Corporate power
How the Left Became Cheerleaders for US Imperialism
Figureheads like the Guardian’s George Monbiot have wrecked the left’s ability to think critically, encouraging an analysis of power politics more suited to the playground.
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The Puppets and the Puppet Masters
The judicial proceedings against Julian Assange give a faux legality to the state persecution of the most important and courageous journalist of our generation.
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‘Genocide of His People Is Complete’: Last Member of Isolated Brazilian Tribe Found Dead
“For this was indeed a genocide—the deliberate wiping out of an entire people by cattle ranchers hungry for land and wealth,” said one Indigenous rights campaigner.
Read More Psychiatry, Fraud, and the Case for a Class-Action Lawsuit
A class-action suit would serve society well. It would put teeth into the legal obligation for doctors to provide “informed consent,” and for a medical discipline to provide society with information that met this standard too.
Read More Capitalism Meets Scientism: A Too Convenient Marriage?
We badly need policy reform to change the approach that led to the vast exaggeration of the pandemic by public health officials, elected officials, and our media.
Read More The Dawn of the Apocalypse
We were warned for decades about the death march we are on because of global warming. And yet, the global ruling class continues to frog-march us towards extinction.
Read More Uniting in Love and Rage against Corporate Power
One problem that arises from a corrupted and ubiquitous corporate media is that if we are not directly involved in a particular campaign on issues like climate change, press freedom, anti-racism, bodily sovereignty, or anti-surveillance, we are manipulated by the corporate media to see people on another issue as marginal, misinformed, illogical, hypocritical, or simply nasty.
Read More A Wall Street Veteran Speaks Out – Bubbles & the Planet
The planet is in deep trouble and rising stock prices aren’t going to fix it nor will falling stock prices.
Read More Censorship By Algorithm Does Far More Damage Than Conventional Censorship
Written by Caitlin Johnstone Journalist Jonathan Cook has a new blog post out on his experience...
Read More Consider The Possibility That This Is Already The Dystopia You Fear
Written by Caitlin Johnstone Consider the possibility that the Orwellian dystopia you fear is...
Read More The Left’s Radical Shift to Giving Up Bodily and Cognitive Autonomy
The left needs to start insisting again on the critical importance of bodily and cognitive autonomy – and to stop shooting itself in the foot.
Read More Silicon Valley Should Not Restrict Public Discourse About Covid Measures Which Affect Everyone
Twitter has banned the account of controversial virologist Dr Robert Malone, who reportedly had half a million followers at the time of his removal. Malone is credited even by mainstream critics as having played a significant role in the development of the mRNA technology being used for Covid-19 vaccines today.
Read More The Tipping Point (by Infinite Waters)
As the powers that be exert more and more effort to impose fear, social division, and soul-crushing narratives, Ralph Smart invites us to consider the ways our spirits can resist this oppression and turn to love instead. By keeping love steadfastly in the driver’s seat, we find a tipping point into a much more sustainable world drawing steadily nearer.
Read More Relationship Between Vaccination and All-Cause Mortality for the 60+ Cohort in New Zealand
Now is the time to acknowledge the sacrifice of the Covid vaccine injured and make amends. This will involve asking a lot of searching questions within the MoH and the government. It will require a reexamination of cases and data. Certainty was forcefully expressed to the public when science dictated caution.
Read More The Vaccine Moment (part three) Or: How to Think about Klaus Schwab
Written by Paul Kingsnorth / The Abbey of Misrule This is the third and final part of Paul...
Read More Have the Government & Ministry of Health Sought To Restrict Public Knowledge of Vaccine Risks?
The government has to face up to the lack of effectiveness and safety of the Pfizer vaccine. It has to come clean with the public. Historically drugs are pulled off the market after 50 associated deaths. In little NZ we are in the hundreds and counting.
Read More Fauci As Darth Vader Of The COVID Wars
Robert F Kennedy Jr’s The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health should be front-page news in all the news media in the US. Instead, it has been met with the proverbial thundering silence.
