Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Turkish-Backed Jihadists Filmed Using CIA-Supplied Missiles Against Syrian Kurds
November 5th, 2019Via: ZeroHedge: The Libertarian Institute’s Scott Horton captioned the below video accurately when he bluntly stated: CIA’s former(?) “moderate” jihadist terrorists blast DoD’s Kurdish YPG friends with U.S. TOW missile. This is exactly what it shows. The CIA previously introduced BGM-71 TOW anti-tank missiles to the Syrian battlefield, handing the advanced weaponry off to the […]
How Central Banks Fund Our Age of Endless War
November 4th, 2019Via: Mises Institute: The 20th century was the century of total war. Limitations on the scope of war, built up over many centuries, had already begun to break down in the 19th century, but they were altogether obliterated in the 20th. And of course the sheer amount of resources that centralized states could bring to […]
First Images of U.S. Troops Occupying Syria’s Oil Fields
November 4th, 2019Oil fields over here. Poppy fields over there. Via: ZeroHedge: The reality of American foreign policy all in one stunning image: regional Iraqi Kurdistan24 television has broadcast the first footage of the United States Army seizing and ‘protecting’ a Syrian oil field in the country’s northeast.
China To Establish $10 Trillion Economic Zone In Space [???]
November 4th, 2019Via: ZeroHedge: According to the Global Times, China plans to establish an Earth-moon space economic zone by 2050, which is expected to generate $10 trillion worth of services per year. The zone will cover areas of space near Earth, the moon and in between. … In other words, while the US contemplates a Green New […]
Saudi Attacks on Yemen’s Farmers Are Pushing the Whole Country into Famine
November 2nd, 2019Via: Mint Press: Almost immediately after March 2015, when the war began, the Saudi-led Coalition began targeting Yemen’s rural livelihood, bombing farms, food systems, markets, water treatment facilities, transportation infrastructure, and even agricultural extension offices. In urban areas, fishing boats and food processing and storage facilities were targeted. Before the war began, over 70 percent […]
U.S. Debt Surpasses $23 Trillion for First Time
November 1st, 2019Via: The Hill: The federal government’s outstanding public debt has surpassed $23 trillion for the first time in history, according to data from the Treasury Department released on Friday. Growing budget deficits have added to the nation’s debt at a speedy rate since President Trump took office. The debt has grown some 16 percent since […]
Dark Journalist: TSSA CIA Fake UFO Disclosure
November 1st, 2019Via: Dark Journalist:
The Fantasy of Opting Out
November 1st, 2019Via: The MIT Press Reader: Consider a day in the life of a fairly ordinary person in a large city in a stable, democratically governed country. She is not in prison or institutionalized, nor is she a dissident or an enemy of the state, yet she lives in a condition of permanent and total surveillance […]
Trump On Taking Syria’s Oil and, “You Know, the Airport Is Right Nearby”
October 27th, 2019“A very big, very monstrous, very powerful airport, and very expensive airport that was built years ago.” Ahh, Ye’ Olde Superbase? Is that you? This is from the old and forgotten depths of Cryptogon’s archives: What part of Superbase don’t you understand? That’s what people in the business of exploitation and death call a “geostrategic […]
As Secret Pentagon Spending Rises, Defense Firms Cash in
October 27th, 2019Via: Defense One: The share of Pentagon spending hidden from public view is rising, as are defense contractors’ revenues from it. The U.S. Defense Department’s overall budget request increased nearly 5 percent from 2019 to 2020, but classified spending rose 6 percent, according to the consulting firm Avascent. It accounts for about $76 billion, or […]
