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"Let's Stop Pretending America is a Functioning Democracy"
Old fashioned types like me can scroll down past the audio version to the article's text.
"Decades in the making, this disconnect has extinguished American democracy. The steady stripping away of economic and political power was ignored by a hyperventilating press that thundered against the barbarians at the gate — Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, the Taliban, ISIS, Vladimir Putin — while ignoring the barbaria... |
Terror from Balochistan: a menacing tool to disrupt Sino-Pakistani economics
Who in the world has ever heard of Baluchistan? You can find it on Apple Maps if you like. Pepe Escobar introduces us to what may become the another Ukraine as the American Oligarchy attempts to expand (and defend) "The Empire" to counter/contain the rising new Economic Pole represented by the China and Russia alliance against the perfidy of the USA.
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Pocket - Media Silent After DAMNING Revelation That Zelensky Was Offered a Peace Deal BEFORE Invasion But Chose War Inst
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky is putting on a show for the
cameras to persuade the world that his country is the innocent victim of
a barbaric assault by Russian forces. The mainstream media, as is
customary, is not telling the complete story.
Only days before Russia’s “Special Military Operations” in Ukraine began on February 24th, it was revealed that German chancellor Olaf Scholz offer... 2  |
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2021 Nobel Peace Prize: Freedom for the Press or the US?
A Norwegian author dissects the history of the Nobel Peace Prize and concludes:
The military-industrial complex is in control and thoroughly disciplined media see it as a sacred duty to keep their own nation strong and united behind the flag and the forces.
He also states that Julian Assange should have received the prize and that despite the fact that the US was fraudulently awarded 17 prizes, it was chea... 1 |
The New War
From NATO to the U.S. National Guard, militaries around the world are being called upon to fight climate change. A new Forever War. What could go wrong?
Is this a viable and productive mission for militaries around the world? What problems in military-civil authority might arise?
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Glenn Greenwald: A Long-Forgotten CIA Document From WikiLeaks Sheds Critical Light Today on U.S. Politics and Wars
The Agency knew that their best asset for selling their wars was Barack Obama -- the same reason so many in the security state were eager to get rid of Donald Trump.
To the list of the enemies threatening the security of the United States, the Pentagon has added WikiLeaks.org, a tiny online source of information and documents that governments and corporations around the world would prefer to keep secret.
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 Vote for Veterans & Military Families Members for a New Generation of Public Office Leaders in 2020 The link page contains the2020 veterans and military family members for Public Office supported by Taking the Hill PAC, the only veterans organization - PAC or otherwise - in the country that is led and operated by veterans who are also former candidates for public office. It wasn’t that long ago that nearly 80% of those in Congress had served in Uniform. Today, barely one-in-five Members are Veterans and only ... 1 |
 How GOP Appointed Supreme Court Justices put America on the Bankruptcy Path, to the delight of our Terrorist Enemies Campaign finance cases of the past decades have been decided by a bare five-vote majority of conservatives. The only way for quick change on the issue would be a change in the composition of the Supreme Court. The U.S. National debt at the end of 1975 was $533bill or 32% of GDP, the year prior to the 1st SCOTUS Ruling, depicted below: No thoughtful person can question how Big Money in Politics can lead to Big Go... 3 |
 Voters have GOP Lies/Misinformation for Three Epic Failed Responses to Crises, with Fed Debt Increasing by a factor of 4 The poster-lie to GOP response to 9/11 was Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), but the September 2000 document, Rebuilding America's Defences, by the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) shows Bush's cabinet intended to take military control of the Gulf region whether or not Saddam Hussein was in power. Leading up to the 2008 meltdown on 8/8/2000, George W. Bush sought to reassure Americans worried about volati... 3 |
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We cannot have both (Peace and Empire)
A nation that cannot exist without ceaseless war is not
actually a nation at all: it’s an ongoing military operation with some suburbs
and schools mixed in. A nation that cannot exist without constant war is like a
house that can’t exist without constant construction: if your house needed
24/7/365 construction work in order to remain standing, you’d either completely
redesign the way it’s built or... |
 Childhood Vaccines Prevent 322 million Illnesses: CDC An estimated 322 million illnesses, 21 million hospitalizations and 732,000 deaths will be prevented thanks to routine childhood vaccinations, according to new statistics released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Thursday. The agency said the nation's childhood vaccine program has been “highly effective,” although some vulnerability to vaccine-preventable diseases persists ... 1 |
 How the 'Plandemic' Movie and Its Falsehoods Spread Widely Online There have been plenty of jaw-dropping digital moments during the coronavirus pandemic. There was the time this month when Taylor Swift announced she would air her “City of Lover” concert on television. The time that the cast of “The Office” reunited for an 18-minute-long Zoom wedding. And the time last month that the Pentagon posted three videos that showed unexplained “aerial... |
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5G Weaponized: 'Massive' Live Fire Exercise
The Air Force and SpaceX will conduct an event on April 8 that will see SpaceX Starlink satellites, which have been launched to provide broadband 5G services worldwide, link up with a variety of military assets using a new command and control system during a “massive” live fire exercise, which will involve shooting down a drone and a cruise missile.
