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Fascism: Empire’s Final Gasp 2025
Fred Gransville
The climb of fascism in the United States was not born from a single event, nor was it the result of some sudden, dramatic cultural shift. Rather, it emerged through a slow, relentless erosion of democratic institutions, camouflaged under the deceptive cloak of national security imperatives and capitalist expansionism. From George W. Bush's stolen election in 2000 to Donald Trump’s reinstallation as president in 2025, one undeniable trajectory emerges: the United States has devolved from a faltering democracy into the very embodiment of the fascism it once proclaimed to oppose across the globe. This piece endeavors to dissect the policies, ideologies, and historical shifts that have propelled America to the precipice of collapse—politically, economically, and ecologically. The Pentagon, Military Contractors and Private armies fought tooth and nail “to rid us of Vietnam syndrome, to make us love wars and be militarist. Now we are a third world banana republic replete with a company store.
The Warning That Was Charlottesville
By David Swanson
I recommend reading Charlottesville: An American Story by Deborah Baker. Itʼs an account, of course, not of all aspects of the city of Charlottesville, but principally of the Nazi-KKK-White Supremacist riot of 2017 that has taken on the name “Charlottesville” — including in a movie. The book itself is the furthest thing from predictable. The majority of it is pre-riot, with countless illuminating tangents and background stories and characters. In fact, that initial majority of the book is probably of greater interest than the blow-by-blow that follows or the very few words at the end about the eight years since.
Most surprising to me — apart from how much I could still learn about the place I live — is Bakerʼs blend of serious, credible reporting with a clear point of view on all sorts of controversial points. She is also refreshingly hard on so many people who I think deserve it, that I really donʼt mind how hard she is on me in a brief passage where I go unnamed, even though, naturally, I donʼt think I deserve it. More on that in a second.
The Hidden War on Free Speech: How Fusion Centers and Military Surveillance Target Civilians and Creatives
By Ned Lud
They don’t need jackboots when they have behavioral analytics.
The war on speech has gone stealth.
Once, repression was crude—clubs, tear gas, blacklists. Now, a fusion of military-grade surveillance and corporate-state platforms executes the same function under the banners of "public safety" and "counterterrorism." But make no mistake: dissent has been digitally criminalized, and creativity, journalism, and protest are its latest contraband.
Fusion centers—those shadow command posts co-managed by DHS and local law enforcement—were sold to the public as tools to detect and deter terror. But what they’ve actually done is rebrand constitutionally protected behavior as precursors to “radicalization”. Attend a protest, publish a blog, organize mutual aid? Your name may quietly slide into a fusion database, flagged for "Pattern-of-Life" review or "Threat Fusion" scoring. That’s not conspiracy theory—it’s embedded in open-source government docs, FOIA releases, and inspector general reports stretching back a decade (McQuade, 2019; Brennan Center, 2023).
Deliberate Starvation and Aid Obstruction in Gaza and the Occupied Territories
by Tracy Turner
In the besieged killing field territories of Gaza, survival has become a nightmare. The siege blockade, far from being mere policy, has morphed into an insidious engine of deliberate starvation-its mechanism fine-tuned to crush the will of an entire population. What we are witnessing is not simply the aftermath of war, but the premeditated application of human starvation, where every food convoy turned away, every medical shipment blocked, and every infrastructure target hit compounds a slow-motion, open-air Auschwitz catastrophe (WHO, 2025).
The humanitarian genocidal crisis is not a byproduct of conflict; it is the conflict itself, distilled into a methodical war on survival. This is not a tragedy by accident, but by design. The denial of food, water, and medicine to Gaza’s inhabitants has become a weapon in the hands of those who seek not just to defeat, but to erase a people’s will to live (B’Tselem, 2024). The starving people, the disease, the medical mistakes, the thirst, life-ending hunger and withheld cooking fuel are silenced my Meta, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Youtube – “content moderation” and “community decency.” The erasure of truth in all forms of media (Non-Information Super-Traffic-Jam-By-Design) brought to you by the Billionaire Oligarchs.
Can Reality Any Longer Be Acknowledged?
Paul Craig Roberts
Belaya air base Russia
The attack on Russian strategic forces by Ukraine, with or without President Trump’s knowledge and with or without help from Washington and the British, could have been the most dangerous event in East-West relations during my lifetime. The reason is that recently revised Russian war doctrine states that an attack, even by a non-nuclear country, on the Russian strategic triad requires a strategic response. Strategic usually means nuclear or at least a disabling response.
