not […]
