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Ending fascists’ grip on power not only requires voting them out, but replacing them with the right people.
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Manufacturing Terror: How the FBI Invents Some Plots, and Ignores Others, In the War on Freedom
Most Americans know there have been dubious prosecutions in the FBI’s ongoing effort to thwart terror attacks on American soil – but unfortunately, it seems many Americans are too scared to care.
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Blood on Their Hands: Corporate Media's Respose to the CIA Torture Report and #BlackLivesMatter
Whether the subject is torture or the shooting of unarmed citizens, America’s mainstream news media offer the same basic points of view and rarely live up to their intended adversarial role – to hold government in check.
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A Crude Bet: Is the U.S. Foreign Policy Establishment Risking the Farm on Oil Deflation?
Lowering oil costs is a brilliant strategic move in terms of punishing official enemies – but when you factor in the damage it could cause to the financial system, it's a little like shooting yourself in the face to remove a wart from your nose.
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The Road to Serfdom: How Austerity and Bail-ins Will Pummel the 99%
The 2008 financial crisis left political and economic elites with two major problems: how to pay for the bank bailouts in the short term and how to prepare for the next financial collapse.
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The Wizard of Odds: Trend Forecaster Talks Third Party Politics and the Next Occupy
Suppose for a moment that everyone in the Occupy movement was in a jacket and tie and behaving to the norms of corporate or cultured society. Would the police go in and beat the shit out of them?
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Outsourcing Atrocity: The School of the Americas and the C.O.I.N. Fundamentalists
It’s no exaggeration to say that the School of the Americas has painted an entire region in blood.
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The Forex Fix: Understanding the Foreign Currency Scam In London
What would be funny, if the consequences weren’t so terrible, is the sheer stupidity of these guys when it came to covering their tracks.
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“¡Ya Me Canse!” – After Student Killings, Are the Mexican People Finally Demanding Change?
Mexico's population is now making itself heard – tired of a tiny elite that treats them like subjects rather than citizens, and tired of the criminal gangs that terrorize them and corrupt the political process.
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The Children's Crusade: Understanding the Central American Migrant Crisis
The reasons so many kids continue to make this dangerous trek north involve the War on Drugs, Reagan-era civil wars and a U.S. sponsored coup.
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Gerontocracy endangers democracy.
One pressing question is how the worldwide outrage might, and could, spread to his other business interests, not least his largest interest: SpaceX.
There is a real human cost behind cold, calculated “efficiency.”
Musk's unelected role at the forefront of U.S. government, and his company's near monopolisation of satellite internet communications, increases his global political and economic power grab, and attacks on democracy.
Ending fascists’ grip on power not only requires voting them out, but replacing them with the right people.
Gerontocracy endangers democracy.
One pressing question is how the worldwide outrage might, and could, spread to his other business interests, not least his largest interest: SpaceX.
There is a real human cost behind cold, calculated “efficiency.”
Musk's unelected role at the forefront of U.S. government, and his company's near monopolisation of satellite internet communications, increases his global political and economic power grab, and attacks on democracy.
In many European countries, the far right holds or shares power. Democracy is in crisis.
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If Trump indeed tanks your 401(k) to make himself and his friends even richer, the opposition party should make that the centerpiece of their attack heading into next year’s election.
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Yarvin saw the “red pill” as the realization that the Enlightenment ideals he came to associate with “the cathedral” and democracy are actually a poison leading to societal decadence and decline.
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As the American public continues to publicly stand up to the administration, Trump’s grip on power will eventually slip.
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It is clear that authoritarian fascists, in the United States and elsewhere, do not want education that promotes critical thinking.
Posted 1 month 6 days ago
Musk's unelected role at the forefront of U.S. government, and his company's near monopolisation of satellite internet communications, increases his global political and economic power grab, and attacks on democracy.
There is a real human cost behind cold, calculated “efficiency.”