Putin dodged the responsibility (more later), but no one knew for certain that he would. In other words, whoever is responsible for the attack on Russia’s strategic bombers subjected Ukraine, Europe, the US to the possibility of nuclear attack, depending on whom the Russians decided was responsible. This person or persons is a madman, a maniac who must be identified and removed from his position. Try to imagine how it is possible for, say Zelensky, to launch an attack that could result in nuclear war between the US and Russia. How can control over whether or not the US faces nuclear war be in the hands of Zelensky? If Zelensky is responsible, the US and NATO have a massive failure in command and control. If Trump or someone in the Trump administration gave the green light, they should be removed for committing the most potentially dangerous act during my lifetime.
The Algorithm Hell: Notes from Inside the Censorship-Industrial Cathedral (Escaping Jewgle)
By Chris Spencer
The architecture of censorship in the 21st century is not built of iron bars or smoldering books. It is invisible by design—engineered into the digital substrate of everyday life, encoded in autocomplete predictions, invisible filters, algorithmic nudges. What was once the domain of secret police and book-burning regimes has now been domesticated, consumerized, offered to the public not as repression but as a service: "curated content," "recommended viewing," and "safe results." Now trending idiocy on Google trending. “Tom Thibodeau” is where Google steers you, away from exposés on Gaza, Musk, Ukraine, et al. You brain is being anti-cultured.
Ever feel extreme disgust or anger with Google Bing Youtube? Here is an example of fighting back!. Try using the link and search for everything you know is censored in Google.
If Orwell feared boot-stomping totalitarianism and Huxley warned of a people lulled into docility by pleasure and distraction, we have inherited both dystopias simultaneously. Our overlords don’t bark orders—they tweak metadata. They don’t erase dissent—they demote it. They don’t burn the book—they bury the link. What remains is a social contract mediated not by law or open debate, but by an interface—one that feeds us "authoritative (read: authoritarian) information", wrapped in the soft liturgy of “trust and safety.” Sicilian Protection.
Facebook Shadow Protocols: Web Weaponized Against Palestinian Genocide Discourse
Ned Lud
META/Facebook Censorship Exposed: How Dopamine Hijack, Shadow Bans, and Algorithmic Repression Suppress Palestinian Voices, Accelerate Brain Aging, and Enable Digital Imperialism
Spoiler alert: Not Muslim. Not affiliated with Hamas. And definitely not an Islamophobe. Like Zuckerberg.
This information is backed by reports from organizations such as Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and The Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Imagine a world where information can be freely accessed by anyone due to the advancements in digitalization, however, we currently live in a reality where the web feels more like a dystopian maze filled with propaganda: a world built around concealing the truth and silencing voices of opposition. This is not simply a disagreement of beliefs, but a fundamental redefining of communication as we know it-social media and search engines have been weaponized for control.
This can best be observed in the suffocation of the Palestinian story. Amid rising conflict within the Middle Eastern countries, a powerful let-it-be censorship appears to silence anyone who dares to go against the widely accepted geopolitical narrative. This is not limited to authoritarian countries; so-called liberal marketplace technology corporations entangled with the National Endowment for Democracy (NED, no pun intended) and international nonprofits censor information, be it intentionally or carelessly, becoming the gatekeepers of ‘free speech’.
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If you displease certain government and military operatives, they WILL threaten you!
By Sally Dugman
If you displease certain government and military operatives, they WILL attack you !
I don’t write under my true legal name. Doing so, I found out, is a liability and a potential danger. How do I know?
Before Bush Jr.’s war in Iraq when the war frenzy for it was being purposefully whipped up, I knew that the war (as Alan Greenspan later confirmed) was all about gaining control of Iraqi oil, as well as destabilizing Iraq enough to dominate the broken country, as well as gain power in Middle Eastern political and economic affairs.
So sick at heart and distraught from the war having started, I wrote articles about those aims being the case as soon as the slaughtering invasion by the U.S. military was well underway.
Then in response to one of my writings posted on an internationally viewed website, a bunch of U.S. Marines wrote comments that that they knew where I live and proved it was so that they had somehow found my address. Then, they wrote that they were coming after me and to my home in order to kill me as they hated my views about their war!
Law, Not Crime, Has Come From South of the Border
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War
Not so much criminals as the foundations of the rule of law — that is what has infiltrated the United States from Latin America. That seems to be a major thread running through Greg Grandin’s wonderful new history of the hemisphere, America, América: A New History of the New World. It’s a book you can dive back into repeatedly, not to mention fantasize about someone compacting it into a short slideshow for the benefit of the President of the United States.
British settler colonists in North America had their preachers and writers, but those individuals had a tendency to pretend Native Americans were not real, did not exist, perhaps never had existed, or simply didn’t count for much on empty land, or didn’t count because they were to be pushed out or eliminated rather than lived with. Spain, in contrast, generated a tremendous raging debate between supporters and denouncers of its killing, robbery, theft, enslavement, and terrorizing of indigenous people. Spain broke new ground, according to Grandin, in producing criticism of its own atrocities as it conquered South America.
