Author Archives: camelotkidd

The Weathervane Bares All

Posted on April 20, 2017 by camelotkidd

As I’ve stated repeatedly, the recent presidential election and its aftermath have been amazingly clarifying. Come to find out that the torrent of propaganda spewed out by the corporate media in the run up to the invasion of Iraq, … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged Alice in Wonderland, corporate media, Donald Trump, fake news, flathead, rabbit hole, suck on this, talking heads, terrorism, terrorist patsy, terrorist proxy, The Weathervane, Thomas Friedman, war on terror, war on terror is a hoax | Leave a comment

The Flight to Serfdom

Posted on April 14, 2017 by camelotkidd

Neoliberal economist Friedrich Hayek wrote The Road to Serfdom, in 1944, where he warned of totalitarian governments terrorizing their citizens. Hayek’s dystopian vision is upon us, only instead of totalitarian governments it’s all-powerful corporations like United Airlines that we … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Chicago Boys, concentration, Dr. Dao, Flight to Serfdom, Fly the Friendly Sky's, Friedrich Hayek, mergers and acquisitions, Naked Capitalism, neoliberal economic policies, neoliberalism, oligopoly, public relations, Road to Serfdom, United Airlines, University of Chicago, Yves Smith | Leave a comment

Domesticated

Posted on April 11, 2017 by camelotkidd

Trump ran for office vowing to change US foreign policy and put America first. That didn’t last long. Trump’s cruise missile attack on Syria in response to the Syrian military’s so-called chemical weapon attack, marks the culmination of a … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged Al-Qaeda, chemical weapons, corporate media, Council on Foreign Relations, cruise missiles, deep state, Donald Trump, foreign policy, H.R. 608--Stop Arming Terrorists, Israel, liberal media, Listen Liberal, neoconservative foreign policies, neoconservatives, Nikki Haley, Rex Tillerson, Robert Parry, Russia, Syria, Thomas Frank, US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard | Leave a comment

N is for Neofeudalism

Posted on April 5, 2017 by camelotkidd

Everything that was old is new again. Take feudalism, it’s making a comeback. The US economy is trending towards wage bondage and economic polarization, with an all-American debt peonage that I’ve come to call neofeudalism. Heterodox economist Michael Hudson explains how … Continue reading →

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Manufacturing Consent

Posted on April 3, 2017 by camelotkidd

While our neoliberal elite have been more than willing to offshore traditional manufacturing, they’ve kept the manufacturing of consent right here in America. Though western countries claim to be democracies, they all suffer from income and wealth inequality, with many … Continue reading →

Posted in neoliberals | Tagged advertising, Alex Carey, bull-shit, corporate media, corporate propaganda, Donald Trump, Edward Bernays, Edward Herman, fake news, Hillary Clinton, inequality, Manufacturing Consent, neoliberalism, Noam Chomsky, plutocracy, propaganda model, public relations, Russia, Taking the Risk Out of Democracy, think tanks, Walter Lippmann | Leave a comment

Accumulated Despair

Posted on March 27, 2017 by camelotkidd

Lately, it’s hard to write about any aspect of our shared experience without running headlong into evil. Take neoliberalism, an economic ideology that increasingly orders our lives to a terrifying degree. While neoliberalism may seem incredibly complicated, in my … Continue reading →

Posted in neoliberals | Tagged accumulated despair, because markets, Case/Deaton, Democratic Party, Democrats, Donald Trump, eliminationist rhetoric, evil is easy, go-die, homelessness, ideology, Lambert, matt taibbi, mortality, Naked Capitalism, neoliberalism, no alternative, opioid crisis, Thomas Friedman, wealth polarization, Whigs | Leave a comment

Evil Is Easy (Part 2)

Posted on March 23, 2017 by camelotkidd

Wall Street, the too-big-to-fail-banks, and the financial industry control our lives for the worse. How did this come to pass? From the New Deal up until the 80’s finance was heavily regulated, staid, boring even. Finance was also a … Continue reading →

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Evil is Easy (Part 1)

Posted on March 16, 2017 by camelotkidd

Why is it that doing good is so hard while evil is easy? In my definition, doing good is cooperating with fellow citizens in a democratic manner to solve America’s numerous problems, while doing evil is playing on human … Continue reading →

Posted in neoliberals | Tagged Alex Molnar, charter schools, Dismantling Public Education, divide and rule, education, evil is easy, good is hard, Naked Capitalism, neoliberal, neoliberal economic policies, neoliberalism, off-shoring, privatization, Ronald Reagan, so-called free trade, teachers, teachers unions, vouchers | Leave a comment

The ideology that failed

Posted on March 8, 2017 by camelotkidd

Neoliberalism is a failed ideology that has immiserated millions of ordinary citizens. Like communism, neoliberalism benefits a small cohort of elites at the expense of everyone else. Under communism, the vanguard of the proletariat, i.e. members of the Communist … Continue reading →

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The Washington Generals

Posted on March 2, 2017 by camelotkidd

The Democratic Party has transformed from a political party that represented working-class interests to a party that serves affluent professionals. In the process they’ve become a faux opponent very much like the Washington Generals who pretended to oppose the Harlem Globetrotters. … Continue reading →

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