Read More Dr Jessica Rose – On Covid Injections for Children
Immunoligist Dr Jessica Rose discussed the recent move to inject increasingly younger children with the Covid vaccines, and the adverse effects to children and to the population in general.
Read More Australian ‘National Treasure’ Cartoonist Michael Leunig Fired – Too Much Truth to Power?
A renowned Australian cartoonist has said he lost his prime spot in a Melbourne-based newspaper after he drew parallels between the Tiananmen Square protests and Covid-19 vaccine mandates in a new cartoon.
Read More Jacinda Ardern, Science, and Covid Mandates: Events, Facts, and Fallacies
Dr Hatchard provides a unique perspective of the political and scientific decision-making that brought NZ to where it is today: training in physics, logic, statistics, and the scientific method, and extensive conversation with a few of the key players.
Read More The Vaccine Moment (Part One): On the Days of Revelation
Perhaps it’s because I’m English, or perhaps it’s my age, or perhaps it’s just blind prejudice, but when I wake to the news that the Austrian government has interned an entire third of its national population as a ‘danger to public health’, a chill runs down my spine.
Read More It’s Love, Not Fear, That Will Get Us Through the Covid Crisis
The powers that be have been pushing with ever more force on the ‘fear’ button of human nature, leading to increased divisiveness and animosity among us. But what would happen if we find a way to say, “Enough is enough!” and let love (and its cousins empathy, courage, curiosity and kindness) sit in the driver’s seat?
Read More The Woody Biomass Blunder
One of the most controversial fixes for global warming is the use of woody biomass, cutting trees, burning trees to achieve “carbon neutral” status in the worldwide battle to conquer climate change/global warming. It is a prime example of human insanity maddeningly at work destroying the planet.
Read More Mother Nature, Inc.
Mother Nature, Inc., will lead to extinction of The Commons, as an institution, in the biggest heist of all time. Surely, private ownership of nature is unseemly and certainly begs a much bigger relevant question that goes to the heart of the matter, to wit: Should nature’s ecosystems, which benefit society at large, be monetized for the direct benefit of the few?
Read More Elements of Refusal
Drug companies, regulators, public health agencies, doctors, and scientists have to stop patronizing us if we are ever to trust them. They have to stop manipulating us. They have to stop cheating and hiding, bullying and censoring, bribing and coercing the public. Then, if honest research shows us that the vaccines are necessary and safe, we will trust that research and happily comply. Until then, we will not merely “hesitate”; we will obstinately refuse to receive an injection pushed upon us by people we do not trust.
Read More The America that Almost Was and Yet May Be
The assassination of president John F. Kennedy represented a turning away from a promising future for the United States – from the promise of a government “of the people, by the people and for the people,” to a sham government powered by the elite and self-interested industry. Is there any way this can be reversed?
Read More Netflix To Launch WikiLeaks Smear Job Three Days Before Assange Court Date
Netflix will begin streaming a brazen hatchet job on Julian Assange and WikiLeaks for its American subscribers on October 24th, just three days prior to a significant court date in Assange’s fight against extradition from the UK to the United States on October 27th.
Read More Why Is There No Debate about ‘Leaky’ Vaccines?
Regardless of our personal beliefs regarding the pros and cons of the Covid vaccines, one issue that affects all of us very much is the unprecedented suppression of dialogue on topics that do not line up with the official narrative, including from those with clear expertise on the topic.
Read More Why Jeff Bezos’ Space Dream is Humanity’s Nightmare
“We’re told that this is for us, this is for planet earth, this is for everyone. No it’s not. This is a billionaires’ game.” – George Monbiot
Read More Toxic Chemicals Engulf the Planet
Worldwide chemical emissions are six times global warming emissions. This hidden dilemma is fully exposed in a superbly researched new book by science writer Julian Cribb: Earth Detox, How and Why We Must Clean Up Our Planet.
Read More Seaspiracy’s Nightmarish Odyssey
Seaspiracy is a powerful new documentary about the hazardous, unruly world of industrial fishing and stomach-churning abuse, overuse, disregard for life, as shown on Netflix, released by Disrupt Studios March 24th 2021.
