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The Empire's Ship is Sinking - Modern Revolution Curriculum

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  Abby Martin interviews retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former national security advisor to the Reagan administration, who spent years as an assistant to Secretary of State Colin Powell during both Bush administrations. Today, he is honest about the unfixable corruption inside the establishment and the corporate interests driving foreign policy. Hear a rare insider's view of what interests are behind U.S. wars, the manipulation of intelligence, the intertwining of the military and corporate world, and why the U.S. Empire is doomed. FOLLOW // @EmpireFiles // @AbbyMartin // @telesurenglish

Money as Debt Series - Economic Systems Curriculum

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Money as Debt, Part 1 of a 3 part series. Shared under the fair use act for educational purposes  Anarchist University Economic Systems Curriculum 2015

The imminent collapse of the US economy and social system

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The imminent collapse of the US economy and social system (Originally Published October, 2011) Systems and Sociology It may not happen next year, or the year after that– but sometime in the near future our society, which is made up of systems that regulate, sustain and control most human beings on earth will experience a substantial - if not complete collapse. Let me say first, that I am not an system economist, but I am a social engineer and a true anarchist ( autonomous community collectivist ) which means I stand to gain absolutely nothing if I’m right or wrong – and as a minimalist I also have nothing to lose. Try to think of modern society as a child’s drawing. Trying to point out and fix things that are wrong with it is completely useless, especially when the faults are subjective. You can study, analyze, discuss and understand it all you want, at the end of the day it is still an idealistic version of how things are (or should be) from a child’s point of v...

There’s No Money in Finding the Cure - Why Your Charity Fun Run Has No Finish Line

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20,000 people die of cancer every day. That's 8,000,000 deaths every year including 500,000 Americans . At the turn of the 20th century, 1 person out of 20 got cancer. In the 1940's, it was 1 out of 16. In the 1970's it was 1 out of every 10. Today, 1 out of every 3 people gets cancer. 1 million Americans are diagnosed with cancer every year. Each patent then feeds into a "system" which employs hundreds of thousands of people and generates billions of dollars for the medical and pharmaceutical industries. The so-called cancer "treatment" apparatus is so large and expensive that it requires new patients on a continual basis so that it won't collapse. Simply put, Cancer is big business. Cancer is one of the biggest businesses on earth. The average cancer patent spends at least 50,000 dollars on "treatment". With a million new cancer patients every year, that's 50 BILLION dollars annually spent on cancer "treatme...