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 How Bernie Sanders to help Down-ballot Democrats & Himself, by Demonizing Conservatism for Destroying Our Democracy The 1971 Powell Memo, by a conservative democrat, was the catalysis for a conservative counter-revolution knee-capping both progressivism and democracy in America. Virtually all, republicans brag of a more conservative track-record than their democratic opponent. However, the linked article makes the case that Joe Biden’s approach to politics is based on “appeasing the right” and “taking... 1 |
 Issues the Donor Class will Prioritize in Controlling the DNC, Unless Warren/Sanders Progressives Unite Even back in 1996, the majority of Americans were turned off by campaign financing. From 24 years ago issues favored by the top ¼ of 1% (Political Donor Class), little has changed. Regardless of party affiliation this poster-group for plutocracy is elitist and homogenous in their bias toward political issues, as follows: More than half favored tax cuts even if they required cuts in public services ... 1 |
 Sanders Foreign Policy Adviser Matt Duss: "Will Be More Restrained than Aggressive Interventionism of the past 20 years" The Middle East “Forever Wars” have disillusioned youth; Sanders speaks of ending conflicts and America as the world’s policeman. Sanders hasn’t offered specifics on slashing military spending to allow alternative priorities, nor how to get those reductions through Congress while mitigating the economic fallout. Khanna on whether Sanders would advocate lowering defense-funding... |
 The Digital Dictators: How Technology Strengthens Autocracy The Stasi, East Germany’s state security service, may have been one of the most pervasive secret police agencies that ever existed. It was infamous for its capacity to monitor individuals and control information flows. By 1989, it had almost 100,000 regular employees and, according to some accounts, between 500,000 and two million informants in a country with a population of about 16 million. Its sheer manpowe... |
Mission incapable? Pentagon review finds gun on F-35 fighter jet can't hit targets & 800+ software glitches - report
The long list of problems plaguing the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter
continues to grow, with a Pentagon review finding over 800 software
flaws in the costly aircraft, as well as defects that prevent its guns
from hitting targets.
The annual assessment by
the Pentagon’s director of operational testing and evaluation, Robert
Behler, revealed that the program that has cost over $400 billion so far
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The Air War In Afghanistan Expands On Both Sides
Under the
Trump administration, U.S. air attacks in Afghanistan have sharply increased.
But it now seems that the Taliban have acquired some means to counter them.
It seems
rather coincidental that bombings should increase as the cries have been coming
that we should get out of Afghanistan rather than expend over $4 Billion every
month in an exercise that has no plan other than haphazardly killing whoever
should be i... 1 |
 Adam Schiff Is a Dangerous Warmonger Adam Schiff, the liberal hero of impeachment, is a wholly owned subsidiary of the military-industrial complex and a fervent exponent of permanent war. .......................... We’d like to be on his side. After all, he’s working hard to take down Donald Trump, one of the worst presidents in American history. But let’s not get carried away in fandom. Schiff is a dangerous warmonger, and his efforts t... 4 |
George Soros' $1 billion pledge to fight 'nationalism' proves he will continue his battles from beyond the grave
The move toward a New World
Order – One Government World is gaining strength as George Soros attempting to assure
it continues long after his demise.
