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Chris Hedges: U.S. citizens are living in an inverted totalitarian country
Chris Hedges: U.S. citizens are living in an inverted totalitarian country Chris Hedges The mainstream media deflects attention from where power resides: corporations, not with the leaders of the free world. The arguments posed by Chris Hedges, that the U.S. is neither a democracy nor a republic but a totalitarian state that can now assassinate […]
Check Your Mute List On Twitter For Possible New Censorship Shenanigans
Check Your Mute List On Twitter For Possible New Censorship Shenanigans I decided a while back that I’m just going to document all the weird censorship activities that I personally encounter from giant social media corporations in order to have information available to the public so the hive mind can connect the dots on all […]
Local and regional community resilience building is going global
Local and regional community resilience building is going global In recent years the resilience imperative has made it onto the agenda of local and national governments, business leaders and international institutions like the European Union and the United Nations. In 2010, the UN Office for Disaster and Risk Reduction launched the five-year Making Cities Resilient campaign […]
Former OPCW official: no conclusive proof of Russian complicity in Salisbury attack
Former OPCW official: no conclusive proof of Russian complicity in Salisbury attack But Russia’s denial of past ‘Novichok’ programmes is misleading Nerve agent found in Salisbury does not conclusively prove Russian complicity Russia’s denial of a Novichok programme is true but misleading — a secret nerve agent programme to create Novichok-type agents was run under a different […]
The degenerative impacts of our money system
The degenerative impacts of our money system “The way that a national economy preys on its internal colonies is by the destruction of communities” — Wendell Berry The creation of money with interest has two main impacts on the operation of today’s economies. Our monetary system creates the need for economic growth by design One of the […]
Why I Disagree With The Strategy Of Exiting Facebook, Twitter And YouTube
Why I Disagree With The Strategy Of Exiting Facebook, Twitter And YouTube Earlier this month Ben Swann, an important voice for whom I have nothing but respect, expressed a sentiment in one of his excellent Reality Check videos that I’m seeing more and more in anti-establishment circles, and I happen to strongly disagree with it. In […]
Halfway Thoughts On Today’s Food Movements–Still Under Construction–Give Me Another Day!
HALFWAY THOUGHTS ON TODAY’S FOOD MOVEMENTS — STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION — GIVE ME ANOTHER DAY! Some people wonder if youthful food movements spreading through cities across the Global North are half-full, half-empty — or maybe even half-baked. The timing for such questioning is perfect. Once a new trend gets over its first flush, people start to judge it as a movement that […]
The UK government is manufacturing its nerve agent case for ‘action’ on Russia
The UK government is manufacturing its nerve agent case for ‘action’ on Russia Official claim that ‘Novichok’ points solely to Russia discredited Military personnel investigate the Novichok poisoning in Salisbury Published by INSURGE intelligence, a crowdfundedinvestigative journalism platform for people and planet. Support us to report where others fear to tread. On Monday, Prime Minister Theresa May […]
For Two Months, I Got My News From Print Newspapers. Here’s What I Learned.
For Two Months, I Got My News From Print Newspapers. Here’s What I Learned. I tried to skip digital news for a while. My old-school experiment led to three main conclusions Photo: Doug Chayka/The New York Times I first got news of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, via an alert on my watch. Even though I […]
Tell Me More About How Google Isn’t Part Of The Government And Can Therefore Censor Whoever It Wants?
Tell Me More About How Google Isn’t Part Of The Government And Can Therefore Censor Whoever It Wants? When you tell an establishment Democrat that Google’s hiding and removal of content is a dangerous form of censorship, they often magically transform into Ayn Rand right before your eyes. “It’s a private company and they can do […]
Army document: US strategy to ‘dethrone’ Putin for oil pipelines might provoke WW3
Army document: US strategy to ‘dethrone’ Putin for oil pipelines might provoke WW3 Senior DIA, Air Force and Army officials admit that NATO expansionism and US covert interference in Russian internal politics may trigger “next global conflict” French soldiers unload tanks from a train in northern Poland for a NATO military exercise (Source: LA Times) Published by […]
Social Media Censorship Is Vastly More Dangerous Than The Censored Material
Social Media Censorship Is Vastly More Dangerous Than The Censored Material US oligarchs: Russia hacked our election. Public: Uh oh! What should we do about it? US oligarchs: Greatly inflate the military budget, sanction US rivals, and censor dissenting opinions. Public: Umm… aren’t those things you’ve always wanted to do anyway? US oligarchs: Hush. I know […]
Most of what you’re going to read today is pointless.
Most of what you’re going to read today is pointless. We spend hours consuming news because we want to be well informed. But is that time well spent? News is by definition something that doesn’t last. And as news has become easier to distribute and cheaper to produce, the quality has decreased. Rarely do we […]
The US Empire Is Acting Like A Desperate, Cornered Animal, Because That’s What It Is
The US Empire Is Acting Like A Desperate, Cornered Animal, Because That’s What It Is I love Americans. I get friendly flak from some of my more jaded lefty readers whenever I say that, because having to deal with the flaws of one’s own countrymen is a very different experience than appreciating them from afar, but […]
The imminent crash.
The imminent crash. The world is in a credit bubble, the likes of which we have never seen before. About 3 weeks ago, on my Facebook and Twitter, I indicated that that US stock market would crash soon, and that it would be a symptom of a larger problem. In the following days I also clarified my […]
