Author Archives: camelotkidd
Anything can happen to anyone
The assassination of the CEO of United Health has galvanized social media with the majority of sentiment being approval, but this points to a larger issue. Is not that the system is broken or isn’t working. It’s working just as … Continue reading
Six out of Seven
Wesley Clark, a former US Army general, recounted a visit to the Pentagon a few weeks after 9/11, where he was shown a classified document that set out how the US was going to “take out seven countries in five years, starting … Continue reading
Things behind things
We live in a interregnum, where everything, including reality itself, is in flux. The paranoia and distrust of institutions that has taken hold in America is not a function of Donald Trump’s rancid populism no matter what the liberal, intellectual … Continue reading
The end of the end of history
Trump’s reelection has shattered the end of history narrative promulgated by Francis Fukuyama and the assorted coterie of neocons who plotted a perpetual American empire. Former MI-6 military and foreign policy analyst, Alastair Crooke writes–“the U.S. election also, has been … Continue reading
Landslide
There was a clear winner in Tuesday’s presidential election. Billionaires won in a landslide. No matter what the public wants and no matter the outcome of elections, the oligarchs almost always win. They get a neoliberal government that does little … Continue reading
The F-Bomb
I don’t know about you but I’m pretty fucking sick of the F-Bomb, you know–Fascism–the ultimate liberal pejorative. This warning only applies to Trump and his MAGA supporters, but Team Blue, led by Biden and Harris spent the last year … Continue reading
Market Mechanisms
I’m fascinated by ideas and ideologies and none have animated me quite like the ideology of neoliberalism with its mantra that there’s “no alternative.” This bold pronouncement, along with its twin, that “there is no society,” always seemed like a … Continue reading
I read it on the Internet
We live in a media environment awash with sophisticated advertising, public-relations posing as news, and tribal propaganda. Back in the old days Americans got their information from television and physical newspapers like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal … Continue reading
