How the US became the center of global kleptocracy The US has become the key cog in the machine of modern kleptocracy worldwide. But it didn’t start with Trump. By Casey Michel February 03, 2020 Critics of President Donald Trump frequently use…
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Orwell’s 1984 Revisited
George Orwell’s ‘1984’ revisited: What Oceania and Israel have in common For George Orwell, the appalling picture of the future starkly depicted in ‘1984’ was not some imaginative exercise. ‘Don’t let it happen. It depends on you,’ he warned By…
U.S. An Oligarchy More Than A Democracy
Princeton Study: The U.S. Is Not ‘Losing’ Its Democracy, It’s Already Long Gone By Richard Enos The Facts: – A Princeton University study found that the United States operates much more as an Oligarchy than as a Democracy. Reflect On:…
Death By Oligarchy
Death by Oligarchy By Chris Hedges November 11, 2019 Oligarchs are blinded by hubris, wealth and power. Their cloying sense of entitlement sees them outraged by even the most tepid reforms or mildest of criticisms. They lack empathy and compassion,…
Scum vs. Scum
Submitted by: ButtCracker — There is perhaps no better illustration of the deep decay of the American political system than the Senate race in New Jersey. Sen. Bob Menendez, running for re-election, was censured by the Senate Ethics Committee for…
Russian Meddling: Gagging On The Irony
he irony that is most gagging is that America’s power elite is destroying the nation’s social order by its concentration of wealth and abuse of power. The irony of the Deep State’s obsessive focus on “Russian meddling” in the precious…
Saber-Rattling, Nuclear Threat – Or an Even More Devastating War?
Submitted by: ButtCracker — The World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos has come and gone, and nothing has really changed. The wonderful people of the world struck again – blowing hot air to the four corners of the world. When…
America Breaks Down: The Anatomy of a National Nervous Breakdown
Submitted by: ButtCracker — “This country has been having a nationwide nervous breakdown since 9/11. A nation of people suddenly broke, the market economy goes to shit, and they’re threatened on every side by an unknown, sinister enemy. But I…
A Voiceless Left Faces History’s Monster
Despite all its armed might and long history of conquests, America remains a perpetually frightened country without a strong movement to protest this imperialism and warmongering, notes poet Phil Rockstroh. By Phil Rockstroh Rumors of war and the lexicon of…
A Silenced Israeli Critic
Submitted by ButtCracker — Although the U.S. news media’s fancies itself the world’s “gold standard,” it operates with stunning hypocrisy and huge blind spots, none bigger than its fawning coverage of Israel that ignores critics like Miko Peled, notes Rick…
Battlefield America Is the New Normal: We’re Not in Mayberry Anymore
Submitted by: ButtCracker — “If we’re training cops as soldiers, giving them equipment like soldiers, dressing them up as soldiers, when are they going to pick up the mentality of soldiers?”— Arthur Rizer, former police officer America, you’ve been fooled…
Oppose Fascism of the Right and the Left
Submitted by: ButtCracker — Following the recent clashes between the alt-right and the group antifa, some libertarians have debated which group they should support. The answer is simple: neither. The alt-right and its leftist opponents are two sides of the…
The Israel Lobby vs the First Amendment
Submitted by: ButtCracker — The Congress’ attempt to ban the BDS movement is an attack on core democratic values of the US. The adage goes, “Be careful what you wish for, because you might just get it.” Indeed, this is…
“They’re Going To Get Rid Of Him One Way Or Another…”
In case you wonder how our politics fell into such a slough of despond, the answer is pretty simple. Neither main political party, or their trains of experts, specialists, and mouthpieces, can construct a coherent story about what is happening…
‘Truth Or Delusion?’
One inevitable outcome of the phenomenal violence we all suffer as children is that most of us live in a state of delusion throughout our lives. This makes it extraordinarily difficult for accurate information, including vital information about the endangered…
IMF to Greece: Sorry We’ll Destroy You
Bond holders, banks, and IMF bear responsibility for having made irresponsible loans to Greece, so it is not right for them to force yet more austerity on Greece, says Michael Hudson. Sharmini Peries: It’s the Real News Network. I am…
‘Truly Dumb’: Why $2.4 Trillion Corporate Tax Cut Will Not Magically Pay for Itself
Economists and tax experts push back against White House reported plan to slash corporate rate by 60 percent. With reports that President Donald Trump wants to slash the corporate tax rate by 60 percent and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin claiming…
Our American Pravda
Originally published: April 29, 2013: — In mid-March, the Wall Street Journal carried a long discussion of the origins of the Bretton Woods system, the international financial framework that governed the Western world for decades after World War II. A…
Wall Street Banks Are Trading in Their Own Company’s Stock: How Is This Legal?
Increasingly, under the mantra of liquidity, trading activity on Wall Street that would have resulted in criminal charges in another era is yawned at by regulators. The week that Donald Trump shocked markets around the globe by getting himself elected…
The Feuding Kleptocrats
The Trump kleptocrats are political arsonists. They are carting cans of gasoline into government agencies and Congress to burn down any structure or program that promotes the common good and impedes corporate profit. They ineptly have set themselves on fire…