Capitalism
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Why is the world going to hell? Netflix’s The Social Dilemma tells only half the story
If you find yourself wondering what the hell is going on right now – the “Why is the world turning to shit?” thought – you may find Netflix’s new documentary The Social Dilemma a good starting point for clarifying your thinking. I say “starting point” because, as we shall see, the film suffers from two… Continue reading
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Bill Gates’ Global Agenda and How We Can Resist His War on Life
The pandemic is not a war. The pandemic is a consequence of war. A war against life. The mechanical mind connected to the money machine of extraction has created the illusion of humans as separate from nature, and nature as dead, inert raw material to be exploited. But, in fact, we are part of the… Continue reading
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FinCEN – Isn’t it time to start making arrests?
By Rob Woodward: Have we not tired of their crimes? In 2008, the bank-led financial crisis led to Britain’s national debt increasing from 41 per cent of GDP in 2007 to 87 per cent in 2015. It led directly to a policy decision by George Osborne, backed by the Conservative government – called austerity. According… Continue reading
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Why we don’t need a post-Covid ‘new normal’
Six months ago, the gross, even terrifying, social and economic inequalities that were regarded as normal around the world were highlighted when Covid-19 was declared a pandemic by the Word Health Organisation. Since then, those inequalities have become even more gross and terrifying. Continue reading
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Endless War, The Militarized Police State, & The Transition Into Neo-Feudalism
If the capitalist ruling class get their way, the revolts that the U.S. and the other parts of the neoliberal world have been experiencing this last year will be only a blip in the march towards corporate domination. Their goal is to use militarism-both within the imperial core’s borders and abroad-to indefinitely keep the power… Continue reading
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A Conversation at the Edge of the Human Future
Prefatory Note: I am posting below a long interview with Konrad Stachnio on wide-ranging questions, which stretched by knowledge past its breaking point, especially in assessing where the technological innovations on the horizons will lead us. It is one of 17 conversations published by Clarity Press under the title, Civilization in Overdrive: Conversations at the… Continue reading
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Gates Foundation is Also Destroying Africa’s Food Economy
The same Gates Foundation which is behind every aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic from financing much of the WHO budget, to investing in favored vaccine-makers like Moderna, is engaged in a major project in Africa which is destroying traditional small farmer production of essential food crops in favor of monoculture crops and introduction of expensive… Continue reading
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From 9/11 to the Great Reset. From Al Qaeda to Covid The Virus…
11 September 2020 — Asia Times Davos types issue a new ‘with us or against us’ ultimatum eerily reminiscent of the old 9/11 world By Pepe Escobar This article was originally published on Asia Times. 9/11 was the foundation stone of the new millennium – ever as much indecipherable as the Mysteries of Eleusis. A year… Continue reading
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America’s Current Jobs ‘Great Depression’
Two well-known and highly respected mainstream economists, Carmen Reinhart, a chief economist for the World Bank, and Vincent Reinhart, chief economist for Morgan Stanley bank, have recently published an article in the widely read capitalist source, Foreign Affairs, entitled ‘The Pandemic Depression’. Arguing primarily from a global perspective, the economists have concluded the US economy… Continue reading
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The protracted crisis of capitalism
THERE is a commonly-held view that the current crisis in capitalism, which has resulted in a massive output contraction and increase in unemployment, is because of the pandemic; and that once the pandemic gets over, things will go back to “normal”. Continue reading
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UN Forced to Admit Gates-funded Vaccine is Causing Polio Outbreak in Africa
This really should be one of the biggest public health scandals of the decade, but instead it’s given little attention – mainly because of the high-profile nature of the people and organisations involved. The United Nations has been forced to admit that a major international vaccine initiative is actually causing a deadly outbreak of the… Continue reading
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How an “Act of God” Pandemic is Destroying the West
Before juxtaposing the U.S. and alternative responses to the corona virus’s economic effects, I would like to step back in time to show how the pandemic has revealed a deep underlying problem. We are seeing the consequences of Western societies painting themselves into a debt corner by their creditor-oriented philosophy of law. Neoliberal anti-government (or… Continue reading
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What’s wrong with the Labour Party?
The history of socialism in this country is, generally speaking, a history of failure. This isn’t the fault of all socialists past, it’s a function of specific historical conjunctures – and the formation of the Labour Party, in its specificity, has played a key role. There are a number of reasons for this, rooted in… Continue reading
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Chris Hedges: How Corporate Tyranny Works
The persecution of the attorney Steven Donziger is a grim illustration of what happens when we confront the real centers of power, masked and unacknowledged by the divisive cant from the Trump White House or the sentimental drivel of the Democratic Party. Those, like Donziger, who name and fight the corporate control of our society… Continue reading
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WATCH: The Jab – How the WHO Faked a Pandemic to Sell Vaccines
IN 2009 THE W.H.O CHANGED THEIR DEFINITION OF “PANDEMIC” IN ORDER TO CREATE AN ARTIFICIAL PANIC AND SELL BILLIONS OF DOSES OF UNTESTED FLU VACCINES, RUINING AT LEAST 1300 YOUNG LIVES. Continue reading
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2020: The Year Governments Killed Hundreds of Thousands of Their Own People
According to one estimate 21,000 Britons died during just the first eight weeks of the lockdown as a result of the lockdown. Another study puts it at a more modest 16,000. According to the London government itself up to 185,000 more are expected to die in the coming years as a result of the 2020 lockdown. A different study puts it at… Continue reading
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The meaning of true internationalism now and in the future
29 August 2020 — the planning motivedotcom Before the pandemic, that is during the last three months of 2019, there were significant protests or strikes in at least 500 cities around the world each week. It was a sign of the growing political instability being generated by a world economy whose decline was becoming more… Continue reading
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“Your Economics Professor is almost Certainly a Charlatan: A review with commentary of ‘My Mis-Education in 3 Graphics’,” a film by Mary Filippo
This fifty-eight-minute film will interest anyone who has taken a college-level course in economics, especially those who were baffled by the professor’s pronouncements but too insecure or embarrassed to ask an obvious question. Filmmaker Mary Filippo began in 2004 to audit economics classes in the hope that she could “learn something about globalization. Does it… Continue reading
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Deloitte gets another huge COVID contract – for ‘crazy’ plan to test millions each day
Operation Moonshot could be the biggest NHS privatisation in history, and civil servants are shaking their heads in disbelief. The British government had plans to test everyone in the country for coronavirus every week by October – and it’s handed most of the work to the global accountancy firm Deloitte, openDemocracy can reveal. Labour MP… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 