“Alexa, How Do We Subvert Big Tech’s Orwellian Internet-of-Things Surveillance?”
By Charles Hugh Smith Convenience is the sales pitch, but the real goal is control in service of maximizing profits and extending state power. When…
Charles Hugh Smith
Predatory “Green Capitalism” Is Monetizing the Air, and It’s Going to Cost You
By Charles Hugh Smith You want to reduce CO2? Then trigger a global depression that reduces global consumption of everything by 50% and destroys 95%…
America’s Concealed Crisis: Fifty Years of Economic Decline, 1969 to 2019
By Charles Hugh Smith If we consider the long term, it’s clear America’s economy and society have been declining for the average household for 50…
Assange and the Unforgivable Sin of Disemboweling Official Narratives
By Charles Hugh Smith The entire global status quo is on the cusp of the S-Curve decline phase. There is really only one unforgivable sin…
Which Nations Will Crumble and Which Few Will Prosper in the Next 25 Years?
By Charles Hugh Smith Adaptability and flexibility will be the core survival traits going forward. What will separate the many nations that will crumble in…
Credit Exhaustion Is Global
By Charles Hugh Smith Europe is awash in credit exhaustion, and so is China. The signs are everywhere: credit exhaustion is global, and that means…
France in a Nutshell: “The Government Stopped Listening to the People 20 Years Ago”
By Charles Hugh Smith The elites’ clever exploitation of politically correct cover stories has enthralled the comatose, uncritical Left, but not those who see their…
The View from the Trenches of the Alternative Media
By Charles Hugh Smith What’s scarce in a world awash in free content and nearly infinite entertainment content? After 3,701 posts (from May 2005 to…
Shadow Banning Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg: We’re All Digital Ghosts Now
By Charles Hugh Smith Just about the only bulwark against being silenced by the modern-day tech-corporate-NKVD-Stasi is Patreon. If you do a search of shadow banning,…
Globalization Has Hollowed Out Rural America
By Charles Hugh Smith The value of local control and local capital far exceed the pathetic “savings” reaped from shoddy commoditized goods. What do we make of an economy…
The Grand Irony of RussiaGate: The U.S. Becomes More Like the U.S.S.R. Every Day
By Charles Hugh Smith When the Soviet regime exiled Sakharov in 1980, everybody assumed the USSR was permanent and impregnable to collapse. There are many…
What’s Wrong With The Economy: 9 Toxic Dynamics
By Charles Hugh Smith These nine dynamics are mutually reinforcing. Beneath the surface signals of an eternally rising stock market and expanding GDP, we all…
Kafka’s Nightmare Emerges: China’s “Social Credit Score”
By Charles Hugh Smith China is creating Kafka’s nightmare world as the perfection of centralized control of its citizenry. China is rapidly building out a…
The Blowback Against Facebook, Google and Amazon Is Just Beginning
By Charles Hugh Smith This is how we end up with a neofeudal society that benefits the Protected Few at the expense of the powerless,…