While Hillary Clinton’s call to have Trump supporters “deprogrammed” has been met with snickers, her attitude is in line with most of this country’s governing elites. Original Article: The Regime Plans More for Us Than Just Hillary Clinton’s “Deprogramming”
This week, Hillary Clinton publicly proposed “formal deprogramming ” for MAGA enthusiasts, piling on a repeated President Biden theme of trying to deal with “ an extremist movement that does not share the basic beliefs of our democracy. The MAGA movement.” The nation recently discovered that the FBI has a new “ MAGA Extremist ” category. All this
The current US government has become “a form of fraud that pays profits to earlier investors with funds from more recent investors” – in other words, a Ponzi scheme. No doubt the social security, Medicare/Medicaid and government retirement systems meet this definition of fraud directly. But we may also apply it to other sectors of the federal
Alexei Navalny – seen as a pro-democracy, transparency, anti-corruption Russian nationalist gadfly – died while on a walk in his Siberian prison. He was serving a long sentence, one the Biden administration raged about: the Russian judiciary had convicted him of several crimes including fraud, embezzlement, “inciting extremist activities” and
Another Pentagon audit, another massive failure. But the Pentagon’s problems are not just simple accounting. They reflect the reality of an unaccountable rogue empire that tries to prop up the US empire. Original Article: What Can We Learn from the Latest Pentagon Audit? Both Plenty and Not
If we look long enough and hard enough, we might find an example of something in the US is not by the state, of the state and for the state. But it’s becoming more difficult. We live, if we live in the US, within a reverberating echo chamber of the bits of US foreign policy we can observe and understand. Those bits relate mainly to trade wars,
No one was surprised last November when the Pentagon failed its sixth audit , serving up a sorry record of zero and six. The accomplishment received little mainstream media coverage. Scott Ritter excoriated his former employer (and mine) over the fraud, pointing out that the money wasted and the scope of the United States military activity is so
The western media are, above all, phraseologists. Managing massive vertically integrated “states” requires the controlled and targeted use of repetitive government approved language, propaganda, jingoism, repeated phrases to channel thought and energy. We’ve seen a lot of “performative” progressivism in recent years – Black Lives Matter and
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