Author Archives: camelotkidd

Managing the Decline

Posted on April 19, 2016 by camelotkidd

We are witnessing the first presidential campaign since the Great Depression that directly challenges the essential features of the US economy. All the controversy over social issues and immigration is just so much distraction from the bi-partisan economic policies … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 2016 presidential election, banana republic, Corey Robin, Donald Trump, feral elite, Gaius Publius, Hillary Clinton, inequality, manage the decline, neoliberalism, New Deal, not a bug but a feature, Panama Papers, ruling elite, Ted Cruz | Leave a comment

Superfluous

Posted on April 12, 2016 by camelotkidd

I believe that the crisis of legitimacy gripping the American political system has been brought about because a large cohort of US citizens have belatedly come to realize that they’re superfluous. Many of these superfluous Americans are also recognizing … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Anatole France, anti-establisment, Bernie Sanders, crisis of legitimacy, Donald Trump, economic insecurity, Ed Walker, emptywheel.net, NAFTA, neoliberalism, Origins of Totalitarianism, so-called free trade, superfluous | 1 Comment

The Grand Old Hunger Games

Posted on April 4, 2016 by camelotkidd

An online petition to allow delegates to pack heat at the Republican convention in Cleveland this summer is exposing the insanity of Republican, NRA and the Right’s decades long effort to ensure that there are guns everywhere in America. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged civil war, Cleveland, GOP convention, guns, Hunger Games, ISIS, more guns, NRA, Obama, Ohio, open carry, Republicans, Tea Party, white rage | Leave a comment

The Invisible Government

Posted on March 28, 2016 by camelotkidd

I welcome the political awakening I see among friends and co-workers, caused in great part by the rise of Donald Trump as the leading Republican candidate, and Bernie Sanders as a challenger to the Democratic establishment candidate, Hillary Clinton. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alex Carey, apolitical blues, banana republic, Bernie Sanders, corporate propaganda, Donald Trump, Edward Bernays, free trade, Ian Welch, invisible government, manichean, NAFTA, Paul Krugman, plutocracy, Taking the Risk Out of Democracy, TPP, unions | Leave a comment

The Whig Party

Posted on March 22, 2016 by camelotkidd

Conventional wisdom says that the Republicans will go the way of the Whig party if Donald Trump is the Republican candidate for president. The Whig party was formed in “opposition to the policies of President Andrew Jackson (in office 1829–37) and his Democratic … Continue reading →

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We Live in a Political World

Posted on March 15, 2016 by camelotkidd

Economic insecurity does strange things to a society. When both political parties pursue economic policies that benefit the 1% at the expense of the rest of the population those who are left behind turn to an alternative. Welcome Donald … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Barak Obama, Charles Pierce, Donald Trump, economic insecurity, foam the runway, global labor arbitrage, GOP, Little Timmy, monkey brains, NAFTA, neoliberalism, One Market Under God, political world, Republicans, Ross Perot, Thoma Frank, Timothy Geithner, TPP, wall street crash, What's a Matter With Kansas? | Leave a comment

Kindness is a Revolutionary Act

Posted on March 8, 2016 by camelotkidd

The Frankenstein candidacy of Donald Trump has been brought to life by neoliberal economic policies pursued by Republicans and Democrats alike. To be sure, Trump’s rise is predicated on his appeal to racial resentments and xenophobia. Normally this racism … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Barak Obama, culture of meanness, Donald Trump, economic insecurity, Emmanual Goldstein, FDR, Flint, Hillary Clinton, Hitler, Ian Welch, kindness is a revolutionary act, lead poisoning, Michigan, Mussolini, neoliberal, New Deal, savage race to the bottom, social-Darwinism | Leave a comment

Queen of the Neocons

Posted on March 2, 2016 by camelotkidd

Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has a neocon problem. Clinton has just been endorsed for president by neoconservative intellectual, Robert Kagan, a longtime Republican who recognizes that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, the presumptive favorite, would be hostile to neoconservative … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged American empire, Bernie Sanders, Consortium News, Counterpunch, coups, deep state, Democrats, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Honduras, Iraq, neocons, neoconservatives, Project for the New American Century, regime change, Republicans, Robert Kagan, Robert Parry, Scoop Jackson, Syria, Ukraine, US foreign policy | Leave a comment

Bigger Fish to Fry

Posted on February 23, 2016 by camelotkidd

The death of Supreme Court Justice Scalia and what it portends for domestic politics is a monumental story. One of the wildest presidential campaigns of recent memory just got a whole lot more complicated with the politics of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bombing campaign, Consortium News, deep state, dramatic escalation, elite failure, empire of chaos, indispensable nation, ISIS, neocons, nuclear war, Putin, Qatar, Recep Erdogan, regime change, Robert Parry, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sunni terrorism, Syria, tactical nuclear weapons, terrorist proxy, the saker, Turkey | Leave a comment

The Memory Hole

Posted on February 17, 2016 by camelotkidd

The successful Russian intervention in Syria’s civil war is causing a great hue and cry within US media and think-tanks. The latest outburst is, The Syrian Jihad: Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and the Evolution of an Insurgency, by Charles Lister, a visiting Fellow … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 7 countries in 5 years, Brookings, civil war, General Wesley Clark, invasion of Iraq, ISIS, memory hole, neo-conservatives, neocons, New American Century, oil and gas pipelines, Pepe Escobar, pipelineistan, propaganda, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, seymour hersh, Sunni terrorism, Syria, war on terror, war on terror is a hoax | Leave a comment