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Over the past two decades, BCFS evolved from a small nonprofit into a web of interconnected entities, each strategically designed to control government contracts, move funds internally, and minimize external oversight.
While Southwest Key Programs, Inc. is the primary nonprofit, it created multiple affiliated ventures designed to obscure financial flows and maintain control over vast public funds.
The distinguished economist talks about the power of entropy in shaping a new economic reality and viewing current events. His new book challenges flawed mainstream models that lead to distortions and bad policy.
Humanitarian NGOs routinely blur the line between public service and profit-seeking ventures, forming alliances with corporations and for-profit entities to expand their financial and political reach.
According to Gates, allowing humans to grow food and contribute to society by making things is a “problem” that needs to be “solved.”
Under the indefinite detention provision of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the President and the military can detain and imprison American citizens with no access to friends, family or the courts if the government believes them to be a terrorist.
Critics argue that the agency’s work with a lobbying group is a conflict of interest.
For many decades, the mirror of science has become increasingly blurred by a storm of vested interests, particularly when research and the communication of results are linked to large corporations.
Israel’s annihilation of Gaza marks the death of a global order guided by internationally agreed upon laws and rules, one often violated by the U.S. in its imperial wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, but one that was at least acknowledged as a utopian vision.
NPR is a state-subsidized media outlet in a country that rejects state media. It is a site that routinely pitches for its sponsors while insisting that it does not have commercials.
“You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”
While the news media fixates on the extent to which Project 2025 may be the Trump Administration’s playbook for locking down the nation, there is a more subversive power play taking place under cover of Trump’s unique brand of circus politics.