Category Oligarchy
The true legacy of US central banker Paul Volcker (1927–2019) — World Socialist Web Site (en)
A full accounting would reveal that his policies, imposed on behalf of the American capitalist class, resulted in untold social misery and the premature death of millions of people, not only in the US but around the world. via The true legacy of US central banker Paul Volcker (1927–2019) — World Socialist Web Site (en)
America Is “One Dollar One Vote”, Not Really “One Person One Vote”
By Eric Zuesse The only comprehensive and scientific study which has ever been done of whether the U.S. is a democracy or instead a dictatorship, was published in 2014. It studied the period during 1981 through 2002, and it found that, “In the United States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule — at least […]
The psycholigarchs want war with Iran
Trump Has a $259 Million Reason to Bomb Iran — Global Research On Thursday, the United States came perilously close to a military confrontation with Iran after it downed a U.S. drone that may or may not have entered the country’s air space. President Donald Trump reportedly ordered a retaliatory military strike … […] Much […]
Forget the New World Order, Here’s Who Really Runs the World
by Jake Anderson For decades, extreme ideologies on both the left and the right have clashed over the conspiratorial concept of a shadowy secret government pulling the strings on the world’s heads of state and captains of industry. The phrase New World Order is largely derided as a sophomoric conspiracy theory entertained by minds that lack the […]
Normalizing failure
Sam Smith The tediously unsuccessful manifestations of American intervention in the Middle East brings to mind the lengthy unwinding of the Vietnam War during which our leaders – like alcoholics avoiding treatment – never admitted that they had made terrible mistakes and never publicly discussed the alternatives. They just ran it all out until […]
The Super Rich: A Nation unto Themselves
ISMAEL HOSSEIN-ZADEH Globalization of capital and interdependence of world markets has reached a point where large scale military clashes of the magnitude of World Wars I & II could lead to financial catastrophe for all. Not surprisingly, the network of transnational financial elites, who often elect politicians and run governments from behind the scenes, seem […]
QOTD: The Era of Token Presidents
Hillary is banal, corrupted, drained of vibrancy and passion. I mean, she’s been around forever, the Clinton circle. She’s a fucking hawk and like a neocon, practically. She’s surrounded by all these sleazy money types who are just corrupting everything everywhere. But she’s going to be the first female president, and women in America are […]
The most important three minutes of George Carlin’s career
By Melissa Melton | Truthstream Media Editor’s Note: There are still people out there who think comedian George Carlin was just “joking” here. He wasn’t. Transcript: “There’s a reason education SUCKS, and it’s the same reason that it will never, ever, ever be fixed. It’s never going to get any better, don’t look for it, be […]
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