Author Archives: camelotkidd

There Are Alternatives

Posted on July 7, 2016 by camelotkidd

Neoliberalism is like a religious cult, with dogma to be upheld, apostates to cast out, and fervent belief in place of critical thinking. Margaret Thatcher well articulated the inflexibility of neoliberalism when she insisted that–“there is no alternative.” The … Continue reading →

Posted in neoliberals | Tagged alternatives, Brexit, Donald Trump, European Union, Greg Palast, invasion of Iraq, invasion of Libya, Marine Le Pen, Middle East, NATO, neoliberalism, Nigel Farage, precarious economic situation, spite vote | Leave a comment

The Lesser Evil

Posted on June 25, 2016 by camelotkidd

Readers have accused me of being a Trump supporter. I’m not a supporter, but I do believe that he’s the lesser evil in a matchup against Hillary Clinton. I know, hear me out. The media has once again done … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged banana republic, deep state, Donald Trump, free trade, Hillary Clinton, immigration, neo-conservatives, neoliberal | Leave a comment

The Greater Evil

Posted on June 25, 2016 by camelotkidd

Readers accuse me of being a Trump supporter. I’m not a supporter, I’m just making the case that Hillary Clinton is the greater evil. I know, hear me out. The conventional wisdom is that Hillary is a progressive, like … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, neoconservative, neoliberal | Leave a comment

Job Interview

Posted on June 20, 2016 by camelotkidd

The 51 State Department officials who signed a memo urging the Obama administration to bomb Syria must be applying for a position in the future Hillary Clinton administration. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has made it known that she favors … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged Barak Obama, Bashar al-Assad, Consortium News, Donald Trump, gang of 51, Hillary Clinton, invasion of Iraq, John Kerry, neo-conservatives, neoconservative agenda, NY Times, regime change, Robert Parry, State Department, Sunni terrorists, Syria, The Center for Citizens Initiative (CCI), threat of nuclear war, war crime | Leave a comment

Human Capital

Posted on June 12, 2016 by camelotkidd

Neoliberalism reduces us all to market participants. To neoliberals we’re not citizens, just human capital. There’s a great article at Salon, by Anis Shivani, that provides a glimpse into this poorly understood ruling ideology. “Neoliberalism believes that markets are self-sufficient unto … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Anis Shivani, Bernie Sanders, divide and rule, Donald Trump, free speech, Hillary Clinton, human capital, identity politics, Margaret Thatcher, market apostate, multiculturalism, neoconservatives, neoliberalism, Salon, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, working-class | 1 Comment

God’s been drinking

Posted on June 5, 2016 by camelotkidd

So much evil in this world is projected as good. Some of the best writer/propagandists have taken on this task of conflating the Satanic with the sacred. Take Max Weber, who depicted God’s divine intentions throughout the Industrial Revolution … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Christianity, Fredrick von Hayek, Garden of Eden, IMF, Industrial Revolution, Jesus Christ, Ludwig von Mises, max weber, Milton Friedman, neo-liberalism, projection, protestant work ethic, Road to Serfdom, the enclosure acts, Thomas Friedman, welfare state | Leave a comment

QE for you and me

Posted on May 23, 2016 by camelotkidd

Donald Trump is many things–racist, reality TV star, torture advocate, strong leader with fascist tendencies. However, Trump is also a truth-teller, in that he has repeatedly challenged conventional wisdom, as articulated by the American political and media elite. He’s kind of … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 9-11, Bash kept us safe, Bernie Sanders, CBO, conventional wisdom, Donald Trump, economic orthodoxy, economic populism, fiat currency, George W. Bush, Iraq, Libya, Modern Monetary Theory, neoliberal, President Obama, public infrastructure, Syria, US imperialism | Leave a comment

FIRE Alarm

Posted on May 17, 2016 by camelotkidd

We used to make things and employee people who were paid wages that they spent back into the economy. Finance properly allocated capital for productive ends rather than speculation and fraud. We had a productive economy that benefitted Main Street … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Adam Smith, Austrian School, banana republic, debt serfdom, elite resistance, financialization, FIRE sector, inequality, infrastructure spending, John Stewart Mill, Justice Brandeis, Main street, Michael Hudson, Milton Friedman, neoliberalism, Road to Serfdom, Simon Patten, tollbooth economy, Wall Street | Leave a comment

Misery Loves Company

Posted on May 8, 2016 by camelotkidd

Media and political consultants are in full mea culpa mode now that Donald Trump has essentially clinched the Republican nomination to be President. As part of this reckoning there’s also an effort underway to assess why it is that Republican … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Barak Obama, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, economic insecurity, economic populism, Eric Boehlert, George Bush, Hillary Clinton, Mark Ames, mea culpa, Media Matters, Naked Capitalism, Spite the Vote | Leave a comment

How Neoliberalism Became a Pejorative

Posted on May 2, 2016 by camelotkidd

Neoliberal’s have gotten a touch defensive lately. Recently, New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait tweeted, “What if every use of ‘neoliberal’ was replaced with, simply, ‘liberal’? Would any non-propagandistic meaning be lost?” Neoliberalism is the generally accepted name for the socially atomizing, inequality-generating, environmentally … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged banana republic, Barak Obama, class warfare, Corey Robin, Democratic Party, divide and rule, Hillary Clinton, inequality, Jacobin, Jonathan Chait, Keynesianism, liberalism, market, neo-liberal, Never Let A Seious Crisis Go To Waste, New Deal, no alternative, Phiip Mirowski, The New Republic, unions, Washington consensus | Leave a comment