Investigative Journalism | Exposing What Lies Beneath
From a COVID-era bailout to a full-scale overhaul, Donald Trump’s two-term relationship with the Kennedy Center reflects a broader center-right argument about accountability, mismanagement, and the limits of prestige-driven governance.
Michael Phillips highlights the troubling involvement of defense contractors like Lockheed Martin, now Conduent, in child support enforcement. This privatization has transformed the system into a profit-driven industry that prioritizes metrics over families, leading to automation that harms vulnerable parents. The need for reform, transparency, and human oversight is critical.
The Child Support Industrial Complex: How Defense Contractors Like Lockheed Martin Turned Broken Families Into Big Business Read MorePowerful corporations have effectively privatized reality, transforming from platforms to unaccountable authorities shaping public discourse through algorithms. The government’s outsourcing of censorship to these tech giants undermines constitutional protections, leading to manipulated information and diminished public consent. Citizens must reclaim the public square for a truly democratic society.
The Privatization of Reality: How Big Tech Became the New Government Read MoreThe post discusses the rise of corporate power following the fall of the Berlin Wall, highlighting the outsourcing of government functions to private companies in areas like military operations, prisons, and intelligence. It argues that this shift has led to a system prioritizing profit over public welfare, fostering neo-feudalism and diminishing democratic oversight.
The New Warlords: How Private Corporations Replaced Governments in the Name of Freedom Read MoreThe 1990s, often viewed as a prosperous decade, actually concealed significant systemic corruption characterized by privatization of justice and prisons, alongside the emergence of corporate cartels. These changes, fueled by political interests and military-industrial complex dynamics, blurred the lines between government, corporations, and crime, undermining democracy and public accountability.
The Silent Coup of the 1990s: How Privatization, ADR, and Drug Cartels Rewired American Power Read More