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The U.S. is Not a Democracy, It Never Was
The U.S. is Not a Democracy, It Never Was Photo by Daniel Huizinga | CC BY 2.0 One of the most steadfast beliefs regarding the United States is that it is a democracy. Whenever this conviction waivers slightly, it is almost always to point out detrimental exceptions to core American values or foundational principles. For […]
Warning: ‘They Need The Markets To Implode’ To Usher In Cashless System
Warning: ‘They Need The Markets To Implode’ To Usher In Cashless System Market analyst Lynette Zang predicts in the next market meltdown, “real estate, stocks, and bonds will all crash.” When asked when this will happen, Zang says, “Enjoy your Christmas,” but in 2018, all bets are off. Greg Hunter interviewed Lynette Zang, Chief Market Strategist […]
The Future Is What We Make of It – Part 1
The Future Is What We Make of It – Part 1 Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. … Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. […]
How The Elite Dominate The World – Part 3: 90% Of What You Watch On Television Is Controlled By Just 6 Giant Corporations
How The Elite Dominate The World – Part 3: 90% Of What You Watch On Television Is Controlled By Just 6 Giant Corporations How much is your view of the world shaped by what you see on television? On average, Americans spend more than 150 hours watching television every month, and it is called “programming” […]
Elites ‘Have No Credibility Left’: Interview With Journalist Chris Hedges
Elites ‘Have No Credibility Left’: Interview With Journalist Chris Hedges Pulitzer Prize winner and Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges. (Cheryl Biren / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) On Monday, WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North interviewed Chris Hedges, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, lecturer and former New York Times correspondent. Among Hedges’ best-known books are War is a Force That Gives Us […]
Upon The Next Crisis, The Rules Will Suddenly Change
Upon The Next Crisis, The Rules Will Suddenly Change For the benefit of the elites; not the rest of us We can add a third certainty to the two standard ones (death and taxes): The rules will suddenly change when a financial crisis strikes. Why is this a certainty? The answer is complex, as it […]
The Silencing of Dissent
The Silencing of Dissent The ruling elites, who grasp that the reigning ideology of global corporate capitalism and imperial expansion no longer has moral or intellectual credibility, have mounted a campaign to shut down the platforms given to their critics. The attacks within this campaign include blacklisting, censorship and slandering dissidents as foreign agents for […]
We’re in a Boiling-Point Crisis of Exploitive Elites
We’re in a Boiling-Point Crisis of Exploitive Elites The “fixes” to the stagnation of postwar Capitalism in the 1970s were financialization, globalism, and the sustained expansion of debt–all have run out of steam. Many of us have written about cycles in the past decade: Kondratieff economic cycles, business/credit cycles, the Strauss–Howe generational theory (an existential national crisis arises […]
The Real Reasons Why Trump Has Flipped On His Campaign Promises
The Real Reasons Why Trump Has Flipped On His Campaign Promises Back in December of 2016 I wrote an article titled ‘Trump Is Exactly Where The Elites Want Him’, which I think was very difficult for a large part of the liberty movement to read and accept. In that article I outlined the future of […]
Opinion: Inside the global elite’s bag of financial tricks
Opinion: Inside the global elite’s bag of financial tricks Easy money masks global economy’s precarious health Shutterstock Too much of economic growth and the accompanying bull market in stocks is the result of financial engineering. Increasingly, companies seek to improve earnings or increase their share price by means that are not necessarily directly linked to their […]
The New Wave of Violent Protests is Exactly What The Elite Want — Here’s Why
The New Wave of Violent Protests is Exactly What The Elite Want — Here’s Why Over the past 18 months, there has been a significant increase in the frequency and severity of riots conducted by the extreme left. Their ranks are comprised of self-described anti-fascists, anarcho-communists, radical 3rd wave feminists, Black Lives Matter (BLM), and other […]
Johnson: Elites Eying the Exits Signals America’s Crisis
Johnson: Elites Eying the Exits Signals America’s Crisis Institute President Rob Johnson interviewed by the New Yorker on hedge-fund managers and the market for air strips in New Zealand Interviewed as part of an extraordinary New Yorker investigation into growing anxiety among America’s corporate elite over the potential for anarchic social collapse, Institute President Robert Johnson saw his peers’ talk of […]
When Did Our Elites Become Self-Serving Parasites?
When Did Our Elites Become Self-Serving Parasites? Combine financialization, neoliberalism and moral bankruptcy, and you end up with self-serving parasitic elites. When did our financial and political elites become self-serving parasites? Some will answer that elites have always been self-serving parasites; as tempting as it may be to offer a blanket denunciation of elites, this overlooks […]
A conspiracy theory about conspiracy theories
A CONSPIRACY THEORY ABOUT CONSPIRACY THEORIES One of the funny things about conspiracy theories, including false flag attacks, is how often they are proven to be true. You have to wonder how long the shame-inducing slam, “That’s a conspiracy theory,” will keep working. But that’s not my point for today. Today, I want to introduce a conspiracy […]
