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Chris Hedges: American Bloodlands
Chris Hedges: American Bloodlands The enraged, polarized segments of the population are rapidly consolidating as the political center disintegrates. Fires and tear gas at the Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse perimeter fence during protests over the police killing of George Floyd in Portland, Oregon, July 22, 2020. (Tedder, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons) By Chris Hedges ScheerPost.com […]
Tens Of Millions Of People Displaced By The ‘War On Terror’, The Greatest Scam Ever Invented
Tens Of Millions Of People Displaced By The ‘War On Terror’, The Greatest Scam Ever Invented A new report from Brown University’s Costs of War project has found that at least 37 million people have been displaced as a result of America’s so-called “war on terror” since 9/11, a conservative estimate of a number that may actually […]
The Democrats are Indeed Looking for a Coup d’etat
The Democrats are Indeed Looking for a Coup d’etat The Democrats are approaching the military to remove Trump as long as the major press declares Biden the winner. They also have the intelligence agencies in their back pocket. Based upon our computer projections for Panic Cycles starting in November and running into February, yet predominantly […]
Do we have room for a billion Americans?
Do we have room for a billion Americans? As I was reading Matthew Yglesias’ piece “The Case for Adding 672 Million More Americans,” the Soviet-era designation of Mother Heroine, initiated by Joseph Stalin in 1944, came to mind. Stalin and subsequent Soviet leaders gave Mother Heroine medals to mothers who bore and raised 10 or more children. Lesser […]
Book Review: The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy
BOOK REVIEW: THE DEFICIT MYTH: MODERN MONETARY THEORY AND THE BIRTH OF THE PEOPLE’S ECONOMY In January, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its Budget and Economic outlook for 2020 to 2030. It is horrific reading. Federal budget deficits are projected to rise from $1.0 trillion this year to $1.3 trillion over the next 10 […]
Assange Extradition Hearing Resumes on Monday in London
Assange Extradition Hearing Resumes on Monday in London If extradited to US, the WikiLeaks founder could face up to 175 years in prison The extradition hearing for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is set to resume in London on Monday, September 7th. Assange is currently being held in Belmarsh Prison, and if extradited to the US, […]
The Economy Continues To Unravel Despite All Stimulus Measures
The Economy Continues To Unravel Despite All Stimulus Measures Since the pandemic lockdowns were first implemented in the US I have been more concerned with the government and central bank response than the virus itself. As I have noted in past articles, the pandemic restrictions and subsequent economic and social crisis events they help to create […]
Market Update: The Fed’s Big Lie
Market Update: The Fed’s Big Lie Ignore Powell’s happy talk. The Fed is desperate and merely playing for time. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell announced on Thursday that the Fed will now shift its focus from hitting inflation targets and instead […]
In The Long Run We Are All Alive
In The Long Run We Are All Alive In 1976, economist Herbert Stein, father of Ben Stein, the economics professor in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, observed that U.S. government debt was on an unsustainable trajectory. He, thus, established Stein’s Law: “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.” Stein may have been right in […]
Poltics & the Decline & Fall of America
Poltics & the Decline & Fall of America The Democratic National Convention was moved out of the Fiserv Forum to a smaller venue across downtown Milwaukee and the attendance was around 300 people. There have been allegations that Biden’s speech was prerecorded and masterfully edited. The Democrats insist it was live. There were some journalists who […]
Evil Geniuses: How the Rich Took Control of America (and Canada)
Evil Geniuses: How the Rich Took Control of America (and Canada) Kurt Andersen looks at the not-so-secret conspiracy by the rich, right and big business. Donald Trump’s presidency is just one result of a 50-year conspiracy to ensure the rich and the right controlled America. Photo: US government. They may have sentenced Leonard Cohen to 20 years […]
MSM Is Propaganda: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
MSM Is Propaganda: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix The US tortures journalists and whistleblowers, arms terrorists, kills children with starvation sanctions, wages endless wars, facilitates mass atrocities in Yemen, repeatedly used nuclear weapons on civilian populations, circles the entire planet with hundreds of military bases and bullies every nation on earth using […]
A Lesser Evil: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
A Lesser Evil: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix I really don’t mean to be a pest about this but we are still trapped on a planet where people without functioning empathy centers are waving literal armageddon weapons around in the name of a made-up concept called unipolarism. We should probably put a […]
