The wealth gap is at the highest since the late 1930s and the founder of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund, Ray Dalio calls for reforming capitalism, arguing that if the US does not redistribute wealth and opportunity, the country’s existence as a stable global power is threatened, writes Business Insider. He said the US needs leadership that will declare inequality …
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French Revolution Tyranny: A study of Mob Rule and its Elites
The great rulers in history knew perfectly well how to control the mob. Empires often ruthlessly pushed for conquest of the weak and revenues from the conquered, yet he who holds the moral high ground tends to win in the long run. So states the Chinese man of wisdom, the military genius Sun Tzu, writes historian Hanne Nabintu Herland …
Read More »How the Marxist Left produces Totalitarianism: Fear instead of Freedom
The rise of totalitarianism in modern societies happens in nations where Marxism first is infused into society. The Marxist Left produces Totalitarianism: It is a must to create Marxist repressive revolutions that bring fear and terror into the population and thereby silence political opposition in order to fundamentally alter the whole culture and the social fabric of the nation. …
Read More »The American Democratic Autocracy
Democratic Autocracy: President Biden recently spoke about the need for democracy rather than autocracy, pointing out that the American midterm elections would save democracy only if the Democrats got the majority. In other words, those who vote Republican are against democracy, as only the rule of one party with complete control over the government promotes democracy. Biden thereby defined …
Read More »Western Civilization Is Ceasing to Exist
Herland Report: Western Civilization Ceasing to Exist: I often explain that we are losing civilization. The risks come from many sources. Among them is the growing risk of nuclear war; the rising police state in which behavior protected by the Constitution is criminalized despite the Constitution; unity supplanted by a Tower of Babel; fomented race and gender hatreds that …
Read More »Exclusive interview John Whitehead: Eroding Constitutional rights, lack of citizen freedom
Herland Report host, Hanne Nabintu Herland speaks to John Whitehead about the eroding Constitutional rights, threats to civil liberties, police brutality, lack of individual freedom and the end of democracy in America. John Whitehead is the president of The Rutherford Institute, a constitutional attorney who has defended many against police brutality, one of the US’ leading voices for the American …
Read More »How to control a nation by fear: Joseph Stalin was the gold standard of Dictatorship
Herland Report: How to control a nation by fear: “Joseph Stalin, Soviet dictator, creator of great power, and destroyer of tens of millions of lives …” Thus begins this episode of Uncommon Knowledge, which dives into the biography of Joseph Stalin. Professor at Princeton University, Stephen Kotkin, author of Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941, examines the political career of …
Read More »The Socialist Marxist State versus Conservatism and Freedom
Herland Report: On the Opposition to the Socialist State: One may argue that Europe historically has succeeded to some degree in erasing the historical class differences that characterized the pre-industrial era, thereby providing citizens with more equal political and social rights. We also performed a process of institutionalization characterized by a strong state and continual political, economic and social …
Read More »Aldous Huxley and the Totalitarian Brave New World
Herland Report: As the Western elites again are enticed by totalitarian systems and the deprivation of civil liberties among its citizens, Aldous Huxley is worth remembering. He provided an excellent description of the road to tyranny in his celebrated book Brave New World (1932). Huxley shows how restricted society becomes if personal initiative, individualism, social responsibility and the right to …
Read More »Investment Funds now buy up Private Property: The slow return to Feudalism
Herland Report: Investment Funds and Private Property: The vast majority of the world’s assets are owned by just two investment firms — BlackRock and the Vanguard Group. Combined, they have ownership in nearly 90% of all S&P 500 firms, and through their investment holdings they secretly wield monopoly control over all industries. By now you may be familiar with the …
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