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Monthly Archives: October 2015
Class-Warfare
The free-market economic policy our leaders have chosen for us–neoliberalism–requires coercion to make people participate. Enforcing market obedience is something I’ve written about at CK before. It’s also one of the salient points made about early capitalism in Karl Polanyi’s masterpiece, The … Continue reading
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Tagged Air Traffic Controllers, Argentina, Chile, Corey Robin, death squads, deep state, James Petras, Karl Polanyi, libertarians, military coup, neoliberalism, Pinochet, President Reagan, primitive accumulation, Rand Paul, Ron Paul, The Great Transformation, violence, X-Files
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My Pet Goat
That Trump fellow sure is making things interesting with his recent statements. “Say what you want, the World Trade Center came down during his time.” Trump’s attack forced Jeb Bush to defensively claim that his brother, President George Bush, “kept us safe.” … Continue reading
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Tagged AUMF, Bin Laden, Clean Break, Cold War, Donald Trump, empire, George Bush, Jeb Bush, My Pet Goat, neoconservatives, patsy, President Obama, war on terror
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The Next Phase
It’s back. Like the monster in a B-grade Hollywood movie that refuses to stay in the grave, the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership), the so-called trade treaty that many of us had assumed dead, was ratified in Atlanta this weekend. Trade ministers from … Continue reading
Chickens Come Home to Roost
This is awkward. By bombing Islamic terrorists in Syria, Russia has exposed the US’s war on terror for what it really is–a war of terror. The dirty little secret of the Syrian conflict is that the US and their allies … Continue reading
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, CIA, Consortium News, Emptywheel, ISIS, Marcy Wheeler, neoconservatives, Robert Parry, Russia, Syria, war on terror
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