Read More Nuclear Fuel Buried 108 Feet from the Sea
“The most toxic substance on Earth is separated from exposure to society by ½” of steel encased in a canister,” said renowned nuclear expert Paul Blanch in reference to spent fuel rods removed from San Onofre Nuclear Generation Plant buried near the sea on California’s southern coastline 50 miles north of San Diego.
Read More Scientific Publishing Is a Rip-Off. We Fund the Research – It Should Be Free
Those who take on the global industry that traps research behind paywalls are heroes, not thieves.
Read More Can You Trust the Media? | Manufacturing Consent Explained
“Second Thought” takes a look at whose interests the corporate media serves, and evaluate whether we should trust mainstream news.
Read More Direct Air Capture and Big Oil
There’s something cagey going on with the world’s biggest corporations, over-weighted by oil producers, now feigning green.
Read More Finding Meaning Under A Meaningless System
How many of people’s mental health diagnoses are really just them struggling to function in a capitalist system that is amoral, destructive, overwhelming, overbearing, unsatisfying, and bereft of meaning?
Read More Immunity Passports: Does Social Solidarity Only Count When It Gets Us Back to the Pub?
If we really want a social consensus, if we really want the common good, if we really want everyone to trust in the collective, then we must decide to spurn the narrow, selfish, unaccountable elite that rules over us. We must decide, once and for all, to value the collective, the commons, the public good – not worship at the altar of profit and greed.
Read More Chris Hedges: Cancel Culture, Where Liberalism Goes to Die
Cancel culture is not the road to reform. It is the road to tyranny.
Read More Why Is the World Going to Hell? Netflix’s the Social Dilemma Tells Only Half the Story
The Social Dilemma offers us an opportunity to sense the ugly, psychopathic face shielding behind the mask of social media’s affability. But for those watching carefully the film offers more: a chance to grasp the pathology of the system itself that pushed these destructive social media giants into our lives.
Read More How Big Pharma & Psychiatry Gaslight Us: Interview with Bruce Levine
Clinical psychologist Dr Bruce Levine covers a wide range of topics related to deceit and corruption within the psychiatric-pharmaceutical industry.
Read More The Threat of Authoritarianism in the U.S. is Very Real, and Has Nothing To Do With Trump
The COVID-driven centralization of economic power and information control in the hands of a few corporate monopolies poses enduring threats to political freedom.
Read More The Unspoken Premise Of Modern Capitalism Is That The World Will Be Saved By Greedy Tech Oligarchs
The world is still very much locked into zealous worship of the great god known as capitalism. And it is choking the world to death.
Read More Ads All Tell Us To Kill Our Future. Worth Discussing?
Every time you avoid what the market economy wants you to do, you help push towards a better system, towards an evolution beyond this shithole machine.
Read More Obama Is An Asshole, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Blogger/journalist Caitlin Johnstone provides us with her latest thoughts on the devastating distortions of the mainstream narratives.
Read More The Planet Cannot Begin to Heal Until We Rip the Mask off the West’s War Machine
After four years of Trump, the war machine once again desperately needs a makeover.
Read More This Isn’t Feminism, It’s Imperialism In Pumps
We should not be cheering for women rising to the top of a psychopathic war machine. We should be dismantling that war machine and rolling back all the conditions which led to it. True feminism, which is interested in guiding the world toward balance and heath in a way that benefits women and their children, would make this a priority.
Read More Chris Hedges: American Requiem
Well, it’s over. Not the election. The capitalist democracy. However biased it was towards the interests of the rich and however hostile it was to the poor and minorities, the capitalist democracy at least offered the possibility of incremental and piecemeal reform. Now it is a corpse.
Read More Capitalism Is Double-Billing Us: We Pay From Our Wallets Only for Our Future to Be Stolen From Us
There can be no escape from the death wish of capitalism without recognising that death wish, and then demanding and working for wholesale change.