The movement is designed to strip all nations of their
sovereign rights establishing a single Government all nations will be controlled
by, a body not unlike the United Nations.
This agenda to
take-over control of the Globe has been working in stealt... 1 |
 How a Benefit-based Tax to Fund Defense Spending Can Change the Dynamics of U.S. Warmongering! Since the mid-1970’s the top 5% has receive the lion’s share of U.S. prosperity (see graph) and the linked article provides the details. In addition, fast-track trade legislation has enabled corporations to off-shore jobs for the benefit of the top 5%, creating the need for ever-increasing military spending to protect their assets around the world. A few 2020 Democratic Presidential candidates favor a... 2 |
'Today THEY are trying to catch up': Putin says Russia surpasses all competitors in advanced weapons for the first time
Russia ranks sixth in the world in terms of gross military spending –
behind the US, China, Saudi Arabia, UK, France, and Japan – but it “must and will remain ahead of the others” in terms of advanced technology, the president said. This will be achieved through “brains, intellect, better organization of work [and] minimization of theft and sloppiness.”
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Bombshell!! Redacted Tonight's Lee Camp takes on American media "shock" over Afghanistan war report
For nearly two decades, US officials have privately known the war in Afghanistan was going down the toilet. Yet they “failed to tell the truth,”
insisting to the public that progress was being made, a turnaround was
coming, and the troops might actually get to come home. That’s according
to a Washington Post report published earlier this month. Tulsi Gabbard is being smeared for telling the people this... 1 |
 The Propaganda Multiplier .. most of the international news coverage in Western media is provided by only three global news agencies based in New York, London and Paris. ...governments, military and intelligence services use these global news agencies as multipliers to spread their messages around the world. A study of the Syria war coverage by nine ... 1 |
Confidential documents prove: U.S. officials lied about the war in Afghanistan
A confidential trove of government
documents obtained by The Washington Post reveals that senior U.S. officials
failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18-year campaign,
making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false and hiding unmistakable
evidence the war had become unwinnable.
Meanwhile, this debacle continues to
drain $4,000,000,000 (4 Billion) a MONTH for our limited resources that ... 1 |
U.S. has wasted $6.4 trillion on wars since 2001, study says
American taxpayers have spent $6.4 trillion
on post-9/11 wars and military action in the Middle
East and Asia,
according to a new study.
The report comes as the
Trump administration works to withdraw the U.S.
military presence from war-torn Syria.
The post-9/11 wars will continue to rise as the
U.S. pays the on-going costs of veterans’... 1 |
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'Queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption': Tulsi Gabbard DRAGS Hillary Clinton after 'Russian asset' claim
Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) has accused Hillary
Clinton of being behind a ‘concerted campaign’ to destroy her reputation
and challenged her to stop hiding and enter the 2020 presidential race.
“Great! Thank you Hillary Clinton,” Gabbard tweeted on Friday afternoon. “You,
the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification
of the rot that ha... |
Tulsi Nails it on National TV" US Regime-Change Wars
No wonder
Democratic Party bosses and mainstream media are
trying to bury presidential contender Tulsi
Gabbard. She is the only candidate, perhaps the
only politician in the US, who is telling the
American public exactly what they need to know
about what their government and military are
really up to: Following the TV debate this week, it seems
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New weapons and the new tactics which they make possible: three examples
In his now famous speech, Putin revealed some of these new weapons systems, although he did not say much about how they would be engaged (which is quite logical, since he was making a political speech, not a military-technical report). For those would be interested in this topic, you can check here, here, here, here, here and here.
The recent Houthi drone and missile strike on the Saudi oil installations has shown to t... 1 |
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