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Lessons from Paris
EDITORIAL Lessons from Paris By Ron Paul – January 13, 2015 After the tragic shooting at a provocative magazine in Paris last week, I pointed out that given the foreign policy positions of France we […]
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Inner City Turmoil and Other Crises: My Predictions for 2015
written by ron paul If Americans were honest with themselves they would acknowledge that the Republic is no more. We now live in a police state. If we do not recognize and resist this development, […]
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Forecast 2015 — Life in the Breakdown Lane
“Don’t look back — something might be gaining on you,” Satchel Paige famously warned. For connoisseurs of civilizational collapse, 2014 was merely annoying, a continued pile-up of over-investments in complexity with mounting diminishing returns, metastasizing […]
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On The Verge Of The Next Economic Crisis, 62 Percent Of Americans Are Living Paycheck To Paycheck
By Michael Snyder Nearly two-thirds of all Americans are completely and totally unprepared for the next economic crisis. As you will read about below, a new survey has found that only 38 percent of Americans […]
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We Are Entering An Era Of Shattered Illusions
By Brandon Smith The structure of history is held together by two essential and distinct kinds of links, two moments in time to which no one is immune: moments of epiphany, and moments of catastrophe. Sometimes, […]
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WITH POWER OF SOCIAL MEDIA GROWING, POLICE NOW MONITORING AND CRIMINALIZING ONLINE SPEECH
BY GLENN GREENWALD On March 6, 2012, six British soldiers were killed in Afghanistan by a roadside explosive device, and a national ritual of mourning and rage ensued. Prime Minister David Cameron called it a “desperately sad day for our country.” […]
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Can’t-Do Generation: “Expect Everything to Just Work,” and Throw Out What They Can’t Fix
By Mac Slavo The net effect of technology is a mixed bag, with one major side effect: An entire generation of youth have become inept, largely helpless and dependent upon gadgets and devices that ‘just work’ […]
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2014: The Year Propaganda Came Of Age
By The Automatic Earth Dorothea Lange Drought hit OK farm family on way to CA Aug 1936 From just about as early in my life as I can remember, growing up as a child in Holland, there […]
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The Clash of Civilizations
Thomas Cole, “The Course of Empire: Destruction” (1836) Source: Salient In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; […]
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A Cyber War With North Korea And An Economic War With Russia
By Michael Snyder In addition to all of our wars in the Middle East and the war that has erupted on the streets of America, we are now engaged in a cyber war with North Korea […]