Read More A Wrong Turn At Albuquerque: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Political blogger and activist Caitlin Johnstone shares her thoughts of the day about U.S. Empire and the precarious state of our society.
Read More Kiss the Amazon Rainforest Goodbye
Right before the eyes of the world, the most legendary rainforest on the planet is going up in smoke.
Read More More Than 200 Environmental Activists and Land Defenders Murdered in 2019
At least 212 environmental campaigners and land defenders, 40 percent of them from indigenous communities, were killed last year as they sought to protect their territories from incursions by mining interests, agribusiness, timber companies, and oil and gas corporations.
Read More ‘Ground-Breaking’ Documentary Links Amazon Fires And Deforestation To Animal Agriculture
Moby, who executively produced the film, says it’s a ‘must-watch for anyone who is passionate about combating corruption’
Read More The End of Kings
The end of kings is near. It is time to scale decentralized trust networks to empower humanity to work, trade, and govern directly with each other without the need for rulers to rule us.
Read More Elon Musk Is Acting Like a Neo-Conquistador for South America’s Lithium
Vijay Prashad and Alejandro Bejarano look at the scramble for Bolivia’s lithium resources led by billionaire Elon Musk in the context of the coup d’état.
Read More Cancel Government Secrecy: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Want a healthy world? Stop interfering in people’s ability to clearly see what’s going on in their world, in their nation and in themselves, and a healthy system will naturally arise.
Read More Wealth Shown to Scale: An Interactive Page
This interactive web page helps us to get our heads around the matter, while providing a number of illuminating (if greatly disturbing) facts about income inequality in the modern world.
Read More Why is Animal Research So Seldom in the News?
If you are like most people, you know a lot more about how farm animals are treated on factory farms than dogs, primates and other animals are treated in U.S. labs. It is no coincidence.
Read More Meat/Mental Health Story Latest in Fake Nutritional Science
“Meat Improves Mental Health,” mainstream media blasted out this week, without mentioning the “study” was funded by an “unrestricted research grant through the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association.” Such fake science from the meat industry is becoming more common as people drop meat.
Read More America’s Great Greenwashing
Celebrating 50 years of Earth Day, Michael Moore, executive producer and the director Jeff Gibbs re-released their daunting and alarming documentary about the heart and soul of America’s Green Movement in a compelling film: Planet of the Humans (2019).
Read More US Escalates Warmongering Against Venezuela Because Of… Drug Trafficking?
The Trump administration is sending Navy ships to patrol Venezuela, the latest escalation against the government targeted by an aggressive hybrid US regime change intervention.
Read More On the Front Lines of the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Doctor’s View
The coronavirus pandemic is sweeping the globe, and is exposing inadequacies in health systems all over the world, especially the U.S.’s abysmal health infrastructure. Health workers on the ground continue to provide care during the pandemic despite the severe lack of resources and dangers to their personal health
Read More The One-Choice Election
There is only one choice in this election. The consolidation of oligarchic power under Donald Trump or the consolidation of oligarchic power under Joe Biden.
Read More Politics as Usual Isn’t Working: It’s Time for a Revolution
Falling life expectancy. Rising economic inequality. Power concentrated in hands unelected elites. An environment poisoned by profits. For some, the crises present day America faces are existential. As such, the political response needs to be commensurate to the moment and nothing short of a root and branch political revolution. For others, this revolutionary impulse on the Right and Left spells disaster.
Read More When It Comes to Climate Hypocrisy, Canada’s Leaders Have Reached a New Low
A territory that has 0.5% of the Earth’s population plans to use up nearly a third of the planet’s remaining carbon budget.
Read More America: Land of Make-Believe
The embrace of collective self-delusion marks the death spasms of all civilizations. We are in the terminal stage.
Read More A Radical Call To Action: Review of “The Big Heat”
The Big Heat is a treasure trove built upon blood, sweat, and tears, compiling years of hard work and astute research to help people better understand a bastardized psycho-socio-politico-economic system, i.e. neoliberalism,
Read More The Primary Mechanism Of Your Oppression Is Not Hidden At All
The primary mechanism of our oppression and exploitation is happening right out in front of our faces.
