Elected representatives everywhere are compromised, bought or bribed—because we invested those representatives with the power that criminal organizations want. Predictably, a technocratic cartel is now locking itself into the place of government. Abandon the belief that only power in the wrong hands is bad. No benevolent dictator was ever going to save us. Recently, while watching the […]
The world is always ending according to some pundit or other. But after thousands of years of spectacularly false predictions of the end of the world, why are people still listening to these dissembling doomsayers? And, more to the point, how can these false tales of Armageddon lead us into the arms of the Antichrist? […]
Plans to reform the UK’s criminal justice system – including the scrapping of jury trials for some offences and reduced sentences for those who plead guilty – are all part of larger “reforms” that would empower tyrannical authoritarianism. Former senior judge and current Investigatory Powers Commissioner Brian Leveson made the news this week with the […]
From your shopping spend to your social media activity to your energy consumption – what other information might the Stats NZ seek to acquire that everyday people would not be comfortable with? Part three of a series, read parts ONE and TWO. Former Government Statisticians and a Prime Minister disapprove of Stats’ new data collection powers In effect, […]
This article highlights what happens when wealthy corporations export hazardous pesticides to Global South countries, where weaker regulatory protections allow them to prioritise shareholder profits over public safety. In 2017, the Yavatmal district of Maharashtra in India experienced a mass poisoning incident: hundreds of cotton farmers and farm workers suffered severe symptoms after spraying pesticides, […]
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”President Dwight D. Eisenhower (April 16, 1953) Seventy years after President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned about the cost of a military-industrial complex, […]
Originally published by Unity News Network ‘Events, dear boy, events’. So said British prime minister Harold Macmillan on the fallibility of leaders due to unanticipated, uncontrollable factors. ‘Shit happens’, to use a slang version. But what if events are neither incidental nor – in some cases – real? Topically, should we believe that Iran had a […]
And all this time you thought Israel was fighting something called “Hamas”! Poor dears, what else could you think, what with all the U.S. news outlets and “experts” and talking heads telling you the same thing? But they lied. They told you that Israel was fighting a “war.” They lied. What Israel is doing in Gaza isn’t […]
And all this time you thought Israel was fighting something called “Hamas”! Poor dears, what else could you think, what with all the U.S. news outlets and “experts” and talking heads telling you the same thing? But they lied. They told you that Israel was fighting a “war.” They lied. What Israel is doing in Gaza isn’t […]
They don’t sell seeds. They don’t own tractors. They don’t run warehouses or ship grain. But BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street are among the most powerful actors in global agriculture. Together, these three asset managers control more than $26 trillion in assets—more than the GDP of the United States and India combined. They are shareholders […]