Author Archives: camelotkidd

Necessary Lessons

Posted on January 4, 2017 by camelotkidd

Liberals lamenting the election of Donald Trump have not absorbed the necessary lessons. Rather than examining the policies of financial neoliberalism and the identity politics that provided neoliberalism its moral veneer, they are still blaming the Russians, or the … Continue reading →

Posted in neoliberals | Tagged Brexit, deplorable, divide and rule, DNC, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, identity politics, Kos, liberal, Markos Moulitsas, neoliberalism, new york times, progressive neoliberalism, propaganda, Wall Street, washington post | Leave a comment

War Pigs: or How Liberals Learned to Stop Worrying and to Love the Drone

Posted on December 24, 2016 by camelotkidd

When did the liberals turn into war pigs? If there was going to be anything positive from the election of Trump, it was the lowering of tensions between the US and Russia. With liberals excitedly pointing to the CIA’s … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged bankers in orange jumpsuits, black sabbath, CIA, CIA as organized crime, deep state, Donald Trump, Douglas Valentine, F-35, Hillary Clinton, hypocritical liberals, liberals, neoconservatives, new Cold War, Operation Mockingbird, Putin, regime change, Russia, Samantha Power, Susan Rice, Victoria Nuland, war pigs | Leave a comment

Planned economy

Posted on December 21, 2016 by camelotkidd

The election of Donald Trump has caused an outpouring of grief and many commentators are convinced that the end of the world is nigh. However, Trump didn’t get us to this place, he was just a savvy opportunist who … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged Allen Greenspan, Bernie Sanders, Chicago Boys, classic economics, deep state, DNC, Donald Trump, economic planning, federal reserve, financialization, Hillary Clinton, Janet Yellen, Michael Hudson, neoliberals, planned economy, shareholder value, socialism, University of Chicago, Wall Street | Leave a comment

Internal divisions

Posted on December 13, 2016 by camelotkidd

The election of Donald Trump is provoking internal divisions within the deep state, leading to some very interesting disclosures. Indeed, there is a battle being waged for influence and control in the presumptive Trump administration. It might be useful to … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged Al-Qaeda, Bashar al-Assad, CIA, deep state, DIA, DOD, Donald Trump, emptywheel.net, energy flows, General Michael Flynn, Gulf States, Hillary Clinton, Iran, Iraq, ISIS, John Brennan, Marcy Wheeler, Mike Lofgren, new york times, pipelineistan, Qatar, regime change, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Shia crescent, Syria, Wall Street, War on Drugs, war on terror is a hoax, Washington consensus, washington post | Leave a comment

The political/economy of empire

Posted on December 10, 2016 by camelotkidd

The US is an empire, in case you hadn’t noticed. The political/economy of the US empire is the deep state. The deep state in America is largely composed of the military/industrial/complex, the oil and gas industry, and Wall Street. The … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged army of public servants, Barack Obama, Colonel Armas of Guatemala, corporate empire, deep state, Deterring Democracy, Donald Trump, empire, empire of chaos, Great Britain, MIC, Noam Chomsky, Pepe Escobar, political/economy, political/economy of empire, Roman legions, shah of Iran, Wall Street, wall street crash | Leave a comment

Member Berries

Posted on December 6, 2016 by camelotkidd

To retake our country from the deep state we will have to end the American empire. To end the American empire we have to challenge the narrative of American exceptionalism, that has been promulgated with the help of a … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged all-American corporate empire, American exceptionalism, banana republic, deep state, Democrats, Dineyfied, Donald Trump, false narrative, genocide, golden age, Hillary Clinton, indispensable nation, member berries, neocons, neoconservative foreign policies, neoconservatives, Republicans, slavery, South Park, straight-white-christian-conservatives, US foreign policy | Leave a comment

Stage–2

Posted on November 29, 2016 by camelotkidd

US neoliberal and neoconservative elite are going through the stages of grief in the wake of the election of Donald Trump. Judging by the recent McCarthy-style smear campaign in the Washington Post, they’re still stuck at anger. On Thursday, the … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged Donald Trump, faith in American democracy, fake news, foreign policy elite, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Kubler-Ross, lost control of the narrative, McCarthy, neocons, neoliberals, New American Century, new york times, propaganda, Russia, Russian dupe, Saddam Hussein, smear campaign, Washington consensus, washington post, weapons of mass destruction | Leave a comment

Like Ike

Posted on November 22, 2016 by camelotkidd

Before he took office, President Obama professed his admiration of President Reagan. Lately he’s behaving like President Eisenhower. Eisenhower, after creating the military-industrial-complex and nascent deep state, famously warned against it. As he was leaving office. Many Americans remember Eisenhower’s … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged Allan Dulles, Barak Obama, CIA, Citigroup, Cold War, deep state, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Glass-Steagall Act, globalization, golf, Hope and Change, inequality, John Foster Dulles, Larry Summers, Like Ike, Little Timmy, MIC, military industrial complex, regime change, State Department, Tim Geithner, Wall Street | Leave a comment

Don’t mourn, organize

Posted on November 15, 2016 by camelotkidd

Trump is going to end the world, as we know it. Or, something. Liberals are always more energized and pugilistic when a Republican president gains power. My biggest peeve with liberals, is that they were aghast at the behavior … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged Big-Bill Haywood, Democratic Party, Democrats, don't mourn, Donald Trump, economic insecurity, Hillary Clinton, hypocritical liberals, Joe Hill, Margaret Mead, Milton Friedman, moral consistency, movement conservatives, Naked Capitalism, neoliberal economic policies, neoliberalism, organize, Republicans | Leave a comment

For the good of the country

Posted on November 11, 2016 by camelotkidd

How did a monster like Trump win? The short answer is that Hillary was a uniquely horrible candidate, as I detail here. She was also the establishment candidate in an anti-establishment election. The Democratic Party also bears a large … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged 9/11, America's Stolen Narrative, anti-establishment election, Barak Obama, Bernie Sanders, deep state, Democrats, Donald Trump, for the good of the country, GW Bush, Hillary Clinton, MIC, Prescott Bush, Republicans, Robert Parry | Leave a comment