Author Archives: camelotkidd

Crackpot Centrism

Posted on November 15, 2017 by camelotkidd

I’m smitten. Caitlin Johnstone is my new favorite blogger. She’s smart, funny and absolutely fearless. She also writes about the things I’m most interested in–political/economy, foreign policy, and media manipulation. Perhaps because she’s Australian, Johnstone deftly deconstructs US propaganda, following … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged Alex Carrey, C. Wright Mills, Caitlin Johnstone, corporate media, corporate propaganda, crackpot centrism, crackpot realism, deep state, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Manufacturing Consent, Noam Chomsky, propaganda, Republican Party, Russia, Russia-gate, Taking the Risk Out of Democracy, Vladimir Putin | Leave a comment

Friends like these

Posted on November 8, 2017 by camelotkidd

There’s an effort underway to force the US to attack Iran. The pressure is coming from the putative allies of the US in the Middle-East: Saudi Arabia and Israel. Of course this crazy idea is also supported by the … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged 9/11, 9/11 Report, Asian Times, Bashar al-Assad, Daniel Lazare, Donald Rumsfeld, Donald Trump, friends like these, Hezbollah, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, MBS, missing 29 pages of the 9/11 Report, Mohammed bin Salman, neoconservative foreign policies, neoconservatives, Pepe Escobar, President Bush, Russia, Saad al-Hariri, Saddam Hussein, Saudi Arabia, Shia crescent, Sunni, Sunni terrorism, Syria, unsanctioned terrorism, Wahhabism, war on terror, Yemen | Leave a comment

A Flaw in the Model

Posted on November 2, 2017 by camelotkidd

The election of Donald Trump was due, in no small part, to the abject corruption of our elite. In my last post, I examined An Economic Theory of the Criminal Law, where 7th Circuit Judge Richard Posner states that the poor require … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged Alan Greenspan, An Economic Theory of the Criminal Law, animal spirits, Ayn Rand, banana republic, Democrats, Education/Industrial/Complex, flaw in the model, John Maynard Keynes, looting, magical belief system, military industrial complex, mortgage-securitization process, Naked Capitalism, neoliberalism, neoliberals, not a bug but a feature, Republicans, Richard Posner, student-loan-securitization process, Yves Smith | Leave a comment

Open for Business

Posted on October 24, 2017 by camelotkidd

Neoliberalism has trumped our democratic values and institutions by substituting a cost-benefit and efficiency rational. Political discourse is framed only in entrepreneurial terms where the management of a market-economy confers a government the legitimacy to carry out domestic and … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged Chile, criminal law, Cuba, foreign policy, Hillary Clinton, Honduras, Iran, Ken Burns, Libya, market-based values, neoliberalism, regime change, Richard Posner, Venezuala, Vietnam, war on terror, war on terror is a hoax, Wendy Brown | 1 Comment

Leftless in America

Posted on October 18, 2017 by camelotkidd

In The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump, political scientist, Corey Robin says that conservatism draws its power and purpose from opposition to the left. “From the French Revolution through civil rights and women’s lib, struggles … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged conservatism, Corey Robin, cultural issues, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, economics, Edmund Burke, finance, hippies, identity politics, left, long-standing fissures of the conservative movement, Mark Ames, Naked Capitalism, Reactionary Mind, Republican Party, right, Ronald Reagan | Leave a comment

Because Markets

Posted on October 6, 2017 by camelotkidd

Once again, there was a mass-shooting in America. This time in Las Vegas, where a 64 year old man sprayed bullets down onto concert-goers, killing 58 people and wounding 489. The statistics paint a horrible picture of gun violence in … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged 2nd Amendment, Ayn Rand, because markets, Constitution, creating and nurturing community is a revolutionary act, federal reserve, Going Postal, gun violence, hyper-individualism, inequality, Lambert, Las Vegas shooting, Mark Ames, Naked Capitalism, neo-feudalism, neoliberalism, NRA, Ronald Reagan, Shay's Rebellion, society, The Freedom of an Armed Society, wall street crash | Leave a comment

The Axis of Stupid

Posted on September 21, 2017 by camelotkidd

Between Trump’s UN speech and the new Committee to Investigate Russia, I don’t know who’s dumber–Trump, or the disparate faction that seems determined to take him down. The Committee to Investigate Russia is sponsored by Hollywood director Rob Reiner, who … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged Al-Qaeda, axis of stupid, bi-partisanship, Committee to Investigate Russia, corporate media, David Frum, DNC, do you realize what you've done?, Donald Trump, hacking, Hillary Clinton, invasion of Iraq, James Clapper, liberal intellectuals, Max Boot, meathead, neocons, peak stupid, Putin, Ray McGovern, Rob Reiner, Robert Parry, Russia-gate, Syria, terrorist proxy, Ukraine, UN, VIP's, William Binney | Leave a comment

Race and Class

Posted on September 18, 2017 by camelotkidd

How, in a nation based on slavery and genocide, did a black man like Obama get elected president? That’s the question I’m left with after reading Ta-Nehisi-Coates masterful essay on race entitled–The First White President. Coates central assertion is … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged Barak Obama, bi-partisan elite, class, class-war, co-opting left-wing policies, Confidence Men, Donald Trump, George Bush, My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks, neoconservatives, neoliberalism, oligarchy, race, Ron Suskind, status quo, Ta-Nehisi-Coates, The First White President, The Powell Memo, US empire, Wall Street | Leave a comment

5 feet high and rising

Posted on August 30, 2017 by camelotkidd

Much of the Sturm und Drang over President Trump has got to do with the ongoing crisis in the legitimacy of the neoliberal dispensation. Let’s face it, our elite have made a hash of things and they can’t seem to cope … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged 5 feet high and rising, corporate media, disaster capitalism, Donald Trump, Houston, Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Katrina, Margaret Thatcher, Naomi Klein, neoliberal, Never Let A Seious Crisis Go To Waste, New Orleans, ongoing crisis in the neoliberal dispensation, rolling slow-motion horror that has been neoliberalism, Ronald Reagan, The Shock Doctrine | Leave a comment

I don’t miss W.

Posted on August 19, 2017 by camelotkidd

In the wake of the violence in Charlottesville, I saw a bumper sticker on a car that said: I Miss W. The car was festooned with other stickers that led me to believe that the owner was a liberal. Oh, great, … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged Antonio Gramsci, Barak Obama, Charlottesville, Donald Trump, George W. Bush, Germany, Hitler, hypocritical liberals, interregnum, morbid symptoms, Nazis, neo-conservative, neo-Nazis, neoliberal, Occupy Wall Street, opioid crisis, precariat, rolling slow-motion horror that has been neoliberalism, Supermanagerial Reich, Ukraine, Victoria Nuland, white supremacists | Leave a comment