How is it possible that amid a $94-Trillion economy, median wages are in decline? America’s economic policy constitutes a kind of structural genocide, killing 18 million people per year worldwide through the violence of poverty and socioeconomic inequality. Economic busts are good for the rich because they create cheap labor and allow banks to seize properties the poor can’t pay for anymore. All that wealth consolidates at the top to the point where 70% of the population can no longer generate enough income to afford basic necessities without taking on ever-increasing levels of debt that they will never be able to pay back under current economic policy because the financial opportunities necessary to generate the income do not exist. The entire economy is based on unnecessary consumption that relies on advertising to create artificial demand, and rewards manufactured scarcity, be it arbitrarily priced pharmaceuticals or polluting watersheds to increase bottled water sales.

Of the 213 million working-age Americans, there are only 100.6 million full-time workers, leaving 107 million people to fight over 28 million part-time jobs, usually without benefits and usually at minimum wage.

The stock market is so big it’s now worth $30 trillion, but there is only $3.8 Trillion of hard cash circulating in the US economy. And any money you make from stocks comes from other investors pumping new money in.

The SEC defines a Ponzi Scheme as:

“an investment fraud that involves the payment of purported returns to existing investors from funds contributed by new investors”

The goal is to make money out of nothing, sell it to people, and then when the people can’t pay, to take their property. 83% of the stocks are owned by 1% of the population and constitute nothing but speculative gambling. The $700-Billion float of Apple has nothing to do with what that company actually produces at all. It’s simply a figure representing the speculations of traders. And for some reason, retirement funds are connected to this inflationary-driven market, coercing the whole society into participating in a siphoning machine that takes money from the lower class and delivers it to the upper class through different mechanisms.

Until now, the Justice Department has always distinguished between government employees who leak classified information and outlets that publish it, due to protections guaranteed by the First Amendment. The purpose of the First Amendment was never to lionize The Press into a privileged institution. It protects all persons in their right to print, speak, write, report and publish what they will. But the DOJ’s unprecedented decision to indict Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange for violating the Espionage Act seeks to penalize Assange for simply “Encouraging and Inducing” Chelsea Manning’s disclosures. Despite rampant innuendo from the corporate media, the charges against Assange have nothing to do with Wikileaks’ publication of Emails from the DNC and Hillary’s private server, but for revealing the war crimes of the Bush Administration. The Espionage Act has always been used as a weapon used to attack free speech and dissent, but now threatens to finally bring about Orwellian censorship. We are all Julian Assange.

Combat-Veteran Congresswoman and Army Major Tulsi Gabbard appeared on Joe Rogan this week to confirm her candidacy for President of America, proving to be the only candidate articulating the vociferous anti-war sentiments of war-fatigued American soldiers. During her 16 years in military service, Major Gabbard has deployed twice to the Middle East as a combat medic, and today continues to serve in the Hawaii National Guard. Unlike virtually everyone else running for the Oval Office in 2020, Tulsi understands from first-hand experience and sacrifice what it actually means to be in war. She has also served for over 6 years on the Foreign Affairs and Armed Services Committees, working intimately on issues related to National Security and Foreign Policy. It seems only logical that anyone tasked with the responsibility of serving as Commander-In-Chief of the most powerful military in the world should be required to be a veteran of the awesome forces they command.

History doesn’t repeat, but it does rhyme. The American Empire is addicted to wars for oil to keep the military machine running. Today, Venezuela has the largest oil reserves on the planet, and the Empire wants them. But we can’t recklessly risk the lives of our military personnel whom we’ve obliged to go steal that oil, without first convincing everyone else that the democratically-elected leader of Venezuela is an apparently “evil tyrant” who “oppresses his own people”. America’s support for brutal dictatorships like Saudi Arabia and Azerbaijan (countries that behead their own citizens by the bushel) clearly demonstrates her ambivalence about supporting dictators and tyrants in principal. But when a country possesses resources that the Empire covets, our corporate-controlled media toe the military-industrial line and push the same, tired, regime-change narrative we’ve all heard before: they’re oppressing their own people, so we need to invade…you know, for democracy!

Unlike the cloak-and-dagger corruption of yesteryear, the Trump Administration brazenly advertised the modus operandi of the Empire like never before by fulfilling the role of Secretary of State with oil industry captain Rex “Exxon” Tillerson at it’s inception. And for the first time in modern history, the head of the Imperial Executive is a man who has openly admitted his support for the seizure of foreign oil resources, claiming erroneously that ISIS would never have gained a foothold had we simply “taken the oil” from Iraq.

Though television interviewers pretend to be tough on Trump, they rarely point out obvious fallacies in his Administration’s foreign policy logic, as long as said policies continue to allow the Imperial war machine to continue its pillaging of the entire world, unabated. Not a single talking head on the corporate-owned media opposes another illegal war thus creating another wave of wounded and traumatized American soldiers returning home unable to cope with the horrible crimes they’ve carried out on behalf of Wall Street’s ownership class.

Interestingly, these very same talking heads have lied for more than two years about Russian collusion, but fail to mention the fact that Venezuela is a client state of Russia – one of many facts conveniently ignored due to the fact that it is decidedly inconvenient for, and stands in direct contradiction to, the “Putin owns Trump” narrative.

Anya Parampil, a journalist who spent a month in Venezuela this year, brilliantly summed up the corporate-media’s dismally schizophrenic coverage of Venezuela this week:

“The media are lying about the situation in Venezuela. Imagine if Hillary Clinton had refused to admit defeat after losing to Trump in 2016, banded together a group of 24 US soldiers and attempted to take the White House by force. Do you really think she would be walking freely on the streets the way Juan Guidó is right now in Caracas? And the media would call it what it is: a coup. The opposition has no support. Guido will only ride into power on the back of a US tank.

“We keep hearing about a “humanitarian crisis” in Venezuela, but what we never hear is that is the intended result of US sanctions that have targeted Venezuela since 2015, which according to a report released in April 2019 by the Center for Economic and Policy Research, have led to the deaths of 40,000 Venezuelans and will lead to the deaths of thousands more if these sanctions are not overturned.

“If the Trump Administration really cared about the people of Venezuela, it would end the sanctions against Venezuela.”