Our Score An Economic Extinction Event & Don’t Count On Biden Changing It July 24, 2020 The lower reaches of the financial food chain are already dying, and every entity that depended on that layer is doomed. Though under pressure…
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OLD NORMAL VS. NEW NORMAL
Our Score The Bigger Picture is Hiding Behind a Virus By Jonathan Cook April 04, 2020 Things often look the way they do because someone claiming authority tells us they look that way. If that sounds too cynical, pause for…
U.S. Is Global Kleptocracy Central
Our Score 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…
Endless War
Our Score Endless War is a Disastrous (But Profitable) Enterprise By Lawrence Wilkerson Col, USA (Ret) January 30, 2020 “The collapse of the Libyan state has had region-wide repercussions, with flows of people and weapons destabilizing other countries throughout North…
How Long Will It Take For The US To Collapse?
Our Score How Long Will It Take For The US To Collapse? Fri, 01/03/2020 – 23:45 Authored by Brandon Smith There are a multitude of false assumptions out there on what the collapse of a nation or “empire”…
U.S. An Oligarchy More Than A Democracy
Our Score 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.…
How To Save The Planet & Ourselves
Our Score How To Save The Planet & Ourselves By Chris Hedges November 18, 2019 If you read only one book this year, it should be Roger Hallam’s “Common Sense for the 21st Century: Only Nonviolent Rebellion Can Now Stop…
Trump Just Might Be The Catalyst
Our Score Why Aren’t Americans Rising Up Like We Are Seeing Across the Planet? By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies November 16, 2019 The waves of protests breaking out in country after country around the world beg the…
Death By Oligarchy
Our Score 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…
U.S. Underwrites Israel While Americans Suffer
Our Score US underwrites Israel’s economy, while Americans suffer While sending tens of billions in aid to Israel, the US watches its own citizens struggle to access healthcare and education By Morgan Strong November 04, 2019 Israel is around the…
Dying Empires And The Enemy Within
Our Score Dying Empires And The Enemy Within By Chris Hedges November 04, 2019 Our democracy is not in peril—we do not live in a democracy. The image of our democracy is in peril. The deep state—the generals, bankers, corporatists, lobbyists, intelligence chiefs,…
The Age Of Radical Evil
Our Score The Age of Radical Evil By Chris Hedges October 16, 2019 Immanuel Kant coined the term “radical evil.” It was the privileging of one’s own interest over that of others, effectively reducing those around you to objects to be…
Child Agent Of Climate Awareness
Our Score Greta Thunberg & the Consolation of Doubt By Jonathan Cook October 02, 2019 The more Greta Thunberg articulates the terrifying emotions of awakening to our imminent extinction as a species – as she did, filled with trembling rage,…
Meet the Economist Behind the One Percent’s Stealth Takeover of America
Our Score Submitted by: ButtCracker — Nobel laureate James Buchanan is the intellectual linchpin of the Koch-funded attack on democratic institutions. Ask people to name the key minds that have shaped America’s burst of radical right-wing attacks on working conditions,…
Is the Stock Market Rigged?
Our Score On February 6 PCR asked if the Plunge Protection Team had stepped in and prevented a stock market correction by purchasing equity index futures. Sure enough, the daily exchange volume chart shows an increase in futures activity on…
When YOUR Bank Fails, Don’t Walk … Run!
Our Score So. The US economy is just fine. The post-recession 2010 Dodd-Frank legislation has cured all. Banks have lots of cash. Congress is your friend and that certain-to-pass Tax Cut and Jobs bill will finally allow you, your family…
Trump Bank Regulator Wants to Merge Taxpayer-Backstopped Banks With Corporate Conglomerates
Our Score Keith Noreika, Acting-Comptroller of Currency A man holding one of the most important and powerful jobs for keeping the U.S. banking system safe from another epic crash like that of 1929 and 2008 has tongues wagging over the…
Are You Infuriated Yet?
Our Score You should be. I certainly am… More and more, I’m encountering people who are simply infuriated with how our “leaders” are running (or to put it more accurately, ruining) things right now. And I share that fury. It’s…
“Controlled Demolition” Or Carnage?
Our Score This is the week-of-weeks when the official grand viziers of finance gather at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to confab and interpret the lay of animal neck-bones and other auguries scattered in the sand, with the hope of steering the…
A Sinister War on Our Right to Hold Cash
Our Score Submitted by: ButtCracker — An operation that began as a seemingly obscure academic discussion three years ago is now becoming a full-blown propaganda campaign by some of the most powerful institutions in the industrialized world. This is what…