The Fraud Economy: Christian Parenti on Cuba, Empire & the Deep State

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  @OneEyedMonkey9000 · 2 days ago

  He even looks like his dad 😂❤

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  @waltershink6878 · 1 day ago

  Peace, love and solidarity!

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  @bengallup9321 · 1 day ago

  Great to see him continue the work of his father.

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  @Sid_Hatfield · 2 days ago

  The public should have begun to worry about what was going on 80 years ago.

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  @AntonioGarmsci · 1 day ago

  More well-educated people, that give NO shits for working people. Workers wake up! These fucks are using working people because, we, workers, as DR. Parenti said, workers are the SOURCE of power!

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  @strumbley · 2 days ago

  Well the protests really died down under Obama...with the crushing of Occupy Wall St., and the the shift to a focus on identity politics.

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  @a.randomjack6661 · 2 days ago

  The WAR racket, simplified <br>A four-stage profit cycle:<br>Pre-war:<br>Sell the government the bonds to fund the military buildup<br>During war: <br>Collect interest + commissions on war bonds + finance the defense contractors<br>Post-war:<br>Finance the reconstruction (the &quot;rebuild&quot; is a second round of lending to the same government)<br>Perpetual: <br>The debt from stages 1 to 3 must be serviced forever. The interest payments are a permanent revenue stream that outlasts the war by generations.<br>Side orders:<br>Finance mining, agriculture, fossil fuels, etc with subsidies and bill the unknowing Infinite Taxpayer

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  @renebarendse2864 · 1 day ago

  The apple does not drop far from the tree. As we say in Dutch. Happily he follows his illustrious father.

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  @gabagool44 · 1 day ago

  The Amish thing at the end is just straight up absurd. There&apos;s billions of people across the globe that didn&apos;t get a covid vaccine. Dozens of millions of them being in the USA. But I did love the part when he characterized the ruling class of the USA. It made me think more deeply (less abstractly) about that sort of thing.

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  @harrikiiskinen1571 · 1 day ago

  Capitalism has always been a fraud and the ongoing chaos everywhere is based and grows from capitalism.

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  @tsenotanev · 1 day ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLgnQO-chF0&amp;t=2920">48:40</a> .. yeh.. younger people don&apos;t know that.. older people often don&apos;t recall... but those were indeed the largest protests against the war ever... all over the world .. here in bulgaria there were hundreds of thousands on the streets for months...

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  @Infinitron0451 · 12 hours ago

  The fraud economy is how the entire aristocratic violence-structure sustains itself. The moment growth stops, liberalims turns to fascism.