Read More Chris Hedges & Ray Saurez Discuss “A People’s History of the USA”
Chris Hedges discusses the importance of historian Howard Zinn for a fuller understanding of American history, with journalist Ray Suarez, author of ‘Truth has a Power of its Own: A Conversation about A People’s History with Howard Zinn.’
Read More The Disaster of Utopian Engineering
The problem is that our utopian engineers in their giddy dismantling of an economic and democratic system, as well as their draining of state resources in the wars they prosecute overseas, have dynamited the tools that could save us. They have left us no option but to revolt and remove them from power.
Read More The Empire’s War On Oppositional Journalism Continues To Escalate
Journalist Glenn Greenwald has been charged by the Bolsonaro government in Brazil with the same prosecutorial angle used by the US to target WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Read More How Democracies Die
Democracy was not extinguished in 2016 when Trump was elected. It was slowly strangled to death by the Republican and Democratic parties on behalf of their corporate masters.
Read More So The US Is Invading Iraq Again
Though It won’t be as exciting as last time. If the initial invasion of Iraq was a violent sexual assault by a stranger in a dark alley, this one is more like an abusive husband raping his wife and then making her cook him dinner. But it is just as much a violent violation of personal sovereignty in both instances.
Read More The Issue Before Us is Death… (Sermon by Chris Hedges)
You don’t have to subscribe to any particular philosophy or religious belief to appreciate the truth and wisdom within this sermon given by Chris Hedges.
Read More The Bushfire Crisis Is a Wake-Up Call We Can’t Afford to Ignore
A British MP described the Australian bushfire crisis as a “wake-up call for the world” on global warming, but the Australian government is still asleep at the wheel.
Read More The Impeachment’s Moral Hypocrisy
If our political leaders truly want to restore the rule of law and uphold the constitution, then why didn’t they impeach Bush and Obama (and Trump for his ongoing complicity) for starting illegal wars, assassinating U.S. citizens without due process, carrying out illegal torture, mass spying on the U.S. citizens, and many other serious human rights abuses.
Read More Hope Lies in the Streets
Hope lies in the streets. Millions of people in Hong Kong, India, Chile, France, Iran, Iraq and Lebanon understand. It is time to join them.
Read More The Murders of Indigenous Activists in the Amazon Continue to Rise
Ten indigenous people have been murdered so far in Brazil in 2019, including seven tribal leaders — the highest number of indigenous leaders killed in two decades.
Read More Indigenous Bolivia Ready to go to War Against Fascism
3 weeks after a fascist coup and ousting of democratically elected president Evo Morales, a journalist visits Bolivia to learn about this crisis from the perspective of the indigenous people.
Read More Reconciling Ecological Imperatives and the Right to Food at a Time of Bio-Ethical Crisis
Richard Falk discusses an extremely disturbing evolving situation by labeling it ‘the first bio-ethical crisis to confront humanity.’ It is bio-ethical in the primary sense that the challenges posed are fundamentally directed at the wellbeing and even survival of the species as a whole, and this crisis has an ethical character because knowledge and resources exist to overcome these challenges, and yet action is not being taken.
Read More Chris Hedges On The Rise & Fall of the U.S. Empire
Chris Hedges provides a compelling summary of the rise and imminent fall of the U.S. Empire, and its associated global corporate power and terrorizing of much of the world with illegal coups, sanctions, violence and war.
Read More The Great American Shakedown
The U.S. Democratic Party and its liberal supporters are perplexed. They presented hours of evidence of an impeachable offense, and yet it has made no difference-public opinion is not moved. The liberal class and the Democratic Party leadership have failed to understand that they, along with the traditional Republican elites, have squandered their credibility. No one believes them. And no one should.
Read More The Five Corrupt Pillars of Climate Change Denial
The fossil fuel industry, political lobbyists, media moguls and individuals have spent the past 30 years sowing doubt about the reality of climate change – where none exists. The latest estimate is that the world’s five largest publicly-owned oil and gas companies spend about US$200 million a year on lobbying to control, delay or block binding climate policy.
Read More Welcome to the Global Rebellion Against Neoliberalism
As distinct as the protests seem, the uprisings rocking Bolivia, Lebanon, and scores of other countries all share a common theme.
Read More Open Letter to Roger Hallam
Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, has been accused of “anti-semitism” by big media for words he spoke taken out of context, leading to a massive backlash against the activist. This points to a much broader problem within mainstream media that climate activists need to understand: Big media is intertwined with other power centers, and they will fight tooth and nail against anyone who seriously challenges the status quo.
Read More The New Climate Math: The Numbers Keep Getting More Frightening
Scientists keep raising ever-louder alarms about the urgency of tackling climate change, but the world’s governments aren’t listening. Yet the latest numbers don’t lie: Nations now plan to keep producing more coal, oil, and gas than the planet can endure.
Read More China’s Renewed Coal Boom
China’s failure to kick a long-standing addiction to coal has thrown a knockout punch to the Paris Agreement of 2015, including its 195 signatories. Suddenly, out of the blue, the world has turned upside down!
Read More Neoliberalism Backfires
Massive, continuous demonstrations in the streets around the world bespeak a universal threat that neoliberalism’s self-immolation will grow worse and worse if it continues its horribly stale rotted emphasis on globalization and austerity of social programs as the answers for progress. It’s backfiring.
Read More Death by Oligarchy
Written by Chris Hedges / TruthDig Oligarchs are blinded by hubris, wealth and power. Their...
Read More The Age of Radical Evil
We live in an age of radical evil. The architects of this evil are despoiling the earth and driving the human species toward extinction.
Read More Climate Action: Only the Most Radical Approach Will Work
Capitalism’s drive for profit at all costs is responsible for the climate crisis. In order to have a hope of halting the damage and coping with what is already locked in, we will have to move beyond capitalism towards a society where the needs of the mass of people come first.
Read More The Big Polluters’ Masterstroke Was to Blame the Climate Crisis on You and Me
While we are all participants in the first great extermination, our responsibility is not evenly shared. Even middle-class people in the rich world, whose effects are significant, are guided by a system of thought and action that is shaped in large part by corporations.
Read More Want To Save The Environment? De-Fund The Pentagon.
Written by Caitlin Johnstone / Medium Millions of people are uniting in demonstrations...
Read MorePesticides in the Dock: Ecological Apocalypse but Business as Usual
Regardless of a rapidly emerging health and environmental apocalypse, with the pesticide industry being one of the key drivers, unrestrained capitalism reigns, profits trump public interest and its business as usual.
Read More How the Mainstream Media Pushes for Endless War
Written by Joshua Cho / FAIR On the 18th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the illegal US...
Read More Fukushima’s Radioactive Water Crisis
Tokyo Electric Power’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, which experienced three massive meltdowns in 2011, is running out of room to store radioactive water. No surprise! But now, what to do about phosphorescent water?
Read More The Capitalists Are Afraid
Capitalists know the reigning ideology of neoliberalism no longer has any credibility. Its lies have been exposed. They also know they are to blame.
Read More The Epidemic of Prescription Drug Dependence: Interview with Dr John Read
Sky news discusses dependence on prescription drugs and the soon to be released Public Health England review. Interviewed are Professor John Read and therapist Marion Brown.
Read More Fighting Water Privatization with ‘Blue Communities’
Private corporations and interests have been moving in to take control of and profit from growing water scarcity.
Read More The Companies Behind the Burning of the Amazon
The burning of the Amazon and the darkening of skies from Sao Paulo, Brazil, to Santa Cruz, Bolivia, have captured the world’s conscience. Much of the blame for the fires has rightly fallen on Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for directly encouraging the burning of forests and the seizure of Indigenous Peoples’ lands. But the incentive for the destruction comes from large-scale international meat and soy animal feed companies.
Read More Your Slavery is their Freedom
Journalist George Monbiot exposes the billionaire class
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